The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-22
The supervisors' Proceedings.

A few days ago DIR. james hill, post
master at Hillsdale, in Canoe Greek town.
ship, and former supervisor. while in
town, had conversation with a reporter
for The ARGUS. in which he quite pointed
ly censured the board of supervisors for not
publishing its proceedings in both the
newspapers published at the county seat.
He said he did not know Of tax payer, who
received his mail at his Office, who did not
condemn the action of the board in refus
ing to pay the newspapers in this city
reasonable compensation for publishing the
official proceedings. He said the usual |
question asked is, What has the board of
supervisors done this term? Did the
Rock Island papers publish the proceed
ings?" MIR. Hill says every one condemns
the board for having the proceedings pub
lished in the Moline Revieso, an obscure
weekly paper, not having so subscribers
outside the town where it is published.
These are the sentiments Of every intel
ligent man in the county, and the sooner
the members Of the board come to arealiz-
ing sense of their duty to their constituents
in regard to this matter, the better for
them. 1t has become the universal opin-
ion in this county that the board is afraid
to let the people know how little or what it
does
In order that the public may know the
cause Of the change, we will state that, it
thad become the settled policy to pay The
ARGUS and the Union, representing the
two sides in politics, $25 each for publish
ing the proceedings of each session-$l5
for THE WEEKLY and $40 for THE DAILY.
This, though very small pay. was some
thing towards the cost of setting the type,
and was entirely satisfactory to the people
} But at the May term, Sup'r Wright, Of
: Rural, being possessed with desire fol
dong something, disturbed this amicable
arrangement; the following, from the re-
cord, shows how: -
Wednesday, May 12,-Sup'r Wright presented tn
! following resolution, and moved It's adoption;
g Resolred That the Argus Printing Company, an'
500 each for publishing the preceding, Of thi
0 and the Moline ReUiesc the sum of $50. 80
|. The resolution was adopted, though no
Z without considerable opposition from sever
!, al supervisors. The yeas and nays were no
called and we can not, therefore, show ho'
the vote stood, or who voted for or agains
the resolution. ~
The idea contained in the resolution
no more sensible than it would be to ask Nj
Wright to sell us some corn for 800, wit
re the right testake all we wanted.
d The Rock Island newspapers notified th
70 board that they would not publish the pr
ceedings on such terms,-and SO the ma
"A ter was left. - "
= At the July session the following occu
q red: ~
% Wednesday, July lion motion of Sup'r Dali
re the communication of Walter johnson and j.
Drake, presidents Of the Union and the Argus cor
ne panies relation to Publishing the proceedings
he this board, was laid ON the table.
al the proposition of the Moline ReUieC to publish
proceedings Of the board for the sum of $50 ?
year of four sessions but in case OF an extra sesslc
to be paid at the same rate. Carried.
Aud that is the way the matter stand
at present. We venture to say that the
: are few, if any, men In the county who
=. not condemn the action of the board in d
- turbi1g the we'll settled policy Of ma
:: years past, and that there is not town
the county where the voters would not p
fer that the board should return to t
7 policy SO unnecessarily disturbed by
g member from Rural