The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-31

NOlc dliQ raul. uNOW, II Nd-Al WHY is elected Auditor and Paul, Att torney General, what is likely to happen to the people who have claims against the Territory? Would they have to divide with v bsomebody in order to have their legal claims allowed? .... There is no doubt in my mind
 that if the Board of Examiner , ehad not been created, Paul would
 have been in Juneau practieing law
 in the Auditors office"
 E Charges Extravagahce IA The Attorney General accused 6Co,e of preaching economy but of offic.ally being extravagant. He tacited a Seattle trip taken by MT
 Cole, MT. Smith and himself. MT: ESmish's expenses on a two-day
 mission were $l2O50. MT. Rustgard's
 $ll8.O, and MT. Coles s26e. The
 Auditor. he added, refused to fur
 'nish receipted bills for his ex- psnses. MT. CcIe's alibi was: He spent the extra money to persuade the .canneries to pay their taxes In E advance but that had already been arranged for by the Governor" \ Revenues Are Sufficient
 The Attorney General secuted MT. Coles fears of a financial shortage in the Treasury. T tell you the revenues are sufficient to
 meet the expenditures and there is going to be no shortage he declared.
 Last year, he said, MT. Cole .esta-
 mated the Treasury would be $S0O- 900 short, and Treasurer Smith psaid it would be $250,O00 to the
 good. When the books were clos
 ed it was found that there was
 over $2s5 O00 in the Treasury This
 sum was entirely apart from about l$140 000 paid in by the canilers in advance on taxes not due until sthis year.
 s Cole had miscalculated over 5 $565, ,0O0," he asserted. Meanwhile
 he had succeeded in frightening
 the Governor and others into be- lieving there would be a shortage;
 hence the reduction of expendi-
 tures for roads, susidies and other
 purposes. Now, remember this,
 this reduction was not made
 because there was a shortage of
 funds, but because Cole had suc-
 oeeded in frightening the Governor into believing there would be a shortage"
 Charges Cole Schemed x After it began to look as If Treasurer Smith was right in his estimate, MT. Rustgard continued, Cole induced the Commissioner of
 4sducation to draw out during 1881 the school appropriation for 1882 foi rural school districts, fin the hope of thereby creating a short age for the year i1931."
 He charged that Cole tried to
 get school boards in incorporated districts. and. the President of the Alaska Road Commission to take
 similar action in 1881, and that
 .fhe actually did draw warrants Efor some $54,000 for schools for the
 rural districts to be expended in l932, and sent them in the Fall of 1931 to the Treasurer to be ccun- tersigned.."
 MT. Smith submitted them to the
 Attorney General for a ruling on
 their legality and he ruled they
 should not be paid if there was
 any danger that the Treasury
 would be short to pay indebtedness
 incurred in 1891. This opinion etnraged Cash Cole and the compli-
 cations which resulted from the fact that he sent out these war rants without the signature of the Treasurer would take too long to explain in a radio speech"
 nH Many Sucn ClaSneS
 He declared this was but one of many clashes eof this character" that have occurred continually be- tween Cole and all of the other officials of the Territory.
 Cash has been dissatisfied with my opinions and now he wants an | Attorney General who will agree with him whether right or wrong, and that is the reason he is urg- ing the election of William Paul, the man who, for a fee of $1 900 induced Cash Cole to pay out over 5000 of Territorial money to the Arctic Transport Company. These two would make a fine pair! Prediction Is Unfulfilled
 "As I have already pointed out Cash Cole underestimated the Ter ritorial finances over $565 900 last wear. But immediately after New Yecr's he commenced to write letters that there would be no schools after September 1. But the schools are still running. Ev- cry payment has been met. F Now he and Paul are proclaim ing the Territory will bes ,s5, 900 An the red by the end of the year.
 MT. Smith tells us that the Terri tory will be from $150,000 to $200. onn +o +ha eynod ~nv t17e end nf ffe