Arizona republican., 1913-03-21
NEVER AGA|N''
 SAYS GOVERNOR
No More Executive Mes sagcs to House on AK Committee Reports. Has Nothing to Take Back on Purchases Matter

Governor Hunt does not propose to continue the controversy with the axe committee" of the house of rep resentatives He has made public statement tO that effect Yesterday shortly after the report of the com mittee went to the house a repre- sentative of The Republican visited his exceilency to see if any state ment was going to be made about the matter There will be no more ex- ecutiVe messages to the legislature concerning the report of the commit tee on state institutions and public expenditures" said Governor Hunt. "The issue has narrowed, according to the latest report of that commit tee to q question of $22 profit real iZed by the old Dominion Commercial company, on an open market pur- chase made by the superintendent of the insane asylum from Marshall Field Co. of Chicago, wholesale firm which declines to open an ac- count except with regular customers and which. as I have before stated. without my knowledge billed the goods in question through a firm in which I happened to he a stockholder. Since no greater amount is involved, I will rest the case. content with the fact that by this particular purchase very considerable percentage of say ing was made to the state, and that by the open market method of buy ing supplies when reasonable bids were not forthcoming in response to the regular advertisements of the board of control a clear saving of more than $1000O has been made in eleven months by one institution alone. If this be 'mismanagement of the state institutions, as the commit tee seems to construe It, then l am most emphatically in favor of mis-
 management.
 There is nothing to add to or take away from my previou statement re- gardng the purchases made for the Globe Ray road camp, under an ar rangement whereby the cost of main taining the camp, and therefore of the supplies, is d charge against Glla county The board of control had nothing to do with the making of such purchases nor had the chair man, secretary or any member of the board anything to do with them If any illegality entered into the matter. l shall be glad to bear my share of the burden: If any ethical error, for which l was or was not responsible was committed, l will answer to the people, and not to any committee
 Tt is a source of regret to me that the committee on state institutions and public expenditures has never seen any of the 'purported stolen do- cuments' filched from my office some time ago, though l knew of course that the committee is too high mind ed to make use of any such docu- ments unless the same were authenti- cated by the rightful owner. It oc- cured to me that if the committee had accidentally come into possession of any of the documents, had seen. or had information concerning any ot them, a clue would be thus afforded which might bring felon to justice. and the hope that some such lInoWl- edge might be in the possession of the committee was strongly suggested by d letter received from the chair man of the committee, requesting a copy of a certain document. of d cer- tain very particular date. which nap pened to be one of the stolen papers. It was not quite clear to me how the committee could describe this stolen