The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-01
Road District Chairman
Says Only Objection to
Trade Offered is
the Delay
State Highway Engineer Says
Money is Limited and
that First to Act
will benefit

representative Of the Review, Mr.. c
n. Frost, Chairman OF the Board of
Administrators of Road District No
!, which includes all municipalities
and wards excepting the Fourth
Ward, expressed his appreciation Of
the friendly character Of the visit
made last week when the mayor o.
Morgan City and his legal advisors
discussed with him the phases of the
bond issue as they affect Morgan
City. Mr., Frost said that the PROPOSE
tion which the visitors had put up to
him showed that the citizens Of Nor
gan City realized that the road build
ing program was necessary and that
they were willing to do their share
toward it. Mr.. Frost recalled the Wis
it of Mr.. Duncan Buie, State High.
way Engineer, to the st. Mary Par
ish Police Jury meeting held about
two months ago and that the road
building program had been speeded
up after his visit because of the
warning which his message conveyed
Mr.. Buie said that the State and Fed
era1 Governments had certain funus
with which to aid parishes in :le
building of through roads and mail
routes but that the funds were limit
ed and that those whose road building
programs were first in readiness
would undoubtedly receive aid while
those who were laggard in the carry
ing and selling of bonds would hav,
to make their own resources suffice
Mr.. Frost stated that he believed
the trade proposition offered by the
mayor and his advisors to be fair and
indicative of the willingness of the
people of Morgan City to help in the
building of roads, but that if the prop
osition were carried out at this time
it would mean serious and perhaps ia
tai delay in the securing of state and
federal aid in the work to be done
Mr.. Frost pointed out that practically
every parish in the state has either
voted bonds, called for an election or
is talking of such action and that prac
tically every parish has been spurred
into action through the hope of get
ting some of the state and federal
money which Mr.. Buic says goes to
the "early birds, He said that the
St. Mary program is now under way,
the call for election being made and
that bids were being received for the
work proposed. The need of carrying
out the program promptly is most ap-
parent, according to Mr.. Frost, and
if the present program is TO- be dis
arranged, as the acceptance Of the
Morgan City trade will demand, then
it will throw the machinery out of
gear and necessitate new start be-
ing made and subject the movement
to delays which might deprive the
people of Morgan City and the bal
ance of the parish of thousands of
dollars which will undoubtedly be Sc
cured from Mr. Buie's department,
provided the bonds are voted and sold
before he runs out of funds. He said
that it would take some time for
Morgan City to call and hold an cleo
tion apart from the general parish
and that, while the outcome
of the city bond election might ap-
pearto be certain of carrying, the de-
lay at this stage of the mad rush for
the Buie money bags would jeopar-
dize the parish interests because the
parish election can not be changed
from its present proposals without
having to go over the entire legal
processes Of calling an election.
No details of the trade" to which
Mr.. Frost referred have been made
public bat it is generally understood
that the terms include the payment
by the citizens of their prorata of the
parish bond issue out Of municipal
election, thereby furnishing the need
ed assistance to the road building
program and at the same time pro-
tecting their city charter, which the
city attorneys claim would be jeopar-
died by permitting the parish police
jury or any body created by the po-
lice jury to hold an election, to COL
lect taxes or to have supervision over
any Of th". r-operty within the city
Units. - ...5se who have followed
the matter of the proposed parish