Arizona republican., 1913-03-13

1 tutions are regularly advertised for
 and that whenever reasonable prices | can be secured, awards are made and | contracts entered into. When reason ! able prices are not offered, the bids ! if any, are promptly rejected in ac- 1 cOrdance with the power conferred | by law upon the board, and while re-
 advertising, supplies are bought, un- | der a most legitimate application Of
 the emergency purchasing clause. in | the open market This procedure has l invariably resulted--there being not 1 a single eXCeption-in important say | ing to the state, as an investigation of the records will prove, and | take pleasure in stating that in the | absence of a specific prohibition of 1 law the practice will be continued
 r, gardless of the interests that may 1 hold it objectionable.
 i After quoting from the board of 1 controls report, to the effect that l the affairs of the industrial school have been pursuing the even tenor of l their way" the committee on state | institutions and public expenditures, l in manner which but for the com l mittee's well known fairness, hon 1 esty and impartiality would be re- garded deceiVing, endeavors to | show the existence a the industrial school of a quite different state of affairs, l would point out, since it would not be discovered from a read ing of the committees statement, that the report above quoted is of date of June 30. 1912. while the undcSr- able condition of affairs at the in l duStrial school to which the commit
 tee evidently sees a need for direct ing attention. was learned through the medium of report which. ac- cording to the information vouchsafe7I
 by the committee, was made to me
 under date of October 9, more than
 three months after the report that the affairs of the school were 'pur- | suing the even tenor of their way In reply to the insinuatiOn conveyed bv the statement of the committee
 on state institutions and public ex- lpenditures, I wish to here confirm the
 board of controls report of June 30 1912. that the affairs of the indus
 trial school were pursuing the even
 tenor of their way and to add that
 whatever undesirable state of af fairs afterward arose was prompt ly and mpartially, if judiciously,
 dealt with. And regardless of the assertion that the em- ploye of the school who had the
 manhood to report these improper
 conditions was discharged at once for doing his plain duty" I may still further add that no man was dis
 charged from the institution who did not richly deserve it.
 l I am greatly interested in the ref crence made by the committee on state institutions and public eXpen | ditures to the report. dated October | 9. 1912 and describing certain con ditions at the industrial school, since | if happenS that it was a confidential lrepOrt of which there was no author ized or legitimate copy in existence save the one in my own possession II have not the faintest objection to the committees possession of copy of this report, which the committee states is under consideration" nor do I wish to question the means or the motives of the committee which resulted in it's securing d report of which there neither was nor Is
 legitimate or authorized copy: but
 inasmuch as my office was entered
 at time subsequent to the receipt by me of this report. and number
 of personal letters, papers and docu-
 ments stolen by parties who nave
 not yet been brought to account for
 the felony. there las occurred to me
 the possibility that the committee
 might, as I have no doubt It Will II
 it can, be glad to do. extend infor-
 nation leading to the disclosure of the thiefs identity and the recovery
 of the stolen property
 regret to note the complaint of the committee on state institutions and public expenditures. that the
 auditor. although under the law a
 member of the board of control, IS never consulted in regard to the management of the institutions or the purchasing of supplies; and that the board is practically a one man affair" I feel quite certain that the auditor. who has proved himself a most competent, painstaklnS' alnldole : and obliging official, and whose eN- : haustive messages on subjects con corning which his attention could not ? req sonablv be exacted, have charmed > and instructed me. needs no pfolec- Q tio2 at the hands of the committee 2 It is true that he is but one mempe' n of the board of control, but ne IS al exceedingly able, unpreJudlced ah' = ] conscientious member. and the op- portunity is never wanting, nor IS nc Q lacking the courage and vigor to tak' advantage of such opportunity Shoui' the occasion arise, for him to nak' = | protest to be duly entered m lH' Q minutes of the board, against any l. action which fails to meet Wlth Hi y approval. Since no protests hdN
 been made by him to the board dii' since no requests, verbal or written for the placing of protests m LII u minutes. have been received lro' l. him, I have felt it reaSonaple e assume that he was satlSfleu dh e pleased with the boards views am a proceedings The committee IS eh 70 tirely mistaken in the belief that LII O auditor is not consulted in matter n affecting purchases for and the man nAEf