Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-02-28
WANT EX-STATE
EXECUTIVE TRIED
Claim a Misuse of Funds -Adju-
tant General in Vigorous De-
nial in the House.

Boise, Feb. 27.-Recommend-
ing trial of state officials for lille
gal and criminal use of state
funds and mentioning in con-
nection Herewith loses Alexan-
der, former governor, and
Representative G. S. Moody,
former adjutant general, the
special investigating committee
of the legislature filed it's report
with the legislature today. Both
the house and senate adopted the
findings on strict party vote. A
minority report was filed by Rep
resentative Golf, democrat, in
which he exonorated the state Off
cials, claiming they were within
their rights in creating the ex-
penses they did as the country
was at war and an emergency
existed.
Representative Moody was de-
MED the right to answer the
charge Thursday in the senate.
He denied and answered them
in the house this afternoon i'm
mediately after the report was
filed. Moody charged the COM
mittee had been unfair in it's in
vestigations in that it had not
permitted him to see the docu-
ments introduced or to be repre-
sented by counsel.
eve were at war;" said Moody.
the Germans were advancing
toward Paris. The nation was
crying out for men. Idaho was
trying to supply its share. You
of the majority never have dared
to make a report criticising the
expenditure of needed funds then.
If you had you would have been
branded as slackers and driven
from the borders of Idaho and
you know it. did not get one
dollar | was not entitled to and
you can't prove that | did. l did
not spend one dollar that was
not approved by the state board
of examiners and l challenge you
to prove that l did,"
Concluding our report we feel
from fair consideration of the
whole record that there has been
gross, wanton and criminal dis
regard of the sanctity of public
funds of the state; that Mr..
Moody and Ex-Governor Moses
Alexander took advantage of war
conditions upon the ground ap-
parently that people would sane
tion any extravagant and illegal
expenditure of the public funds
upon their statements of military
necessity; that the funds appro-
priated to the adjutant generals
office We're largely expended to
serve the political, selfish and
personal purposes of Mr.. Moody
and Ex-Governor Alexander and
we feel it incumbent upon us in
order to create proper regard for
the public funds of the state to
recommend that a thorough and
searching investigation should be
made by the attorney general
and the prosecuting attorney of
Ada county to the end that those
responsible for wanton, illegal
and criminal use of the funds in
the adjutant generals Office may
be brought to trial and that the
people of the state of Idaho may
be fully advised as to the con-
duct of its public officials during
the years 1918 and we recon-
mend that the attorney general
and prosecuting attorney of Ada
county make such immediate
investigation that the people may
be speedily advised of these con-
ditions and the responsibility for
the criminal use of the public
funds be properly placed"
The report also recommends the
abolishment of the board of ex-
aminers unless that body in the
future exercises more care and
discretion in passing upon bills
and vouchers Submitted to it for.
approval and payment.