The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-13

Fer the No1qsreii.
THE MAYORS INAUGURAL.

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THE MAYORS INAUGURAL.
In the last Bsgle the suspicious minded
and erer jealous Lysander W. Babbiss
spreads himself before the public in what be
is pleased to call the s.Mayor's Inaugural, -
in which learned and spicy production occurs
paragraph in words as follows:
A. ms time unable to report rs to the -n.nc;.I
condition Of The ely, reasons First. In oopse
queace Of the late date which order Of sale o real
estate for dehhqueat was made by tie Council
the Marshal Has been unable sale, TO get his
books pos,ei as to make fnal seitIemeataad sec
ordiy. has beea discovered since meeting Of
tho Council, that there Is large discrepancy in many
cases, the amount of Warrants Issued and in the
amount Of The sans Warrants eaneeled. In several
iuslanoes these discrepancies hundred
dollars and in Large majesity Of the instances, the
Warraates cancelled grea,ss than the Harcni Issued
Whether this discrepancy arises from mistake made
BY The GeoarIer in entering tae The Warrant
when cancelled, whether forgery By raisisc the
warrants. has been peEpessateI, has nc, yet been
ascertainei. ... .-
That portion of the paragraph above
quoted, which relates to the action of the
former City Recorders, pronounce base,
unmItigated sIander and libel. Whether the
charges are intended to include oil the for.
mer Recorders, or only the late one Mr..
Treynor) know not, nor is it necessary to
enquire, as the language used is sweeping
in ats character, but is false, whether applied
to Treynor or others.
It's true, Mr.. Treynor has committed
few clerical errors in copying the list of
warrants issued from the old warrant book
into the new one, or rather in making list
in the same book Of the warrants cance'ed.
But that sin large majority Of the instances
!" the warrants cancelled is greater than the
warrants issued,' as stated by Babbtt, is
entirely without foundation. There are,
probably, some fifteen or twenty cases of
this kind On the book, out of more than a
4 thousand warrants cancelled and, in most
Of these cases, the error is against Treynor's
interest instead Of in his favor-if it was
possible for him to have any interes: in
making such mistakes.
But take the liberty Of stating here, that
a man who had as much brains as a monkey,
who was disposed to deal fairly with others,
and not disposed to misrepresent, maiign
and impugn their motives and intentions,
would find it utterly impossible to discover
how the clerical errors above alluded to,
could work any prejudice to the city, or be
Of any advantage to Mr.. Treynor. Even
though all the mistakes had been in his ia
vor. it was utterly impossible for him to
have made thereby, one cont. But do not
propose, at present, to enter into discussion
with the distinguished Mayor upon the gen.
eral charges above alluded to but call upon
him to specify and show wherein the frauds
have been perpetrated. and give the evidence
of the supposed forssries, and then will
reply again, and prove to him that he knows
nothing whereof he has been writing.
The Mayor.also wades into Judge Sears,
as follows:
In the exercise Of the above ed powers and
FOR the purpose Of preventing the destruction several
streets in the city, by the washing aud ereowing
Indian Greek, which into and them, the
Common Council provided by ordinance for straighen-
ing said creek from the head of Green the Lake"
The work was nearly Completed at cost Of several
thousand dollars, when sudden stop put TO the
improvement, by the issuance of writ of Injunction
the instance Of Sally Mcmahon by E II. Sears, Judge
of this judicial District, enjoning the city against the
farther prosecution o: the work.
An attempt made by the City Solicitor Joel Tute
Esq the last term Of tie Cour. have the Injunction
dissolved, which, notwithstanding it shown that
the property which 1t aIeced would be injured by
construction of the ditch, did exceed hundred
dollars In valuc:hat the city, By suspension Of the
work, might be injured many thousand toIlars-that
the complainant had full and adequate remedy At law
for any damage she might sustaiR--thst the city in
making the Improvement exercising one Of the
powers delegated to by its charter strange say
he motion overruled.
lido not propose argue the question of tho legality
propricy Of granting the injunction call
question the motives which influenced the Judge in
granta- III but will remark that wrts Of Injunction
which shouId be used only in extreme and where
there will be left the party injured, no adequate
remedy law, becoming this judicial
district that .hcy sas with much propriey be declared
= common nuisance.
Don't imagine that am going to enter
into a legal discussion with our Mayor on
the points raised in the paragraphs above
quoted. only design suggesting to the
aforesaid Mayor the propriety of calling an
eytra session Of the Common Council, for |
the purpose of enaeting an ordinance de.
clariug all injunetions allowed by Judge |
Sears nuisanees, and to provide for abating
the same.
Iwould also suggest the propriety Of en-
acting an ordinance creating Mayors Court
in the city of Council Blnffs, to continue in
force while Lvsander ". Babbitt remains
Mayor, comforting upon that functionary
appellate jurisdiction Of all cases tried by
Judge Sears, with full power to hear, try,
and reverse all his tSears') decisions.
FRANK STREET.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.
We are glad to learn from the Iowa City |
papers that the term recently comm enced At