Arizona republican., 1920-06-03
TO BRING ACTION UNLESS HARRIS GIVE ACCOUNT TING
Governor in Letter Asks Accounting Be Demand ed and Declares Action Will Be Brought Unless It Is Forthcoming

If Charles w. Harris, former adjutant general, does not make an accounting, such action will be brought against nm as may be deemed expedient to protect the rights ofs the state"
 This was made known in a, letter written by Governor Thomas E. Camp bell to Wiley P. Jones, attorney gen. efai. The governor called MT. Jones' attention to the fact that this was the third time he had been asked to make peremptory demand for an account Ing, and, if not forthcoming, the gov ernor asked that he be notified at once that he might take the proper legal steps.
 The governor, in. making the an- nouncement that the case might go through the courts, referred to the allegation made by MT. Harris that he had a claim against the state for un- paid salary. The governor says that lne plea set up by the former adJutant general has no bearing upon the de- mand for an accounting and that he has a legal remedy to establish his right to salary, providing it is owing to him.
 Governor Campbell claims that funds belonging to companies of the National Guard remain in the hands of Mir. liar ris, contrary to the law. The amounts, he alleges, it is impossible to de termine.
 In his note to the attorney general, TONcf0OE CdI1pDelt makes nleHIlOn ol the two former occasions when he wrote to MT Jones directing him to de- mand an accounting from Mir. Harris of the fund that came into his posses sion between Sept. 13, 1913 and July 1917, from the various companies of the old National Guard and for complete accounting of monies received from anv and all sources in This al- leged official capacity s adjutant gen. eral and as such dishursed by him from May ,, 1919 to April 29, 1920'
 The governor called attention to Mir. Harris reply addressed to Adjutant General Walter $. Ingalls, which. in effect, was a refusal to render an ac- counting, claiming that the records or his office were in the possession of the governors adjutant general who was in a position to render the account ing.
 In this connection Governor Campbell wrote the attorney general: T desire to inform you that MT. Harris was presented with a formal demand for the effects of the office of adjutant general and for funds remaining in his hands and for statement of dis bursements from funds under his con- troI in June, 1919, after Mr- Ingalls, was appointed and had qualified and been commissioned adlutant general IL was not until October, IS, 1919, that any steps were taken to put Adjutant General Ingalls, into possession of any of the effects of this office. Those steps were taken under the authority Of a court injunction. After the rec ords and effects illegally held by Mr. Harris were obtained by Adjutant General Ingalls, it was discovered that a loose leaf ledger, presumed to con- tain a statement of National Guard companies disbursements did not dis close this information. Figures were available, however, showing that MT. Harris had received an aggregate of S42,599-50 between Sept. 13, ISIS ana July, 1917, from the state treasury for disbursements of those companies. Ledger pages showing those disburse- ments, according to a statement made by the attorney of MT. Harris, in con tempt proceedings, had been removed, the excuse being given that the ac- counts were closed and there remained no need for further record of the transactions.
 ssIt was further found by admission of MT. Harris attorney that a rem nant of unaI1otted funds" belonging to the National Guard fund remained in his possession. Portions of this rem nant of a fund took the form of a checking account in the Phoenix Ma tional bank, and other portions in form of certificates of deposit issned by the Phoenix Savings Bank and Trust company in the sum of $6,741.35 Records turned over by MT. Harris contained no record of any of these certificates except one for $741.36 car ried under the head of insurance fund" These funds still remain in the hands of Harris, contrary to the law
 ssThe law makes it the plain duty of Mr. Harris to surrender to the adjutani general all books and papers bslongine to the office The law governing the office of adjutant general makes it Inc duty of the incumbent to keep a just and true account of all expenditures necessarily incurred by him, ineludine rav. transportation and subsistence o1 officers and enlisted men in the militia and of all military property Sucf records as were kept by MT. Harris and s,Ich papers and vouchers as did come into possession of Adjutant Genera IngalIs are still records of that office These records are open to Harris a. they are to any other member of th'