The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-20
FISH AND GAME
DEPT. SCORCHED
Committee on State Affairs
Criticizes That Depart
ment- Recommend.

oh"' ehO iioA anu Z dluc department
OF the state be placed under the
control and supervision Of COM
mission and expressing disapprov-
al of the employment of the de-
partment in the past as a political
machine, the state affairs COM
mittee of the house submitted
its formal report upon that depart
ment. The report was read in
the house yesterday afternoon.
The committee says that the
money required to support the de-
partment is not justified by the
results received Failure of the
department to pay the sum of
$4,000 said to have been due as
payment for Hepburn park dur
ing 1911 and 1912 comes in for
separate criticism in the report,
which is as follows:
"Mr. Speaker: We, your com
mittee on state affairs, in an ex-
animation of that branch of our
state government known as the
fish and game department, submit
the following report:
"The conduct of this department
has been of such character that
we are forced to state that the
expenditure of money required to
maintain it does not appear to be
justified by the results produced.
The receipts of this department
during the past two years, up to
Jan. /, 1913, are shown to be 1884,
1927. The disbursements dur
ing the same period amount to
$94, 23079. An examination of
these disbursements shows that
the greater part of them were for
salaries and expenses.
1.-THE 1911 session of the Idaho
legislature passed an act Chapter
SO, 1911 session laws) section 8
of which is as follows:
"In order to reimburse the
treasury of the state of Idaho in
the sum of twelve thousand dol
lars ($12,000) to be paid for said
Hepburn park as provided in
this act, there is hereby appropri-
ated out of the fish and game
fund the sum of twelve thousand
dollars ($12,OO0) to be paid into
the treasury of the state of Idaho
from said fund as follows:
"Three thousand dollars 49,
O0O) to be paid during the year
1911; Three thousand dollars ($3,-
OOO) to be paid during the year
1912; Three thousand dollars 49,
O00) to be paid during the year
1913; Three thousand dollars ($3,.
O0O) to be paid during the year
1914
"In compliance with this act,
this department should have paid
into the treasury of the state of
Idaho the sum of $4,000 This
Department. failure to accomplish
this, appears to your committee
to warrant just criticism; it APP
pearing that out of the sum of
1874, 23079 expended during the
past two years, there could have
been set aside the Sc, 900 necessary
to meet the requirements of the
above mentioned act.
"Your committee is also of the
opinion that too much attention
has been paid to political matters
by this department and that the
said department has been, by both
republican and democratic ad
ministrations in the past, used tc
some extent as a political machine
This practice should be discoun
tenanced and abolished.
cit has been further brought
to the attention of your COMMITTEES
that in certain sections of thu
state, and particularly in tina
section of Fremont county known
as the upper Snake river valley
there has been established and il
now being established large pri
vate fish and game preserves anG
the streams are being monopo
LIKED by private ownership. Sucl
monopolistic control is foreign t.
the system of American govern
ment and obnoxious to the peopl'
of the state Of Idaho.
"We do not hold this depart