Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-06

the city for feed amount to from $5C to $97 (by the recordl per month .Ac. cording to the same logic, if the law said $25 instead of $50, then he could issue requisition for $20 one day and $5 the next; or if the law said $5 he could issue a requisition for $4.5O one day and 50 cents the next.
 The law contemplates that sup plies for the city shall be furnished by contract, and the law says that the Mayor shall not be associated in business, or "related within the sixth degree of consanguinity or af- ffnity" with any one who has a con tract with the city.
 The Mayor refuses to make any contracts; sells to the city in little "driblets,'' and at high prices, and therefore says that he is not violat- ing the laws.
 We would remind the Lord High Mayor and Executioner that a County Judge of this county was indicted by the Grand Jury a while back for building bridges without a contract, in violation or the law. and history has been known to sometimes repeat itself Under the provisions of the statutes of this State, the Mayor cannot legally sell supplies to the city out of his own store, either by contract or without it.
 The Mayor, in his reply in his of ficial organ, also states:
 Again, Mir. Adams claims that un- der my administration it cost the city $ll.20 per head for feeding horses, and only $8 per head under a for mer administration; but the dear editor failed to tell the people that the city is now feeding eight head of horses, while under MT. Bell the city fed but five.
 If the Mayor had read the Sunday GRAPHIC as carefully as he should, he would have found this language:
 During that time Bells adminis- tration] city script was worth from 50 to 60 cents. At that time, also. there were FIVE horses in the employ of the fire department An investi- gation of the records and accounts of the city for the last six months of Mayor Bells administration shows that the total cost of feeds and SUD- plies for the fire department was $230.27, or an average for the six months of $4l.71 per month. The average cost per head for feeding the horses of the fire department would be less, therefore, than $S, al- lowing something for incidental ex- penses, such as soap, salt. brooms, etc., used in connection with the fire department.
 And also this:
 During the ten months of Gold smiths administration there have been $ horses in use ty the city. The average cost of feed Tor each horse when l.. E. Goldsmith x Go. sell the feed, is, therefore. about $11,2 per head, whereas, under Bells ad- ministration the cost per head was about $S. In that connection. it must also be remembered that dur ing Bells adminitration city scrip was worth from 50 to 60 cents, whereas, under the present admin istration, according to the Mayors own statement, city scrip is worth now from 90 to 95 cents.
 In that connection it must also be remembered that during Bells ad- ministration feedstuffs were at least 9 per cent. higher than at present. a fact that can be demonstrated by appealing to records and quotations.
 The Mayor also adduces 8 sworn affidavit from his bookkeeper to the effect that "there does not appear upon the books of l.. E. Goldsmith x Co. or any bill rendered by said firm against the city, the amount of $l 50 for two brooms.'
 The item published in the GRAPHIC