Weekly journal-miner., 1913-03-12

| VIII aSdHl DlliS thS HuSoICh v4 prison conditions onto the floor of ] the House and further excitement will be likely.
 Governor Hunt has so far refused to make any statements concerning the situation and refuses to discuss it. Those who should know how ever the Governors plans intimate that he will during the coming week send a special message to the legis- lature on the reform school situa- ton which will have enough heat in it to raise the temperature ma terially in the House when it is read.
 The report of the State institu- tions committee in full is as fol lows:
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 First Legislature.
 Phoenix, Mar 8, 1913 MT. Speaker: Your committee on State Institutions and Propositions having had under consideration the report of the Board of Control, begs leave to report as follows:
 Chapter l. Title, 56, Revised Statutes of 1901, describes the Board of Control and their duties. The Board consists of the Governor who is Chairman, the Auditor, and a citizen member who is appointed by the Governor, and who is also secretary of the Board. They have full charge of charitable. penal and reformatory institutions, formulate rules for the governing Of said in- stitutions and purchase all supplies for the same. All purchases exceed ing one hundred dollars in amour; shall be advertised for and let to the lowest responsible bidder In cases i of emergency private purchases may be made by the Board not exceeding in amount one hundred dollars for any one institution, except in the case of the prison, the amount is two hundred and fifty dollars. All powers and duties for the govern ment of the institutions is conferred upon the board and it is the duty ot the board to perform all duties re quired of said board by existing laws and also to visit all the insti- tutions placed under their contro at least once every three month: and make a thorough inspection thereof, and from time to time for mulate such rules and regulation: for the government of the same, al they may deem advisable.
 There is absolutely no authority of law for the heads of state insti tutions to make purchases as ha. been done This, however, has beer done, and later ratified by the BoarC of Control, which is a direct viola ton of the law.
 Again, the rule of the Board O Control, is purchases under the em ergency clause rather than by bids Bids are not called for as the. should be and running accounts ar kept with firms under the emergenc, clause. The Superintendent of tn Prison has made purchases exceed ing the two hundred and fifty dol lars emergency instructed the 'ner chant to ship the goods in two in
 voices on the same day to com
 within the law allowing emergenc. purchases, but also in direct viola ton of the law regarding the pur chasing by bids. And this was lat CT ratified by the Board of Con trol. t..-....
 Section 217 of the Civil Code, Re vised Statutes of Arizona, 1901, pro vides as follows: Members of tn legislature, state, county, city an precinct officers must not be inter ested in any contract made by ther 1 in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they ar members"
 Section 7S of the Penal Code, Re e vised Statutes of Arizona, 1901, pro
 vides as follows: Every officer O
 person prohibited by the laws c this state from making or being in n terested in contracts, or from be coming a vendor or purchaser a sales, or from purchasing script. O :. other evidences of indebtedness, wh l violates any of the provisions c . such laws, is punishable by fin
 of not more than one thousand dol t lars or by imprisonment in the stat - prison not more than five year: n and is forever disqualified fror