The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-04

No injunction had been applied fer when
the allowance was made, nor was any such
application then anticipated. 1t was not ap-
piled for for nearly two months afterwards,
and was granted on the Sd of Mach, 1853.
My reason for applying for the injunction
was, that had been most grossly misrepre-
scented by those who claim to be the friends
of the poor, in reference to my views and
feelings concerning common schools 1 had
expressed the opinion that the Council had
no power, under the old charter and would
have none under the new, to levy taxes to
support common schools. Though no law
yer took issue fairly with me on the question,
the thing was managed as to produce gen.
eral impression that all the lawyers in the
city differed with me. This afforded pre-
text for charging me with insincerity, and
attributing my course on the charter ques-
ton to opposition to common schools in the
abstract; and to prove it, all sorts of sto-
ries were told, and my conversations mis-,
quoted and perverted. This was especially
the case with reference to conversation
which had had with one of the city school
trustees. %-AA 1Saa s8Hft@ 10 stss :. g
Ny standing as lawyer and citizen be-
ing thus put in issue, | determined to es-
tablish the correctness of my position by a
judicial decision, and if the city attorney
had been as anxious as | was to bring the
case toa hearing, the court would long since
have settled the question whether or " all
the other lawyers 7 in the city were in er-
ror. The taxes of 1851 remain unpaid, but
the money remaining inappropriate out OF
the $4,000 placed in the Collectors hands
will be sufficient TO pay morethan the Court
will hold to have been legally assessed.
This is sufficient to account for the taxes OF
1851. a., -,.F ~. .l...-ra n ..-..'..ss
The taxes for 1858 were paid in full as
assessed. They were returned delinquent
because the Collector had accounted to the
city for the $3.50 and $40 cash without my
authority, and refused to appropriate any
part of it without an order of the Council.
i shall not extend this article for the pur-
pose of going into details in reference to
delinquencies in 1856. I deny that any
such delinquency exists, and every body
knows that if had not paid tie taxes of
that year the property would have peen sold
to pay them The statements that Mr..
Horribly said "he had paid Mr.. Jones the
money is unquestionably false. Mr.. Horn
by did providefor paying his taxes, but only
partly, by paying to me the money. I
agreed to pay his taxes, and have paid them,
except the taxes of 1851, which are pro.
vided for by the money in the Collectors
hands as before stated ~ A-.
In the characters of attorney aud client
Mr.. Horny and myself have sustained in
innate relations for about twenty years,
without the occurrence of harsh word or
thought. have also been agent for Messrs
Ewing for twenty three years without any
complaint from them. If the author of the
article in the Journal can show that he has
ever done business for any person, or acsth
any person, as partner, for three years,
without being accused of fraudulent prac-
tees, then will admit that am mistaken
as to the name of the man-mistaken in
surprising that one of his present partners
accused him of unfair dealing at the very
commencement of their partnership
Jas. G. JONES.
P.S. The g voters y will pardon me fol
not mentioning his name. called on Mr.
Garlic, who refused to disclose it, saying be
was not at liberty to do so. j. g. J.