Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-05
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
MR.. TEBBETs HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
ABOUT JUSTICES COURTS.
He Thinks the County is Being Imposed
Upon-The Eight-Ho Law
Again.

The Board of Supervisors resumed it
session yesterday morning, all member.
being present.
A report was received from William Cur
It's, Clerk of Highland Park School Dis
trict, announcing that at recent meeting
OF the Trustees of that district it was agreed
that the Supervisors should be recon-.
mended to levy a special tax of $500 or
that district for school purposes.
On motion of Supervisor Bates, the re,
port was adopted and the Assessor notified
of the action.
Business Jagged at this poin', and Super.
visor Tebbets seized the opportunity to
make speech on the wasting of the
county's money. He called attention to
the fact that criminal cases were being
tried every day in the Justices Courts
which properly belonged to the Police
Court. The trying of these cases in the
Justices Courts, he said, was an expensive
luxury, as the county had to pay heavily
for them in the shape of Constables' and
other fees. There was no need of it, he
insisted. He further intimated that sharp
practice had been INDUCED in to get cases
into the Justices Courts, so as to tax the
county. He cited several instances where
cases which belonged to the Police Court
had been tried recently in the Justices
Courts.
Mr.. Bates jokingly moved that Justices
Courts be abolished, and Mr.. Tebbets SUBJ
sided.
The Board spent the remainder of the
morning session in examining and audit
ing the regular monthly bills
In the afternoon the Committee on Con.
tracts was called upon to report in regard
to the letting of contract to paint the
Court house, bids for which were received
on Tuesday. Mr.. Tebbets, Chairman of the
committee. asked for. further time in the
matter, as the committee was not Just sat-
ished as to what the statute demanded in
regard to the eight-hour law.
Mr.. Bates volunteered the opinion that
the contractors could work their men as
many hours as they chose. Thatiwas their
business, he said, and not the countys.
This brought L. G. FRYE, of the Federated
Trades, to his feet. He had been occupy
ing seat in the lobby, listening to the
Boards transactions. He reminded Mr..
Bates that the District Attorney had given
oh oPihAoh od 1ucoudS " the eject tQdt
the law was perfectly valid and that the
Board in letting contracts for county work
must insert stipulation that eight hours
must constitute days labor on such work.
Mr.. Bates didn't seem to value the Dis
trict Attorneys opinion in the matter very
highly because he understood that Bruner
d Bruner had been retained as attorneys
for the Federated Trades.
MIR. Frye denied this. and said that the
only connection the Burners had with the
matter was that they had very kindly ex-
amined the law, upon the solicitation of
the Federated Trades, and had rendered to
that body an opinion similar to that given
to the Supervisors.
The debate lasted some minutes and
then Mr.. Tebbets put an end to it by tax.
ing the floor and reporting in behalf of
the Committee on Contracts, in favor of
awarding the contract for furnishing the
county offices with stationery to II. s.
Croker & Co.
The report was adopted and the contract
awarded as recommended
After which the Board resumed the ex.
animation of monthly bills, and continued
it up to the hour of adjournment.