Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-10-19
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DEFENDS HIS ADMINISTRATION
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struction and it was first proposed to
vote a levy of four mills as the bond
limit of the state had been reached
and any money for highway construc-
ton had to be provided by a direct
levy He said a compromise was final
ly reached and a two-mill levy was
voted. He reviewed how the admins
tration building at the Lewiston State
Normal school and the Soldiers Home
had been burned, how the insurance
money had been turned into the gem
eral fund and spent and how it was
incumbent on the legislature of 1919
to make appropriations to provide new
buildings and this had to be provided
from taxation.
The Northwest Livestock show at
Lewiston and the Idaho State Fair at
Boise each reached appropriations to
the amount. of $4,000 and this money
had been we'll spend in developing
the states resources. The cost of
maintenance of the several state in
situations had increased in the same
proportion as the cost of living to in
dividuals and this meant larger ap-
preparations for these institutions
and new buildings were necessary at
the University of Idaho to properly
care for the rapidly increasing at
| tendance.
The governor took up the Whitehall
and several other claims against the
state which the legislature paid by
almost unanimous consent, both re-
publicans and democrats voting for
the appropriations, and said that these
bills had been passed by four differ
ent legislatures. The claim for money
advanced for the construction of
university building at Moscow is one
that the supreme court decided a just
one. Alexander had promised on two
occasions to see to it that the claim
was paid and admitted it to be a just
and proper claim that must be paid
by the state. Mr.. Davis said that
the former administration had not
provided for sinking funds and inter
est which the state must pay and
which are now being taken care OF in
businesslike manner.
Governor Davis condemned the
present democratic national admins
tration on the grounds that it has not
been true to its trust. He said that
during the war congress voted Presi-
dent Wilson every dollar but served
notice that he would be expected to
give an accounting of his stewardship
He said there was gross extravagan-
cies in the war department, that more
than a billion dollars were spent for
aeroplane construction and that not
single fighting plane was on the
French front when the armistice was
declared. He said the American avi-
ators were largely provided with aero
planes that the French and English
governments had rejected. He told of
the vast sums expended for the man
ufacture of guns and ammunitions and
that none of these guns were deliv-
cred in France in time to be brought
into action before the armistice was
signed and that not a single projec-
tile had been fired at the enemy. He
told of the large contracts negotiated
by Secretary of War Baker for war
materials after the armistice was
signed, of the large number of auto !
mobiles and parts purchased after the /
armistice was signed and these auto |
mobiles had been shipped into South |
Carolina to be parked in the open air |
along side thousands of others left /
there to rust and ruin. He said thous- /
ands of bales of cotton are rotting /
along the railroad tracks of the south /
while the price of cotton is the high |
est ever known and when suggestion +
was made that this cotton be sal
vaged to relieve the shortage, the cot
ton planters and dealers had urged I
the administration to keep this cotton /
off the market as it would reduce the
price.
The address of Governor Davis was
given the closest attention and he
received frequent applause. He made :