Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-02-07
LOCAL EDITORIAL NEWS.
THE INCONSISTENCY OF IT.


knowledge has awakened in official circles intense hos
ty against this Journal and its editor Every msy sub
eruge has been reored in the effort hamper the Led
ger in the allowance claims before the board of supervisors
Heretofore protests this score prompted by selfvident
anmu have been ignored and bills have been eventually
allowed presented We have to believe that every
item included in Ledger bill is scrutinized and compared
with the established schedule for usually that obsolete
list of II years sandingdoes not touch the subject at all
but with similar items preferred by that goodygoody dumb
asanoyster administrative organ the Dispatch The hollow
of the scheme is revealed when other printing bills
passed without stopping inquire whether the various
items tailed with the gdsance heretofore referred
and notwithstanding this paper has repeatedly shown that
the charges did correspond If the zeal in ward
ing off overcharges had been manifested in all directions in
the printing bills instead of being confined to the Ledger
Office venture say the result would have been
ia saving to the county.
1t will be noticed from the proceedings of the board of
pervsors published in this issue that a claim for $40 pre-
scented by Ledger allowed in the of 49, The
bill for printing 50 copies of the list of questions adopted
by the board of education for the examination of applicants
for teachers certificates held in December last This job
sisted Of sheet embracing four columns of solid BREWER type
each column nearly the length of the columnson the first
page the Ledger The matter contained therein according
printers measurement measured 1900 ems and
included agebac signs specially purchased for that class
of work. and also geometrca angle work The supervisors
took the bit in their mouths and slashed the bill arbitrarily
without giving the claimant opportunity to be heard The
only have heard for their action that they dug
up from the archives of the treasurers Office claim for sim
liar work for the teachers examination questions August
last This done in the Dispatch Office 1t contained
10000 ems of loaded nonpare type and the bill for
copies put for $780, and allowed that figure
What led contemporary be seized with such wondrous
spasm generosity in printing utterly out of joint
with its established recordwe only surmise The work
ordered by the school superintendent and whether
the price laid in anticipation that future orders
such work would go the Ledger and thereby lay the oun
daon for the supervisors action considering claim from
that not prepared say strong smacks
of plot in that direction the light of revelations
The most charitable Interpretation of the supervisors action
in cutting the Ledgers bill is that they did know what
they doing and made effort seek enlightenment
from dsnteested and unprecedented We do not
propose to into the merits of the matter The
amount involved is worth fighting for but the principle
involved VITAL and the spirit displayed be tolerated
in affairs. Of course refused accept
absurd amount In the entire list Of bills presented for print
ing by the Ledger office the past years. venture
say they could have selected ndeensbe one
for the cutting process than the they jumped upon with
both feet
In this connection may remark that bill of the Dis
patch allowed the meeting for the full amount
claimed of $26o35 There apparently this
score and evidently the items thereon were not even COM
pared with the schedule of promulgatedn the long
The claim presented by the organ of the ring and hence
k Now, of the items worthy of study. One
will call attention here. Six thousand five hundred
registration adavits charged and allowed at $67 So
The registration adavits under the old registration law
scheduled for this county S. for $780, that number
being the outside limit of requirements in year. But
it is different when registration is required for
every general election But the schedule has not been
changed Dispatch sticks in claim for 65OO the