The morning call., 1894-06-30
HUNGRY JURORS.
Supervisors Cut Down
Their Bills.
The Finance Committee Believes All
Bills for Supplies and Mate
rial Will Be Paid.

The Board of Supervisors will meet this
morning for the last time during the pres
enl fiscal year, which expires on Sunday,
July l. One of :he objects of meeting is
to pass on all bills which should be paid
during the present fiscal year. The Finance
Committee has been very busy during the
last week examining both into the char
acter Of the bills presented and the condi-
ton of the various funds. At the close OF
the year bills come in with rush, and
make it necessary on the part of the
Finance Committee to exercise more than
the usual care.
Supervisor Kennedy of the Finance Com
mittee said yesterday:
"Tbe present board finds itself in bet
ter condition than it expected. We will
be able to pay all bills for supplies, ma
terials and labor furnished. and have a
slight surplus, which Will be turned into
the general fund. OF course. l do not
speak of tho Inherited indie btedness from
the last board, whieh sIill stands.
Yes, there have been deficits in some
of the funds, but this backset was more
than compensated for by the surplus in
other funds. There was no deficit in the
Street Department fund. because Acker.
son managed to eat up ma jority of the
$4,000 appropriated for sewers. Other
de ar tments were not so fortunate to have
such an extra appropriation. 1.-THE meet.
ing tomorrow we will order paid all bills
for supplies, materials and labor con-
tracted for during the fiscal year. OF
course this does not include tie salary list
for June, as the board has already paid
twelve months salaries cut of the appro-
priation for the last fiscal year. The June
salaries for City Hall employees will be
paid in July"
A l. IN
came up before the Judiciary COmmi tee
for considerable there were mum bel
from restaurapt-keepers for feeding jurors
Christian Refs and Daniel ROGERS of the
committee objected TO the charges made.
The bills were for dinner for twelve jurors
in Westerfeld's, on Market street, and the
price charged for dinner was S12 in each
case.
"a man must be very hungry to eat one
dollars worth of food. / think you can
get good meal for 30 cents"
Let's cut bill down to six dollars u
said Rogers, "tO show that we disapprove
of such charges"
Wien the bills were examined il was
found that they had the following indorse-
ment on the back:
The within bill is audited for s12. and must
not be reduced. The jurors in the criminal
courts serve without compensation. and they
are entitled TO good meals.
EDWARD A. BELCHER, Judge.
Finally the judiciary Committee found
one meal bill which did not have any in
dorsemeDt on the back. and forthwith
ordered 1t cut down from Sl2 TO Sc. 1t did
not STAY reduced, however. When the
Judiciary Committee met Yesterday the
same Identical bill found its way in the
cOmmittee-bOX, and came up again for con-
sideratOn. There was a new Endorsement
on its back, which read r. follows:
To the Honorable the Auditin0 Committee e.
Board Of Supervisors GENTLEMEN: | beg
TO say TO you hat the within claim for SI2 is
just and ought 10 be paid. 1t is impossible 10
get decent men TO sit with US here In the jury
box unless they are properly treated. They
get nothing whatever for their most valuable
services, aud surely they ought not 10 be kept
together (as they must be) and at the same
lime be starved, ana the man who furnishes
them something to eat ought not TO be made To
lose ii. Respectfully,
WM. t. WALLACE, Judge.
On reading this Endorsement of Judge
Wallace, the judiciary Committee forgot
all about the extraordinary hungry appe-
tites of the jurors and raised the demand
to lis original figures. Westerfeld went
to the treasury and got his money.