The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-22

bIed about it. Witness went to Warrel
and informed him of the charges. Warner
told witness that the men had been dis
charged and made these statements out o
q spite. Witness then thought that Warner
had told the the truth. The men who com
planned to witness had appeared on thu
stand and testified that they had never pait
q dollar to the street commissioner or TO
his benefit. One of these were james
Mulquen.
| Witness thought Warren was dishonest
as at one time the members of the stree
and alley committee had met Warren
They asked Warren to do some workin the
upper end of the city. Warren then said
that he (Warren) was working for his OWL
i interest, in the lower end of the city. Wit
ness did not know what work Warren was
| doing at that time.
Witness did not report it to the Mayor
or to the council. He did not know
whether he would believe Warren under
| oath. He had no prejudice against War
rem Witness thought that Warren was com
pensated for clearing out private yards by
| the owners thereof. He thought that Fred
Hass was one of the parties who paiu
| Warren.
Barber then explained how he happened
| to withdraw his name from the order TO
| Warren, as mentioned in the evidence OF
| Aid Whitman. His reasons for SO doing
was misrepresentation of the facts.
| Witness furnished macadam to the
| city and there was misunderstanding be-
tween him and Warren about the amount
supplied.
Witness sold some .'rattlings" or stone
chips to Warren for the city, at the rate of
/ Is cents per load. The bills were made
out in Frank Sinnetts name. as Warren
thought it would not look well to have an
alderman's name on the bills. Witness OBJ
jected but Warren thought it best. The
ratings were not Mr.. Sinnett's property.
Witness allowed SLnnett's name to 60 on
| the bills because witness wanted Sinnett
| to get the money. Witness sold them, and
Warren fixed the price. Witness did not
| receive any compensation for the transac
ton. Other property sold to the city was
made out in Sinnett's name only the latter
was paid certain amount on the original
purchase price, The building rock was
sold in witness name Witness did not
consider anything wrong in the transac-
tien. Warren suggested the use of Sin
nett's name, but if Warren had not sug
gested it witness did not know whether he
would have had his own name appear or
not. Warren made out the bills against
the city and presented them as favor to
the witness. Witness made out no bills in
his own name. Warren made out all the
bills. Those made out in favor of Sinnett
were all right, but those made out in wit
ness name there was some mlsunderstand-
ing about the amount. After Sinnett was
paid, witness told Warren to make them
out in his (witness9 name. IF witness had
not been an alderman the bills would have
h. L. ~
ness thought Warren was doing wrong in
cleaning out the yard of Fred Hass, but
witness did not visit Hass and ascertain
why the work was done. He did not re-
port it to the Mayor or the council. All
this occurred while witness was an alder
man of the city ofRock Island.
Witness did not consider it any of his
business unless the work was done in the
upper two wards, as the members of the
street and alley committee had divided the
city among themselves, and witness had
the 9th and 7th wards. He did inform
Whitman, who had charge of the work in
the centre of the city.
Witness did not think the men under
Warren earned $1.75 per day. Witness
had voted to increase the pay from 81 so
to S175 after he had seen the men at work
He. thought it WAS a good thing as the
wages. He thought the fault was with the
bosses" but he did not report it to the
mayor or council. He knew when he voted
for an increase of pay to the laborers that
some of them were not earning 81 SO per
day. When he reported it TO Warren he
said the fault was with the men and with
the bosses. Witness did not know who
were the bosses. There was several
men in gang and one boss. He /
told him it was the crowd of men. The
boss was John Wray. This were when the
pay was $3.50 per day. He thought the
pay would be an inducement for
better work.
At one time since witness was engaged 1
90 the round house for the G.. B. s. O.. he |
had:said in fun to one of the workmen I'M |
der hin, that unless the men ''whacksd |
up dollar he (the workman could not |
work for the witness.
THEo. FREE
testified that he has been employed as a |
teamster by the city during the years 1880 |
and 1881. All his work was done for the |
city. He received more pay than he was
entitled to. In September 1881 he received |
pay for one day more than he actually
and told him he would refund the add
tional so cents the next time he saw War
rem. Witness worked for Matthews and
the latter told witness that Warren would
pay him. Warren told witness that the
city would not pay him for work done for
Matthews, nor would Warren. Witness in
formed Matthews and the latter then paid
him. Matthews told witness that he (Mat-
thews) had arranged with Warren about
some pipe and Warren would pay him.
Witness received the money from the city
Jerk. Witness did not refund the
hree dollars until about three
weeks ago. Warren told him he
could refund the money to the city clerk.
Witness had not refunded the SO cents
lie had never paid any assessments; never
lad been asked for any such contribution.
lie refunded the overpay few days after
settlement with Matthews Witness had
lauled few loads 10 fill Warren's lot
This was an agreement among the men
hat each one would assist in filing War
ems lot. Witness had heard young Raj
erty ask to get away for the purpose of
irving Warrens cows from the pas
ure. This was between and 6 o'clock
lie had never paid any assessments.
PETER LARRIN
tated that he had worked for the city as
teamster. Witness had hauled one load,