Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-04

Statement From Mr.. Geo. w. Robinson,
County Commissioners from Madison
District.
To the Editor of the Register.
l see there was very lively episode
in the County Boards regular meeting
yesterday according to an article l
read in this mornings Intelligencer.
The old paper has Weakened up at
last; must have slept pretty sound in
all this rain if she didn't hear the peo-
pie calling. When l made the motion
in the Board of Ohio County Commits
sioners to have the attorney for the
county, John Howard, Esq, examine
and report TO this Board at its next
regular meeting, September 2, 1895,
whether the home and foreign building
and loan associations were not liable
to be taxed, was there anything wrong
in that motion? Don't the people want
all the taxes they can get when the law
says so? The great wrong was COM
mitted when the President of that
Board, T. B. Dobbins, utterly refused
to entertain that motion, and when l
appealed from the decision of the chair
luC 0uthOUo III lllc DOdlu udu W LOl-
low p B. Dobbins. The man with no
flies on him." as Brother Fritz has
dubbed him, and therefore the minu-
test to be correct should have shown
what had happened before. The In
telhgencer says Mr.. Dobbins said the
motion made at last meeting was not
seconded nor put before the Board, and
therefore not properly a matter for the
records to show. This is where Mr..
DObbins is wrong again, for when l
made the motion he utterly refused
and, p B. Dobbins, the man with no
flies on him, said, 81 will not entertain
the motion" There was no second
asked for on that day, August %.
On Monday, September 2, l made the
motion as stated to have the assessors
assess and turn over to the sheriff of
Ohio county to collect same. Was
there anything wrong in that? Echo
answers no, and here again the man
with no flies on him, p. B. Dobbins,
President of the Board of Ohio County
Commissioners, shows his great friend
ship for the taxpayers of Ohio county
with great big string to it. With his
CEckOos all around him he calls for
second TO the motion made by me, a
very unusual thing. as all motions are
put in that body without a second Git
may be contrary to rules, but it is
done all the same) l got no second to
my motion. Cuckoos were to numer-
Gus.
The Intelligencer says the chairman
asked if there was a second to the mo-
ton, and none being offered, he said
that under rule of the Board the mat
ter could not be entertained. | say
that language was not used. Rule 6
was never mentioned. The Intelligent
Ger also says l said l did not ask for a
second and did not want the motion
entertained, and that l made several
remarks which seemed to reflect on
other members, and one or two of them
took the floor at once to speak on the
subject. Mr.. Fritz and Mr.. Glass SEEM
ed particularly eager to secure the floor,
but President Dobbins ruled that there
was nothing before the Board, and call
ed them down with his gavel. How
absurd is all the above which they have
got from some unreliable source, or is
it Imagination?
After I made the motion to assess,
the Cuckoos all sat there like bumps
on logs when President Dobbins said
there was no second to the motion and
il could not be entertained. l had said
nothing as vet on the notion only made
it. and sat down. and after the Presi
dent had decided the motion, the only
man that wasn't glued so tight to his
chair that he could not rise up was Mr..
Fritz. who had weakened enough to
melt the glue on the chair he sat upon,
and got up to say something, when the
| great | Am. with no flies on him, called
him down by saying there was no sec
ond to my motion and therefore there
was nothing before the Board and a
motion to adjourn would be in order
which was to choke me off so as | could
not offer my last motion as to the
amount. price and what account the
whisky was charged up to. will just
! here say | forgot to add TO my motion
| the number of boxes of cigars and the
| dozens of chickens they have consum-
ed. | have still more in my locker.
President Dobbins, after the meeting.
said 10 an Intelligencer reporter that
whisky was bought for use at the poor
house in half barrel lots, just as other
| stores and drugs were purchased, and
was issued on the physicians prescrip-
ton. There were some old inmates
who were given few ounces of liquor
daily. The barrel was kept in the dis
pensary. where all the drugs were
kept. was in charge of Superintendent
Mccoy. and had a key spigot which no.
| body could turn but he. Now what
| has all of that got to do with my mo-
ton? Was there anything in 1t about
the whisky in the dispensary, or about
the physicians prescriptions? No If
the physicians had to prescribe every
time the Board Of Ohio County Com
missioners take a drink of whisky,
paid for out of the revenues of the
| county. they would want about double
! what they are now paid. o, no, Mr..