, 1875-09-30
FIXING THINGS.
Secret Meeting of a County Board
Committee to Select Polling.
Places.
Only Prominent Members OF The Opposi-
tiou Allowed to De Iresent-.-No
Republicans Admitted.
Choice Of Judges Deferred to Consult tho
Ward Clubs.

Tho Committee on Tnb!io Service Of tho
County Board, which attracted 10 mucl. at.on.
tinu md n,eritcd 40 much OF cenanre in copnec-
tion with tito Awarding Of coal-contrActs for tho
county fow weeks ago. sustcrday took a stop
which subjects It TO greater suspicion, and. i!
possible, it's individual 1nembora to grcasnr pub
lie contempt. At lilo nlceting Of tho County
Board Monday, tho Chairman OF tho Comm,ttoo
asl;od that when the loar1 adjourn 1t adjourn to
moot yesterday, tho special objoct boInt'. as au-
nuunccd, TO fix up certain matters for tic conf
lug election. Tho Cumnlttea mot yesterday,
ovory mcnlbor ba,uE present.
STRANGE fEArrRE
Of tho mocttng was tilht it was held ia tho
County Attorneys pr'vato office. aud another
strange feature was thai L. G. 1losing Gen. Lieb,
and few Other politicians OF tho aama school,
were present. ynt Tho straugest feature Of all
was that tho meeting wau held nltlor lock and
key, and that reporters, md even members IF
tle County board Of diGeront political aontl-
ineuss, wcto excluded.
THE ..TrEHDASTa.
WHOM tho dark'latltntn meeting was called to
ing. Gen. I.ob, J. IL. ltountroe, Commissioners
Conly. johnson, Schmidt, and ,fcCairrey, Com
missioner Carroll subsequently, put in an
appearance, and Wash Aeslug Was aleo
hloAHa oRt Atl AuL GnLgF leP[ lie
SHOULD attract tho uttentiun Of tho reporters to
tho secret couclaso. OF WHICH ho imagined thor
!intt no doa. Ruu'1trec nusi Conlv actoa Or door
keoperB on tho occaslon. and su we'll wore they
drilled that no one not known to DO an Opposi-
tion man could got more than a key-holo view
Ut tie aAaombase. Air. uoFing assumed
TO manage the fneatng throughout. Hncll Of thu
Committee as lo cuu!d not handle, Ilountreo
took charge o. ho being peculiarly adapted to
tho work of u whipping in," l4eb acted nj tho
ppDTnbAsiY0 aUlter to Tho twnit, and alton ether
tlo Causnttoo was swallowed up, oven to tno
righteous AcChitrov Ihe meeting was
nor ENTIRELY uA!sMoS1ors.
however. ior lilo feaeoh That everybody could
NOT eutiroly aETod "ltl lloslng, for Willie they
haa Ill ovo 10 Axing thlngh for big Immediate
atccoss, they did not loae aight Of thor own
int'lte, ahu lsorhtfee, Tor Instance, "as nnwi!l-
lug to sacrifice eyer, thing GoalGg to his ecc'lnn
1nootlnB was such, noTcrtheleas, Tint no Eroat
ditIesotces could oziat.
Tho members Of tho Committee. upon whom
tue work 70 ba done really deyolved. took a back
they weEo simply the agents Of tlcir friends,
md powor'ons to do ANYTHING 10 wheti
hlr. l1eHtng would not assent. ThoY Occupied
their position throughout With groat e1actness.
anu an, u any nne OF them had m!sglyny as to
tho course ngp1rduea, It was diai'o!lod BY THO
iact That the doosb wore locked and guarded,
and tho daluaon that tho reporters and tho pub
lie would mover know but that whatovsf shoy
t1}'olteu to'n"y ~ the Ooasu Rs having pee'l
done , would he g, accepted 81 tho result of their
own honest doliberatious,
TIE SPECIAL wonE ......
or tho lock -and-koy conference, in tho name OF
COMMITTEE Of the County Board. waa tue ao-
locttua Of piasea for lloldiuE tho polls at tho
coming olactlou, ata also Of Judges Of election,
to 10 reporscd to the Board To-day: The pres-
once OF outslderS IL OF con1no understood Under
ttle circumstances fot exnortence las Taught III
thie city that tho places OF holding tho polls are
yofy Important. wllilc tho choice Of Judges
III OF moro Importance tnhn tho popularity Of
candidates aud party platfornib and second only
~ interest to tho capacity Of tho tallot.boxos.
Tho tiF8s work taken up WAS tho
FIXING oF roLIINd-rtAcka ..
and redibtrlct!Dg precinets. TakluR nm. waru
after ward and town after town, tho following
changes wclc made, which will DO reported to
tic County board to-dny az tho WORK Of the
tommIstop on Public Soryioo, Whereas Lhe rn-
port IL really tho work OF Mr. losing aud his
aIllee, whatever may be Its eignlf1canco:
Tue Fourth Precinct Of the Sixth Ward Ia to