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Show ", 'CRABBE-WHEELER' C01IIN.IS Gil 1 1 Charles F Stillman, Solitary l Democrat on Commission, Protests m Vam J CLINTON "APPOINTED" I I J L Weiler Is Retained as ,j County Health and Sani- jjjj tarj Inspector. j, ji The P ogressive Bepubl can combine r in the new county comm ssioa 18 still i in good working order unaffected by I v, the b tter war between Piogress ves and j Tepubl cans in tho legislature It ap y pointed J L "Weiler the incumbent J county health and ean tary inspector lj j Captain M II "Wool as pa per clerk I'M and J B Clinton as assistant custo 1 d an of the 30 nt bu lduig yesterday ai !' ternoon ijl Charles T St Uman the lone Den 0 J crat. rased hs voice in vigorous bnt J tut le protest in each instance Clinton was appointed January 5 (but was suspended following the dis covery that he had been discharged from the same pos tion four jears ago j i on a charge of having been in 1 lolved in. a padded payroll scandal I Clinton has p otested h s nnocence and (lj the former county attorney haB reported tlji to the comm ss on that there is no evi fki dence of record to show Clinton s con H nection with the fraud Yesterday Iplj- Clinton submitted endorsements bearing i m the s gnatnres of the supreme co rt I n? justices judges of the d str ct court the k am former eoanty comm ssioners and the j former county attorney In view of th s ' J I show ng Comm ss oners Crabbe and (sail Wheeler voted to reinstate him Mr fotillman asked for further t me to in ivestigate the matter and voted no when th s was retneed Record Recalled In connect on with the retention of Clinton is recalled the news stones of the graft invest gat on of four years ago as pr nted m the Herald Republi can wh ch was the then official organ of the county administrat on That newspaper told the Btory of the d s charge of Clinton and C V Anderson on November 29. 1910 under a head 1 ne reading, 'County Officers Oust Grafters In the body of the story the following paragraph appeared Tie developments yesterday came as the result of a thorough Invest a t on into some claims for e ect on ro k done by t e two and uncov ered a record of gfaft amount ng to about JdOO After earn ng t e facts as shown In the vo chers presented for payment the comm ss oners took speedy act on In tamp ng the r mark of d sapprova upon any form of graft in the county adm nistrat on The story then deta led the alleged illegal operat ons of CI nton and Ander on In another paragraph is given the following Mr C inton was told by tl e com miss one s to produce the seven men named in the ouchers as hav ng done wo k for twenty five days at $3 per day They gave -him three days to produce the men but none ap peared. It was then that both CI nton and Anderson were cal ed before the com ra ss on Each accused the ot er of respon&lbi t for the sc erne Ander son flatly refus ng to take Ue b ame Fach practica y adm tted his share of the graft, and the issuance of complaints was then decided upon. Comment ng ed tonally on tho s t a t on the Herald Eepublican, on Decern b r 3 1910 aid soon as the grafting was discovered the county commis eioners prompt y d scharged tl e grafters from the pub c servi e and ordered the r ar es Stillman Stands Ground In opposing Weiler s reappointment fbtillman submitted a report on h s in vest gat on of the county health de partment in which he advocated rad ical changes in the present method of control He recommended the estab shment of two staffs of physicians at the county hosp tal reduct on of the tounty physic an s salary and other changes One staff would be a consult ing staff directly m charge of the hos p tal and would be composed of one rep resentat ve of each of the four other hosp tals in the c ty together with the chairman of the health committee of the county commies on The second staff would consist of twelve young phys cians seeking experience who would serve without pay n nied cal and sur . , g cal work at the hospital j Members of the second staff would I (J b appointed by the consulting staff (1 and would serve alternately for per ods p of s x months each ij The plan contemplates also the em ( I , ployment of a resident phys c an on sal 1 1 ary to aid the county phys c an in the management of the hosp tal The coun lit ty physic an would be answe able to the J consulting staff for the management of I the hospital f Would Extend Scope j He lecommended further that health H officers be establ Bhed at Holliday Mur : ,1 ray Midvale Binghan and Garf eld to 1 work under the d rection of tho county I physician and to be pa d only for the !: time actually spent m the r work. In 1 1 d.dd tion to these oft cers he reeom I uended the appo ntment of a chief I health and quarantine officer 1 Having read his report to the com 1 j; ius on Mr fatillman sought to havo the ' matter ot We ler s appointment laid j over until h s new plan could be con j s dered Commiss oners Wheeler and j Crabbe were of the opinion that the j 1 appo nt nent should be voted on with out further delav hold ng that fot 11 , man s plan could be cons dered later j. Accordingly a ote was taken St 11 man casting his vote for Tohn Jones a iormer inspector of the healtl depart ent St llman voted for James Maxwell for 1 pauper clerk Crabbe nom nated James Sabine for the pos tion but later with , Irew h s nom nat on and supported Cap tain Wood who was nominated by Wheeler The comm ssioners deadlocked on the appo ntment of an operator for the 1 county telerjhone exchange Stillman nom 1 ated M ss Mercy Jones Wheeler nominated a M ss H ntze of Holl day and Crabbe no n nated the present I officer M ss Luella Collctt |
