Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — County Investigation Matters. [ARTICLE]

County Investigation Matters.

Suits have been filed against excounty . commissioners Wm. D. Daily and Hamlin Anderson for SBOO and S9OO respectively, to recover fees alleged to have been received by , them illegally while commissioners of Decatur county. II II II Shelbyville, April 18.—The motions to quash the indictments against Erastus Daroon, John G. Ferris, Herman Cheuden, Armin Cheuden, William McDougal and ex-Treasurer J. M. Wilson were overruled yesterday by Judge Morris. These are the ex-county officials indicted at the last term of court for presenting false claims. The indictments against George M. Ray have not been passed on.

Ex-Recorder W. E. Schelling of Marion county, has offered to compromise with the county commissioners in the suit now pending against him to recover $3,600, the the amount of fees reported by the experts appointed to make an examination of the county records, which he is alleged to have wrongfully witheld from the county. He offered $2 200 in settlement, but the offer was refused and the case wili be prosecuted to a finish. The Senate Committee on Commerce has decided to force the ship subsidy steal through that body, regardless of the fact that the recent Republican Senate caucus decided not to take it up at this session. It seems that the ship builders refuse to contribute to the fall campaign fund unless they are given at least this much as earnest of the good faith of the Republican party. Nothing could more surely show the steady increase of public sentiment in favor of. the election of Senators by direct vote of the people than the adoption by the House of a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for so electing Senators, by*’ a vote of 240 to 15. A similar resolution has been adopted by the House in a previous Congress but not by such a large vote. Whether the Senate will respond to public sentiment by adopting this resolution is yet to be seen, but it is doubtful.