Arizona republican., 1913-03-13
Objects to Attack in Local Paper on Axe" Commit tee Report in Connection With Governors Reply to Report
BARK FIR AND
 KANE WAIVER
Constitutional Rights if Re
 pl'isals Are Desired by Administration A gain
 Committee Members. Ja- cobs Says Half Not Told

Committee Members. Ja-
 cobs Says Half Not Told
 MT. Speaker. I rise to question Of personal privilege. I hold in my hand a copy of an evening paper published in the city of Phoenix called the Ga zette." The story is headed AK com mittee charges annihilated by gover- nor. Message sent to legislature show ing them to be false, malicious, med
 dlesome. and unworthy, in which burg lary and midnight thieving are men
 toned in connection with their incep-
 ton. Truth shows aninouS behind the accusations" l want to say MT. Speaker, that the man who wrote that
 head to that story lied, when he wrote
 it, and he knew he lied. The man that
 caused that head to be written is a1 liar and he knows it."
 The speaker was Leon s. Jacobs, member of the legislature from Mari copa county, chairman of the house committee on code revision, and a
 member of the house committee on state institutions and public expend- lures, which is commonly called the axe committee. The occasion of the speech was the fact that the special message of Governor Hunt printed herewith in full and which had been
 read in the house, was printed in the
 evening paper, with the head above re- , ferred to.
 T wish to say to this house." said : Mr. Jacobs. that the axe committee referred to in this paper. has in it's ] possession obtained from the secretary 1 of the board of control, reports that 1 could not because of their very nature , be printed in report to this house 1 for general circulation, and that the ! committee has not reported one-half of i the things that are at fault in the con- duct of the state institutions. I de nounce that statement as wilful lie.'' This sensation followed a day full of
 sensational happenings both in the i house and senate of Arizona. When the special message of the governor was ! read to the house early in the after noon, Kane and J. Parker members of the committee, that had made the re- port referred to in the governors mes { sage rose and stated that they would 1 wave any constitutional right granted
 them a members of the legislature and take the fight into the open if need be 1 to prove the charges that had been made by the committee.
 After Jacobs had finished his speech
 on privilege he was greeted with a round of applause from the house
 members. It was conceded by both 1 the administration forces and those op- i posed to the administration that a de- nial of charges do not disprove them. and that concrete proof is necessary | before the charges can be called lies
 or the author of them liars. There was much feeling in the house during this sort of discussion yesterday. There was some talk of barring certain news paper correspondents from the gallery of the house. but this is not seriously l regarded
 l There was an attempt made to refer i the message of the governor to the at | torney general but nothing came of it
 In the senate the message was received | in silence and filed
 Governors Reply
 March II, 1913 !
 resentatives, First Legislature of the State of Arizona.
 1 Gentlemen:
 1 There has come to my attention d l report submitted to the house of rep ! resentativcs, under date of the Sth 1 inst, by the committee on state in
 sututions and public expenditures l. purports to be d report on the report of the board of control. for the fiscal year ended June %, 1912. but prac- 1 tiCally ignoring that report. in reality 1 constitutes as its authors designed
 an assault upon myself, and an ar l raignment of the manner in which ] the business of the state. during my administration, has been conducted ] Distasteful as it is to me to give at tcntion to attacks of this charac ter 1 a species of warfare generally left to ; the questionable activities of maleVo- lent political foes--I deem it proper in justice to the members of the legislature who may wish to be cor l rectly informed, to make reply to the accusations.
 At once the most cunning the most insdious and the most
 serious charge incorporated in the report is that supplies have 1 been purchased from time to time by the board of control of which the governor is. chairman, from the old 1 Dominion Commercial company of lGlobe. These were for the prison.
 asylum and industrial school, anI
 during this entire period the governor
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