Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-14

which II was appointed ana uiu pre-
| pare and take exhibits 10 said exposi-
| ton; that Il erected. at suitable
| place on the exposition grounds, a SUBJ
| stantial building known as the Iowa
building at a cost OF approximately
| ss2 900 and did expend up 20 the l1th
| day of February, 1915, about $4,000 out
| OF said guaranty fund for the purposes
| OF said exposition: that said money
| expended from said guaranty FUND
| was used for said building, furnish
ings historical exhibits, salaries OF
employees and general expenses con-
| nected with said exhibit
That on the 18th day of February,
| 1915, the Thirty-sixth general assembly
passed and adopted chapter OF the
| laws Of the Thirty-sixth general as
sembly. appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose OF aiding the said commission
IN conducting said exhibit; that said
appropriation of $4,000 was divided
into fixed amounts for the various
purposes set forth in the act and the
said act confirmed the appointment OF
| said Panama Pacific International eN-
| position commission as appointed by
the governor in April; 1914.
Commissioners Donate Services.
"That the commission continued to
| prepare and conduct an exhibit for the
state of Iowa at the exposition, that
the members of said commission all
served without compensation and some
| of them expended large sums out or
their own private funds in the fur
therance of the objects Of the expost-
| ton; that as a result OF said exhibit,
out OF 2Ss exhibitors at the said eN-
position from Iowa, 2Si prize medals
| were awarded to citizens OF the state,
! which award of prizes was never hith-
erto equalled by exhibitors of the state
OF Iowa at any International exposi-
ton.
That the said appropriation was is
sued to the commission in installments
of $4,000 until the total amount OF
$4,000 was drawn. 4 report of the
expenditures from the $4,000 allow
ance was made to the executive coun-
Gil before the next allowance was
made; that the last SIS, 900 OF the to-
tai appropriation of SIS, 600 was never
drawn or asked for by the commission;
that some time in January, 1917, the
commission made its fifth and last re-
port to the executive council; that
said report showed total amount of
$4,000 drawn from the treasury OF
Iowa and the sum Of $685. received
from the sale OF property used in max
ing said exhibit and Of the said sum
drawn from the treasury, together
with the proceeds Of the sale Of said
property, the commission returned 10
the state OF Iowa the sum Of s2,256.64;
that when said appropriation was
made available the exhibit conducted
by said commission was in process Of
installation and a considerable amount
had been expended for the object Of
said appropriation of the proper funds
| OF said appropriation, a total sum of
s5,753.31 reimbursing the guaranty
fund for the amount thus expended;
| that among the amounts reimbursed
from the appropriation to the said
guaranty fund was a salary item TO
Woodwork Clum amounting to
| sl,562.54, together with salaries for
other employees.
Few Vouchers Missing.
That the said commission made a
| full, detailed and itemized report OF
| all expenditures made by it, pursuant
to the provision OF the act but that
the act nowhere provides for other
vouchers than said reports; that in the
| examination OF every item Of all said
reports Of said commission your COM
| mittee finds there are now lacking
| proper vouchers for sums aggregating
| S4,0S7S1; that the said items make up
| said total sum are contained in the
| five reports Of the commission; that
| Of said unvouchered items s3,405. IS
| are contained in the first four reports;
| that the said first four reports were
| successfully presented to the execu-
tive council and that the successive
installments of the said appropriation
| were issued upon the filing Of said re-
ports; that your committee finds that
| at the time the said reports were en-
bodied in the state expense report Of
1915 the items of said reports were al
| supported by proper vouchers; that
| sometime in January, 1917, the COM
mission filed with the executive coun-
Gil its fifth and last itemized. report
provided for in the act making the ap-
| propriation; that in said fifth report
| there were items aggregating s681.s5
Aux Which, al Ills l!lue, the committee
| finds no proper vouchers On file; but
| that at the time of the filing of said
report or subsequent thereto proper
vouchers were filed covering all of said
items.
THAT in the filing Of the said fifth
report there was some irregularity, the
| filing mark not having been made upon
the same and no record of the filing
| having been made in the office Of the
secretary Of the executive council;
that by reason of said irregularity mis-
apprehension was occasioned as to
| whether said commission had ever
| made complete reports Of its expendi-
lures and it was out of this Irregular
ity and misrepresentation that most Of
| this controversy has arisen.
Secretary's Office Negligent.
"That the office Of the secretary of
the executive council was negligent in
| not keeping the reports and vouchers
filed by the said commission and in
auditing said accounts; also in not
showing all Of said reports to those
who inquired for them and had right
to see them.
THAT on or about the goth day of