Arizona republican., 1913-03-21
AK COMMITTEE
 AGAIN ID FORE
Long Report Made Recharg- ing Maladministration in Conduct of State Institu- tions. Defense of Com mittee Also Made

mlttee Also Made
 Another chapter was carved in the controversy between the axe committee of the house and the governor upon :he conduct of the state institutions. The axe committee came back yesterday with a six page document giving the opponents of the administration clear majority of five pages over the admin istration. It would remain as an ad- vantage had not the governor decided to make a public statement.
 However the report of the committee on state institutions and public expen ditures is interesting from more stand points than one. It sets forth a con crete instance of what it believes to have been an infraction of the law in the matter of purchasing supplies for the insane asylum. It also sets forth the defense of the committee to the charge that certain documents were stolen from the governors office. This is the charge that provoked the state ment from Jacobs of the committee, on
 
 back that the head writer of a certain afternoon journal was a liar and knew it.
 The report is interesting from an- other standpoint. It probably will De the last one that will be handed out by the committee as both sides are heart ily tired of the apparently endless con- troVerSy Neither side has shown 6 disposition to do anything but fire long range guns at each other.
 The report follows in full:
 House of Representatives First Leeis-
 Iature State of Arizona.
 Phoenix, March 20, 1913 MT. Speaker:
 Your committee on state institutions and expenditures having been severely arraigned for it's support on the board of control our motive miScOnStrued anC the source of our information insinu ated to be illegal, in simple justice to the house of representatives of the state, of which we are members, pegs leave to submit the following refuting the charges, direct and implied. We secured our information from the report of the board of control, from the secretary of the board under oath, the testimony of sworn witnesses be- fore your committee, and documents in the archives of the state, demanded by us from state officers and reports sub mitted to the house and referred to this committed The above include all sources of information used by us and We have never seen any of the pur ported stolen documents.
 Referring to the purchases made from the Old Dominion Commercial company of Globe for the lobe-Ray Highway convict camp, the Governor says: They were not authorized by the board of control, of which I am a member, nor made at my instance. ji- rection or suggestions direct or implied. as the officers who were charged with the duty of making purchases can and will readily verify" These purchases to date are represented by more than a dozen claims against the state. all similar, except as to numbers, dates and amounts. and in order not to bur den this report, we will simply submit a portion of the minutes of the board of control of q meeting held September 20, 1912, at which the governor was present
 ''The following claims were exam i ined and allowed for payment" For payment from the Asylum for the I1- sane fund as provided in chapter 79 section 3. laws 1912. special session old Dominion Commercial Co, bed | spreads $24200' For payment from l the prison fund as provided in chap 1 ter 79, section ?, laws 1912, special ses- sion: Globe Hardware Co. hardware | $70297, old Dominion ComI Co., sup plies Globe Ray sS9934, w w. Brook ner, supplies Globe-Ray s110.35' | Referring further to these purchases | his excellency says: T am informed by 1 the purchasing officer that no favor i ities was shown to any concern; that 1 bids were eXacted monthly and eXcep- l tonally good prices secured. not only ] from the old Dominion Commercial 1 company. but from all the mercant .ie 1 establishments of Globe which were | patronized." This statement does no: 1 harmonize with the testimony of the l secretary of the board of control giver | to your committee, during the course | of which he testified that no bids were I exacted for any of these purchases | during the period made; nor does fl l harmonize with the records of claims l approved by the board of control dur 1 ing the period as to the question of nc favorites shown. in support of which l we submit the fact that supplies pnr- | chased from the Old Dominion Com
 mercial company amounted to three l times as much os those from the Globe 1 Hardware company, and nine times a. l great as those purchased from w w l BrOokner company of Globe
 Referring to the purchases. mad' l from the Old Dominion Commerce. l company for the Industrial school an, ] the Asylum his excellency submits th' | following easy and complete explan& l tion.''
 l "The purchases were not made 2