Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-28
CARD FROM MR. BLAIR.


EDS. REooED-UNIoN In your issue of
Saturday, w. j. Davis, in . communication
concerning alleged insecurity of the County
Jail and Treasury, takes occasion, with much
apparent vindictiveness, to SO out of his way
and cast aspersions upon the members of
the Board of Supervisors. For want OF
legitimate ground for making on attack, he
gives vent to his feelings by insipuating that
the salary fixed for Supervisors BY statute is
too high, and hence thst they ought to re-
ieve their conscienceB for the wrong-doing of
accepting their pay by hiring, at their own
expense, watchmen to guard the county pris-
oners and keep them from being stolen by
burglars MIR. Davis desk, that il may not
again be rai6ed for opium and the Hall of
Records. that il may not be carried ayav.
This burden upon Mr. Davis miui. a1tfl
HE concern about county finances, would
never have occurred had the Board Of So.
peryisors allowed, uRquestioned, sill Of said
Davis bills IS Court reporter in criminal
cases. That is the sole ground for his sttsck,
and although it is not very lofty basis from
which TO mako newspaper thrust against
public officers, it comes with even poorer
grace from one whom the county records
show mas been paid from the county treasury,
during the past two Ysars, more than one.
third as much as the aggregate salaries of the
seven Supervisors, and this for cnly the SMALL
portion Of tbs time occupied by the Court in
the trial of criminal cases, or in cases in
which the county is party.
In case now upon the docket IN the So
psrior Court, however. il which the county is
a party-thst OF Gillispie VS.. Sacramento
county-Mr. Davis has served written notice
upon the Board of Supervisors, that he will
not report the csss unless assnred in advance
ofspayment Of the county's part of tha fees,
and suggests that If he reports it for Gillis-
pie, who il fighting she county, the coun.
ty viii have no right TO any use Of the notes
of his report.
In order to fully appreciate tie force of this
courteous notice to the Board, the reader
should know, as a part Of the situation, that
Court Reporter Davis is furnished by the
county. free of expense to him, an Office, With
gas and stationery, In the Courthouse build
ing, and even the paper upon which this curt
notice TO the Supervisors was written, was
paid for and furnished to him BY tho county.
The fact is, MIR. Editor, the Board OF Sa-
peryisors has taken the wroog course 60
sec1re the admiration ard approval of Mr.
Davis, as well SO certain county oficsTs wheC
from the LIST of January lest an uncompro.
reduce expenses in all departments of the
county government. and By reason of viii l.
efforts the small amount of money in the
county treasury viii be made 20 pay all de-
mands accIuipg against tie county, without
borrowing. until the next taxes are paid in
Not only this, but the economics introduced
sioce the LIST of January will enable the
Board to fix the rate Of taxes for the next
fiscal year at not to exceed 81 40 On each
500. Il is this course upon the part of the
Board-the coursa which viii make the small
amount of money in the treasury lest through
the year, aud prevent the necessity Of regis
tering warrants again, as was done LAST year,
and paying seven per cent. interest upon
them, aud which has also brought sbout a
lover rate Of taxation for next ysar-whieh
has brought upon the heads of the SupeEvis
ore the iuexpressible enmity Uf Winfield J.
Davis and some others. who prefer, for per
soaal reasons, that less rigid economy be ez-
ercised; but in this matter ths Board is Will
ing to abide the Judgment Of tins taxpayers of
the county. SAMUEL BLAIR.
Sacramento, MrY 26, 1888,