The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-03-22

FOR CKCUlT JUDGE
JUDGE T. L. LAMB
UNWILLING TO GO 1T BLINDLY ON MORE ROADS.
The board of supervisors at its March meeting took steps
the unfinished road work Of the county and to ga ascertain GER n exactly
what money is in hand to do whatever what sssw WORK < tha a. may DE ;, 1ncom m
proceed with blinds on
Ordered that the Engineer be and he is hereby instructed to mott
make a complete statement of the present condition Of the finances of
the good roads funds, the amount If work completed, the amount still
uncompleted, and full estimates of the probable cost of the incomplet-
ed sh p1 lsis' in Hl sns se cost of ofa brd hFesa and rep report or to to this Board at an ad-
iourned meeting to be held IN March 2srd, 1913"
should be able to meet the boards demands. Of course we ap.
preciate that the present engineer has been but a short time on
the job, but certainly his predecessors did not draw $4,000: from
the county without having in some measure lett a trace u "hat
if the preceding engineers failed to make the proper estimates
and profles, then the present engineer will have a somewhat
"the amount still uncompletsd" and should be able to furnish rms
In our Judgment most of the plumbers and in a very large meas
ure the embarrassments of the board in using the money Tor
board followed the engineers blindly and the men employed for
this special purpose did not do their work. AS an evidence OF
tuted on their bond, but this was not done until about forty hve
hundred dollars in cold cash was turned into the pockets OF the
The 1srs sssSp 9St oF t5s c, rsad IS this Board be and he is hereby instruct
to make a financial statement of County finances, and also of the Bond
Issue finances, and report to this Board at n adjourned meeting OF
this Board on March 23rd, 1918"
We take it that the clerk of the board of supervisors can
pended of the bond money and how much is still unexpended;
If the Clerks records do notshow this, then how IN the d ana
Tom Walker. can ANYBODY tell. But assuming for the moment
that it cannot be definitely ascertained then the reason Tor stop
ping without making further contracts is enforced many10"'
Ordered that the Engineer be and he is hereby instructed to mott
iy all good roads contractors to stop all new work n good roads *
cept the completion of the Chnders Road, the continuance of the Middle
Road about quarter of a mile, and the finishing of roads already
partly built, and maintaining roads already put IN maintenance unit"
"W. v. Horton and J E. Carpenter, voting No" ,
This order was voted against by the members from beats
2 and 3, but with all Difference to them, we must say it is en-
trely in line with the two preceding orders touching the same
question. 1885,.
yopcat than fol1V tO build them and allow them to become worse
The idea of using general county funds at the present time
for road building is too gross a business aosufoiy 1or serious
Below appears the protest of Messrs. Carpenter and Hor-
ton, members from beats 2 and 3, against the order last above
quoted; .u. 49, ,a;on of +hs n.;ora
of this Board in ordering the discontinuance of the work Of omplet-
t ts 81 ho con nUtuS aa fr whirh hond Issue has cen made and the money
reserved therefrom, agreed to be apportioned among each Beat in pro
portion to the mileage to be constructed in each Beat, o n the ground
that this action will leave several of said roads in a incomplete and
useless condition, and will result in loss and damage to the County at
at large. And will be unjust to the people of Beat Two and Three
whom we represent, and who had the right to believe and did believe
that the bonds when issued they would be given their fair proportion of
the money for the construction of roads in their Beats and if this &C.
tin is persisted in and carried out it will result in leaving them without
any roads completed in their Districts and violate the agreement and
pledge heretofore made by this Board.
"We hereby ask that the above be spread o the Minutes, and that
Signed: !. E. CARPENTER, W. V. HORTON"
We take it that these gentlemen are correct when they say
that "this action will leave several roads incomplete" That
unfortunate, but we respectfully suggest that the former engl
neers are responsible forthis state of things. It was indeed a
bad policy to have skips in the Improvement and the working OF
ceeded, except in the rarest instances, without interruption to
the point of proposed termination.
then, in our Judgment, they are barking up the wrong tree.
There would have to be extraordinary circumstances to require
the sale of bonds now and we are of the opinion that those "eX-
traordinary circumstances do not exist in the present case
The board should stop if it is out of money-contractss should
not exceed the money in hand to meet them.
THE PRESIDENT REGRETTED THE NECESSITY.
Without knowing what was the state of feeling of Presi
deaf Wilson'S mind, we feel safe in asserting that he regretted
the necessity forced on him by Senator v ardamans ATTITUDE, o. :