Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-18

he thought fit to publish just after
marriage, telling his fair correspon-
dents to stop asking him for autographs
and locks Of hair.
Several leading citizens Of Council
Bluffs, anticipating the adoption Of the
Banking Laws lately submitted to a
vote of the people, have formed ar as
ISOLATION under the provisions of the
State Bank Act, and taken the iniatory
steps towards the early organization of
a Branch at that point.
VIM. Gilmore Sims, the novelist and
poet is named for United States Sena-
tor from South Carolina
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Things which the People ought to Know.
In our edition of last Sunday we
gave the people a peep behind the cur
tains of some of our Alderman, which
brought from Sears and Macintosh
rejoinders over their own signatures.
We will firstly deal with the STOOL"
AID. Sears. He was chairman of the
Finance Committee the past year. The
3,43O dollars paid him as commission
on sale of city bonds was illegal. lie
had no right to receive it. The ordi-
nance providing for the loan provides
that NJ city bond shall be sold less
than par value thereof. If Sears sold
them at less than par value. he did it
illegally and knowingly, for he introdu-
ced the ordinance which forbids it. As
chairman of the Finance Committee he
had only to endorse on the bills a re-
commentator that the bills be paid,
and procure a majority vote, and the
thing was all right. AT this time, Aid.
Sears is liable in a suit to refund the
S3,43O which he has taken illegally.
There is a radical wrong in the con-
slant action Of the Finance Committee.
All bills which are endorsed by that
Committee, are paid on the vote of a
majority. All bills not so endorsed
must be passed by a vote Of for. ftths.
All parliamentary rules require that
bills and claims shall be presented to
the Legislative body, and by it referred
to the Finance Committee before any
vote upon the bills. But a strange and
unaccountable usage has been adopted
by Aid. Sears. Bills are presented to
him first, without going before the
Council, he procures the signature of
mi other member of the Finance Com
mittee besides his own, and at the heel
of each session bills, so endorsed, are
rushed through the Council without
any light as to their justness'or legality,
other than the simple endorsement of
the majority ofthc Finance Committee.
Bills have been thus paid which never
should have been paid, and tax payers
are told to submit to the imposition.
The communication ofthis little man
Sears was so venomous that it contain
ed not a wore of proof in denial of our
charges, and its main features were an
attack upon Aid. Corbin as the suppo-
sed author of our editorial, simply be-
cause Aid. Corbin in the Council has
manifested a disposition to save the
people from heavier burthcns.
AS to Macintosh, any maj who read
his wretched nonsense, which he
yainly thought to be a reply to oul
charges, must have perceived the yeas.
ell lodges he made to escape the issue,
He entered into a contract with the
Gas Company for putting down abou,
$4,000 worth of gas pipes and posts
upon Harrison street for which he paid
and for which payment he was to be
reimbursed by the receipts Of all pub
lie and private consumption of gas on
Harrison street. To get back the
money as speedily as possible, he has
caused large and useless numbers Of
gas lamps to be erected at an expense
to the city Of about $40 to each post
or nearly $4,000 annually, which the
CITY pays into Mackintosh's pocket, and
he is n Of the Finance Committee t.
audit these bills! The thing is an i'm.
position and aswindle upon the public
and Macintosh knows it but seeks tc
avoid the effect of public censure, by
e~ndeavoring to get up a personal con.
troversy with Aid. Corbin who had nc
hand in writing our editorial of last
Sunday. These gentleman, Macintosh
and Sears, cannot escape public censurt
by any attempt to turn the discussion
into a personal one.
Aid. Sears talks about providing 70,
the poor, in order to work on Bride,
Avenue, but does that Alderman re
member that last winter AID. Hubbel
introduced an ordinance providing 70
expanding $4,000 Of the bonds Of c
= 4. !. r. Z. to supply heads Of fam
ilies with work, and how he, Aid
Ssazs, voted against il and aneerinel,