The Butler weekly times., 1893-06-01
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Behind the County Courts Coat Tails
BUTLER. Mo NAV o0tI

BUTLER, Mo-, MAY 29th, 1893.
| ED. TIMES:-Dear sir. In your In ST
week S issue, we see an article headed
FINANCIAL Statement" YOU state
that, on another page can be found
"hat puports to be a detailed state
meht OF Bates county finances for ID
months. If Mr.. Drysdale's totals are
correct, and we are to accept them
Wlthout question:, the finances of
bates county are i'll a good condition
with some $19, 344.3 30, in the treasury. ;"
NOW Sir, you seem to be doubtful as
10 the correctness of this statement.
but you have not published it cor
Iect!y, lnasmuch as you have failed
10 give the totals at the last of each
1und, Except the salary fund.- we
would Infer from the first part of
your article, that you had not accept
ed our totals as shown on the copy
furnished you for publication If you
assume the responsibility of leaving
part OF the figures off there may be
trouble In getting pay for publishing
IL at all. III there was any part of il
you did not understand, why did YOU
not come to us and have us expiain
IL! and you should have allowed us
TO compare it when your omission
might have been discovered. You
speak about the "TwO funds that the
people OF the county are most direct
ly Interested in, the Election and jury
oiiiy totaI amounts as expended are
given My dear sir, you don't seem
to know that the election and iury.
fund is simply one<fund, YOU can find
that the law sets forth how and by
what name the five different funds
shall be known. We have your letter
TO Judge Reese and that fund was
one plea you made to him, which NAV
have mislead him Read law and
post up. L don't know the meaning
OF all the big words you Use in vour
article, so let us please drop this one
out, but - behind the coat tails |
or the county cour,, and said it or
dered him to sbb,eviate these two |
funds. Now, | refer you to those |
two sections which cover the state
lnents in question, and the school |
monies of which you make mention.
section 1886 satS out the duty of the
county court i'll regard to the 10th
section of land. and section 31S. court
TO make oLt account of receipts and
etc., the clerk is not
once i'll either of these
sections, and it is only through the
instruction of the coui, that this
statement is made. Now sir, in vour
way OF expressing it, is not behind
the ''coat tails of the courts" the
proper place for The clerk to occupy
.n TINS case. Your statement as to
Judge Reese le Ger TO lie is correct
II you can produce a section of law
showing IT to be the duty of the coun-
y attorney and county clerk to hold
term of court presided over bv a
udge twenty miles away. and coun-
erlnand orders made at previous
erlns of court, without the consent /
u The other two judges, we would
Ike TO see it. There is no such law.
Ind we would not be justifiable i'm
making any change in the statement.
Is that Is a matter only with the
'ourt. Now, | think you can see WHY
We stand (as you term it, behind the
oat tails of the court. 1t would be
! violation of law for me to stand be-
ind the coat tail of the Times-Dem- .
'crat and one Judge, without the con-
ent OF at least one of the other two s
Judges. Ii the court wishes to make !
ny change in the statement or have
is to do it, [as you think they wild S
'e will cheerfully do 50 by their or
Ter. JAMES DRYSDALE.
County Clerk