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Show mm ends Said to Consider IE!, of Bribery and Mis-Coo(Hict Mis-Coo(Hict Unfounded. L! (ommme appointed to of bribery and mincon-Kg mincon-Kg oeaheri of the stato brbr examiners completed KlfeitionJ ycsUrdny noon and Ert?te "port to Governor Hffer7 ioday. It if understood H-3t ieirio" finding the com-KuBalo com-KuBalo ainst tho accused L wil t be that they are poor HLr. Md somewhat careless in TiVwant of their official ac-Mj ac-Mj giwr charges of bribery and misconduct have not been substantiated, substan-tiated, it is said. At the hearing yesterday morning the members 0 the Barbers Protective association, who filed charges ngninst the board -with the governor, named specific instances of alleged misconduct miscon-duct in reiteration of the general charges niado in the written complaint to the governor. Governor Spry appeared before the committee ana advised it that in doal ing with tho question of whether the board members had made wrongful appropriations of money intrusted to them for tho performance of their duties, du-ties, it would have to confine itsolf to the stato auditor 'h report. That report, which is now in tho hands of tho coinmitfee, practically acquits tho board mombers of dirihoncsty, though it shows them to have boon deplorable bookkeepers. As recardc the bribery chargos against D. J. Watts made by Adam bikorski and 0. .T. Itasmussen, the committee will have to judge betweon the veracitv of the accusers and tho accused. There has beon introduce i only tho statements of Sikorski and Ensmussen that they gavo Watts small sums to insuro their success at the examination ex-amination for barber licenses. Watts has denied tho charge emphatically. |