The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-26

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for no more "pickings from him. But
we can say lin truth and soberness to
Judge Parrett, and rejecting the sentiments
of large part of this community, that, in
lending his official position to support the
cause of an dishonest politician and an
unscrupulcus official ensnared in the net
which he has laid for himself, he has pol
luted the spotlessness of his Judicial ermine,
and has greatly weakened his official influ-
ence. His certificates can't erase the rec
ords or change the law.
FEE ON sUBPeNAs.
Gavitt in defense of the fees taxed on
processes during term time, stated that it
was the custom of himself and deputies to
serve writs in civil causes and that the
baiiffs served the writs in criminal causes
Then he admits his guilt in part, for he has
taxed the fees on the writs in criminal
causes, as well as civill But it is not true
that he and his deputies serve all the writs
in civil causes. He himself seldom appears
in Court in the first part of the day, and one
of the deputies must be in Court, the other
attending to the Office business of execu-
tiOns, collections, sc.
HORSES USED IN TERM TIME.
! The Sheriff stated that the horses were all
used in term time. If he or any one will
examine the horse bills on file in the clerks
Office, they will find that almost all of them
charge for horses out Of term time, as well
as during the term. Take for instance the
last horse bill allowed by the Common
Pleas Court, which Judge Moore says is cor
rect and proper, and it will be found that the
first item of charge is dated onty three days
after the adjournment Of the precious Court,
and runs through more than taco months of
vacationl And then what have you to say,
Mr.. Gavitt about that Sunday horse hire?
ANOTHER CERTIFICATE.
He attempts to bolster his desperate posi-
ton by the certificate of Messrs Hollings-
worth and Bingham, that they have found
his executions all right, and that he has
honestly collected and promptly paid over
to the proper parties morethan $40, 600. Well,
we never charged the contrary, so that was
unnecessary. But we can say that if he
had not done it, the parties interested
would have followed him sharply with the
warrants of the Courts, and he and his
surcties would have suffered But the
County-the County can be defrauded by
him out of thousands of dollars, and no
warrant of the law follows him then. If
the officials, whose duty it is to guard the
peoples treasury, do not keep out his greedy
clutches, he must not complain of persecu-
ton when the people thunder upon him
their indignation.
THE ALLOWANCES CUSTOMARY.
The Sheriff said that the allowances to
him were no new things-that it had al
ways been the custom of the Courts-that
not only Judges Parrett and Moore had al |
lowed them, but that Judges Baker and |
Iglehart had also done so. We say he is
mistaken when he claims that they have |
always been customary. We have examin-
ed the records of the Courts with much |
care and nowhere can we find in Judge |
Bakers term allowances for horse hire ex-
cept when used under the express orders Of
the Court and the allowances for horse hire |
during Judge Iglehart's term were compara-
lively very small and always confined to
term time and such allowances for en-
paneling juries were never heard of and we
say that Mr. Sheriff Gayitt was the man
who first made these charges and that it
was not until he had been about eighteen |
months in Office that he first commenced |
the abuse and thus under his fostering |
care it has grown apace, until now these |
charges assume proportions large enough |
for the heavily -burdened Taxpayers to, feel |
them Let Mr.. Gavitt tell US why he did |
not make these charges when he first went |
into office. The law was the same. The
services were all the same as now.
EMPANNEL1NG JURIEs.
He tells us that the law which allows him
ten cents for empanneling jury, makes it a
very small compensation. That is no rea-
son. Mr.. Gavitt, why you should filch from
the treasury. But he says he had to run
out into the streets to drum up jurors. We /
tell him first, that the bailifs generally do
that work; second that the law provides
no special pay for it, third, that admitting
he is entitled to mileage for it, he has
charged in some instances sirty and eighty
males. Rather long streets are ours, Mr..
Sheriff.
HE EXCUSES HIS REGULATIONS.
rTbo ovouoa- b;S dro ftC he
Treasury by saying that he is not the only |
one who is drawing money. Why, hesays,
i" Mr.. Richter is allowed Gfty times more than
am" Rather an excited assertion, we
think. And the Attorneys are paid by the
county for defending pauper criminals. He