Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-04-23
SAYS FIGURES
WERE JUCCLED
Standpoint Paper Claims Governor Has
Not Saved State Million Dollars
a. Claimed
SAVED ABOUT QUARTER MILLION
Takes Governor to Task for Alleged
Misrepresentation

In its last issue the Pend
d Oreille Review of Standpoint
published the following article in
which the Reviews special cores
pondent at Boise takes exception
to the statements recently made by
Governor Alexander in which the
governor claims to have saved the
state over a million dollars.
Governor Alexander statement
sent out by his publicity bureau,
the private secretary in the chief
executives office, claiming that he
has saved the state 81, 1876, 900 is
juggling of figures and nothing
more. Cover nor Alexander in this
statement claims that the cost OF
the state government in the Haines
administration was $2,404 289.
Governor Alexander did not take
into consideration in placing this
amount that $128, Ais remained I'M
expended in the treasury at the
close of the Haines administration.
He also takes advantage of the
800, 900 appropriated for the Pan
ANA Pacific International exposi-
ton, half of which is to be spent
in the present administration, nor
does he mention the 81, 500 for the
silver service for the battleship
Idaho contracted in the Hawley
administration, and other items
which would bring the Haines fig
ures down to 2,16S. $40. Bonds
issued in the Haines administration
for $40, COO which run for 20 years
are not figured in the cost of run
ming the state government for 1915
and 1916. Alexander also takes
credit for the vetoed appropriations
for the King Hill, Gem irrigation
project, and other items where he
cut down the appropriation in part
but which the attorney general
holds he could not do, and they
will thus revert to the original
amount appropriated. Governor
Alexander claims that the actual
amount appropriated for the 1915
1916 period is 81, 996, 1882, while
the real figures would be $2,022,-
2S5. A comparison between the
two administration in reality
shows the cost of the Haines ad-
ministration 81, 168, $40, and the
cost of the Alexander administra-
ton 81, 022 ,258, which means an
actual saving" by Alexander of
$14o ,O85. In arriving at this saw
ing" however. attention should
be called to the fact that the ap-
preparation under the Haines ad-
ministration for educational pur-
poses was $723 ,484, and that under
the Alexander administration it is
$6O1, 44o. Thus out of a total
saving" of $146,0s5, the major
portion of it, $122 ,044 was secured
at the expense of the educational
institutions of the state. The state
educational board claims that this
so-called saving" will manifest
itself in the crippled condition Of
the state institution. 1t was only
through the pleading of the educa-
tional board that DR.. Sisson wa:
retained at his reduced salary ano
it was only after the state wa:
heard from, in no uncertain way
that the educational board deter
mined to retain the services o
President Brannon at the salary b,
was hired for, So 900 per annum
The governor saving" cam,
very near los IL to the state thu
services of President Brannon a
this lime, aud it is only to be con
jectured how much damage thi
saving" will have resulted in t
the state at the end of the biennia
period.