Rock Island Argus., 1913-09-10
BOARD WILL PAY
THE old DEBTS
OF THIS COUNTY
Supervisors Plan to Borrow
$4,000 From Banks for
This Purpose.
ANTICIPATE THE TAX LEVY
Smallpox Bills Are Turned Down.
Candidates Nominated for High
way Superintendent.

Plans locking toward paying off the
1 indebtedness of Rock Island county
were advanced at the meeting of the
( board Of supervisors yesterday after
noon. 1t was decided to fix the tax
.evy at s166.OOO and then borrow the
sum OF $4,000 in anticipation of next
I years tax. A resolution prevailed
/ that the county treasurer be authoriz-
! ed TO pay off such amounts on the
| county debt as seemed advisable from
1 time TO time.
| The county debt a, the present time
is about $4,000. Originally it was
about $4,000. Within the last few
years two large payments On it have
been made until the total has been
! cut 10 the present figure. With the
/ $4,000 which it is proposed 10 bor-
row. it is expected TO pay off the in
| debtedness and provide for the cur
| rent expenses of the county. This
loan Will then be all that the county
owes and John Upton of Bowling.
who as chairman of the finance com
/ mittee has put the new plan into
effect feels that the county will soon
be in the best condition from a finan-
ciai standpoint 1t has been in years
SMALLPOX BILLS.
The matter of smallpox bills was
given considerable discussion before
the board yesterday afternoon. Hamp-
ton and South Moline presented
claims 5ut the board decided % turn
them back % the townships from
which they came, thereby establish
ing q rule against psiying for ac-
counts of this character. Rock Island
has large number of smallpox bills
and the question of submitting them
to the county was warmly debated by
the local commission and it was de-
cided that the supervisors should set
) te fer them but evidently The city
held them up in order to have the
board pass on the claims from out
side townships first.
= The salary of the engineer at the
court house was fixed at $1,000 the
same as las, year. Thomas Thomp-
has not been named.
FIVE CANDIDATES.
Five candidates for the position of
county Superintendent of highways
were nominated by the board today.
, They were Clyde Cushman, Sears
Wallace Treichler, Rock Island: Con-
rad H. Schadt, Silvis; J. NJ. Bongg.
ten. Moline; c. c. Hubbart, Rock Is.
land. The civil service examinations
are to be held on October IS at Chi
cago, Dixon, Peoria, Springfield
Champaign, East st. Louis. Olnev and
, Carbondale, the counties of the state
being divided into three classes, Rock
, Island being in the second class.
I FEES CAUSE DISCUSSION,
The board had another discussion
. today over naturalization fees
! amounting to $1,6955O which Circuit
Clerk G. W. Gamble has been holdine
a since 1906. II will be remembered
= that some time ago the board and Mr.
Gamble agreed to submit the prope
D sition to the members of the bench O,
this judicial district and il was uuan
imously held that the sum in cues
ton belonged TO Mr. Gamble, in a,
much as Il was federal business. con
troll over which neither the state moi
I the county could have. The Judi
ciary committee made a report thi.
morning to the board stating the opin
ion OF the judges bu; there was no
included any authorization to tn,
county treasurer TO pay the money Il
Mr.. Gamble. Some of the member,
felt that compromise might be al
fected with MT Gamble and hat h
might be induced to share wit
the county and il was decided to holt
d conference with him for the pur
o pose Of discussing the same It wa
{! stated that there was now pending Se
: fore the United States supreme cour
: a case in which the same question
was involved and that until a dec
; sion is given in that action, the maj
l ter Of paying over the fees TO Nj
I. Gamble was not approved.