American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-03-11

port. 1t covered the folloWlng cases
The Capital News and James H. Wal
his, former pure food commissioner
for Idaho, the loan to Ned Jenness,
Carey act funds, land leases and de-
hnquent state loans. On the Capital
News-Wallis case the committee re-
ported as follows:
One of the charges submitted to
o committee was that of a certain
item of s14.S2 paid by said ]. H. Wal
lis to the Capital News, and by Wal
lis thereafter collected from the state
as part of his expense account, was in
fact a private account by the Capital
News against Wallis and not a prop
er claim aginst the state, of which
facts the Capital News has cognizance.
Your committee investigated this
charge and finds as follows:
In the month of December James H.
Wallis was in New York City attend
ing a meeting of the National Civic
Federation. While there he sent a
telegram to the Capital News which
the latter published in its issue of
December Is, 1913, under the head
lines: Correlation in Health Work is
Urged by Wallis, Idaho Pure Food
Commissioner. Delivers Notable Ad-
dress at Meeting of National Civic
Federation" Capital News Special
Service.)
Applied to Public Office for Pay.
The telegraph tolls on this message
were s10.57 which the Capital News
paid. A few days thereafter, but be-
fore the return of Wallis from New
York, a reporter of the Capital News
appeared at the office Of the state
pure food commissioner and asked
from the bookkeepcr in the pure food
commissioners office, reimbursement
for the tolls paid; the bookkeeper re-
fused to pay on the grounds that he
had no authority from Wallis for so
doing. the reporter thereafter called
once or twice more at the pure food
commissioners office for the same
purpose, but payment was again re-
fused.
Thereafter, when Wallis returned,
the bookkeeper informed him of the
demands of the Capital News, when
Wallis instructed him to pay the same.
~Thereupon, George L. Fleharty, CASH
Ter and ~bookkeeper of the Capital
News, called at the pure food commits
sioner's office and was paid by the
~bookkeeper the sum of s14.32 out of
the petty cash fund" in the office of
the pure food commissioner.
This amount was made up of two
items, of which $10.57 was for the
elegram hereinbefore mentioned, and
We balance or $3.75, appears in the
cash book of the Capital News, as
Eastern Idaho Press Association" Mr..
F1eharty testified that Eastern Idaho
Press association meant Mr.. Wallis.
The item of $1O.57 appears on said
cash book of the Capital News rs spa
per, James Wallis" but Mr.. Fleharty
testified that it was the amount paid
rs tolls for this telegram.
The receipt given by Fleharty on
the occasion of receiving this payment
of $14.32 is as follows: January 80,
1914. Received of James Fl. Wallis,
state dairy, food and sanitary inspec-
tor, fourteen and thirty-two one hun
dredths dollars. Capital News Pub
fishing Company.-Fleharty."
1t Is a receipt taken from a printed
block pad or book of receipts, and
though the blank has a space or line
on which to specify what the payment
is or was for, this line in the case un-
der consideration is left blank.
The petty cash fund, out Of which
the Capital News was paid for this
item Of $14.32, was itself money be-
longing to the state of Idaho, kept by
Wallis for convenience in paying small
items.
Printing Circular Letters
The receipt above set forth was
thereafter attached, with certain 9TH
er vouchers, to a claim subscribed and
sworn to by Wallis, filed with the
state auditor, allowed by the board of
examiners, and paid by the state treas
srer. The item on this sworn claim.
corresponding In amount with the re-
ceipt, is designated as printing circu-
lar letters, $14.32."
1t thus papears, and your COM
mittee finds, that Mr.. Wallis In
his claim, for reimbursement from
the state for the tolls paid for
this telegram, Including there
with the Eastern Idaho Press As.
ISOLATION item), falsely designated
the same as @printing circular let
ters," and the Capital News in
giving its receipts to Wallis failed
to specify what the payment was
for, and in 1t scash book, falsely
designated the same as "paper,
James H.. Wallis.-
Another charge relates to an item of
ruled paper in the sum of $1,000. |
This charge was made under date OF
March 10, 1914.
Mr.. c. Lee French, the book
keeper. in the pare food depart
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