Show AS ts TO iO J JIH IH And Ana so time the senate committee having the lie matter In charge chargo has mado report that Clerk Harry Andersoh of time the state stale land board violated an nn obligation ethically If not noli legally binding upon hint ire ilc was In the employ of or th time the hoard board and ana while there thoro the committee states stales ho he made use of or his knowledge for the Iho profit OI of oC himself and arul for forthe forthe the tho advantaging of his friends That is not nol such service Ice to ho time people as ns can be commended at all al There Theao can bo be no objection to the time suggested legislation forbidding any an member of or tho the land board to lo buy public land and either cither directly or indirectly And Ant certainly no nIlo e of or the time land bon board Id should be permuted permitted to lo en engage on- on gage age in that sort o of business To one ne feature of or the report objection may fairly 11 bo be Tho Timo statement that the land Jand board should have taken talen II up ill the charges against Anderson Anderon Is disingenuous Senator Smith at least knew that tho land hoard board had Imad taken up the tho matter mater and that tho time absence of Mr Candland Candland Cand- Cand land Inn from Crom the state delayed that hearing until the time very ory da day when the charges charge were presented to the senate It I Is not fair fall to the board members memer to accuse them thorn of or ofa ora a flagrant dereliction of or dut duty In tela delay because e they were not delaying at all ni But that docs does not alter the fact tact that no noone noone noone one In this department of or the state service should be lie permitted to tako advantage Uta o of or his olce to the disadvantage disadvantage anta vantage e o of the tho people There Is one of the which h by the thee very e nature of Us its Is duties places valuable information In the time posses posses- possession poses poses- sion don o of members and their cs If H they may speculate In n properties controlled by themselves themselves they will vilI wi have have have an on advantage not e enjoyed joyed b by an any other citizen cUt citi zen They rho will I know whore h there arc ch l mico p places ces Where Where- wl Wh r re Improvements aro contemplated c null and nUt if It they are permitted pcr per per- either for themselves or by imparting Information to their friends to tl take lake tale advantage the greatest public Injustice Is done If I there thero Is no law Jaw against their buying state land Jand there here should he be such a n law and law and that at nt once But pending pend pend- ing ag Us Its Is enactment the will wi of the thc people Is none the less Jess cor lear clear And no flO member of the land and board or ot 01 of that hat board hoard can properly profit prof h by his official position It I Iwi wi will not do There hero will wi be no argument as to the thing icing beIng until It f Is prohibited It I Is by hr every rule of or it right prohibited now |