The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-27


Mayor Babbi.: says be viii stake the lib
.ersy to ask ex-Recordsr Street how 1
happens shas during his administratio
; "daplicate Warrants we're Issued ia sewers
{" instances? How it happens that tw
! g Warrants we're issued that are not foun
"upon the record9 And how it happen
.,has no receipts were taken for Warrant
ss delivered 50
To the 6rst of the questions answer, tha
it don't happen ''ihss during my aaininis
tration several Warrants were duplicated
Nor il don't happen that one Warrant wa
duplicated. No such instances oceurree
while was Recorder, and defy Mayol
Babbits sor any other man." to prove enc
such instance. ! might mention here som,
three or four clerical errors committed b.
me in numbering. But want the Mayor "a
parade them before the public in the columns
Of the Bugie. wan. him to make all he
can out of it. Aud if one dollar in Warrants
was issued by me withou, the amount having
been previously allowed by the Common
Council, want to know it, and see the
evidence.
The second question | answer as have
done the first. There were not two Warrants
issued BY me Of which there was no record
made. Ii Babbitt has evidence Of i, want
to see it. aud shall await the proof.
As to the third question, will simply an
swer by saying. that there was no law re-
quirius me to take receipts for Warrants
delivered and il drew Warrants allowed
by the Council and delivered to the pavee
without taking receipt, did it at my own
risk. II had chosen to take receipts, il
would have been for my own safety. and n
neglect to do so was my own business, and
could in no manner effect Babbitt or anybody
else. But still the Mayor says he don't
insinua,e that am dishonest. oh, no!
After issuing several duplicated Warrants.
which implies that in several cases have
issued two Warrants precisely alike, and
issuing Warrants and making no entries
thereof on the record, am still an honest
man. | am aware that some people have
very peculiar notions rs to what is fair deal
ing with the government and the public.
Perhaps Babbitt may think that the Recorder
could issue two Warrants for the same
amounts, and in double the amount allowed
BY the Council, and give one to the rightful
owner and keep and use the other himself,
and vet be an honest man.
| will now dismiss this part Of the subject
with the remark, that he has proven himself
Guilty. Of uttering two fiacrant faisehoods
IN the aFtieie IN fepiy 20 mine Oh Iast week.
One, when he says she would not insinuase
that | am dishonest" And the other, when
be asks the frst two Of the three ques tions
above quoted; for those questions regard
as lo,c. contemplate iisinuations.
The Mayor is right in supposing that it
"was On the score Of economy" tha, sug-
gestca the prapriety of creating Mayors
Court in this city. 20 continue only SO long
as Babbist remained Mayor) With power to
declare all Of Judge Sears inunc,iens
nuisances; for, though my client contributes
about as much to the support of the city gov
ernment, in the way Of taxes, rs any other
person, still il ny duty, as an Attorney, to
manage the injunction case alluded to by
Babbitt, juiiciously in every respect and
concluded we could get decision in our
favor cheaper by pursuing the course indica-
ted in my former article, than to attend the
Supreme Court at Des Moines.
FRANK STREET.