The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-09-01
TO THE TAX PAYERS OF EAST
FELICIANA.

TIE romeo jury has labOured more than
thirty days and brought forth mouse.
The immaculates of the Police Jury not
deeming the article in the Democrat Of the
2lst of July last, worthy of their notice,
until they found the public attention some
what aroused, now come forward with their
pretended rcfutation over the signature of
Mcmillan & Co. How well they have
done it, ! am willing for all unprecedented
taxpayers, who are unbound and free to-
judge for themselves to decide.
The Treasurer's liberality is certainly
unbounded in his heavy advance Of S11 66,
the amount the parish was minus, with
$40S7 33 of School funds in hand, or rath-
er in the hands of w. w. Chapman d Co
Why did not the Treasurer take the CON-
mittec to W. w. Chapman's and have the
money counted? 1t was asked for, but it
was not there to be counted. Mr.. DeLeel
told me himself that the funds were in the
hands of Mills e. Cleveland, Poole q
Frank, and w. w. Chapman, and that
they used it, and requested me- when a
heavy bill, for covering of the Court house,
was to be paid, to let him know week
or so beforehand, that he might notify
Chapman and others to be realty acih funds
r TO meet 1t. You excuse this for the want
of an iron safe of his own. Did You fail TO
| sec the one in his front Office room? None
, so blind as those who wM not see.
As to the bridge which your committee
l. paid $500 for, it was plain to you all that
: as good and lasting q bridge could have
been built for $3.50, with all the guarantees,
in much better FORM and equally as high.
J. II Mr.. Mcmillan had produced the plan Of
! the bridge as made by him and myself, it
would have shown for itself and proved
u these facts. As to the dissenting of Mr..
is Moore. On his return to the Jury and
o hearing the statements on both sides, he
l. said, he believed he would not sign the re-
If port as drawn up You then asked him,
# what he had said of the bridge, when at it?
N His reply was, that the bridge was worth
"a the money, but, by my statement, bridge
% equally good, could have been built for
/ $3.50, and he considered that it was finer
st than required, as from its exposure to the
lie one for $3.50, and therefore, an unnecessary
% expense to the parish; but, finally conclu
'c ded, as Mr.. Drehr was innocent of the
u plan, &C., to pay him. TO come to the
H. bottom of all this, the bidder of the lesser
IN sum for building this bridge was German,
d and there, doubtless, lies the true cause fol
IN heaping this additional expense upon til,
;, taxpayers Of this Parish.
You say, that Mr.. Reese, at the JUNE
nd meeting, to prevent the Patriot from get
w ting the printing, offered TO do it for moth
'y ing. He did not. / offered it. He wa
n willing to do it for what it would cost t
!" write it and post it in the several wards
Of and Mr.. Moore and myself agreed to pay
c * that amount out Of our own pockets, ant
nd made the offer for him to do it withou
I'll cost to the parish. As TO the non pub
he fishing of the proceedings. The Patrio
or had been elected to do the work for TIN
We first proposition. and said election had no
" " been legally annulled. Your clerk, Mr.
iii Green, one of the editors, of the Patriot
oh having furnished Mr.. Reese with the pre-
u ceedings in print, instead Of manuscript,
was fair to presume, that under the unre
pcaled resolution, granting him the print
ing, he would have received at your hands
- the specified remuneration. The bridg
appropriation was a significant illustration
' ~. As to the precedent you allude to, G
of giving the Democratic paper sl75 last yea
re- every juror knows that have contendc
1 Tr that the work could well afford to be don
on for 500 year. The precedent of las
!, year is this; the printer was never in tim
' ,pt with his paper or printing, and did nc
ur print the proceedings of june, 1854, ii
e." they were almost forgotten, and then S
- badly, that |, as president of the jury r.
fused to pay hi. first quarters due, and
ast has not been paid. At the September Sc
sion and one other of the same year, | al
,el. thorized the Clerk, with the consent of I'll
-. 49, Jury, to have the proceedings of these tw
'eh meetings printed in hand bill form, an
or. sent to each of the Police members to |
TIN distributed in their wards. And what di
all this cost? Less than thirty dollars, {
- said bills, taken up by your treasurer, wi
show. So much for your precedent Co
ma sistcncy is a jewel and seems to be yel
scarce article these times.
Messrs. Mcmillan e. Go. tell>you TIL
ouo there is $500 dollars to be collected fro
,id last wear and to look To your tax recein