, 1874-12-31

DariF F,s tiss residing ,';s,',s'sas st ths report
took took plhco. tEoo substance Of which "as as fol-
Comu,issIoudr Holden thought tho Commits
Bioners ought TO 60 into tho markot and buy
goods.
Cotnt1,issloncr Ionos aaia he would like to SEQ
tht aoc but o had very little tath ~ ~ Inc eoa rug.
}aition4 wore watched, and tho committees did
their duty tho contract plan would work:
Commissioner Schmidt did not bollovo my
harm, would bo lono by adopting tloldons plan
nit Brosad failure, como olher could 30 au0-
Co5missionor clotngh rorparkol that ho would
vote ns any time In favor Of tho change.
Coa,n,issioner JonoH said the whole system Of
public charities waB an aDuaos nation Of bcg-
Commissioner I1oldoM-1hat ia truo; panpors
ars born Mt tho Poor.1Iouso. :.
Commissioner Jones knew Of women who had
been in tho P0or-Hougo Of Cook County twgl7e
OF thirtoou yours, and had raised family there,
conceived iii pa,iperiEm.
Commissioner smith showed from Tho statutes
that tho county had right to take tho children
from their mothers, and put thom to uaotul en-
:. Commissioner Clough after Bomo ciphosing,
said that according to tho itom for
HooTa AND aiioEs,
assuming that tho average number Of fnriates
waB &C., eyory ono Ind boon furnished With
eight pairs Of shoes this last year.
Commissioner Jones asked who Wad RESPONSE
bio for that.
Commissioner Durdlck {who uas also In tho
room) replied: "1ho Commissioners inter-
Comm1Haloner Gucnther remarked that the
Bhoes woro furnished at price as low as lie
could buy thom.
Commissioner Holden rejoined TINT that might
bc SO, but woro the shoes called for fn tho re-
qulBltiong received ut tho 1uHane Asylum?
G0fumiHaInunr Ennntihr 6iG unt knDW.
Commissioner Holden stated that, after he had
found oat all ho could about tho supplies fur
niHlied tho Tnsano Asylum, he said to Dir. KIM
berry, tho Warden, ''Lcs ua go over to sho Poor
! House." They won't and ho asked where tho
houHokcepcr vaa, sNpposing Hlo had kept nc
counts similar to those of Miss n0xford. KIM
borly said that Mr. Walsh, tho ARsistant-1Yar-
don, had charge OF them. Walsh was ncar by,
md said 1o received all tho goods for both tile
1nshue Asylum and Poor HonHo monthly--tha he
KErT NO nooHe,
but alloot Of paper, and, whom tho goods camo
in. 1,o checked tliom oft. l1o (f1oIdon) asked
hin whore tho sheets woro and ho Hatd le
turned tlom over TO MIR. Kimberly Whom thoY
returned to tile Asylum, l,e asked Kimberly for
them. md he wont TO his room. but after roaain-
Ing nbsont long t1no, lie brought down only one
rccolpt-that for December. THIS was compared
with tho account Of goods received by Miss llo1-
ford, aud found to correspond with 1t. IIo askod
whore the others we're, aud WIS told they wcro
gono-thnt they had boon dcstroyed-that ho
(Kilubnrly) did not know they woro OF any &C.
count, and lo had not kcrt thom. He (Ktlnbcr-
ly} haQ no records Of tho goods received, md
when asked II tint one was tho only thing ho
had which, showed what gootB had bcotl received
lo answered In tho Affirmative.
Commissioner Clough said tint tfloro had boon
insinnntions rejecting upon tho Chairman llol~
DEM thrown out. and ho wautod to say that ho
felt unller obligations to him far doing what he
tCIongl) Ind not time to do. uo would sustain
him. i: