Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-30
SENSATIONAL CHARGES

Continued From Page One)
 Hunt remove Harris from the adju,
 mt generals office haze been repea.-
 edly sent to Gov. Hunt from the war
 department at Washington, but to all
 such the executive has turned Q deaf
 ear On July l. 1911. Secretary Gar
 rison wrote Go. Hunt in reply tO an appeal for extension of time to enable the guard to meet federal re,uire-
 ments. He told the governor that tue adjutant general was totally inefi- cient" from 9 federal standpoint. and h'ntc1 broadly at the remedy for the 'ris7rahle con 1'tion of the g-ard
 7-hi"h. h. said. wp~ld continue iu it's ;7cT"iH~t c'r1'tior SO Tor cr Pcrrie
 --7r aaiH-9~t general
 Tho cc7trhv rev between the val
 depsrtment on one side dates hack al most 10 the time when Harris. serge ant in Company of Tempe. was
 "amed adiutant general bv Go Inn:
 TTa had at that tine had evnerie7ce
 in the regnlar arr'v ae rrivate ir a
 hosrital cOrDs. and had served with tho national gUarf of California. Ho hos n0ver heer in cor'-r"Nd of com narv
 Tn 191i the war dorartwert notified .he governor that three cOrranies had failed tO meet federal rocuire- ments and that federal aid would be withdrawn. The governor asked for an extension of time. and this was granted. At the same time the depart- ment acceded tO the rather unusual request of the governor for an in- spectOr-instructOr 10 nut the guard ic shape for the newt insperti0n. Cart. Stacey. an officer of the rccular army was assigned to this most. with fuu charge of the guard until after the following federal irsnection, which was held in March. 1915 When that time came the companies all passed tn inspectiOn. This year but three, it is said. have failed to come up to requirements. and the guard has laDsed back to the condition it was in before.
 Practically no drills have been held since August. 1915. when the guard returned from camp. and those that have been held have been poorly at tended. When the Clifton strike trOu- hle came in October. althoueh 4 had been known that troops might he sert. a number of the cOmranv commanders were on their way tO Florida to at tand rife shoot. Go Hurt. inetead of sending O~a or two cO~'r1ries as units decided to send small detail frNr, almost every canna0v in the state. "So that mo from all ro-t- of the stat, might see what conditions were at Clifton" Thos men whose comnanv commanders were absent broke into the armOries and eruirnei them mselves. No records were tert of the eCuinment they took. and TOW guns. blankets and other valuable federal nrope~tv is missing. Part of the equipment was worn ont at Cliff ton. and at least 70 per cont of it is m servicpahle
 No state f-rrds were ovoiioble 10 nav tho ouqr1=vue7 N0~ efri'-o d~tv at Clifton. who~. most Of their time was snert '~ idtonoee. Treteo7 of rra' ing thn Clifton cawr ono of iretr1i~t'on. fhe oTca-e in cra-oo dcclaroa "the won are ton darn well drilled aIreadv" Naturally tHc guard returned even more demor9lize1 than before
 Tn December. when it was seen that the guard could not possibly pass the federal tnsnection. tho governor --~ to Co-' cta"ov. oeo-io~ to con- r - o~ r'-- sho co--a ~o---r- n-S o-u- '-0l ~f 1~'n a~ hr No vho- ho tock "h"~"o of tNe ~o@ima~t in 1914. Sfa 70v r-f-ao7 The oo~orr0r ihen 7vr0to the v-a~ do0srtwent. U~viro the reo-otarv wire his anprO~al of the 0'7' a' orco. Trie Acting Secretary Brotenridge refused t' do He wrote to the governor that the guard had lapsed into it's former inefficient hope