Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-15
Penuriousness of Board of Su-
pervisors Entirely Too APP
parent, Says Mayor
City Not Able to Collect From County
Money 1t Claims Due in Repairing
Detention Hospital, Ordered by Board
of HeaIth-Money Saved County by
City overbalances Returns.

Because it claims that the board of
supervisors, or rather w. H. Jones, the
senior member, and chairman Of the
board, is entirely too penurious as re-
CARDS the rights Of the city, suit may
be brought by the city against the
county to collect money spent in re-
pairing the city detention hospital, as
ordered by the board Of health The
council Monday night authorized the
judiciary committee to investigate and
report what, in it's judgment, it is ad-
visabe to do in the matter. AS DR.. w.
S. Devine Is chairman Of this COM
mittee, and as no warm personal feel
| ing exists between the two chairmen,
some fun may be expected.
| M. Herman, chairman Of the ways
and means committee, reported Mon
| day night that ne had been able to get
no satisfaction whatever out of Mr..
Jones as TO what the county would do
| in settling the bills. The city advanced
the money before the holidays, so that
the workmen could have their pay, and
took up the claims held by each one
EN- pioyed The judiciary committee
does not maintain that the board
should pay Tor moving the detention
hospital TO its new location, but 1t does
hold that the board must pay the cost
of repairs and heating, according to
! the rules of the state board OF health.
The best Mr.. Herman reported he was
able to do with Mr.. Jones was prom :
Use to pay half of the bill. bill from
the Lennox Furnace Company, for the
| new furnace In the hospital, was Ia
ken to Mr.. Jones, and he said 1t
wouldn't be allowed. Mr.. Jones was
quoted by Mr.. Herman as saying, be-
fore the furnace was put in, that the
county would pay the bill.
| City Attorney Burritt was questioned
as to the probability of the city's
chances in suit, and he declared them
| 20 be good, even tho the law Is some
| What am DIS uouS.
Mayor Has a Scheme.
| Mayor insledue has a scheme that
| le thinks viii be better. He believes
A fighting the county with its own
aedieine. He thinks that the board of
upervisors is taking stand that is
ell1rely too lofty. He cited one instance
| !. mere the board had refused to pay
| or little petition in the city offices,
iust because it wasn't covered in the
ease. Jones splits hairs" the mayor
said, "but / think we can bring him
20 time"
The mayors scheme is this: He gave
he board to understand when he went
INTO office, that in return for the
county boarding all city prisoners he
would reimburse the county with all
fees due him as justice of the peace,
ex- officio. Another understanding was
that the city might have crushed stone
Tree OF charge, when needed for street
| Improvements. The mayor has figured
that the board OF the city prisoners
has amounted to between $1,000 and
SLIGO since he went into office, and his
fees, in the same line, have aggregated
a total of $3,619.20. The mayor thinks
that friendly relations may as well be
severed now as any time, and that
hereafter the city will pay for it's pris-
oners' board, and put in the city treas
ury, instead of the county, all fees re-
sulting from the mayors cases. The
crushed rock, according to the mayor.
has been refused the city already by
Mr.. Jones. Let me draw my
$1,000 In fees every year," "
added the mayor, land / will
turn it into the city treasury. I don't
want the fees, and neither do my Of
ficers want theirs. / drafted the or
dinance cutting out the fees myself,
and wouldn't take them If the city
council passed an ordinance donating
them to me, but do want the city to
have fair deal with this big county
that is out Of debt. If we can't get 1t
in friendly way, let's fight for it."