The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-05

could not trust even a man OF our
own town to hear 1t. pleaded that
we did not expect to talk anything
over that we were not willing for
everybody to hear, but we did not
know what Hall might want to say.
know from Trego's looks at the
moment that he was not satisfied
with it.. 1t might be better to take
him into full confidence in what is
DONE" So.
E-"Now see here gentlemen;
you have chosen to use my office
for this meeting and l assured you
I would do anything could to make
it convenient and help you in any
way / could, but if you can't hold
q meeting without letting this man
Trego come and sit with you; II
you have got to let him be shopping
around to hear everything that is
said in a matter of this kind; If you
can't hold conference with state
official without calling him in, you
can hunt some other quarters to hold
the meeting in. You cannot hold 1t
in my office under those conditions"
CT think that's the right way
to look at it. I don't think we need
Trego. l don't think we have to
have him around"
A-"That's me; he's not a mem
Der of the board. If he was a men,
Der of the board, he'd have a right
to sit with us, and we would not
have any right to make him stay
out; but the way it is he hasn't any
right to sit with us and we have
no right to let him sit with U.S."
They held the meeting and It oc-
cupied the most of the day. What
they said to Commissioner Hall, and
what Commissioner Hall proposed to
them, has never been made public.
Everything that was said may have
been perfectly proper matter for the
public to know all about. The fact
remains that up to the present time
the people of Bingham county have
not the federal money we expected
and no satisfactory reason has ever
been given for it. If there are sat-
isfactory reasons, If they have been
given to anybody representing this
county, none of the county officials
have ever been able to- make sat-
isfactory explanation. If there were
disagreements between Bingham
county and the state highway de-
partment, have never been able to
get definite statement as to what
they were. During the campaign of
1919 we were informed that If this
county put up $4,000 in connection
with the federal government, that
the federal government would match
1t with $4,000. We were told also
that If this county put up $4,000
in connection with the state govern
ment, that he state government would
match it with $4,000, but that If
we did not put up our $4,000 on
this matter Of joint-road construc-
ton, we would have to pay it to the
state on another account and would =
not get $4,000 of state money. The
Idaho Republican passed this infor-
nation on to the readers as it was
received from the county officials,
but 1t has never been able to get
any definite information to pass to
the readers as to why we did not get
the $4,000 of federal money or the
$4,000 of state money, and l have
never been able to find out what
Commissioner Hall said to the
county commissioners about the
matter the time they had him in
the lawyers office at Blackfoot. The
substance Of their report to me was
that they thought they had made
arrangements by which they would
get these matters Strengthened out in
the course of time That was about
as far as they ever got.
(TO be continued)