Arizona republican., 1913-03-09

dor or purchaser at sales, or from
 purchasing script. Or other evidences
 of indebtedness, who violates any of
 the provisions of such laws. is pun
 isha ble by a fine of not more than
 one thouand dollars or by imprison-
 ment in the state prison not more
 than five years, and is forever dis
 qualified from holding any office in
 this state"
 Supplies have been purchased from
 time 10 tir1e by the board of control,
 of which the governor is chairman,
 from the old Dominion Commercial
 company of Globe. These were for
 the prison. asylum and Industrial
 school, and during this entire period
 the governor was president and sec
 retary Of the corporation. We at
 tach herewith and make a part of
 this report as though fully written
 herein. statement under seal from
 the state auditor, showing the items,
 number Uf warrant, amount, etc. to
 verify this. and a certificate from the
 secratary of the board of control
 showing that no bids were ever re-
 ceived or written contracts entered
 into with the corporation. as required
 by law.
 The governor claims $25,OOO and Superintendent Sims $l0000 have
 been Savci by their emergency me-
 thOd of purchase and conduct of the
 prisor. A careful scrutiny Of the
 statistics in this report. together with
 the state warrants paid and pending.
 drawn on the prison fund for the
 nine months of 1912 of emergency
 buying in comparison with the pre-
 vious nine months shows that the last
 nine months of operation cost S68,- 629.5G against s6S.84S03. a saving in the net cost of $2IS.47 This saving disappears entirely when the per capita cost is considered and would l show loss of $l1.00O with the same number or inmates as the preceding nine mon nS It is obvious that this saving of $21S.47 can be further in creased until the total cost of the instirutica is eliminated by creating additional honor men"
 We quote from the report of the board of control:
 state Industrial School The af- fairs of tLe industrial school have been pursuing the even tenor of their way"
 We ha r under consideration re- port made by Charles R Osburn, secretary of the board of control to the governor. on October 9th. 1912 Charges had been made to the gov ernor in regard to conditions at the school and MT. Osburn was sent to investigate. In August, three con- Vlcts were sent tO the school from Florence to act cook. tailor and band-master and music teacher to the pupils. Their conduct and also the cC nduct of the superintendent and matron 0l ;he school, as well as the state of denoralizatiOn existing among l the boys and girls. was to be investi- gate". The secretary reported that the conditions were as charged The governor allowed two of these con vlcts to remain over a month after 1 if had been called to his attention. and the superintendent was permitted to r"inain until December lst, wher
 he was allowed to resign. instead ot being sumnarily discharged as the conditions warranted. And the em- rloye Cf the school, who had the manhood tG report these improper | conditions was discharged at once 1 for doing his plain duty
 We find that the auditor, although 1 under the law. q member of the ! board Cf control, is never consulted l in regard io the management of the l institutions oi the purchasing of SUD- ! plies. The board is practically one ] man affair, and to remedy this con | dition, We are today introducing a 1 bill creating q board of control con- 1 Sisting of three elective state officers 1 directly responsible to the people We 1 have made these. the governor of the l state, because he is the chief ex- 1 cntive officer, the auditor to scru- 1 tinize the accounts, and the attorney | general in order that the board may l know tEe law
 Respectfully submitted. | ALIEN A NnE,R