The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-07
be done until some satisfactory arrange
ment had been made about the matter.

ment had been made about the matter.
rHE CITY COUNCIL
met at II o'clock, but his homo
failed TO put in an appearance, ant
1t was stated that he had "gon,
out of town. Alderman IIallida,
was called to the chair, and the counci
proceeded TO business. As to what wa
done, and how the members of the coun
ell regard the action of the mayor in thi
matter. We refer the reader to the council
proceedings to be found in another col
umn of this mornings BULLETIN.
THE LEvEE COMMITTEE AND THE con
TRACTOR.
When the council adjourned
the levec committee and several
| members OF the city council called on
Mr.. Bagnell at his hotel to lay the mat
| ter before him, aud ascertain what he
proposed to do. After talking the mat
ter over for sometime, Mr.. Bagnell de.
cllned to give the committee an answer.
but agreed to meet them again at 2
O'Clock on the works at the new levce.
THE MEETING Ar THE LEvEE.
At the appointed hour, Mcssrs. Wright,
Riltenhousc and Lancaster Of the CON-
mittee, and Alderman Halliday,
Capt. W. Il. Halliday. Engineer Hely,
City Attorney Black, aud number OF
citizens were on the ground. Mr.. Bag.
nell and bis brother William, were also on
hand. There was also large number
of the tea nsters and drivers present.
After considerable talking it became
evident that Mr.. Bagnel could not be
induced to resume work unless the levee
committee would come to his terms.
which they could not do under the
contract between Mr.. Bagnell and the
city. Mr. Bagnell demanded that the
city pay him up for all work done to
date, as one of the conditions on which
he would resume operations. lie made
other demands, but they were very indcf-
mate, and no one seemed to fully under
stand them. We suppose Mr.. Bagnell
understood them, but no one else seemed
| to. Thus the matter stood for an hour.
and the committee, feeling that
they had done all they could
do and keep within the contrac,
with Dir. Bagncll, and the ordinance
authorizing the construction of the lcvec
Withdrew, leaving Nr. Bagncll in the
midst Ola hundred teamsters, all clamor-
Gus for their pay, and it seemed nothing
short OF their pay Tor all work don,
would satisfy them.
Tue FEELING AMONG THE LABoRERs.
~lherc was at least hundred laborers
and teamsters present when Mr.. Bagnell
and the committee met, and
they were very boisterous, anC
some OF them even belligerent il
their remarks and conduct. They wcr
particularly severe on Mayor Winter
One of them said, Jack Winter is d
coward. lie is the cause of all this. bu
didn't have the courage to stand up an,
fight it out" Another said, "yes, he Is
oh coward, or he never would have lei
to-day
Such remarks as, PAY or no work !
ave can't feed our teams and work TO
nothing Lets haul Off what we put o
the levec.'' "D-n the city, "Pa
Bagnell and he will pay u.s. etc, etc.
1t is hard that the men who hay
really done the work on the new leve
should be kept out of the
pay, but the city is responsible to no on
but the contractor, and has filed the col
tract with him to the letter. lie has +,
ceiycd every cent he is entitled to undo
his contract, and should he even now re
sumo work the city will fulfil every con
dtlon of her contract with him. IN
city council is unit in this matter
and Notwithstanding the mayor asser
ton that he will not sign the certificates
Mr. Bagnell will get his pay when it i
due him, provided he goes ahead AM
completes the work according TO his con
tract. 1t he fails to do this, then ii is liar,
to tell when he may get pay for what h,
has already done. One thing is certain
time is precious, and the new levee mus
be completed soon. II Mr.. Bagnell doe
not complete it, some one else will.
Thus matters stood at dark last night
What may transpirc in the next twenty
four hours is hard to tell. We shall
watch and wait, and keep our readers
posted.
| THE MAYOR
could not be found yesterday, and it wa
reported that he had gone to Vienna
but what his business was there no on,
could tell. Some of the men on tin
works stated to member of the cit,
council that Mr.. Winter was in the cit,
at eight o'clock yesterday morning, ant
that he had told some of them no
to go to work for they would neve
get their pay II they did.
We do not know that his ,,Onor went /
Vienna we don't know that he didn
90 to Vienna; we don't know that tn
men who said they saw him at o'cloc
yesterday told the truth we don't kno,
that they did noytell the truth. We di
not see the mayor yesterday, and don
pretend to know anything about it. W
only give reports as we heard them, fo
that is what we are paid for.