Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-20 | Page 2 | Declare K. K. K. "Ordered" Veto

DECLARE K K KI KIR R K ORDERED VETO Charge Slush Fund Used On Bill to Con Con- Control Control Control Buses DE DENVER VER Colo Jan By O-By 20 ByTh The Associated The press Press The state slate political pot pol boiled boilet over In a series aeries of o off off- year off ar activities that Included the th of virtually vir- vir virtually vir virtually all work by the state high high- highway highway highway way department and the tile begin begin- beginning ning of ot an atlon Into charges that a slush fund brought about the gubernatorial veto eto of ot a abill abill bill to regulate res passenger motor business State Stale Stat highway work was halted except in Isolated Instances by decree of L D Blauvelt state slate hIghway engineer until the final determination of the status statue of the departments department's budget which was vetoed In part and radically changed by a recent order of Governor Morley i i iThe The probe proba Into Inlo tu ne nt a alleged slush fund was begun beun when Dan i C StraIght vice Ice president of the Colorado county commIssIoners association was subpoenaed to appear before a Denver grand today loday The Th subpoena was Issued after Straight charged that thai a i slush fund war wn employed to 10 secure the veto and th that Dr John Galen Locke former torm r grand on dragon of the th Colorado Ku Klux Klan had ordered a veto on the bill at a klan meeting several eral days before the governor acted