Show 1 T TATE A IE REFUSES TO PAY WITNESSES rIN PINGREE CA CASE f BILLS SENT U 1 BACK T TO COUNTY Auditor Ririe Rules That Legislature Has MadeNo Made MadeNo No Provision for Meeting Meeting Meet Meet- i ing n g S Such u c h Demands REFUSAL of Joseph Ririe state auditor to pa pay bills of expert pert witnesses in the Pingree trial on the ground that the legislature made no appropriation to take tako care of such demands and that the state can pay no bills unless there has been an appropriation made by the tho legislature to cover such bills has caused the bills for these theae witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses to be bo presented to the board of ot county commissioners commissioners according to D D. A A. Skeen attorney f for r the tho county commissioners The county commissioners have taken the matter ot of payment of-payment payment nt of ot tl tb e bills under consideration and r rot 1 ably will come to a decision Ih in this this' re regard ard at their next meeting Tho The county commissioners have been advised by Mr Skeen to pay the bills bUls and according to the opinion of ot man many cannot do do otherwise thaw tha pay them Under the decision of ot the supreme court In the Martin case over the disputed bills bUls of the San Francisco handwriting hand expert the district attorney has the power to incur tho the expense for tor expert witnesses as against the county Since the tho refusal of Mr Ririe to allow these bills to be paid out of ot state moneys speculation has haa b been n rife rite as to the tho second trial of ot John Pingree the tho president of the defunct Merchants bank upon upun whose guilt or innocence tho the Jury failed tailed to agree at atthe atthe the first trial Reports that th the prosecution of Pingree would b be dropped were declared by Franklin S. S Richards district attorney to be absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab unfounded |