Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1906 — THAT ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR PRESENT. [ARTICLE]

THAT ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR PRESENT.

Mr. Editor:— l desire to call the attention of the Board of County Commissioners to Sec. 33 of the county council law, regarding pay or allowance for “voluntary services,” before said board allows or pays the SIOO to Moses Leopold for making a plea of mercy for the McCoys, in their trial recently at Monticello, and for which service the county council of Jasper county kindly appropriated from the public funds of said county the amount necessary to pay the same at their session last week. It might not be out of place for the county council itself to study the opening paragraph of said section also. If Mr. Leopold was employed in this case by anyone having any authority whatever, I would, like to know it. It strikes me that our county council and commissioners should be just before they are generous, especially with the burden of taxation we are now suffering from. Taxpayer.