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...very apparent from the proceedings in the Governor's chamber yesterday that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon find little to comfort them in the present settup of the Gill inquiry. The body of the attack was originally to have centered in the report of Francis X. Hurley, state auditor. That report was, for some, a distinct disappointment. Intelligent public faith in it was destroyed by the press fanfare which accompanied the confidential investigation and which derived its information from "authoritative sources in the State House;" to a great many the whole business looked like a publicity stunt, designed to build...
Since Mr. Hurley has left town on a vacation, Mr. Dillon has been compelled to come forward, deleting the most ridiculous of Hurley's assertions, and adding some of his own to make a full roster. As the official who authorized the sorry investigation, Governor Ely must apparently put the best possible face on the matter and see it through. This is no pleasant task. His chair in the executive chamber is of the tall straight variety; the testimony of a sincere man defending his name against abuse is bound to be lengthy and tedious. His desire to expedite matters...
...Thurstons, the new Governor of the "Paradise of the Pacific'' is nevertheless no political carpetbagger or "malihini" (stranger). He went to Hawaii in 1917 as U. S. District Judge, has since been a practicing attorney. A full-sized, out-door-loving man, he was raised in Dillon, Mont. where his family had one of the State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back to Dillon to visit his brothers, still maintains his local reputation as a teller of prime fish stories...
...difficult to see that this confusion results from a failure to distinguish between an investigation of particular conditions at Norfolk, which would have fallen to the province of Commissioner Dillon, and a general penal investigation, whose outcome belongs to Mr. Dillon's superior. Governor Ely is at fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor...
This situation is, of course, unjust to Superintendent Gill. He and not Commissioner Dillon, has been made the target for an attack on the entire Massachusetts prison system. Mr. Hurley has done yeoman work in making the knot more difficult by violating the governor's injunction against publicity, and by spreading through the newspapers a hopeless mass of sensational and unclassified criticism. The first inference to be drawn from Norfolk is that it would be desirable to place prison officials under civil service, in which a consistent disciplinary mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service...