Show A DARK LANTERN AUDIT fudging Judging by results the tile special au auditors auditors auditors employed at an exorbitant price by the city administration find their chief occupation in suppressing facts I as to the real condition of the city I treasury In a little less than a year these special auditors drew from the city treasury for work which should have cost not more than at the outside work which any an high class certified accountant would glad slad gladly ly have done for and less The beauties have rendered no bill for services since January Januar 15 though still sUlI at work apparently fearing they will witt be cut off of in Ir the nil cist of their delectable Job of or relieving the treas treasury treasury treasury ury of cash Any accountant ought to tobe tobe tobe be able to tell leU within half an hour exactly the status financially what it has in bank available for ex expenses expenses expenses what it owes and for what purpose what its income actual and prospective Is In other words the books should show daily dall what the city oves oWes and what it has Ilas to pay pa its debts with It has ha been more than six weeks since the City eity treasurers re report report report port of December 31 was placed In Inthe Intile tile the mayors hands It has been more than two months since that tha t report r port should have hae been in the tle hands of ot the public It has been much t longer since any complete honest statement of oC the financial condition has been pub published published fished It about time the tax taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers payers were told something about their own city business Or does the American administration think the taxpayers ti payers only business Is to pay up when tax collection times comes around without asking foolish ques questions questions questions as to what the trustees of pub public public lic lie money have hae done with it As for these special auditors their continuance in employ at the rate per diem paid them is an imposition on the public a reflection on the admin administration administration an extravagant misuse of trust funds for which there can be beno beno beno no adequate reason When an audit of city affairs was proposed The Her Herald Herald ald aid supported the proposal as a good business move but It had no notion that the audit was to be made the pretense for paying 10 a day da to men who employ 75 a month men to do dothe dothe dothe the work nor had it any an idea that an audit was to be made the pre pretext pretext pretext text for a petty graft In special sta stationery stationer stationery systems and endless devices for milking the tile treasury without full value in return returnS S |