The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-02-17
County Government.

.sa County Government.
gs7 The Iowa Senate, on the 81 inst
adopted "A bill for an Act to amen
4 Article IL, Chapter p, Of tho Revisio
Of 1850, creating Board of Supervisor:
I. and Gets amendatory thereto"
, The Act provides that instead Of til
present county Board, consisting of on
4spervisor from each township, afte
january LIST, ls7a, counties shall be gov
4: erned By three Supervisors, elected b,
the county at large.
1t seems doubtful whether the bill a
1t stands can pass the House; and whi!'
believing the opportunities for improve
ment to be 50 great that even the
change contemplated therein might he
for the better, would much prefer to see
Ii so amended as TO Incorporate some
thing like a fusion of the provisions
advocated by Senators Beardsley and
Wolf, as appears in the following,
clipped from the Bulletins report of the
proceedings of the Senate, while hav-
ing the subject under consideration
"Senator Beardsley offered a substi-
tute for the first section of the bill, pre-
viding that counties having less than
1000 inhabitants shall have three Su-
pervisors; and counties having more
than 2D,0D, to have five Supervisors, to
BE in both cases elected By districts "a
NEARLY equal in population AS practical
Bile.
Senator BEARDsLEY. | desire to
iag that I thi. SnhSfi
tute in order that We may arrive as
quickly as possible to decision upon
the main question ia this matter, which
IL, shall our present System Of equity
government be abolished and new
one provided to take its place? The
county which represent is one of the
oldest in the State. and its people have
had opportunity to try the various sys.
TENS of county government-first the
County Judge system, then the Com
missioner system, which is sought to be
.re-established by the bill under consid-
GRAFTON, and lastly, the present Super
visor system. No one here advocates a
return TO the County Judge system.
Now, sir, believe the substitute Of
fer embraces the best features Of both
the Commissioner and the Supervisor
system.
I believe sir, that vast majority ar,
in favor Of a change. The great Difficult
ty has been to unite upon some practica
scheme, and | believe this system 0
distr letting counties, allowing each dis
trict to elect its Supervisor, will Civ,
satisfaction to to people, and prove such
y change rs they desire.
In my county there is great dissatis
faction in the present appor,ionmen
Of Supervisors, the county ceat havin:
half Of the voters Of the county get
only two members out of the fourteen
The people are dissatisfied with this
They consider the present arrangement
cumbersome, inefficient and needlessl,
expensive"
In the course of farther discussion
Mr.. Gifftth said:
Il am opposed to the system as it nov
exists. The Supervisors have reare,
monuments of wisdom out in the wood
in our county. They have erected al
iron bridge and set it up on stills, so tina
no one can get To i. without ladder
and thus it has stood for eighteen
months
Senator Wolf, from Cedar, said:
II move that the bill, with it's amend
anrnts, be ree0mmitted To the Commit
tee on Township and County Orgauiza
ton, With instructions to report IA bill $
changing the number of county supervi
sors rs to provide that in counties of les
than 5000 inhabitants the board 0
supervisors shall not consist of NOR
than three members; in counties q
more than 5000, and less than ", 90
inhabitants. it shall not consist of NOR
than five members; in counties of NOR
than 5000 and less than loo, of no
more than seven m~ilbrrS; AID that il
counties OF more than n 900 inhab:tant
the board shall not consist OF more tina,
nine members; aud providing tna, in II,
case shall "A majority Of the board b,
residents of one township"