The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-02-16

The above shows all licenses paid.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
w. B. ANDREW,
FL. L. SKAvLEM,
@. M. SMITH, JR.
Adopted
Sup Hopkins submitted report of
Special committee to FIX salaries of
county officers for two years from Jan.
1, 1907.
Rejected.
Ayes II: No q.
The time having arrived for special
business the Board proceeded as a com
mittee of the whole to consider the mat
ter of letting the contract for the filing
cases for the new vaults.
Sup. Gettle submitted the following
and moved its adoption:
The County Board acting as COM
mittee of the whole in the matter of the
investigation of the letting of the con-
tract by Building Committee No. 7, after
a full and free hearing accorded said
Committee No. 7 and the chief complain
ant, Mr.. CoWdry, representative Of the
Library Buread of Chicago, and all 9th
ers Interested find as matters of fact the
following:
l. That three bids were voluntarily
submitted by three firms respectively
for practically the same amount of work
and material in for furnishing the new
vault with steel fixtures.
2. That the highest bid was S16450O
and was rejected by the committee be-
cause it was too high.
That the next highest bid was that of
the Art Metal Construction Go. of Chi
cago and was S1575.O0.
That the lowest bid was that of the
Library Bureau of Chicago, to-wit,
$152OOO
3. That after the bids were opened
by the committee the Art Metal Co.
aforesaid was permitted by the commit
tee to withdraw it's bid of S157500 and
substitute bid of S15O0OO for said ma
terial and work.
4. The reason for the change of the
bid of S1575.OO to s15OOOO by the Art
Metal Co., as given by the committee
and in statement by letter by said Go.
is that in their first bid wooden followers
were provided for in the filing cases,
x1yh hn c,to ~
lowers, and the bid was reduced because
of the change in plan by the committee
from wooden to steel followers.
This committee finds that there is
practically no difference between the
value or cost of steel and wooden follow
ers and that the claim that said reduc-
ton of the bid was made because of the
difference in the cost of said followers is
merely subterfuge and the real or gen
uine reason for said withdrawal and
substitution of bids
5. We find further that the quality
and amount of the material offered by
the Library Bureau and standing of the
Library Bureau in ability to fulfill it's
contract sought is in every way equal to
if not superior to like matters pertaining
to the Art Metal Co.
6. That said Art Metal Co. in secur-
ing former contract for steel fittings in
the Registers office, for which they were
the only bidders grossly overcharged
the county for such work, their contract
price being about $4,000 over and above
the then list prices of the goods fur
nished
Z. We further find that the chairman
of Committee No. wrote the following
letter to said Library Bureau, in re-
Spouse to a letter from said Library Blu
reau:
Oct. IS
Gents:-We are not going to advertise
for bids The parties who have always
done our work in that line have always
been satisfactory, both in quality and
price. Yours, etc..
SIMON SMITH.
We find further that said committee
before and at the opening of said bids
so conducted their business as to bring
possible prejudice to the best interests
of Rock County in discouraging compe-
tition in awarding such contracts
That said committee nor either of its
members in any way profted by their
action and this Board has full and abso-