The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-17

The Bloomington Pantagrdph charac-
terizes the reputation of the excursion
bills by our Supervisors as the essence of
meanness and suggests that the excur-
sionists had better contribute so cents
apiece and help the hospitable county of
,hock Island out Of bankruptcy II Blonde
Little Sheet.
All OF which would be entirely satisfac- |
tory to the people who furnished the cake, |
wine, cigars and hacks. Let the little
Bloomington Panty hurry up its so cent
subscription, and not be always talking and
never doing anything.
The Board of Supervisors did exactly
right. The persons who hold bills for the
Bloomington spree have no legal claim on
the County and cannot enforce the collec-
fion of their bills from the County, for the
reason that the Committee could not legal
ly be authorized to contract any such hills.
There is no law warranting the expendi-
ture of the peoples money for any such
purpose. The ARGUS cares no more
about the bills for the Bloomington spree
than for any other illegal bills. But THE
ARGUS means to put stop to the squan
dering of the peoples money in an unlaw-
full and unnecessary manner.
| Sup'r Bowles stated, in the Board, that
it was not expected, when the committee
was appointed, that any such bills would
be contracted. The excursion was a pri-
vate affair and the entertainment was a
private affair, mere act of courtesy due
from individuals mot from the County for
ciyilities paid citizens of this county when
on private visit to Normal There was
nothing of public or official character
about either excursion, and there is not
and cannot be any propriety or le-
gality in taking the peoples money to
pay for anything connected with either ex-
cursion Had there been any expectation
that there would be raid on the
; peoples treasury to pay the expenses
| Of the entertainment no vote for
the appointn ent of committee
could have been carried. He thought il
was mistake in not opposing the vote al
! the time, and he, for one, was willing to helr
! pay for the mistake out of his own pocket
q but he would never consent to take the
r money of the people of the county gener
ally, for any such purpose Hewould give
4 $40 towards settling the balance Of the
bills. The amount was$l70. There wer,
IS Supervisors, and $40 each would settl
= the matter and take nothing from the PEG
& pies cash box Other Supervisors tool
v the same view of the subject, and a sub
r scription was taken up, raising $119. W
. asked Sup'r Krell about it, this morning
: and he said Sup'r Bowles had the paper
but Mr.. Krell gave us list of the sub
A scribers from memory as follows: J. NJ
n Beardsley, $25; Sup'rs Bowles, Jarvi'
a Kenworthy Krell, Gates, Donaldson, DALEY
, Little, and Martin $40 each-and 50 eac
70 from Sup'rs Feaster, Parmenter and TODD
a This, Mr.. Krell thinks is the list, thong
he cannot say that it is entirely correct, e,
~ cept as to the sum total The Moline Supe
IL -
= visors refused to pay a cent, notwithstant
ing Lobdell has got SIS out of the count
6 treasury for his services in eating cak
10 drinking wine, smoking cigars and ridir
n in hacks on that occasion.
n That the way the matter stands, ar
az the little Bloomington Panty had bett
mr. hurry up its 50 cent subscription or il W
he too late