The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-02-01
Kenoska Telegraph D.:

fixed at $50, as named in your article which
printing was done in Milwaukee at geo, snc
delivered here without extra charge to thc
county. This act having been approved by the
Board am content. You charge the, eBoarc
with violating their oath in unlawiully fncreas
ing the salary of the Clerk. This charge ia moi
true. For services not pertainiugto the office
of Clerk or County Agent The Board gave ex
ira pay. The $50 OF which yon speak | have
not found the last year. sIou estimate that my
salary FIR the two offices is enormously high
Although my salary is nominally $50 more than
my Immediate predecessor, yet in consequence
otthe ices and perquisires ofthe clerk being now
credited to the countyit is in fact SIl373 less
than bis aud lees than it has been ~ 8 or 10
years. You speak of certain printers bills
made at starvation prices. Here / apprehend
ia the cause of your last ebuIiTfon of wrath.
You do not claim that the Board did not allow
You all the law gave you. Had they violated
their oath and allowed all you claimed, l pre-
Isune you would have 6aen content. l have
no doubt that the Board would be willing to pay
a fair consideration for the support of the Tee
graph, but the demand for fifty per cent more
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under crack of the editorial whip, did noi seem
to be very cordially received
Kenosha; Jan. 80, 1866. J. V. QUARLEs.
REMARKS. I've give the Clerk of the Board the
benefit of our columns for his Defence though we
cannot see why he should not 90 to Milwaukee or
Chicago to get all his priting done, unless, in this
instance, he feared the county would feel unwilling
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troversy with the Clerk of the Board That he sees
fit TO act he does is his own business of course
That should expect to have what little patronage
the county has in it the way of Job printing was per
fecty natural There was no other printing Office in
the county, and it customary for counties to give
their work TO their citizens, who pay the taxes
to support the county government, instead of going
abroad with it. And we presume there is other
kind of work taken to Milwaukee or Chicago to be
done. Nor do we believe it the duty of the Board of
Supervisors or the Clerk of that Board to treel the
country over to see if the work can't d6nafa few
cents cheaper If that were the policy why does the
county pay the clerk of the Board $3.50, for two
! or three months work, when plenty of men could
be found to do it at half the price, and that too
without going to Milwaukee.
In reference to the plea that a certain job we al
luded to, was done in Milwaukee for $40 instead of
81, So have only to say that that was about two
years ago, and according to our recollection, our
I statement was correct. But that is of little mo-
ment; alluded to the matter as an illustration of
the economy of the clerk far as any expenditure
was concerned that did not inure TO his own ben
eft. We charged the same for the job that the
county had paid years before when there three
printing offices in the city with the addition of the
extra cost paper Had the clerk informed US that
we must bid against Milwaukee job offices, we
might have made different figures, rather than have
it carried away to be done Or, had the clerk given
us the chance to underbid the Milwaukee printer,
as he did GpeClatter to underbid us, we might have
done that; but he did neither He asked what we
would do the job for, and our reply was 'the same
that was paid last year. with the additional extr cost
paper He never intimated that that he was 60
ing to Mil waukee to get the printing done and we
suspected nothing Of the kind until some days after
| it was done, So much for that transaction Since
that, the Clerk has never given us a chance to do
any printing that he could control. Butwe venture
to say he had he could have saved to the county
three times the amount he claims to have saved on
| that job
| The Clerk thinks the loss of the printing and the
cutting down of our bills the of our attack
on him. He is entirely mistaken. We are entirely
to patriotic to allow our personal interests to stand
before the interests of the country. We thought
the report the most vague general and unsatisfacto
ry that published and therefore spoke of it.
The other matters came in as incidentas. Nor were
we alone in our views as the several communica-
tions in this weeks paper show More than fifty
men-prominent tax-paying citzens-since our last
issue have personally assured that structures
and remarks were well timed proper and justified
by the occasion.
/ Again, in reference to the salary. The Secretary,
of course is not green to ask for an increase of
salary in plain words, though in effect he gets it,
few-oldtax receipts imperfect and otherwise, were
taken from the Treasurer's hands last summer,
and putinto the hands of the County Agent to dis
pose of And this is the extra service trumpet MP
as an excuse for an increase of salary 800, we
stated. 4r.8 ~ @e%
| Again, that s. $50 of which you speak have not
found the last year. We apprehend the sum of $40
and some cents may be found on the State Treasur-
er's books paid to the clerk of the Board of SUI
pervsors Of Kenosha for copying the census roll,
work that certainly comes within the duties Of the
| Clerk of the Board.
| There other specimens of the same kind going
to show the peculiar ideas of economy that actuate
the Clerk of the Board when his own pocket is con-
cerned. Here Is one o the point. Last summer
in the case of two insane paupers that sent
| the Insane Asylum and could not be accommodated
| The Chairman of the Board notified that they
must be brought back The sheriff offered to go to
Madison and bring them back, if the Board would
pay his railroad fare there and return No of course
not. That would not accord with the Clerks idea
of economy; and besides his son wanted to see the
ICapto So the Clerk went himself with his son as
assistant and the cost of transporting the two pau
pers from Madison to Kenosha was $40 95-cheap as
mud of course, when it is remembered that if the
sheriff g offer had been accepted it would have cost
the enormous sum of $12 or $15 -
Butwe will not pursue this subject further at this
time We will simply add that we do not.ask the
Board to pay anything for the support of the 7ele
I grdphn All we ask is that the Board will pay us
for our work the same as it pays other people; and
the same as other people pay MS when they get work
! done. We have never charged the county cent
more thanwe charge individuals for the same work
although we have to wait for our pay, much of it,
nearly year, while indiy iduals pay us when the
work is done. IL f..4. -, 80 =
Editors KenOsho TeleSrap phi;
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