The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-04
Report Made Public on the Examina-
ton Of the State Live Stock
Commission Of
Illinois.
MANY IRREGULARITIES
"Boss" Haner Did a Little Business
on tho Side In the Way
Of Exchanging
Hogs.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Sept. 4.-Gov-
ernor Dunno today made public the
report of the civil service commission
on the conditions found during an ex-
animation into the state live stock
commissions business and conduct.
The report asserts that conditions of
financial looseness of an extreme sort
were found. The body OF the report
centers about alleged misdeahngs of
P. S. Haner, OF Taylorville, who is al
legged to have profited considerably
at the expense Of the state.
His resignation from the board, re-
quested by the commission, was ac
cepted today.
The report with recommendations
says "That the civil service conduct
an efficiency examination to test the
qualifications OF all assista-1. state
veterinarians now holding offica and
those who fail in the test. That com,
plete accounting system be establish
ed In the laboratory and main office
at Springfield. That the state con
slider carefully the advisability OF dis
tributing cholera serum free and de-
eide whether it would be better to
charge a reasonable price, thus aiding
in defraying expenses
The charges in general arc that the
| irregularities approximate $4,000
with possibility Of frauds aggregat-
| ing $4,000; that Haner conducted
deals as self confessed boss of the
board without consulting other mem
bers or making records of deals, ana
that he worked in conjunction with T.
o. Shepard, state agent OF the East st.
Louis stock yards and Joseph Mills, q
small packer Of that city and the G, M.
Keys and Company, commission house
Of the same place.
Under the head of financial loose
ness" the report has the following to
say of Haner: when the appropria'
ton of $4,000 made by the forty-sev-
enth general assembly became avail
able Haner, who was the dominating
personality of the board, according to
his own statements, under oath, It's
boss arranged to purchase hogs at
I the East St. Louis stock yards, be
cause 1t had become apparent that the
/ supply of infected hogs on farms with
| in reasonable distance from the laborar
tory was inadequate for the states
purpose"
! Haner previously had purchased
hogs at his own expense for the labora'
tory. These the report claims We're
cheap hogs untitled for the states
purpose. The report continues:
"Haner reimbursed himself for his own
loan of hogs by selecting healthy hogs
from the shipment for his own use
DR.. Peters stated he allowed Haner
to do this because he was the chair.
man. DR.. Russell, then commissioner
stated that he knew nothing whatey'
er about the transaction; that Haner
never brought the subject before the
commission and did not ask authority
from the state to take the hogs in lieu
of those he had loaned the state. In
| every instance according to his own
testimony, he took no hog that had
not been fed generously by the state
for at least month.
THAT such a transaction was pos
sible without any action of the board
OR any accounting with the state, in
i dicates the extreme looseness of the
departments business methods"
I The report states further that Han
er acknowledged he drew from the
states account with the Keys firm