The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-07-13
CAPTURED AGAIN.
Gum Chairman of the Board, while Nor
ton Gets the Choice COmmittess.

"n"nA 'no hoH mausuip Woulu lh'l To- Out tC
the initiated it looked decidedly Gunny AM
so 1t proved.
The personnel of the board was much i'm
proved by the influx of new members, and
even Thousand Dollar Norton had had hi.
hair cut and exchanged his s,umpy clay
pipe for cigar. This greatly enhanced the
appearance of T. D. n, and the absence Of
Lis pipe was also an improvement in sani
tary way for his neighbors.
Sometime before the meeting Of the board
I. ID. Norton, Mr.. Gibbs and Mr.. Gum hatch
ed beautiful little scheme and Mr.. Donlevy
proceeded to put it into execution by moving
that the clerk cast the ballot of the board
for Mr.. Gum for chairman.
Mr.. Fades Of Streator, who wasn't In the
scheme fer various reasons, obi ected, and
upon nominating Mr., 0'Loughlin of Brook
field, demanded an informal ballot.
Mr.. Newport of MENDOZA, nominated Mr.
Truman, also Of Mendoza.
The informal ballot gave
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The informal ballot was then made the
formal ballot and Mr.. Gum was declared
elected. 1t was significant that the
fifteen new members did not vote for Gum,
while the old guard of twenty nine hung to
him like brother.
MIR. O'Loughlin moved that the committee
to settle with the county clerk and recorder
and the committee on circuit and probate
clerks be divided, as the work was too heavy
for any one committee. The motion pre-
vailed, giving two extra committees.
Mr.. Fades then moved that the COMMITTEES
on fees and salaries be separate committee
Instead OF being made up Of the chairman OF
the committees to settle with county officers
Mr.. Norton, who wanted to hold the
Craftsmanship of the committee on sheriff
and also the chair of the fee and salary com.
mittee, said that the reason he would oppose
the motion was because the chairman of these
committees would be in position to know
how much the county officers were earning
Mr.. McLauchlan moved to amend by add
ing the newly created chairman to the COM
mittee.
His motion was clearly out of order, but
it carried nevertheless, although Mr.
O'Laughlin of Brookfeld, called for the ayes
and noes.
Then Thousand Dollar Norton smiled.
The board then adjourned to Tuesday
morning at nine o'clock.
TUESDAY
The chairman appointed the following
standing committees fer the ensuing year
Fmance-Eades, Norten, Lukins, McIn-
tyre, Guam.
Court House and Jail-Gransden, Turk,
Ferguson.
Public Buildings - Burkart, Westwood,
Spencer (E). Oleson, Fox.
Equalization Of Lands Mcintyre, Gransden
Doyle. Trumbo, Graves, Hibbs, Oleson.
Equalization Of Lots-Vernor, Stanford,
Irwin, Dresser, Connover, Maher, Deb ,lt
Equalization Of Personal Property-Wylie,
LAUDER, Dinsmore, O'Loughlin, Newport,
Reed, Cook.
AbatemeRtS-A Anderson, Stevenson, Don
levy.
Township Observation-Disclosures, Bowen,
Truman, Taylor, Maher.
Roads and BridgeS-White. Duffy, Cook,
Debolt, Graves, Hibbs Irwin.
Pdupers-Gibbs, Reed, Sawback, Ander-
son. Wylie.
Mscellaneow-Donlevy, Ferguson, STAN
ford, Connover, O'Loughlin.
To Settle sOiM County lreasurer-Lukins
Breining, Spencer (Chas E.)
To Settle wiM County Supt. Of Schools and
Coronsr-Dresser, Dinsmore, Fox.
To Settle scHh She17f-Norton, Ferguson,
Guam.
To Settle nth County Clerk-Spencer (Chas
e., Vernon, Newport
To Settle wiM Recorder - Spencer (E. J,
Breining, Turk.
TO Settle Nth Circuit Cyerk-Ells worth,
Stevenson, Burksrt.
To Settle Nth Probate Clerk-McIauchlsn
ShaWback, NestWo0d.
Fees and Standardization, Lukins, Dres-
ser, Spencer (Chas. Ell Spencer (E.), Ellis
worth, McIauchlan.
Coal and Gas--Doyle, Fades, White.
Mines and Nning-Westwood, Duffy
Trumbo.
4 Judiciary-Bowen, Taylor, Gibbs.
To Settle eih State Charitable Mshutions-
Stanford, Truman, Mcintyre.
Statonary--Trumbo, Taylor, Dinsmore.
Mr.. McLauchlan said that the Park Ma.
tional Bank had returned the county's bonds
refusing to longer act as agent unless the
one quarter of one per cent commission was
paid.
The matter was referred to the judiciary
committee, which had asked for further time
at the last session.
The bills against the county were referred
to the appropriate committees without read
ing and an adjournment was taken to nint
O'Clock on Wednesday morning.
WEDNESDAY.
Mr.. Stevenson of Otter Creek, presented
a petition from his constituents for divis-
ion of the township into two voting precinct: