Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-10-23
A / don't think there was.
Q No. 4OS. for 447O.5Os
A l have NO order for that.


have no order for that.
@ You say there ia no resolution authutiz-
ing it tc he ued
A No sir.
Q DO you know how YOU came to issue
that order or warrant for A47O.;h?
A No, Idont. might have an order in
my prvat) correspondence by mistake. don't
know as to that
Q If understood You right yesterday it
was about June 1891, that your attention was
called to or that you called the attention to that
card with reference to the irfegularity of issu-
ing warrants, without the bills being allowed,
wasn't it,
A No sir Q Whcn was it? In July.
q Since that time the bills have been pre-
issued?
Not always.
Q Not always! A No.
@ Who called the attention To that: How
did that matter ari.c?
There did not anybody.
q No one at all Didn't you discover it in
some way.
Yes SIR.
Q How? A Mr. Ref and got into .
!anglc about it. That is the way came to dis
cover it,
@ There must have been something to
bring il up fist?
v Y.s sir.
it up in the statute or did someone else call your
close attention to the matter being irregular?
A No.
Q How was the irregularity suggested to
you, is what want to get at?
A Hooked it mp in the Code
Q And in looking it up you discovered the
proceedings before that had been irregular, did
you.
Yes sir
Q Did you consult with anybody about
that matter? A No
@ Didn't you consult the county attorney
about proceeding in such matters after that?
A No
@ Or anyone else? A No
Q Didn't Won talk with former auditors
about the method of business there? No
sir
@ Not at all, A No
Q Did any of them call your attention to
it then?
A No
Q You say you and Mr. Ref had jangle
about it? Yes
Q suppose by that you mean you re-
fused to issue the warrant without the bill Le-
ing allowed?
A No sir
Q don't care to go into the details of that
except this; it appears that this proceeding
had been followed or this method had beea fol-
lowed during your entire term of service, up I'M
til last July 1901, at which time you discovered
the irrsularty?
A Yes sir
O And you called Mr. Reifc's attention ia
it IA chairman of the board, did you, or in Some
other way a member of the board; he was
chairman at that time?
A Yes sir
@ AT time during a session of the board
A Yes sir
o. Was it with reference To some orders
you had issued or some parties wanted you to is
sue, tina. cauaed the discussion
1t was with references to orders or war.
rants issued to Mr. billiard
@ That ia, some you had issued, without
the action of the board?
A Yes sir some orders issued to Billiard in
his district
Q At that time did you call the attention
of the board to this statute with reference to the
issuance of county warrants!
A Yso sir
Q And following that then these bill were
presented actually in the regular way, before
orders were issued, we're they?
A Yes sir
q Now understood you to say a little bit
go in answer to nv question whether you had
a sue }, any warrat t. the Dad fund since tina,
time without bills allowed, you say you Lad
some?
had issued some
@ But since July, lave you issued an
on the road fund, without The bills being al
owed by the board?
Yes sir
Q Then you continued to follow up the
same old custom. notwithstanding the fact that
you had discovered that it was irregular, did
| you!
A Not any more than could help
Q What do you meansby that,
was getting the board on business
basis the quickest way 1 could
II " lou were shutting OH ON the lrreRut-
aries, as fast you thought the conditions
would warrant?
| A As far as could, yes sir
Q At the time of the meeting, at which
You called attention of the board to irregularit,
o. issuing these warrants was the county attor-
ney consu tied by you or the board or his atten
tion called to If in any way?
4 don't remember whether it was or no
Q Well did you at any time since July o
at that meeting, at any time since then, call or
the county attorney for any expression or opin
ion as to the illegally or irragularity of doin,
/ business in that way?
don't know that i did
Q Do you know whether you consulted
him with reference to these matters or not?
A Ididn't
@ You never heard any discussion In the
office, during your sessions?
No.
Q Notwithstanding that you think yot
have issued some warsants but no more thar
you could help; on what fund?
County road fund.
4 @ 70 other fund?
A All the funds.
Witness our hands this Goth day of October
1902. Cd. WHEELER,
Judge Fifteenth Judicial District of Iowa.
Burlington, Reporter of the Fifteenth
Judicial District of Iowr.
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