Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-03-19

in accordances with the power con-
ferred by law upon the Board, and
while re-advertising, supplies are
bought, under a most legitimate
application of the emergency pur-
chasing clause, in the open market
This procedure has invariably re-
sulted-there being not a single ex-
ception-in important saving to the
State, as an investigation of the
records will prove, and l take pleas
ure in stating that in the absence
of a specific prohibition of law the
practice will be continued, regard
less of the interests that may hold
it Objectionable.
After quoting from the Board of
Controls report, to the effect that
"the affairs of the industrial school
have been pursuing the even tenor
of their way" the committee on
State institutions and public ex-
penditures, in a manner which but
for the committees we'll known
fairness, honesty and impartiality
would be regarded as deceiving, en-
deavors to show the existence at
the industrial school of a quite diff
erent state of affairs, | would point
out, since it would not be discov-
cred from a reading of the COM
mittee's statement, that the report
above quoted is of date of June 80,
1912, while the undesirable condition
of affairs at the industrial school to
which the committee evidently sees
need for directing attention, was
learned through the medium of a
report which, according to the in
formation vouchsafed by the COM
mittee, was made to me under date
of October 9, more than three
months after the report that the
affairs of the school were "pur-
suing the even tenor of their way"
In reply to the insinuation con-
veyed by the statement of the COM
mittee on State institutions and
public expenditures, wish to here
confirm the Board of Controls re-
port of June 80, 1912, that "the at
fairs of the industrial school were
pursuing the even tenor of their
way" and to add that whatever I'M
desirable state of affairs afterward
arose was promptly and impartially,
If judiciously, death with. And re-
gardless of the assertion that "the
employee of the school who had the
manhood to report these improper
conditions was discharged at once
for doing his plain duty" l may
still further add that no man was
discharged from the institution who
did not richly deserve it.
| am greatly interested in the re-
ference made by the committee on
State institutions and public expen-
ditures to the report. dated October
9, 1912, and describing certain con-
ditions at the industrial school,
since it happens that it was a con-
fidential report, of which there was
no authorized or legitimate copy in
existence save the one in my own
possession. l have not the faintest
objection to the committees pos
session of a copy of this report,
which the committee states is "un-
der consideration" nor do l wish to
question the means or the motives
of the committee which resulted in
its securing report of which there
neither was nor is a legitimate or
copy; but inasmuch as
my Office was entered, at a time
subsequent to the receipt by me of
this report, and a number of per-
sonal letters, papers and documents
stolen by parties who have not yet
been brought to account for the fell
ony, there has occurred to me the
possibility that the committee might
as l have no doubt it will, if it can,
be glad to do, extend information
leading to the disclosure of the
thief's identity and the recovery of
the stolen property.
| regret to note the complaint of
the committee on State institutions
and public expenditures, that the
auditor, although under the law a
of the Board of Control, is
never consulted in regard to the
of the institutions or
the purchasing OF supplies; and that
the Board is practically a one-man
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