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

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This testimony OF Mr.. French
is cOrob0rated by that of Mr..
Fleharty, the ~bookkeeper for the
Capital News, who testified that
the books of the Capital News
showed no charge against the pure
food department or any other de-
partment of the state government
in March, 1914.
Says State Defrauded.
From these facts the conclusion is
irestible; that the state of Idaho
has beer defrauded out of amounts
set forth by its then pure food COM
missioner, either with the active or
passive c%onivance of the Capital News.
Another charge submitted to your
committee relates to a voucher against
the pure food department under date
of June %, 1915, on which a charge
was made of $1,000 for one thousand
pamphlets. The voucher shows on its
face that the figure 81" in the 10000
has been changed to "2" thus making
the number 10000" and the amount
also shows a change in this that the
same has been raised by writing over
the figures $1,000, the figures 2 so.
This item is deserving of further in
v~estigation for it is a matter of COM
mon knowledge that il 1000 pamphlets
were to cost the sum of $1,000, 1000
pamphlets would cost a sum consid-
erably less than twice hat amount, or
less than $21.00, whereas the charge
was made S22.50.
Still other charges submitted to
your committee relate TO the pay
ment to James ii. Wallis of his
personal accounts with the Cap
ital News, Such as subscription,
out Of state money, through the
device of having these accounts
charged on the regular vouchers
of the Capital News, against the
state under other names, or desig-
nation, but this matter your CON-
mittee did not find time TO In
vestigate further than to develop
the fact that herein lies an i'm
portant field for further and more
detailed investigation.
Having laid bare these facts,
we leave the duty of such further
Investigation to disclose RESPONSE
bility for these gratis TO those
whose duty 1t Is, under the law. to
investigate matters of this kind.
Your committee regrets that the
time at Its command did not permit 1t
to fully investigate all matters re-
ferred to 1t. but it has con%scientiously
made the best use of the limited time
at its disposal. The duties required
OF its members, as members of the
house are too onerous to permit Of
their giving the time to these investi-
cations that we believe the subject
merits.
Ned Jenness ExhOnOrated.
Believing that among the major
reasons actuating the house Of rep
resentatives In passing the resolution
directing the appointment of your
committee were charges and insinua-
lions of malfeasance contained I'm the
public press against officers of the
state other than the convicted state
treasurer, and his deputy, your com
mittee investigated several of the
gravest of such charges and here
with reports its findings from such
investigation.
In its issue of September 20, 1914,
the Evening Capital News, a news
paper printed and published at Boise,
Idaho, by the Capital News Publish
ing Company, published an article un-
der the headlines of Another Loan
Exposed Which Involves Register of
the State Land Board, N Jenness and
j. F. Barnes Borrowed Three Times AS
Much AS Value Of Security Permits
and Paid no Interest.
The committee investigated into the
alleged facts set forth in the article
and finds: That in June, 1913, N.
Jenness was, and for some time prior
thereto, had been the register of the
state land board, and he has contin-
ued In Office to the present day; and
that on the 26th of May, 1913, said N.
Jenness, together with said ]. It.
Barnes, made application, in the u.s.
ual form, for a loan on lots 2, 8, 4, S.
8 and z, in section 4, township 10,
range 4 east, containing 1922 acres,
ituated in Boise county, near the line
OF the Idaho Northern railway. State
Land Commissioner, George A. Day,
selected n Arnold Mickels, a resi-
dent in the neighborhod of said land,
to appraise said property and report:
that said Arnold Mickels was not in
terested in said land nor in said loan.
nor In anywise associated or connect
ed with either N. Jenness or j. F..
Barnes; that he appraised the said
land; without the improvements there
at the sun of s8409; that there
after in the month of August, 1913.
the state board of land commission
ers granted a loan of s270O on said
land; that the delay between of the
appraisement and the granting of the
loan was caused by i~mperfections in