Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-04-24
Authorizes Expenditure of
$1,000 in Continuing the
Investigation.
SCHOOL SUPT. COOK
AND DEPUTY REPLY
Declare Charges Against Their De.
partment Are Entirely lnfOnnded,
and Are Based on Malice -OppOn-
cnts OF Probe Defeated.

Little Rock, April Ex-Governor
Hays this afternoon issued a procla-
nation declaring an emergency and
authorizing the expenditure of $1,000
dollars for the continuation of the
work of the general auditing COM
mittee created by concurrent resolu-
ton in the last legislature. The
vouchers are to be issued and sisrec
bv the committee. The committee
was permanently enjoined by the
courts, and the work temporarily
suspended.
In letter TO the governor, the
committee says the following offices
and institutions should be audited:
Secretary of state, attorney general
clerk of the supreme court, state
capitol commission, University of Ar
kansas, state normal school, branch
normal school, tuberculosis SAM
torium. state agricultural schools.
penitentiary and other institutions OF
like character.
''The people built them, own them.
pay for their maintenance, and for
the officers and employees who run
them" says the committee, "and
nave Il IlSuI W hIoW INV NhSit
| money has been expended and what
character of men they have looking
after their public interests, and to
deny them this right would be tax
alton without representation, which
| is an insult to our own form OF
government"
In conclusion. the committee said:
eve believe that the will of the peo-
pie should not be defeated but that
absolute justice should be meted out
regardless of what man or set of
men it might iniure or benefit, and
we most earnestly recommend that
you use whatever means you have in
your power to continue THE investi-
cation. if it be by proclamation, or
by calling a special session of the
| legislature of the state Of Arkansas"
Cook Makes Denial.
Geo. B. Cook, state superintendent
of public instruction, today made the
! following statement in reply to the
report of the special auditing COM
| mittee: 1
"rhe statements of the Investigate
ing committee, in reference to tha
state department Of public instruc-
dent effort to cast unjust asnersions
and are so interviewer with insinua-
tons and utterly unreasonable inter-
ences that they almost answer
themselves and scarcely merit the
dignity Of formal answer. ~
"The alleged shortage is in fact
non-existent and is made up almost
entirely Of blank stubs against which
no certificates were issued and
duplicates issued in order to COM
plete the permanent records. insti-
tuted since came into this office.
"The insinuations that | might
| possibly have been in, some way as
ISOLATED with a teachers agencv or
scmct COMPANY which sold school
eunnlies is without foundation either
in factyior arDearance. The James L.
Waterbury Land company sells no
school e"rnlies "nd IL as foreign to
the Waterman Waterbury company
Pc two concerns ran nossihlv he. Mr..
| Waterbury served hts official. con-
nection with the Waterman Water
bury stove COMPANY before he organ-
lied the land comnany. i was offer
ed the vice presidency Of the. land
company, D"t upO" cdEHluI eo'NolucN"1
ton did; not accept this Mace and
rendered nv resignation without ever
having actually served as an officer
of this land COMPANY although there
exists M legal or ethical reason thy
7 should not do 40, t 1t was nurelv a
business proposition and business
considerations governed N.Y. decision
80 a--> refused Hearine. $40
IT have persistently endeavored to
have this department renresented be-
fore the ccmmittee and had conf
IDENTIFY expected that hearing would