Show court house addition discussed conference committee appointed the meeting called at the city hall tuesday night was quite well attended there being ew more than the seals of the room would accommodate both sides of the question had their advocates and acine lively discussions were the on motion of A S S ana elected chairman and sir E A mcdaniel waa elected secretary sir wade was thee called for by gome one in the audience mr wade eaid clial as tins waa a called to pro teet against lie building of the court houf o addition ho thought lie had no busine ea to peak he waa for the proposed addition evane asked why he had brought the plans ot the building alith him if he did not intend to speak sir wade edid ho might speak but lie thought it unfair for the opponents to expect him to open the discussion mcdaniel started alie discussion by outlining as he understood it the controversy or difference of opinion between he bembera of the county court and 0 the taxpayers an addition to the building vine about to be put up and the county had no money to do it wilh and in hie opinion of many the building was not needed and if one were needed many thought that an entirely new structure should be built on the city hall square mr seaman interrupted with a question as to whether the county owned any land on the square the answer vasia no but ho thought it generally conc ceded that the city would furnish alie building site DA id egaas aid lie was loth to cen eiro any public official and did not wish to impugn eny detill he thought the county court was laboring under a misapprehension there was no demand for such a building yet no oilier county so tar lie knew was preparing anything of the kind under statehood there would be less court business brought here each county ecat of a district would share business that Is now practically all brought here taxes were high enough now it anything must be done rent mr wade asked where mr evens said lie had understood eliat quarters were offered in the opera house for year and in the dooly block for lie was opposed to building any house at all sir wade in replying said he was not authorized to for alie county court it that body had been invited to the he had no doubt it would have been represented there but it wae not lie an ind ivinel member of the court ind traced no history of the work 0 the chatt why they had thought more room necessary analow the court had gone to work thought alie records of the court should bo all toi nether which arrangement would not be feasible under ohp plan proposed of renting rooms for lie court this plan too would extra clerk and janitor hire which would eft ell tho at least per veer the addition waa to bo built or all the extra could not raise that figure to the tail part would cost 15 more so that the whole would bo leee than one ol 01 the motive of the court in building had been to provide a lail the old ono had been condemned by nil alie grand jurice that bad reported for many year to build a jail alone any place else would coat more than the whole addition mr evane asked concerning the need of extra clerk hire if alie court should rent building for the district court mr wade explained his views on matters mr A J weber was called for and favored alie action of the county court the present jail was a and was unsafe besides and the money to be cx raided would be well expends even for that purpose joseph stanford thought alie action of the county court wag premature yet lie action of thie meeting was tardy lie thought it too late now to anything lie did not want any more taxes but as the court bad started he thought it should go ahead mr john seaman wo he next speaker and was a strong advocate for tho addition all the record ho though should bo kept in one the old build log was certainly not suitable for a school house he thou glit the present eito ft good one for tho building there should bo a largo court room that the people might hear important cases mr evans at firmed that no more clerks conid be needed if the addition not built furthermore he thou glit the idea building an addition to give the people chance to hear the of lawyers was business of the court which now cornea here would under statehood be transferred to tho seat of government and the various county seats and an elaborate was not necessary G R belnap hought the court loire and the jail should be te parate the record should be kept far away from the dancer of firc always present among criminate who cared little for life or property col peyton was called lor and said ho had been studying tho new woman more than the new county court ho was not responsible for the latter not even for judge perrin the president had disregarded his usual custom of asking his advice on this appointment lie did not admire the picture of lie addition and he could not aee where the wae coming from mr thought tho question wae as to ft hat could be done and he moved for the appointment of a committee of anve which should confer will the county court to co if the contracts could not be withdrawn mr wade eaid the contracts were signed and bowls given by alie contractors nevertheless lie thought the court would be pleased the commit tee by a rising vote 0 43 to II 11 the meeting favored alie appointment of die committee mr Sch ramin named the committee aa follows david evans sidney slovene II 11 II 11 spencer J spargo and N 0 flygare |