The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
j. A. IL.

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promising of our county Indebtedness, is
read with great interest BY the taxpayers
Of Leavenworth county. With fifty per
cent. of the Indebtedness knocked of, and
no material addition for attorneys fees,
court costs and syndicate grabs, the new
bonds, running over into the next century,
at five or six per cent, taxpayers would
generally be satisfied. The turthen, even
then, though heavy, would be taken up
and carried along in good faith. That, /
believe, is the general feeling throughout
the county. But We
CAN NOT AFFORD
to have the debt m ste,ialiy increased to sat
isfy the greed OF lawyers, spectators. or
would be syndicates. The commissioners
have offered fifty per cent. and attorneys
fees. Considering the elasticity of the
measure by which attorneys fees are usu.
ally fixed, particularly where the public
purse is concerned, the offer was anything
but discreet, az the sequel appears to have
demonstrated. Perhaps it would be sdyi-
sable to pay the attorneys fees that 90 with
90 much of the debt as has already been
compromised or offered for compromise,
which / understand to be but a small por-
tion of the whole amount.
LET THE COMMISSIONERS
make the best terms possible with the at
torneys to that extent, with the understand
ing that hereafter the county will assume
none of the liabilities contracted by the
bond holders With their lawyers. If Matt
Carpenter or J. W. Taylor have rendered
the county any services for which they
have not received adequate Compensation,
let the commissioners be just and pay them
all euch services are worth. II it ia doubt
full whether Matt has done us SIC, 900 worth
of work-the amount already paid him
taken into the account-!et the commits
sioners take the benefit Of the doubt and
giAe him q stubborn stand-off II Mr.. Tay-
lor insists upon the fall amount of extra
psy for which he has brought suit, may
''God in his Providence" enab him to col
lect it if he can.
would cay nothing disrespectful Of the
LAWYERS AS A CLASS.
Even Clough & Wheat, who are determined
that the bonds shall be paid though it take
the last shingle off the roof Of every tax
payers house in the county, are setting in
the line of professional duty. The per-
formance of duly which would carry
distress to the households and the bust
ness Interests of an entire county
must be very distressing 10 a
tender hearted lawyer. May not Mr.Wheat
fate has imposed upon him? And there ia
no telling how much Of this work he may
yet have to do before his numerous apple
trees come into profitable bearing. 1t is
doubtful if Mr.. Wheat would have bent
the force of his weishty genius against US,
had not the demands of professional duty
been backed BY the prospect of big fee.
Robbery ia very detestable in any form.
but there is a sort of bravery in that line Of
robbery which ia carried on by the pistol
or bludgeon which sometimes compels re-
spect even for the most villanous Of those
who practice it. But this thing of legal
robbery is quite as mean and selfish, and
quite as hurtful to those upon whom it is
perpetrated as the other, but without any
thing to give it the least show of respecta-
bility, being all done in the name and un-
der the cover of
PROFESSIONAL DUTY"
And there ia the case Of Counsellor Still
lings. After five years of hard wasting
toll be has succeeded in getting judgment
against the county to the amount of Sl4,-
600. Perhaps it was his extreme devotion
to this case Of professional duty that pre-
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nan, .,s;nst /, I,,as, sdyicss do nor nor
nit US to indulge in the thought that the
commissioners have yet "come down." Ii
We were not close on the heels of the flush
looking-up times predicted by Secretary
Sherman and his admirers-if we were
not even now actually troubled to
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on -. n "a NJ p.Usarmsn ON The r.n.c-
itv of the Iawyers. spoke wisely and TO the
point. Mr.. F.nlon's plea in behalf of the
lawyers who are besiesing the treasurer's g
office with hungry fee bills, was plausible
from a lawyers standpoint 1t seems to me
thati
THE BAR OF LEAvESwoRTH
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-, hooLs 81 ,hs ,s,.n,v;no c;,iz.ns ~
this county.
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MAIERlALiZE
my thoughts about the spirit wedding; but
before had made much progress found
myself 30 thoroughly anticipated by the
Troy Chiet, Chicsgo Tribune, st. Joe Herald
and other publications, that l laid down