Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — Sheriffs Must Continue to Feed Prisoners at Old Allowances. [ARTICLE]

Sheriffs Must Continue to Feed Prisoners at Old Allowances.

Representative Johnson’s bill providing that the pay for sheriffs hoarding prisoners be increased, was killed in the house following a hot argument The committee orT"fees~atrtf submitted a divided report on the bill, the minority favoring indefinite postponement. Johnson declared that the cost of food had increased 50 per cent and sheriffs were entitled to more pay. Other representatives declared sheriffs were making large sums of money out of the present arrangements and the minority report, killing the bill, was adopteefe= The present law allows the sheriff '4oc'S ffay for each prisoner he has to board. Anyone familiar with the prevailing prices of food stuff can see at a glance that the representatives who declared sheriffs were getting jfalr f4mp.%-hn3LrrliTi.g prisoner* at 40c a day would make good ficticm writers.