The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-14
WRIT RESTRA|NS
| RE|NBURS|Nc OF
| MAYOR PARSONS
City Officials Ordered Not 10 PAY
His Washington Ex-
penses
ORDERS OF COURT SERVED
Nellis, Meehan and Mccarty Say
Councilmen are Trying to be
Good Fellows
ORDERS OF COURT SERVED

All injunction order restraining
the city authorities from paying
Mayor George Parsons $500 or any
sum OF money for his services lii
connection with his visits to Wash
ington in the interest of the Cairo
amendment to The Rivers and Har-
bors bill was issued yesterday by
Circuit Judge William N Butler.
The Injunction order was issued at
the instigation OF James Meehan,
Fred. ID. Nellis and d. r. Mecarty
and is issued against Mayor Parsons.
CITY Clerk Robert A. Hatcher and
City Treasurer James Quinn The
order was served last night II. r.
Alsthorpe, deputy city treasurer, ac-
cepted service for Treasurer Quinn.
The city council voted last night
to reimburse Mayor Parsons for
$500, the amount he expended on
his trips to the Capitol city. At the
meeting held last week Mayor Par
sons requested the city to reim-
burse him to the extent OF $500 only
and his request was referred to the
finance committee The committee
yotea Monday night To reimburse
Mayor Parsons for the full amount
and last night the report was unan-
imously concurred In,
II have no comment to offer" was
the only statement MIR. Parsons
would make when interviewed con-
corning the order fast night by
representative of The Bulletin.
The writ was served on Mayor
Parsons, City Clerk Hatcher and
Treasurer Quinn shortly after the
meeting convened c. S. Miller. an
attorney from Mounds City, person
ally served the writs.
Treasury Empty Nellis Says.
The city treasury Is not any too
full now" said Nellis ,ast night.
In fact 1t is almost empty, and why
should those men give Parsons
$500? lie only asked for $500.
didn't he? As near as can figure
it was a deliberate imposition. and
all Of the tax payers | have seen say
it will be a useless expenditure or
$1,000 of the city funds.
I'VE are in no condition to be
such good fellows as to do this. We
need to build the treasury up. 1t is
in a terrible condition. There Is no
sense in giving Parsons $1,500 when
he requested but $500.
We went to a lot of lawyers I'm
Cairo about it. They agreed with
us about 1t, but they wouldn't take
1t up. Then we went to Mound City
and got C, S. Miller and Chas. l..
Rice to handle the thing for US.
They say we have the finest case
anyone could wish for and we sure
mean business.
We heard from Mr., NeH yester.
day that the preliminary meeting
had made unanimous recommended
tion to increase the Mayors expense
allowance from $500 to Si,500,'
said Meehan. 'I think it is
shame to pay out that extra thous-
and. The $500 was alright ami
nobody objects to it. 1t seems thar
somebody ought to look out for the
city treasury, II the whole blamed
council Is going to look after the
Mayor, its certainly up to the tax
payers to look out for themselves.
Calls Council Good Fellows"
81 have no use for Mayor Par
sons" said Daniel Mccarty, Mayor
Parsons II humbug and the whole
gang Of ;hcm know what think Of
them. too. don't know where this
town 5 scing to land II somebody
doesn't put their hand on the brakes
somewhere. Ii the Mayor wanted
to take his wife to Washingtars
that's all right and nobody : busi-
ness but his own. But why should
the city pay the expense?
'0f course the council wants To be
good fellows, too, but It's the tax
payers who are the real good fell
lows, isn't it, And what right