The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-14
A SPEECH THAT NEVER WAS MADE.
Somebody Playing Fraud en- the People.


by him in the House of Representatives. lat
Springfield, which he never made there
and portion of which is so unparliament-
ary that he would have been called to or
der had he delivered it there. Mr.sWarn-
er had voted against the resolution of Mr.
Durham, to adjourn the Legislature he
must therefore do something to satisfy his
constituents, and he introduced the follow
ing:
ResoEoed, That we will take up the business be-
fore in regular order complete 1t as speedily as
possible, and then adjourn.
Nobody objected to this resolution. Mr..
Warner made a few remarks, which were
we'll enough, and which we noticed favora-
bly, at the time, and his resolution was
adopted-only to be forgotten the next day.
This was on the Goth of January. He
then absented himself from Springfield for
awhile, and, during the time, we think he
visited the Union office. On the 9th in
slant the Union published his pretended
speech under the following display heads :;
Remarks of Hon. w. W. Warner-Two
Henry County Legislators Heard From-A
Solid Shot From Farmer" These heads
the Union followed with column of what
purports to be speech from Warner de-
livered in the House-which is not true
No such speech was made in the House by
Mr.. Warner or anybody else.
In this pretended speech of Warmers S,
great stress is laid upon the fact that the
members of the committee to revise the
statutes drew pay, at S. day, for every
day from our adjournment on the 9th
day of May last, to the LIST day of Novem-
ber'-and then he charges that the COM
mittee has done no work, for he says 'the
Commissioner of Revision has really done
the work, and as yet has not been paid.
Now, what are the facts ?
J By the terms of the resolution creating
the committee it was continued toNov LIST
Why was this done, unless for the purpose
of limiting the time to be paid for? The
7 work was not needed until the General AS
sembly should meet in January.
A few days after the adjournment thu
0 committee met at Springfield, organized
and divided up the work to be done, thu
enabling each member to take his worl
: home and put his mind upon it and diges
and complete it. In July the COMMITTEE
> met in Chicago for a revision of their work
IL and for laying out further plans of labor
The committee were there several weeks
IS and then adjourned, to meet in Springfield
c in the latter part of November. In tn
y meantime each member carried forward, a
e home, the work assigned to him. TIL
{ committee met in Springfield in the latte
p! part of November, and were at work ther
several weeks. In fact it was not possibl
to get the printing completed SO that tn
work could be ready when the General As
n sembly met. And all the work done afte
5, the lst of November was without any hop
is of pay Besides this, the members OF tn
r committee had to pay their own travelin
We expenses, and board, all this time, whe
IL absent from home.
o 1t IS true that the members of the con
s mittee were allowed S. day for every da
ID I'D to Nov. 1st-but this is the practit
i'd with all like commissions, and all legislatiy
$ bodies M. Ha1ner himself drd,cs pa
st for every Sunday while the General A
,ir sembly is in session-as does every oth'
member-and also for every day of a
short adjournments, including Sunday
IS And for the foolish and unnecessary a
iournment of this Republican General A
on sembly from the 9th of May to the 9th
a. January we suppose every member cou
n rS legally claim pay for every day-includil
It's Sundays, though it might require a pref
to heavy strain on the consciences of some
1t of them-about equal to the COMPRESSION
- salary grabbers
no But we doubt if the So a day pa
VS. the members of this committee to Nov. Is
Us would much more than cover their travt
70 ling and personal expenses and board. II
a. idea of getting any respectable lawyer
VS. devote his time to the work performed
e's this committee, for S. day, and he p
ny all his travelling and personal expense
80 and boards preposterous And we dou
in if any lawyer, fit to do the work, could
,d 10 hired for less than five times that SUI
ook Yet, as members of the General Asse
e@. bly,, being selected for the work, they COT
, not and ought not to expect profession
pay. The trifing pay allowed the me
Der Of this committee up to Nov. lst,, &
n97 sidering their work, their absence from a
neglect of THEN own business, and tn
:. expenses, was an insufficient compen
~ ton. And for the weeks of hard work
NV ter Nov. /. not cent has been paid.
General Assembly did, however, pass
resolution continuing this committee
So Office, and this would probably legally emit
n 80 each member to about $500 more-thor
~ none of them have made any claim of
sort.
From these facts it will be seen t
somebody, either Mr. Warner, or the
, a tor of the Union, or somebody else, is
of gagged in pretty small business, /.
fig palming upon the people as a speech, W
the was never uttered, and 2, for charging
in the committee was extravagantly p
hut and that THE Commissioner of Revisi
With did all the work
heir And the Union winds up this preten