The Worthington advance., 1882-02-16
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1852.
COUNTY PRINTING.

TdU6SOA1, fEbhUAN1 AOs 4ooks
COUNTY PRINTING.
Following is a garbled extract from
the law as it appeared in the Journal
of last week:
In section l, chapter 20, General
Statutes of Minnesota, we find the fol-
lowing provisions: "And the County
Commissioners shall cause their official
Proceedings of each session to be pub
lished in some newspaper puo!lshed III
their county + which publication
shall be let to the lowest bidder.
We searched diligently for a copy of
the Statutes of Minnesota, and when
We found it we turned ut once to chap
ter 20 section l, and found that it re.
ferred to the organization OF towns.
County printing was not mentioned in
section l nor in the entire chapter.
We found on page 81, i'll the Session
Laws Of 1879, the law which he evident
ly intended to quote from. Even the
son of his father had not cheek enough
to tell his patrons where to find cor
rect version of the law which he had so
badly emasculated and miss stated.
The two stars + y were intended to
represent that part had been omitted,
and that part of the law which the
Journal sets out reads as follows:
''And in all eases in designating such
paper or papers, the character and val
ue thereof as medium for getting the
proceedings before the taxpayers of
said counties shall be taken into con-
sheraton"
The after part which seems to require
letting TO the lowest bidder is placed in
brackets J indicating that it is not
included, or considered as being part
of the law.
Our readers will readily see that in
many cases (as in this case) both these
provisions Of the law could not have
been complied with. One or the other
of these two conflicting provisions
must necessarily he ignored. Govern
or Pillsbury with commendable fore
sight, detected the inconsistency, and
in the bill which he approved and plac-
ed on file with the Secretary of State,
the latter clause (which required let
ting to the lowest bidder) was omitted.
1t was not approved, and consequently
did not become part Of the law.
For proof of this see the ''errata" in
the fore part of the book, session laws
of 1879, following Immediately after
the index. Explanations are made as
fellows:
Letters and words included in
brackets in this volume of General
Laws are not in the bills approved by
the Governor and filed with the Secre-
tary of State.''
Our friends, and our enemies even,
give us credit for printing a reliable
paper, When we pretend to quote
from official records or laws, we give
the exact words and figures, and we
tell our readers the book and page on
which the original official entries may be
found, and invite everybody to look it
up, ponder over it in their own minds,
and form their own conclusions in ref
erence to it. These session laws of
1879 can be found in attorneys offices,
III all the county offices, with town
clerks and justices Of the peace in the
different towns.
The County Commissioners have
acted honorably and fairly in this mat
ter, and in strict compliance with the
letter of the law. They have officially
recognized and indorsed the character
and value of the ADVANCE as being
the best medium for getting their Of
ticial proceedings correctly and legibly
before the tax payers of the county.
In doing this they have exercised
some discretion and good judgment.
1t is better to pay Il fair price for good
work than to have it done in slip
shod, unsatisfactory way for nothing.
Every correct and successful business
man acts Oh this principle. The same
rule applies to public business.
"sILENcE IN COURT"
RACY COURT SCENES IN FULDA.
FULDA, Feb, 1882.
EDITOR ADVANCES: For the good of
your readers we will try and describe Il
session of Justices court which has
been in progress III this town. The
case is entitled the State Of Minnesota
vs.. Taper & Irwin. The complaint,
selling liquor without license. Tie
case has been III progress during the
week, and thinking probably you had
never been favored with the like, we
nd fYiV ~
Now imagine, if you can, his honor Sit
ting upon a stool from which Justice is
supposed to emanate, minus the Judi
cial robes. cooked hat and sword, but
armed with very large and tolerably
stout pipe, from which issued dense
clouds of tobacco smoke, supported on
either hand 10y a person whom we sup
pose filled the place Of associate Judge,
and You have the court. Attorneys all
smoking. jury smoking, constable
smoking, everybody smoking. Here is
frontier court scene for you.
Suddenly the stentorian voice of the
marshal is heard crying, II guess
ycn'l have to stop smoking; the coun-
sci for the defense Objects" His hon
or rules that counsel is wrong and
keeps on smoking. So does everyone,
marshal included. Several witnesses
are brought forward by prosecution,
who will not swear to anything, and
the court orders their arrest and pro-
ceeds to try them for perjury. The
counsel for defense here objects and
counsel for the prosecution fellows
with a long harrangue. but the court
Overrules boil, and proceeds, his sole
object appearing to be to object to any
thing and everything the counsel
for defense may say, and after one
evidence was obtained bearing upon
the case.
Suddenly some one asks for the vii.
lage records. They are brought in
and counsel for the prosecution pro-
ceeds to read them, out is stopped by
recorder and the court rules that the
Jury shall read them for themselves.
Here is a dilemma, for one half of the
jury cannot read at all, and after some
lime spent lin confusion, a motion ia