Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-03-26

ernor, a final report was made Il
the house Thursday afternoon by
the committee on state institutions
The charge has been made thai
the committee went out of its way
to assail the governor and this is
denied in that report which sets
forth that the members of the COM
mittee considered only the sworn
testimony of the secretary of the
board in formulating the report
which aroused the ire of the chief
executive.
The report addressed TO the house
of representatives and submitted to-
it reads as follows:
Mr.. Speaker You committee on
state institutions and expenditures
having been severely arraigned for
its report on the board of control,
our motive misconstrued and the
source of our information insinuated
to be illegal, in simple justice to the
house of representatives of the state,
of which we are members, begs
leave to submit the following in
refuting the charges, direct and i'm
Piled.
We secured our information from
the board of control, from the sec
rotary of the board under oath, the
testimony of sworn witnesses be-
fore your committee, and documents
IN the archives of the state, demand
ed by us from state officers, and re-
ports submitted to the house and re-
ferred to this committee. The above
include all sources of information
used by US and we have never seen
any of the purported stolen docu-
nents
Referring to the purchase made
from the Old Dominion Commercial
company of Globe for the Globe
Ray highway convict camp, the gov
ernor says: They were not author
s.ized by the board of control, of
which l am a member, nor made at
my instance, direction or suggestion
direct or implied, as the officers
making purchases can and will
readily verify"
These purchases TO date are repre-
scented by more than dozen claims
against the state, all similar, except
as to numbers, dates and amounts,
and in order not to burden this re-
port, we will here simply submit
a portion of the minutes of the
board of control of a meeting held
September 20, 1912, at which the
governor was present.
THE following claims were ex-
amined and allowed for payment.
For payment from the asylum fund
as provided in chapter 70, section 3,
laws 1912, special session, Old Do
minion Commercial company, bed
spreads $242. For payment from the
prison fund, as provided in chapter
70, section 2, laws 1912, special ses-
sions, Globe Hardware company,
hardware $70297. Old ninion
Commercial company, supplies,
Globe-Ray, $Soo.34 w H. Brookner,
supplies, Globe-Ray, $ll0.35."
Referring further to these pur-
chases his excellency says:
81 am informed by the purchas-
ing officer that no favors were
shown to any concern; that bids
were exacted monthly, and excep-
tionally good prices secured, not
) only from the Old Dominion Com
mercial company, but from all the
mercantile establishments of Globe
which were patronized."
This statement does not harmon
ize with the testimony of the secre-
tary of the board of control given
to your committee, during the course
of which he testified that no bids
were exacted for any of these pur-I
chases during the period made; nor
does it harmonic with the records
Of claims approved by the board of
control during the period as to the
question of which we submit the
fact that supplies purchased from
the Old Dominion Commercial COM
pany amounted to three times as
much as those from the Globe !
Hardware company, and nine times
=
w. w. Brookner company of Globe.
Referring to the purchases made
from the Old Dominion Commercial
company for the Industrial school
and the asylum, his excellency sub
fits the following easy and complete
explanation:
"The purchases were not made at
my direction, but on the judgment of
the superintendent concerned, and
the goods were shipped direct to the
institutions.
Totally without my knowledge or
consent statement susceptible OF
easy verification - the wholesale
house, because of its objection to,
or rule, common to many concerns,
against having accounts except with
established customers, billed thel