Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1910-08-04

Board are too able-minded to let such a tfins
| iccur. that il would be a blight upon this Coun
/ ty and upon good citizenship aud upon The
| -hiidren and mothers and families of our Coun-
| tMr, Rewey y Iwant to read for the iuforma.
1 tiou of ANYBODY that will listen from, Ra.dss
| Parliamentary Rules p-6. Rules IS; Relation
| pf the committee 10 the report after ii has been
| received After the reception by the Assem- bied
body of the full report of a select committee. an
the subject referred to Il, the committee ceases
/ to exist" This committee were little bit mis-
/ taken about their authority. As soon az tbev
| make their report they had nothing more a. AZ
what committee you can refer this back To-
/ lMr. Jackson: Now if understand this thing
al all. and don't know whether do OF NOT
/ leaving parliamentary usage out, If the Board
/ has power to recommit this report to t1ese
gentlemen. il it has that power. give them
another chance for their lives. We have ba.,,
4 cudea voring to have this thing right II 7iax
/ seem to some that we have gotten pretty badly
mixed up. but at the same time ] feel that II
1 this committee wishes to take their report and
amend II 50 that Il might be adopted I
think that it is the duty of the Board to let then,
+ have II. would like to see this thing fixed up
I A large part of this has been cleared nm Or ~,
/ aud some OF it hasn't with the knowledge that
we have. Now, If this committee can in any
way amend their report that part OF ID can
| be adopted, if there Is ma jory of the mem.
/ bers of this County Baard that would be willing
4 to adopt part OF this committees report or II
I It would only be an act of courtesy on the Dart
\ of the members of the County Board to ailou,
\ these gentlemen to amend their report If tbay
see TT, aud | for one would be willing to hayt.
these gentlemen withdraw this report for thf
I time and amend IL.
/ Mr. W. II. Thomas called for ayes and navs
on the motion to recommit the report to the
4 auditing committee Call of the Board resulted.
! Ayes Messrs Bennett, Davis, Dickinson.
/ Eagan, Grimstnd, Har<er, Jackson Byron
Jones, Lewis, Penhallegou, Prideaux, H &.
Raine, Roethe. Ryan, A. E. Thomas " #
Thomas, Thompson aud Smith is
( Nays Messrs. Cody, Crawford. Flannery
GorgOn, Horn, X. f. Jones, Never, O'NeiiI
/ Thos. Raine, Rewey and Richardson
Motion declared to be carried and report re-
committed To the committee.
On motion of Mr.. Roethe an adjournment
4 WIS taken until 100 p. NJ.
! Wednesday, March 9th, 1910. loo +.
! M. Board called to order Nj Dickinson
1 in the chair.
/ Mr. Roethe:j The committee whose report
was recommitted to them offer the following re-
! port amended by them;
/ To save time, and since the report of the aud
/ Ting committee will appear in full in the pro-
eeedings, aud since you each have a copy OF it
! in your possession, instead of reading the entire
report as amended, will carefully point out the
changes we have made in the original report
! If you will take your books YOU will have no
! dithculty IN following me aud finding just what
! the amended report is.
In place of page , of the report. we have ac-
cepted the figures of the sub-auditing commit
/ tee, which have been presented to You in their
report, same showing total shortage of 81 32s 81
/ 10 be accounted for. This eliminates the para
graph on the top of page ;, beginning t.The
. foregoing tables show, etc
4 Paragraph on page ), beginning, "In the
! yoar 1900" is entirely omitted
! Paragraph on page is made TO read: sThe
hnanciai findings OF this committee are correct
I stautially verified by the subcommittee 1p-
/ pointed by this Board.
/ Paragraph on page is made TO read: "We
! urge IN the future that claims against the
County be allowed unless presented in itenlized
4 form aud regularly sworn to, as provided in
/ blank forms furnished by the County, except in
cases of claims due to wholesale dealers and
/ attendants or help in and around the institu-
tons, for which the latter's signature will be
| required on vouchers"
I Paragraph on page 10, referring 10 the Me
! Gillvray contract is entirely omitted.
I The short paragraph al the bottom OF page 10,
4 beginning, The outcome of such condition,
etc. is entirely omitted.
The second paragraph page II reads as
] follows 10 the amended report: That the trus-
j tees were aud are honest we doubt not but
/ 1t Is such loose clerical methods as theirs that
make i possible for great wrong to be foisted
i upon the people,
4 Mr.. Roethe:) These are all the changes that
/ we OFFER IN our report. ! move the adoption OF
/ the report.
Motion seconded by Mr.. A. Z. Thomas
/ Mr.. Crawtord;l would like to have it more
definitely PIT before the Board SO we can iutell-
4 lgentIy vote on 1t. They insisted on our report
] being printed. and thought il was proper al
4 the time, and think every clause of this report
1 should be carefully studied.
/ Mr.. Eagau:) We have been here pretty near
/ ~ two weeks altogether, and think we have il
/ right here in the books SO that we can under
stand the changes. Mr. Crawford wasn't here
/ m time He ought TO have been, but we will eN-
Cuse him, aud ii he is shown the changes I am
sure he will understand them ] don't think
/ IS any necessity OF delaying the County Board
here until that is printed.
| Mr.. Penhallegon:) | would move the pre-
yious question and call for aye and nay votes
Mr.. Jackson3 rise on question OF personal
privilege notice in the wording OF the sub
committees report, III regard to this question
that has come before Us, that they stated that
there were certain vouchers that weren't ATTAIN
able, and that 1T these vouchers had been OH
taiuabe it might show a differences the figures
that they submitted before this County Board.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, that is the reason that ]
voted no on the subcommittee report
Now we have come down TO adopting or reject
ing the original report. | am willing to admit
while there are some things in this report that
u they should not be adopted now will be adopt
ga dilttNafds, PROBABLY, and the oid report
woald be carried, but at the same time I am
stttl OF the opinion with all the facts have
brought before me, II Is possible that II we adopt
TINS report we are virtually adopting the report
OF the subcommittee, aud the subcommittee
plainly explained to me in their wording OF
their report that it was doubtful if their findings
were correct. / tell you. gentlemen, / want to
be night believe that this committee wants 20
/ De right Whatever has been said to the con
udfy mere, 1t anything has been said, believe
II has been without due thought, aud want 70
De right but will admit, gentlemen, that be.
ilrFe with this subcommittee. When We hf-l
started TO take this up, asked about this 1909
shortage, and put this question plainly aud n
wasn't answered to MY satisfaction, neither was
7 70 the majority of the County Board. Now
thl~ mas been cleared mp. Ii has been admitted
t1dt there is no shortage. from 1902 to 100.
Now gentisnen. it Is possible believe, that we
may be charging something 10 somebody PRIOR
% this by adopting this present report, with all
que respect TO these members on tile committee.
have worked with these gentlemen and have
always found them fair and honest believe
they are all honest and fair and believe they
DIRE INQUEST IN their report s they UNDER