Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-10-01

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The Hs,sssa,ea ox Tuesday morn
ing. under . very stattiing sepsasioa
heading, contains an article In
wh,es, by personal a&asls and sroas
nisrepsssenlaiiaa, the writer there.
ogseeks 10 cover up, or wipe out, ths
eharges heretofore preferred against
the Clerk OF the Distsiet Court OF
pussa vattaIaie county, Time and
agaia heretofore efaarts have been
nrade through the Columns of that
Journal 20 obiiterate, on cover OPP.
the record Of thais partimn ofiaclais
and throw obstacles in the way of an
investigations Of the financial affairs
of the county, but in every attempt
tkey have been thwartsd by the
RuGLE@ .s.a .f s
Now, again, die Radical operstofs
seeking TO secure the election Of
their ticket, come 30 the rescue of
their present ofsieiai, and by per
soaal attack upon Individual mem.
ber Of the Board OF Supervisors and
Of the Investigating committees,
seek to lead the. Peopae to believe
that thers is uoshing wrong il the
financial affairs OF the County, and
that the Busrd of Supervisors in
their efforts 10 secure q fair and inn
partial investigation, by the APP
pointmeat. Of Committees, 10 that
eud have accomplished nothing but
to squander the money of the eoanty.
And the writer Of that article in the
Na,sparsiI, true 10 his nature, makes
a gross personal attack upon Messrs.
Isunkle and Fe4teF-membefs Of the
RoaSds=zSQs the conrse they have
pursued in seeking to protect the
county from oficill corruption and
robbery. And by a futile attempt
at ridicuIe, seekS " divert public at
tention from the fact that there is
somewhere, Enthusiastically aczunt-
ed for, sI2, 900 to sa3, 900 of the
Permanent school Fund. Who has
i2 If Dgt Ms BuNiigts who thea?
This claIetrap about the exPendi-
ture of 1919 for investigation wont
answer TO DECEIVE the people. 1t
will not ffigh;ea the BUGLE from
determination to Keep this matter
ulive until further investigation is
,f.ss WAaIerZ and EtTssNlaFui,
mixer. Of taa investigating Com
,,.i.tao ,..li not have the effect to
y .4act the attention of the voters
"f POttawa;tamie county from the
fact thai, if the statement Rip the
ADpureR be true, that Mr.. Burdick
b only indebted in the sarnuf % a5s&3,
the expenditure of s9I0 for invcsti-
CATION has brought forth from some
ofieiaI hiding pl.sa lTan sy0se0 TO
$40, 900 in vouchers, which the
Committee say the Clerk said he
could not, and did not protince be-
fore them when called for, and thus
saved to tire county about ten dol
lars f0E every one expended Ia the
Investigation. Had the Board been
less Ienicnt In granting time TO the
Clerk for the producing OF vouchers
and the arrangement Of his accounts
we are of the opinion That some
thing MS TO the whereabouts OF the
Permanent school Fund might have
been ascertained, s.. -
We think 1t Is an nacontroyeytf0ie
fact that, while this county has dis
pOasl Of noEa schooi lands than
other counties adjoining, the county
to-day is bankrupt IN comparison
With other counties IN that particular
fund. We do not believe there Is
to-day two Thousand doiaase of q
Permanent fuad, cash and vouchers,
In our Treasury, while the other
cDansies sxxasRsa useaka Snest pfteeir
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars Of
q Permanent seiTuoI Fund. And we
sRss&ws sasse sssA ths RnFe4ssstApn
been pressed with more determine
tion and less leniency, a discovery
would have been mads that Tould
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wattaalie easnsy.: Rss,tAs Commit
tee only had power to examine
esFsain records, if We are oorrsctly
informed, and were not authorized
To pursue their investigations into
other departments of the county.
As u was their rapart shovel d pary
bad saadssisq pf vattsfrs and was
only set aside by the lenlency of the