Evening journal., 1902-12-22
BALLOT BILL
AGAIN DISCUSSED
Clerk of Peace Says He VIII
Pay 1t If the County
Does Not
Mr., QUIGLEY MAKES A STATEMENT
Chairman Willitts, OF the evy Court,
Says He Gave information to Comp
troller That Charges We're Assumed

81 contracted the bill IN good faith,
and If this county don't pay II, | will. q"
This statement was made at a special
meeting of the Levy Court this morn
ing by Winfield S. Quigley. clerk of the
Peace during q discussion over the
bill of the Globe Printing Company for
printing the ballots used at the recent
election The discussion lasted during
the entire morning session. and at u
o'clock court adjourned until tomor-
row morning, without any definite con-
clusion being reached.
The original bill was for printing
100000 ballots at SIS per thousand,
which made a total of S2,1O0. The bill
was returned to Levy Court by the
comptroller without his approval, on
the ground that il was excessive. The
work was ordered by Clerk of the
Peace Quigley, who claimed that il
was just and should be paid. In the
meantime John NJ. Rogers estimated
on the work and quoted 81 $50 for
printing the ballots. After several dis
cussions the court decided to reduce
the bill 1888. and at a meeting last
week, warrant for $2,10O. less s3SS.
was passed in favor of the Globe Print
ing Company The Globe Company re-
fused to accept this amount as pay
ment for the work.
Mr.. Quigley appeared before the
court this morning and stated that he
had been criticized for having so MANY
ballots printed, and asked the privilege
of making a statement.
Aft0r few remarks as to the alleged
criticism, Mr. Quigley said that he had
followed the law in the matter to the
letter He quoted the law on the sub
Ject, which states that the clerk of the
peace shall have the ballots printed
and if he fails to do so he IS subject
to a heavy fine and also Imprisonment
He then read the law as to how many
ballots shall be printed The law re-
quires that four ballots be printed for
eaen voter in the county and extra bal
lots in case the number of districts is
increased. As there are about 250OC
voters in the county. it required 1OO.-
900 ballots. AS the Election Depart-
ment had made twenty extra districts
this required 10000 additional ballots
Mr.. Quigley explained that a mistake
had been made in 10000 of the ballots
and 1t was necessary to have that many
\ additional printed. Mr.. Quigley claim
ed that the law requires the Levy
Court to pay the bill.
The clerk of the peace said that under
the same circumstances, two wears
hence, wehn ballots would have to he
printed again, printers would probably
say that he had no authority to have
the work done, or that the levy Court
would not allow the bill afer the print
ing was done. He said that two years
ago $3.50 per thousand was charged
and that the bill was paid. without
any kick. In referring to the price
quoted by John M. Rogers, Mr.. Ouig-
ley called the attention of the court to
bill of Mr.. Rogers several years ago
for printing the alphabetical list. for
which he charged $50 a district. AT
this rate he said il would be hard to
figure out how much he would have
charged for printing the ballots. He
also compared the bills for printing the
lregistration lists, with the ballot bill
and claimed the latter, taking every
hing into consideration was a much
smaller bill.
He said that never before had a
county officials o. X. BEEN disapproved
by the Levy Court.
There was. some discussion as to why
Comptroller Kelley refused to approve
the bill and Mr.. Quigiey said: Il wish
Mr.. Kelley was here TO. answer the
question as to whether he did it OF
his own will or was requested to do it,
President Willis replied: HE got
Information from me that the bill was
high"