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Show I DELINQUENCIES f OF GOV. BRADY B Jis i,iattenio" w,,iie i,,e satc H Land Board Grafts and jJH' Ncgfcrts. ml THE LUST RIVER CASK ml A GROSS IMPOSTURE i People Had to Call in an En- m ' Vnnccr Prom California jJJ for Protection. W ) BY. C. E. ARNEY. hll & special (o The Tribune. M f 1DA1LO FALLS, Idn., Aug. 0. Through- M i' out nil this vast Irrigation district tho attention of tlio people la Interestedly fcW riveted on the management of Idaho's W f public land affairs by the state admlnis- ; tratlon. Men who think and thoso awake to the necessities o tho prosent as a bBf,- baso for tho futuro are exercising an !9K unusual concern over the revelations of V8(7- a t'10 past few months In tho published records of the stato land board at Boise. jWr The one redeeming featuro of the prcs- jjBJv on I governor and cliainnan In his pub- izBk? llshcd declarations of condeinnution of 'SBlB his assoclalrs on tho hoard, because of 1H their speculation In Carey act lands un- Skf dor their ofllclal supervision, turns to '-fit- rldiculo when Ills own shortcomings are laid hare before the suspicious public. He was chairman of the board during SI all the period of tho peculations of Ids KM associates, which ho now presumes to t condemn. He sat In tho meetings of the board and voted to Brant contracts for V J Carey act projects to a company in which iJ M. I one of his associate's deputies was In- uffi Wt tcrcsted. Ho voted "aye" In ll.vlng the MiJ m price of water for this shady transaction :it 5fi'' I'cr cre. If lio did not know that B these members of his ofllclal household 18 B wero making theso (uiontlonnblo Jnvcst- !m K ments, It was his own deficiency. The $9m. records of his stato land board were at toBH hand, and In deference to tho ordinnry I1HE business acumen which characterizes U ! vigilant servants of the peoph-, he should !h have known of tho transactions, 'h t The record, however. Is against the re- ; ' Hourceful governor and chairman. Ilia jj 1 JiiHtiilcatlon of his attitude In tho prcm- 6l ( ises will not stand the limelight of pub- 4r lie opinion. 1 N'ot until he was forced by the Church i Investigation did he step Into the breach !5, ! f and declare his opposition to this plan C ; of oporatlon by which members of the '' j state land board were acquiring title to a! :- lands and to city lots under Caroy acts, Ui i over which the law requires them to pre-!i pre-!i ' shin as the determining agency. -1! i- Governor Brady movod along In his sort so-rt reiie, apathetic manner, utterly dense to U the uueslloiiable methods belnpr pursued '0jl ', jy his assoe'lates on the board, Sccre-20.11 Sccre-20.11 ti-.ary Lanhdon, Attorney-Gcnenil IWCDou-)tl IWCDou-)tl ' Sail and Superintendent Chamberlain. (Ofl r. Only when the people became agitated 'em i to a degree that lie feared the result of 'llflBi his own olitlc!il destruction did he come th I out with a professed condemnation of the ,ih j sorry practice jj j ' His Grent Delinquency. a f f Had not Mr Church been overtaken by ljf jj public opinion In revolution against his ! f . im.-thotf of procedure, which was tame In tj j I comparison to the plan of operation of v.' his three superior board members, tho I ' voice of James II. Urady would never T-? h'ivt uttered one word of resentment to ; the acquirements of theso members. 'I f Apropos to this situation, ns .chairman rtfi of tho hoard of state land commissioners ith i he retained at his post of duty on the W wfkf Maekuy dam an agent of his engineering m; force days, wpoks and months, and to- uli w tally ignored his almost daily reports to jll 4t the efTcct thiit a construction contract lit' ; : was being: grossly violated day after 3jj i day. 0lJ i . Totally impervious, entirely recreant to iai ; the supremacy of the law. he neglected yfi ' . his duty, leaving it to the community neiircst the scene of the inefficient con- structlon to employ an engineer from an- jT. other jstnto to come Into Idaho and px- ', pose to the humiliated people of this it ; eouimonwoallh the almost. If not quite, w ; eiimliial negligence of the boani of which ,j I ' I'0 WSIM tc chairman. "! ; I"ay after day. according to the state- art c ment of Superintendent Chamberlain to a Ip mass meeting of .Mackay on August 5, ilef emles of this efficient Carey act engl- ,tt neor on the works at tho Mackay dam e! ! wore laid on tho table of Chairman Brady IJl and his associate members, and day by 111 ; day lie passed them by. permitting the 54) ; ' contractors to proceed In violation of the ! 3 specifications for this construction, rui g Uegularly, each month he sat in judg- u meat as chalnnan of tho stale board of l' j K claims and allowed, by his own signature. .''I f- the salary of this engineer (?1Ti0 a month, 'Sfi I believe) to be paid out of the Idaho nS Carey act fund. The engineer was performing his duty. ij lie was almost dally condemning tho 'J1'. i work ami pointing out by reports to the tiW slate engineer the departure of tho con- 9 ' .structlon company from tho letter and the W ' spirit of the contract with the slate of iitf Idaho- IIW I The reports of this assistant engineer r could but prepare any alert mind for ear J ' the eruption which must come sooner or pit- j : later. gni That it might have been postponed was the evident hope of the recreant. Thai the days of the return of the verdict of that great Idaho jury might pass by before the real condition came to light was certainly cer-tainly the morbid hope of these three stale officials, who clolm indorsement at the ballot lox. not once, but thrice. ( It may bo the delay In exposure and the bridled condition of the press of the stale will prevent the Incident from defeating de-feating the ambitions of these threo candidates can-didates for nomination al the Kcpublicin . primaries to be held on August i:. The state Is large In area and sparsely ' grilled. There is slight facilities of communication com-munication belweeri the north and the south of Idaho. The lo'catlon of the example ex-ample of their neglect, the big Lost river dam. is In the center of the state, at the end of a branch line eighty miles off a main line of road, not easy of access. The Incident Is not being handled by the newsnaiers of the slate, and the reason rea-son for It gives one u. political pain- |