The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-05
Mr.. WINTERS AGAIN
Another Communication Received By
the County Commissioners.
HE DEFINES HIS DUTIES
The Auditor Proposes to Go Right
Ahead and Do his Work Ac-
Cordng to the Laws Provis-
ions-About the Orphans.

The county commissioners met again
yesterday. and before they We're In ses-
sion very long they received a COM
munication from Auditor Winters, in
which that gentleman told them what
he thought of their efforts to define his
official duties after such duties had
already been defined by the statutes.
He seemed to object to being ordered
or dictated to by the commissioners at
all, and intimated that they had
enough to do If they attended to their
own business. Mr.. Winters caustic
communication says in part:
In response to your instructions to
strike the names of certain persons
from the county roll, l will instruct
you that will be glad to receive your
explanation as to why the parties mem
toned in your order should be stricken
from the roll. 1t Is true that some of
the persons mentioned in your order
are Americans and others are Irish,
but in my estimation a persons ma
tionality does not dsqualisy them
from receiving the aid due a deserving
citizen.
Il desire to instl uct you that, as su-
perintendent of the poor / will direct
the necessary relief to deserving cases
whether the commissioners are in ses-
stances will l chase after the eommis-
sioners when they are not in session.
l believe l und Nrstand the duties of
my office, and am perfectly competent
to discharge them without the assist
ance OF any member of our able board
of commissioners. The law defines the
duties of your Office and mine as we'll.
If you will have some of your friends
look up the matter for you, you will
find that the law prescribing the duties
of my office repeats that law giving
you full supervision of the poor and
charges the auditor with that task.
I'm the matter of your order diSal-
lowing me any further expenses for
travelling, in the discharge of my off,
cial duties, l desire to instruct you
that l will continue to employ the
necessary conveyance to make the
proper and necessary visits to the poor,
and will have the amounts charged
up to the county. The courts of this
county have held that public officials
are entitled to their necessary and ac-
tual travelling expenses, while in the
performance of an official duty"
The commissioners also received a
communication from the president Of
the board of trustees of the state or
phans' home containing evidence of
another mistake on the part of those
officers. The president stated that the
little girl. Bessie Palmer, who had
been brought back to Butte by one of
the trustees in a splurge of indigna-
ton, because, as alleged by him, she
had not been properly admitted to the
home. had been returned through an
oversight and that she should have
been kept there. The letter was brought
to the commissioners by an employee
of the home who was instructed to
take the little girl back with him. The
commissioners, however, sent him back
without the girl as she had been given
in charge of a woman who win keep
her until the child's mother Is released
from Jail. where she is serving a term
for some petty offense. The mother.
upon her release, will send the child to
relatives in Illinois, so that she will no
longer be a county charge.
Evan Herbert was yesterday APP
pointed constable for Walkerville
township to fill the unexpired term of
II. Woodthorpe, who resigned some
time ago.