Show A DILEMMA DIL MMA to i A motion n to give out for f r publication tI report of the expert auditors who have hae been examining the ac accounts accounts counts resulted in a reference to thi the finance committee Just why there should have been any delay about abou making the ther report port public is not ex explained explained by the administration or its council members but the men who know kno the contents of the document sa say its publication would dynamite d the American party part almost as disastrously disastrously disastrously as did the Sheets case Those Thoo who have had the privilege o of I knowing the auditors comments on the system n of tie the administration say they are caustic as lye and quite as unpalatable unpalatable unpalatable able to the Americans Among other othe things the report discloses the fact that tha thata a large number of merchants and com corn companies panics that should pay city license have hav not paid and that the failure to compel compe payment of these licenses alone has re resulted suited in a loss to the city of about abou The Tha experts so It Is reported say further that the system 8 stein in the au auditors auditors auditors office a 0 system Installed by this thi administration is of no account anc and should be bo changed Other departments practically all of the other depart departments departments ments month come coma in for severe seere criticism and recommendations of drastic changes in the accounting method are made In view vIe of these facts It is not difficult difficult difficult cult to account for the extreme dim diffidence diffidence dence deuce of the Americans about pub publishing publishing lishing this special report and it is easy to understand their unwillingness to take action a at last nights council counci meeting mooting If they can dodge the pub publication publication until after election el they will do It but If they hold back on it the public will be convinced they are con concealing concealing coaling rottenness in their administration tion for fear of its effect In the cam campaign campaign campaign Either horn hornof of the dilemma Is equally distressing for the reformers and they are welcome to any choice they may make Meanwhile It may be observed that the experts have no unkind comment to tomake tomake tomake make on the Morris administration al although although a though the th purpose e of f the investigation was to unearth campaign material against the Democrats and incidentally to let the th Americans know just how much U the e city had spent and what It If owed Oved From the tM tb symptoms s It is clear ar arth the tha th disclosures as to the Democratic regime were a grave disappointment I and the revelations of expense and in indebtedness have induced Indue political pa para paraL ra raL ls But do d til Americans dare sup suppress press prees that special auditors report Or would they prefer to let the tax taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers payers imagine the worst of their ad administration administration administration ministration I 1 |