People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — What the Election Cost. [ARTICLE]

What the Election Cost.

The following approximated figures represent what the late waterworks election cost, as furnished by City Clerk Blue: Four judges at #2 a day each for thii teen hours’ work #l6 00 Four clerks at 12 a day each for thirteen hours’ work 10 00 Two sheriffs at $1.50 a day each for thirteen hours' work 0 00 Two sheriffs at $1.50 a day each for twelve hours’ work 3 00 Two inspectors at #2 a day each for thirteen hours’ work s 00 Two commissioners at #2 a for thirteen hours’ work 4 00 Room rent "> 00 Tally sheets and poll books 3 75 Lunches, three meals to each of sixteen officials, about 16 so Tickets, about 12 00 Advertising, about 10 00 Total S9O 75 With the exception of two sheriffs and the two commissioners all of the officials conducting the election will be paid for two days’ work. This is entirely legal, but if the inspectors, who had the matter in charge, had recommended but one day's pay there would probably have been no complaint, and the town would have been saved an item of 123. The Pilot does not believe that there is a moral justification in taking pay for a full day when less than two hours’ service was rendered- The law provides liberally for board, allowing three meals for the day, and it is probable that precedent moved the inspectors and clerk to so prepare the bills. Some of the officials will ask to have their pay reduced to one day. believing that more is unjust.