The Brinkley argus., 1915-12-31
Facts and Figures Show ing Monroe County. Just A Bit Startling

you that the Judge don't know what he is talking about, herewith submit to you the expenses of the last ten Circuit Courts, as reported by the Quorum Court:
 From October, 1910, to JOc,
 tober, 1911, Circuit Court /
 expenses .... ..$ 6,635.14 From October, 1911, to IOc-
 tober, 1912,. Cirduit Coupt
 expenses ,.. 12,466.22 From October, 1912, to May, .
 1913, Circuit Court ex- ~
 penses ...x~ ..... 4.oS1.s2
 Judge Holloway's admins
 tration .........$2 .$2S, ,1S3.28 From May, 1913, to October,
 1913 ................. 4,061 40 From October, 1913, to Octo-
 Der, 1914 .............. 6,092.82 From October, 1914, to Octo-
 Der, lJI5 ll,0S6.35
 Judge Trice's administra>
 ton Z1,Z43.67
 They each paid five Circuit Court expenses, and you see, Judge Hollo- way paid almost $2,0O0.0O more than Judge Trice; so, Judge, you can't lay your trouble to the Circuit Courts.
 Then the Judge says in his circu- lar what he has spent, for which he is responsible, has been in cases of ab- solute necessity, and has been very small. Now, Judge, please tell us, was it necessary to call in the scrip and spend $6,00000 when you could have looked on the record and seen an exact copy of it?
 1 admit it was necessary to repair bridges, but when Judge Trice paid $450.00 for repairing Lenox bridge, that only contained 5000 feet of lum- Der in it, worth $500 per thousand it don't look like he is practicing economy or trying to save the county
 He says that he recently paid ST. 500.00 on the court house debt find from the records that he is cor rect, but 1 am quite sure that amount, $7,500.00, will be offset by the ex- penses of the recent Circuit Court and jail account, which is not yet entered upon the record, and in my opinion the figures will not be changed; it |
 Now, the Judge says that he recent ly paid $7,500.00 on the court house debt. I can't get into my head how he has paid anything. Let's see; we owed them $1O9, ,940.00; he sent them 7,500.00 in scrip; then that will leave .he judgment stand $102,44000. But there is $7.50O.0O worth of our scrip that we will have to redeem, and as no judgment against the county bears interest, l can't see where the county out anything, nor the holders of he judgment ahead anything. l am quite sure that the holders of the Judgment never requested him to is sue them this scrip. If they had wanted scrip they would have kept what they already had, and not con verted it into judgment. What would you think of man who gave you his due bill for $100.00 and did not paid it, and you sued him and got a judgment, and then for him to send you due bill for $25.0O and ask ysu to credit his judgment? Where would you be ahead anything, or where would he have paid anything?
 The Judge says in his circular that since he assumed the duties of the office that he has paid off large amounts of debts contracted before he became Judge Now, let's see if he is correct (See financial statement above.)
 From May 15, 1913, to July 6, 1914, he issued scrip amounting to $25,- 38906.
 
 From July 6, 1914, to July 6, 1915, he issued scrip amounting to $36,- 763.S5.
 From July 6, 1915, to December 1, 1915. he issued scrip amounting to $16,483.O4.
 Judge Holloway certainly did not leave very many unpaid bills, as Judge Trice's first fourteen months in office shows that he only issued $25,- 3S9.06 of scrip; then his next twelve months he issued $36.763.85. or a greater amount by $11,374.79
 With all due respect to Judge Trice, don't think he has displayed very good judgment in handling the affairs of the county. For instance, we will take up the matter of calling in the scrip for reissue:
 He paid me for reissuing warrants about $1,700.00. He paid attorneys $2,O54.57. He paid Murphy & Hooper for arranging scrip, $25O00. He paid for advertising, Sheriff's fees, etc, about $100.00 He paid for new war rants, records, etc, about $75.00 And we are not through paying yet, as estimate the Clerks fees for reissuing the remainder of the scrip will be about $1.000.00.
 l understand that the financial com mittee this summer borrowed $500.00 from the Bank of Holly Grove to de fray attorneys expenses in connec- tion with the mandamus, and the Judge has agreed to issue scrip for that. Then there are lot of court costs in the Federal courts at Little Rock and St. Paul we will have to pay.
 The mandamus is purely the result of the calling in of the warrants, as every one knows that it was common ly talked that Judge Trice was going to cancel the court house scrip, or at least 35 per cent of the same.
 Judge Smith. the attorney for the Falls City Construction Company. told me that he had heard all of this