The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-04-17
Cu,nGEs AGAINST Mn. MDrnis

III tiNliilN NI'Nl 'lliN 'llll ~ wv Nlldi Wv
has been influenced IN lii, acliona- Alder
man by Capt. Halliday aud the Guy MAJ
iioml Bank, and that n, Mayor hc
would be- under the smnr influence.
We reply that Mr. Winter aud hi,
friend, have no good ground, upon
which 10 base such charge, that the
Elrts contradict II. aud thar II it were true
II would be- much better to elect Mr.. Nor
ris than Mr.. Winter.
During the tim" Mr.. Morris In. bccu
member of The city Council he has acted
with Independence, and Tai, vote. would
Indicate hr wis m opponent rather than
the particular partisan of the clique the
Winter men are cndrn,oling 10 nmnll-
tarlurr iuto such buglbno What are
the facts; 10 enhance the value ol scrip
the Council put upon II ten pr cent. in
trrrsl, aud the city National Bank all
sorbcd the issue. This wa. a benefit Ia
the city. II carried the price
of scrip from Iiny cents 10
ninety five cents ON the dollar and to
par. But after awhile the volume of in
trrrst-braring scrip became redundant.
AMI tie price began 10 drop. II had fall
len to srvcnty-tiNc and sixty five cent, on
the dollar. OF course the bank had no
objection to this rs n bank. II it bought
scrip at these figures IL would get very
high interest on the inycstmrnt-trn per
&c II. on every siXtN-liyc and srNculy-liNc
cents invested IN scrip. The suggestion
WIS made that interest should he taken
of scrip. This the bank opposed. and
50 did Capt, Halliday: but IN the face OF
this pressure Mr.. Morris advocated the
policy of taking on the interest from
scrip. Did this look like ,ubscrvcnry
To the clique?
Sometime ago the city got into n con-
irorcrSy with the gas company. The
company demanded II certain price ioI
Lighting the city. The Council refused To
pay 1t. Captain Halliday believed the
gus company's demand reasonable. Al
drrmau Morri. believed it To- be uurrasou-
able. AMI Alderman Morris Mini ,,.
way hr believed. SNIrIln Halliday in.
sisted that llu'T proposition of the "a, com.
p"',S ',uuld be- accepted. Alderman Nor
~, insisted that it ought To he rejected.
Dld Ibis act looh like -nb-crvirncy
Bat we will br toll that Mr.. Morris
voted with Capt. Halliday on the Narrow
Gauge bond question. We'll. 81 he did I:
but let us look AT this matter moment.
The Cairo aud st. Louis railroad com
pany requested the Council 10 permit the
bonds of the city, which had been voted to
the road AMI placed in escrow to be- paid
when thu road had been completed. to he
removed out oi the State to 81. Louis. the
company proposing to give bond for their
return 10 Cairo II the road should not be
completed in a certain time. The prop
o,iiOn was a fair one, aud we believe
Mr.. Morri, should have voted for it. But
he didn't, aud some of the citizens who
are now enthusiastic supporter, of Mr..
Winter appeared before the Council and
IN strong speeches urged the Council not
| To consent To the transfer, When ear,
had run over the road, from st. Loui, to
Cairo. Ia accbrdncr with the contract.
Mr.. Morris voted to pay the bonds to the
company.
We are also toll that Mr.. Morris voted
to reduce the wharl-boat license Ia Sl5Oa
year. AMI ii is said this vote j. evidence
that hr acts in the interest of Capt. lIalli-
day. II j. evidence OF no such thing.
The Council attempted 10 collect the H.
ccnsc. 500, but tn whlrt-bpIt owners
went into court and Obtained an mjunr-
ton restraining the collection. and
investigation proved to the satisfaction ol
the Mayor and Council aud every
lawyer IN the city who was consulted.
that the license could not he enforced I'M
der the general acl of iucorpomliol-lhat
II was doubt l whether more than n II
license could be collected from the wharf
boats The Council rs much hy the in
llucnce Of Alderman Morris a. any other
member resolved to make the ight and
not give mp until the supreme Court had
determined the question; but finally a
compromise vas effected. The wharf
boat owners agreed To not contest I q
right OF the city TO fix wharl-hnat H.
ccnScs higher than merchant llcrus, B..
provided the city would reduce the II.
ccnscs TO S2jOa year. The Council nc.
ccptrd thcproposlIion.
We know the city could not in the
courts collect more than SO from each
wmrl-boat, and therefore believe the
compromise was u wise one. Besides.
$3.50 now are more to the whari.boat men
than 5000 WERE n few years ago. Then
business was brlsker, and for $3.50 or $500
in money $500 of scrip could be bought
by the whari-boat men and paid Tor their
licenses, but NOW they mtst pay $3.50 IN
cash. This action of Alderman Morris
does not prove that he is subsrryicnt Ia
the clique. II he had acted otherwise he
would have proved himself unwisc.
Mr.. Morris recordas Alderman proves
that he is an independent man, The
Islander that he Is Il clique candidate goes
down before the facts. Bat il he were n
clique candidate, IL would be better 10
elect him than Mr. Winter. The CLIQUE
TO which he belongs, II he does belong 10