Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-06-19

nd the Railroad Company, and con.
ludes by recommending that the
he discharged.
Common rumor has it, that the au.
hor of this latter report, with his &C.
ustomed seriousness and anxiety of
oul, so palavered and befogged the
majority of the Board Of Supervisors
hat they were ready to obey his be-
nests, and their minutes show that
they voted to discharge the Commit
lee without allowing q vote to be TAX
en- upon the question Of adopting eth
er report-no, not even his own and
the inference is fair, that he did not
desire its adoption, but wanted Messrs.
Butterfeld and Humphrey out of the
way and more pliable men in their
places.
Here stood the Board-the reports
of their Committee before them--rcfu
sing to vote for or aginst the adoption
of either-for fear of "a nigger il
the fence,"--and having voted (upol
motion of Mr.. Chapman and in obedi
ence to tho recommendation of th,
minority rcport) to discharge the com
mittee, with the unfinished Railroad
business before them. Shades of Jei
ferson and Gushing!
But it was found that somethin,
must be done las the boy said whel
the lightning struck the tree), ant
Mr.. Mathews moved the appointment
of committee of three to report res
olutions upon the subject, which mo.
ton was adopted, and Messrs. Math-
ews, Reed and Rex were appointed
said committee. This committee
Mr.. Mathews, (he of the mi
nority report, reported q series o
resolutions, the first of which is, tina
a committee of three be appointc,
By the Board, whose first duty shall b.
substantially to carry out the recommended
ton of the majority report of the forme
committee, which the Board had al
ready refused to adopt ! Strange to say
this report was adopted.
Is it not plain that in all this man
covering it was the object of Mr.
Mathews to rid himself of a commit
tee whom he could not manage, and
obtain q new committee that he could
influence, he all the while relying up
on his engineering skill to secure his
own reappointment.
Let US look at the formation of this
new committee-appointed "by the
Board and see, into whose hands
he Railroad interests of the County
have fallen and see if, as committee,
they represent the County, and as
such, are entitled to the respect Of the
community and the Railroad Compa-
ny.
First, then, the Board" in the per-
son Of VIM. Graham, nominated Mr..
Mathews for chairman of the commit
tee, and he was elected. Said Math-
ews, when elected Supervisor, receiv-
ed about thirty.fve votes. Second,
" the Board" by Mr.. Graham, nomina-
ted Mr.. Chapman as member Of the
committee, and he was elected. Mr..
Chapman represents Ulster, town.
'hip which gave twenty-nine votes, all
old, for Governor at the last election.
Third, "the Board" per Graham. NOM
mated Mr.. Rex Of Union, who was
elected.
Thus was completed the committe,
o committee living wholly in tie ,cess
part Of the County. nominated wholly by
one person, who took upon himself
the whole Railroad responsibility Of
Floyd county, though only represent
ing the little town of Riverton, 1--WE
mean little in population, q township
which gave the said Graham about
forty votes for Supervisor
The Interior motives of Mr.. Math-
ews, in regard to the railroad, are
easily OWNED. He 10 generally
understood. by the Railroad Com.
oany. to be opposed to building . rail.
'oad up the valley of the Cedar river.
His first object was, by taking up the
County Bonds at the preliminary
meeting of the Board Of Directors on
the Saturday previous to the annual
election of Directors, to deprirs tie Conn.
ty Of her cote in said election, (Which by
being cast. as it was, in conjunction
with Mitchell county, gives us the con-
troll OF the railroad, and thus leave
the organization Of the Railroad Com.
pany in the hands of parties at Cedar
Falls who are regarded as unfavora-
Bile to having the railroad built up the
Cedar river, as they would then lose
our trade which they now so largely
nave.
A further motive Of Mr.. Mathews
may be, that he is property holder
at Rockford, on the Shell Rock river.
Some Of the old Cedar Falls Company
are said to be also largely interested
IN lands on or near the Shell Rock. in
Butler county, which county is under.
stood to be ready to extend its aid to
. railroad up the Shell Rock river. II