The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-03-06

adJutant general were unable to live
upon the salary which the statute
provided for them The salary of a
ernor of the state was paid from the
adjutant generals fund to Mr.. JOS
eph Fl. Hansen who was not mem
Der of the national guard and claimed
no connection Herewith.
Pleasure Trips at Expense of State.
Your committee further found the
governor of Idaho was the chief draft
executive of the state under the au-
thority of the federal government but
that he delegated such duties to the
IeX-adjutant general. That the ex-
penses of the draft in all branches of
its activity were proper charges
against the federal government under
the draft regulations and if proper
claims had been made and presented
therefor, would have been paid by the
federal government through Captain
Frank A. Mccall, federal disbursing
agent in the state of Idaho. That ex-
Adjutant General Moody claimed to
have visited all the various draft
boards in the state in connection with
the work for the purpose of checking
their records and keeping up their
morale. That on such trips he trav-
eled at times by railroad and at times
used his own automobile, charging the
expenses of such trips, including the
repairs and supplies for his automo-
bile, to the state, the same being paid
out of the militia fund; that the ex-
penses of such automobile trips by
way Of repairs, tires, oil and gas ex-
penses for such trips We're not proper
or legal charges against the state mil
itia fund, even if necessary, and TAX
en- for the purpose of inspection and
regulation of such boards; but it
clearly appears that many of such
trips were taken for purposes per-
sonal to the ex-adjutant general and
on a number Of such trips the ex-ad-
jutant general took with him his wife
or some other party or parties, the
principal object of such trips being
and pleasure.
'We, your committee, further
found that the imputations of Charles
S. Moody, that such trip or trips were
necessary in order to keep up the
morale of the different draft boards,
is wholly without any foundation and
is not the truth and in fact is a pub
lie and gratuitous insult to the var
ious draft boards of the state and
that such excuse for said trips was
given by Mr. Moody purely as a sub
terfuge in attempting to justify such
expenses.
Wanted to See Their Gov
ernor.
"And your committee further found
that the expenses of various trips
made by former Governor Moses
to points within and with
out the state of Idaho were illegally
paid out of the militia appropriation
These trips, it was claimed by
former Governor Moses Alexander
were made for the purpose of better
ing the condition of the Idaho troops
located at the various environments in
the west, particularly in Washington
and California, and to aid the morale
of these troops, also to increase the
fighting proclivities of these soldiers
by giving them q chance to see and
hear their governor and further to
such complaints to him as they might
see fit, of the treatment and lack of
care which they were receiving at
the hands Of the war department,
having been made that the
conditions in many instances were
far from satisfactory and that the
Idaho troops were in need of assist
ance and that the war department
was lacking in many respects in the
proper care of the soldiers health
and morals. :.
Requests for Transportation Signed
in Blank.
I'VE find that there were arrange
ments made between the state of Ida
no and the different railroads that
upon the filing with the railroad Of q
request for transportation signed by
The governor and j. b. Burns as ma
jor @. M. corps, N. G. l.. the railroad
would issue transportation to any
parties named in such request 1t
was the practice of the ex-governor
and Major Burns to sign requests in
blank, leaving such executed request
In book and anyone authorized by
the ex-governor or the eX-adjutant
general or major could use such re-
quest for transportation and obtain
at any time. These
requests were used also for Pullman
seats and berths on all trips taken by
any of the parties above indicated. In
of the signing Of such
request in blank and of the disregard
on the part Of the ex-governor and
the ex-adjutant general of the fact
that such requests were to be used
only for transportation on urgent
business of the state in connection
with the organized militia of Idaho,