Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-01
LETTERS FROM THE PEoRlE E
| 'Citizen" Defends Himself Frona an Attack Made by s. w. Kellogg-u .a,
 To the E ditor of the DEMOCRAT:

Citizen Defends HimseIf From an
 Attack Made by s. w. Kellogg.u ,s To the E ditor of the DEMOCRAT:
 lam afraid irritated my Brother rkel- lcgg in my letter signed 'Citizen" or he would not have exhibited so much spleen as appears in this mornings Republican.
 My Brother Kellogg states that my letter
 was delayed until Saturday so that no re-
 ply could be made. This is not true.
 The selectmen's report was printed only
 a week before and 1t was necessary to col
 late and tabulate every order in their re-
 port; this was not done by "Citizen" but
 by other parties and the table was not
 completed until Friday, and on Friday l
 was not at home and the letter was not
 prepared until Saturday morning. It the sele ctmen had classified their expendi- lures as the town meeting voted they
 should do. week previous to elect.on,
 and as the selectmen should do a week be-
 fore election every year. so that the voters
 and taxpayers may see what has been done,
 it would be better for the taxpayers.
 Our Brother Kellogg also states that my
 statements are false and that l knew they | were false and he then comments on legal expenses. The only statement l made
 was that the selectmen had exceeded the
 appropriations. The appropriation for
 legal expensss was $500; the sslectmen ex- penutu Sl,oOo. hy statement tHeEeitIe
 was not false. Again, the select men
 stated to the committee the amount of the
 outstanding bills to be something like
 S7,OO0. One of the items in that state
 ment as made by Mir Piphey to that com
 mittee was about s1 loo with which to pay the legal services iucnrred for those 0. Art
 Ward suits. The town meeting appropri-
 ated the ST. GOO asked for to pay those tanding bills. All of:this. of course,
 aside from the question whether Mir Pin. , ney had the legal power to expend beyond $500.
 Another statement of Brother Kellogg's though it had nothing to do with Mir Pin
 ney's irregularities. is as far from tho 2 truth as either of the preceding state ments. He alleges that it was the chair man of the meeting of the board of healtf who prepared and drew an order whicl . was illegal, which got the town into thes' Il lawsuits. Brother Kellogg knows bette . than this; he knows that the summon which was prepared was perfectly lega and proper; he also knows that the officer whose duty it was to serve the summon T. was obliged to do 1t with so much haste
 that it may have been doubtful if the sum u mons was legally served on every membe of the board of health then in town as tn . law required. The officer who served tha u paper said to the writer that he did serv that paper on every member of the boar of health then in the city; tbat at the tria II of the action in New Haven Dr Ward wa 'S able to prove that some of the member a were not notified, but. that he. the officer U twas not asked nor required to state b l. the counsel for the town why it was o dId not summon these; that If he ha
 been asked this question he could hay il stated he did not serve these members b' 'e cause they were not in the city at th time" 1 have also heard 1t stated thf u the counsel for the town in these sui Ut spent their entire time in proving that il o- pigGery Was a nuisance. fact whlC .e everybody knew and about which thei '' was no dispute. am afraid that at tn K trial some of the material questions Il ls volved in the issue were lost sight le among those dead pigs
 ss The only other order or paper prepare st by the chairman of that board which ever heard was requiring q iS officers to abEt, the nuisance. C. never heard that that vote was illegal no that there was anything improper abC "S it. do know that Wards lawyers clair m ', ed that the trouble was that the office '' who went out to Wards and abated Il n' piggery exceeded the power conferr nS upon them by the vote The vote I he quired the officers to clean the pipge
 and to remove the pigs up upon high 'e. ground. instead of doing thIs they to 's' down the piggery and sold the pigs uI public auction. Just how this makes , illegal order prepared by the chairman 'ss that meeting is little oiffcult to s' 'is However, as l stated to begin with, [ Ist afraid touched my Brother Kellogg up ln a raw spot.
 ply A CITIZEN