, 1877-02-02
THE SOUTH TOWN.
Another of Those Intellectual Meetings
Affidavit by Evans,
Justice Wallace II Taken Sick, and the
Bonrd Adjourns TIL To-Day.

Bonrd Adjonrns TIL To-Day.
The South Town Board held m adjourned
meeting yesterday afternoon At Justice afcech's
Office 10 continue The consideration Of the old,
old question, "fho shall be the gouth Town
Co1eetorf" The crowd which occupied the back
seats was composed OF Mike Evans friendst in
ciudinE Jim Giecson. Mike Bailey, Dennis O'sul-
liran, sad others Of that fix, together With somc
who arc several degrees removed from e.en that
tone Of respeetabilisr. Justice summerdeld
called the meeting 10 order. Aad everybody was
found to be present.
Supervisor Lincoln moved 10 proceed to votc
on tue resolution calling for the election of
Collector, submitted by him some wcekA ago.
ME- ". n. ruLLrn,
Mikes attorney, read long affidavit By Mike,
eettIng forth that he, Mike, had presented two
honds, which the Supervisor had Refused 10 ap-
prove; that the eupcrTiaor once said the bond
WAS gooi for tic amount Of the taxes, and 1t
another tlme that II want; that the Supervisor
refused 10 give at1iant any satisfaction. when
afllant then tried 10 ret him to soy what the
penal sum Of tho bond should be; That the
amount Of his bond was sufficient 10 cover the
amount Of tares he would collect; that he
would never collect more than e400, 900 Or
Sf1U%0Q0 altogether, nor would he eYcr hare In
his hands ut uny one time more than eloo 900;
that, IN fine, tho tsrst bond was worth at least
amn,,nt lie would collect; that the second
bond was worth tiT times tho amount he would
ever collect The affidavit tatlmated that tho
Supervisor had tlodged Mike the day before,
hal serted notice on the Supervisor that appll-
cation for manaatnus will be made to Judge
Rogers this morning.
4; NJ Fuller concluded, some H,m.soaeed r. = ID
cried ont, to the Infinite amusement Of the
crowd: ''slikc Evans beat Jack Par1nlce once,
anl 20, he's got e be beat once now, and can't
1T. Fuller trowucd upon this lntcsfctencc,
but proceeded to say TINT tho Supervisor seem-
ed III be actuated By no higher motive than the
dtstre 10 beat Mike Evans. Mr, Fuller then
went orcr good deal Of The ground covered by
some question. Tho condition Of the bond
should, he said. determine tho amount OF tho
securities. The affidavit showed that tho bond
WIS worth at least th'rty times tho amount Of
ltanls al: any onc time. Mr.. Fuller cha7actcr-
lzcd tho Supervisors refusal to np-
pruvo tho bond a. simply arbitrary.
Ind wanted 70 knew 4 The Board W. EDs s; to 70
tho case Of M Office which the courts he'd re-
Ycatrtlly decided wna not vacant. Would the
board, in the faec Of this decision, accept the
ipse dtxit Of the Supcrvisora ~
iace asked permission TO leave, as he was suiler-
| lug from MI attack Of lever and ague.
Mt. Fuller urged him to- stay. He had said
all ho desired to fay, and they would soou get
through,
SUPERVISOR LINCOLN
aald he could say ~ lle wanted e e t1 I've min;
utcs, and hoped thht' JustIco Wallaee would
The Justice somewhat reluctantly aequiesced,
and Supervisor Lincoln went. on to say that Mr.
Fui1cr's quotations 1som Judge MeAllfsters
decision, Le WAS aorry to fay. were entirely ~
accurate; 1lcstlea tLat, he lo1 been expressly
| come 81 decision Of the Circuit Court, was
simply The opinion Of one Of tho Judges. In
| which the other Judges dId not concur, and for
which they were not responsible. ~ they wcrc
nulgated. The opinion Of Judge McAtlister
| n,leGt 10 considered to hAyo been made a.
favorable to tho petitioner in the care
xs' so .hss sssoa ~ supess ssss %
claimeI that ho was perfectly just!ncd In re-
iulsng to approve EYabs' bond. It was not =
sufficient bond to meet the standard set up ID
| tic opinion. In his deliberate judgment, IL q
| bly, pruleht man would eay was sufficient under
such standard. There had never been l,onl
filed which was sufficient under that standard,
lie had at onoc Informed the applicant Of his
icc!slou. 1t had nevcr been decided by any
body, by anY court, Or judge, that Il . Collector
failed within the time limited by law to
gtvc sufficient bond he had Q ttms
1 a 10 the aa1asSit, IL had little to say. As faf
IA he himself was concerned, ts.c:e "a. a sub.
stratum 0f truth In 1t, but good deal VI fa1hits
i,pon him for not sending EvaNs . letter. 1t :! :!
o'clock "Wednesday, hut the supervisor declared
that hc had promised to send Evans the letter
rs soon after , O'clock on that day ~ was pos.
S: mssssneer m wttls iLc liter as soon afier thai
hour "A was possible, with Instructions to deliver
tic letter Into Eyasss' hands. Il the mcssenees
tlhlu't find Evans when be vent to his attorneys
had no control, A. 70 Ills sayias that h!
had ever admitted under oath TINT the bond
tEst Hlcd WAS worth 500 600, ali ho noT had to
say was, sitter having rcce4vcd full mad sufficient
worth $700 In concluding lsts remarks
Supervisor Lincoln moved to proceed to vote
on his resolution. -.
Just!ce Mech thought II Necessary before pro
eeedtag to > vete 70 declare that there VIZ I; : .
vacancy, and backed up that opinion by quoting
zysr.ox HA.xEs
said that IN order 10 determine tho question o
yueancy It WA necessary TO detcrn.t,!s whothe'
thcFc ras failure to qualify. II Eraps W.
not tho Collector, from failure to qualify
aud the Board appointed . successor
would bic, be- PfSS!t' sra ~ofI not i
Ind douc everything .nan could 10, but coult
not eyeu fad out from tho Supervisor tlua
much OF 4 boud the latter wanted, snd how dEt
[ the board knuw that another man would hayt
any better luck than Eyansa
Supervisor Ltncoln-We wilt find him.
[ Iustlce Ifalne8-Wcll, II the Supervisor has
man tn view who Will suit him Ill right,
Supervisor l4ncolu-1 mean 1hAt l wall 6ut
l'oudsmen, and not that ] hase any. psstieula
1nau Ia ycw.
Just here Justice Wallace put an etfect!y
stop to ths proeeedngs by Informing the mem
berE OF the board that he wes feeling too badl
to admit OF his rcalalning any longer. sna h
therefore moved to adjourn till this Afternoon
| Il 1 o'clock.
The motion wAs amended 30 IS 10 make th
adlonrned meeting at y o'clock this afternoon
and tho hoard then adjourned,
10 BLUE GLASS.