Gunnison Valley News | 1920-10-29 | Page 10 | Democratic Investments

nearly four years, the present administration ad-ministration is challenged to show the state treasurer's receipts, showing show-ing that one cent has never been turned into the state treasury as the result of these investigations. I DEMOCRATIC INVESTMENTS: Early in 1917 the present Democratic Demo-cratic Governor publicly announced that if the legislature which was then in session would grant him an appropriation of $25,000 for the investigation in-vestigation of state officers and departments de-partments that he would turn back to the state treasury $100 for every $1 expended. The appropriation was granted and was familiarly known as "100 to 1 shot." Special auditors were employed and the larger part of this appropriation expended without with-out any results, and in 1919 another appropriation of $16,000 was made for this same purpose and this money is now being spent at the rate of $1,000 per month by an auditor imported im-ported from the northwest, who is not even a certified accountant, with no better success than his predecessor. predeces-sor. Notwithstanding that they had been proceeding with this audit for