Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — An Important Decision. [ARTICLE]

An Important Decision.

The Cliambers case cost Monroe county S2,SOCf, and it is probable that it will cost considerable mere before other indictments against <*■ him are disposed of .—Lafaiietfr Courier, , The L. N. A. & C: has secured the two elegant Pullman sleepers which were exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition, and has put them on the night trains between Chicago and Louisville. 6 . The Lafayette Courier claims to have positive knowledge that the Ivionun Company will erect their long talked of car shops, this year, and that either Lafayette, Crawfordsville orMouou will be selected for the site of the works. It is understood that the town which offers the best inducements, will stand the best chance of getting the shops. They are to be an immense affair, and employ 500 menPeople who are making a comfortable living and perhaps a little more, in Indiana, would do well to think twice before selling out and moving to the west. Not everyone that goes there is happy or prosperous, by any means. We know of many m«n now in tliis county who have moved back from various western states, wiser but poorer men than when they left here: and we know that still others w r ould come back if they could sell out wdiere they are. '■ . ' : --- ■ ■■' «' / ~~~ v . ~f Messrs. E P. Hammond, J. H Wiitev, F. J. Sears, A. LeopoldandC. C. Sigler, members of the committee appointed for the purpose, visited Guicago last Monday’ and thoroughly inspected the the manufactoring company that has offered, for a proper consideration, t) remove to Rensselaer. They were very favorably impressed with the works and business of the company, and now in respondence with them regarding the tenns upon which they can be b rought here.

In the sprigg °t‘ 1884. when the I new iron bridge in fteusselaer was in process of construction, the county commissioners, or a majority of them, met without call, to inspect certain work on the bridge, ana allowed themselves the regu lar sum for their day’s work, John W. Powell, a tax. payer, took an appeal to the circuit court, against the allowance, and that cftnrt. decided the allowance to be illegal. The members of the, board then apoealed to the supreme court, and that body has lately rendered the following decision in the case: J 235*2. Joan VYTtymire et al vs , John]’ well, Jasper C. C. Affirmed. MiUihei}, J.— f Where the Boatd of Goaunission rs, of their own motion, i do an act, which, under the law. they can do or not. as in the exercise of.j tneir discretion 1 seems best, and tire time and m nje of doing thfe act, is notpresented jay tee 1 oy, msjappcal lr si from their decision in sue®/* o ise. 'Bat . when they bhtke flu allowance which .is] illegal, and appears s »Jsn us face, abyoti3 aggrieved rimy tipreal. (-.)■ I'hcVo can be nc allowance for a U »unty Commissioner tor services, voluntarily rendered within the li.ic «*- ing of Section J77u. Revised Suitctes, and where a board does make such an alowauco. an appeal'wilr Tie , Au exchange, in speaking of this decision says, ‘‘This is one of the most important decision? that has eipanate| from the Supreme Court for years-. It means that all the allowances voted to theiasalyes by County Commissioners in time past, and that the money 'so illegally, collected byj Commissioners may be recovered.