The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-07-03

members of the board are accused OF
having at least willingly condoned.
Senate Committee Report
The report of the senate commit.
tees upon the board of affairs was
made before Christmas, to the special
session Of the senate called by Gov,
ernor Cruce to settle the state board
Of education controversy and con-
firmations of various gubernatorial
appointees.
The senate committee disagreed as
to its findings. Five senators, of
which Senator Barefoot was chair
man, refused to condemn Mr. Frame,
whose appointment was the subject
under consideration. The other two
members, Senators Thomas and Nc
Intosh joined in a report severely
criticising Mr.. Frame and recommend
ing that he should not be confirmed
The Thomas-McIntosh findings, in
brief, were as follows:
That Mr.. Frame and Mr.. Morris
had joined in an attempt to organize
and control the policies of the board
of affairs, and to shut Mr.. Howard
out Of any voice in the deliberations
of the board.
The Contracts Awarded
That during this period of Frame
| Morris supremacy, various contracts,
such as the khaki cloth contract for
| the penitentiary the contract with c.
| o. Bum TO annotate and index the
code, the contract for the supreme
court filing cases, and the purchase Of
electrical machinery for the state uni
versity, were made.
That these contracts were all cor.
demnable as bad business, at the
! least.
That Messrs. Frame and Morris had
awarded much business to the Okla.
homa Brokerage company against
whom charges were filed with the
! governor.
The house committee concurs in
these findings, with the exception of
! the contract for electrical machinery
for the university and the contract
for the annexation for the code. With
regard to these, the house committee
finds everything o. K, so far as the
board of affairs is concerned, al,
though Bum is severely criticised in
another report for the manner in
which he inserted certain alleged "ad.
vertising" annotations.
Relative to State Auditor.
or the state auditors office the com
mittee says: 1--WE do not go into the
| details of the administration of this
office, for the reason that Leo Meyer
recently resigned, pending impeach'
ment proceedings, and was succeeded
! by ]. c. McClelland, the present in,
cumbent, and in the opinion of the
committee it would not be of any
material benefit to the people Of the
state or the management of the affairs
of this office to go into a history OF
the Facts in connection with said
office, which resulted in the resigna.
tlon of Mr.. Meyer.
"Mr. McClelland appears to be
very competent man and sincerely in
earnest in an endeavor to put the
state auditors office on a strictly bust.
ness basis"
With regard to the Oklahoma Brok.
erage company, the house committee
reports: TN the opinion and judg.
ment of this committee, rhis broker.
age company was organized for the
primary purpose Of grating on state
contracts, and that its objects and in,
tentions were thwarted through the
earnest effort of Mr. Howard"
The committee says of the schoo,
land office:
THE committee is glad to say that
this great department Of our state
government has handled the millions
Of dollars under its control with effici
ency; that its books are systematically
and accurately kept; and accounts
for the vast sum in its hands very
readily. We believe that there is an
excess of employees and officers IN
this department; we believe that the
money 1t handles should be converted
into the state treasury by act OF the
legislature, and we believe the vast
sum it keeps on deposit in the vari,
GUS banks of the state, $780, 1865 .O9
by the last statement, is capable of
earning at least per cent per annum
instead of 3 per cent paid by the
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