The Coconino sun., 1922-11-03

SolllClCilIC lolo week before the end of his term, all though Governor-elect Campbell Swas the one who had the official invita- ton to attend and represent Arizona. On that trip Hunt spent $1514 and paid it out of the state council of de- fense funds.
 Then, to make Hunts "Traveling Tom" diatribes all the more ridicul- ous, Boyle charged that in 1918 Gov ernor Hunts travelling expenses amounted to exactly $2673 more than Campbell has spent in travelling dur ing the last three years.
 The failure of the Central bank of Phoenix was next taken up by the speaker. This failure while $300,000 of state funds were there on deposit is being made much of by Hunt. Boyle quoted three state statutes. One makes the state treasurer sole cus- todian of the state funds. The gov ernor cannot handle cent of those funds. Another statute provides that the state treasurer shall not deposit state funds in any bank without first securing good and sufficient bonds, which bonds must be approved by him self, by the state auditor and by the governor
 The third statute makes it felony for the state treasurer to deposit money in a bank without first secur- ing security bonds, then their ap- proval and the authority to make the deposit.
 But this is what happened: The Central bank of Phoenix was made a state depository in 1916-under Gov ernor Hunt! When Campbell was elected, Ross, democrat, was elected state treasurer. Boyce, another dem ocrat, was elected state auditor. In July 1920, Ross sent Governor Camp bel! a bond signed by the Central bank as principal and the Central Fi- nance Corporation as security. These two concerns were pretty closely as sociated. Governor Campbell wrote Ross and asked how it happened that though he, Ross, a short time before didn't consider the Central Surety Corporation bond for $150,000 safe in connection with the Lyman dam proj- ect, he now consider bond from the same corporation safe for the de- posit of twice as much, and told Ross he disapproved of the bond.
 Yet it developed, Boyle said, that in spite of the laws expressly pro hibiting it, Ross had already made the deposit with the Central bank of Phoenix and when he advised Camp bell of that fact and the latter told him to at once get sufficient secur- ity bond executed by some strong bonding company, or withdraw the money, Ross hung his head and said: "The bank cant get the bond; the bank is right now busted"
 "Yet," Boyle asserted, Hunt and the others are talking about the fail ure of that bank and the loss of the money and saying, insinuatingly, Campbell was governor In other words intimating something they dare not charge, and in intent uttering one of the most malicious lies ever told"
 Then Boyle brought up the subject of the 52 state boards, bureaus and commissions that Hunt is now grand loosely claiming are a useless expense made governor.
 Along this line, Boyle entrusted conditions during the successive ad- ministrations of Hunt and Campbell. Some of the 52 boards were establish ed when the state constitution was adopted. Others were created by the state legislature. There never has been a republican state legislature. Most of the boards, bureaus and com- missions were established by demo- cratic legislatures while Hunt was governor.
 Then Campbell was elected. He has forcibly called to the attention of the people of the state and the state leg islature the needless expense involved in these fifty-two separate bodies, with their conflicting and overlapping functions. He studied the state sys- tenn inaugurated with such marked success and saving by Governor Low den of Illinois, conferred with Low den, got Budget Clerk Backus here from Illinois and with his help devis- ed the Civil Administrative Code. Then he got Lowden here to address the legislature. After which the code was read to the legislature by the governor, who asked that it be adopted. It merged the 52 bodies in to eight state departments and would have effected a saving of close to $200,000 a year. It would have pass ed, but for two or three democratic politicians outside of the legislature who pointed out to the democrats in the legislature that it was politically inexpedient to let Campbell get away with the credit for the reform So, in the senate, where the republicans had one majority, the code was passed by one vote, and in the house, where the democrats had one majority the code lost by one vote.
 The democratic buncombe about the states bonded indebtedness and the claim that Arizona is bonded for $41 100000 and Campbell has done it, Boyle disposed of briefly by call ing attention to the fact, that these are not state bonds at all, but county and municipal bonds voted by the counties and cities in which the state