Evening journal., 1888-10-02
LOOKING FOR CANADA.


Councils Map Committee Hard at Work.
Repeating tho Tricks of Blake and
other Retired Statesmen.
When the Finance Committee Of the
present Council was organized they began
system of bookkeeping which kept
account Of all the affairs Of the other
committees of Council The discoveries
thus made by the Finance Committee
We're numerous and surprising. They
discovered, for example, that the Map
Committee had held III meetings from
June. 1887, to May. 1888 Now this com.
mittee has always been looked upon
as joke and none but new members are
ever placed upon it, 1t appears that Mr.
Baugh, when the committees were
formed over year ago, had himself and
Il. G. Moore and William b. Norton
placed on this committee. Regularly for
three months twelve meetings each are
credited to the committee, and for the re-
naming nipe months fifteen meetings
were found necessary to prepare the
city's map.
When Mr. Quinn looked at the little
book with the map committees report
and saw that the members of that com
mittee had drawn SS5 80 for doing abso-
lutely nothing and holding meetings of a
mythical character he at once saw
Baugh, who was then at the head Of the
map committee and told him bluntly that
if there were any more meetings of that
committee he would not sign the pay roll.
This angered the First ward statesman
and since that time the tive gentlemen
scarcely speak as they pass by
The fire committee Is another upon
which Messrs Baugh.and Moore are en-.
gagged or and Baugh is chairman This
committee met every day IN June from
the lst 20 the 9th and then held no more
meetings until the 3d Of July. In that
month it held three meetings day on
the 4, 3, Q and 18th In August,
however, the committee got in It's
greatest work, it succeeding in
holding lO4 meetings. In thirteen of
these meetings Mr.. Baugh was the
the whole committee in himself The
committees book shows that he credited
himself alone with four meetings on the
18th, five on the 22d, and four on the
25th The Fire committee has held double
the number Of meetings Of any committee
Of council during the last month and has
even exceeded the meetings Of the
| Finance committee, which has more
work to do than all the other committee
/ put together Another instance of Baugh +
rapacity was his conduct at the funeral OF
the late Henry Eckel Council met in the
! City Hall to attend the funeral and Mr.
Norton upon taking the chair stated
that there was TO be mo dollar in this
meeting" Baugh insisted on his dollar as
a right and the other members, to get
the best Of him, dispensed with the call
ing Of the roll, thus leaving no record
of the members present and proven ting
any Of them from receiving pay.
An instance Of the way things used to
be worked in the old days of committe,
meetings is disclosed by the books. A
committee was appointed to buy por
trait of General Grant and such care did
they take in its purchase, that thirty
nine meetings were held before the por.
trais was finall accepted, entaiing an ex
pense upon the city Of $4s.5O. The por
trait had been made by local artist
II is said that the pay roll for tn,
month Of September last, which is now IN
in course of preparation, viii disclose the
the largest sums paid to councilmen sine,
the days when this abuse was at iti
worst. The report will be made on mex
Thursday evening.
The councilmen deprecate the conduc
OF two or three Of their associates an,
propose to sit down upon them if tn,
thing is not stopped.