Show MORRS MORRIS MAKES t I REPLY Shows Why He lie Started Slatted Yater Water Scrip Fun APPROVED BY AUDITOR AUDIT OPINION OP ON moil M CITY C ATTORNEY is I CITED At last las nights ni meeting of the city c coun council cil cl City Treasurer Tret r Morris Merris answering a communication from the council counci of some weeks ago aso explained why he had ad s set t aside aide a special fund fun for the redemption of f water crip Mr Morris Ioris statement st was wan clear cler and an to the tie point pint He said sid that tt the fund had been established with the full ful consent and approval of the city et auditor and at least leat three members of the te finance committee one of whom was the chairman When money was wa received for water scrip the thea amount a so s received was Wl credited to the water scrip account and a as the scrip was redeemed in payment Dyment of water rates rte the amount so redeemed was charged to this account and placed blared l ed to the credit of the watern waterworks Would Be Like tike Borrowing If th the money m ne was WM turned into the gen general general general eral revenues it would practically be bor borrowing borrowing borrowing rowing money against the revenues of fu future future I Iture ture years Treasurer Morris wrote He cited an opinion from the city attorney to the effect that tha the water scrip is clear clearly ly 1 a liability of the city and has to be betaken betaken betaken taken into account in calculating lim Urn it of indebtedness In closing cloning the treasurer referred to the instructions given him bun by the council not to open any more special funds without consulting with that body bod The machinery or the details of method which I the treasurer shall adopt in order to keep i his accounts correctly said Mr Morris and in Ia conformity with the requirements I of law in so far tar as they the are not pre prescribed prescribed scribed by law are I j take It matter mat tel for his own discretion dL Complies With Councils Wishes I I have always complied with the wishes of the council in so sotar far as I have 1 learned them and I hope to be able to continue to do so while at the same time adhering to the law and end to correct meth methods edt of conducting d the e business i of this office ce He suggested t that t the ts instruction 1 tU i tion referred to be withdrawn Mr Alor Mor Morna ris na submitted a statement of or the water I scrip fund It showed a balance of 7 27 made up of taken from Irom the special tax fund and a charge of 11 I mS against t the waterworks department As soon as the report had been read I Robertson took the floor to deny that I lie he had assented to the establishment of the water te scrip fund As I chairman of the t finance committee he e wished i to say he I had not anything of or the kind all aU he said when he heard of it was that if a fund had bad to be De created for tor the redemption of water scrip then water scrip ought i to be done away with Kelsey Writes a Letter City Engineer Engi r Kelsey Kel y in a communication communication communication cation called attention to the recent ex tension of ninety days given P J Mo Moran io I Iran ran on his contract for laying a series I I of water mains maln and the waiving of the claim for a 35 a day d for tor all delay I beyond the time specified in the con c n tract This action was taken by the board of public J works against the con consent conSent sent MOnt of the city elt engineer A clause in the contract provides that no such ac no tion could be taken unless the engineer r agreed to it In his letter he be said that Moran bad had not been en delayed by the city and he had no right to the extension or the waiver The letter was referred to I the committee Health h Officer King wrote to the coun cotta council cil cli about the smallpox situation He rec me recommended rec that additional isolation hos tics pital pita facilities facUlties be secured at once as the present hospital is full to overflowing and a number of 01 cases have been quarantined at of f th the patients eats Dr Kirn ICing thought the old stone mill mm on the property half balf a mile this side aide of the pros pres I ent nut bo could be arranged for the reception of patients The matter was referred to the committee com on sanitary rules with instructions to report at the next meeting t Crematory Cremato Is Needed Dr King rang also wrote about the necessity for a new crematory The present moth meth od of disposing f garbage are crude I and r 11 as well as I being lf ing mu h more e sire than if tr the work ork were done dont do e by a crematory He lie Ij iut t looked Into toto the matter thoroughly and would be glad his nia ht inter information I mation to a committee of oC the council I This communication took the same me course I as the other otherOn i 1 iOn I On motion of Robertson the form of the I nev neW water bonds was vas as approved anti and or 01 ordered ordered dered lithographed li and nd a copy forward forwarded Or ard ed cid l to b tile tHe purchasers ers era In this connection c the city attorney reported the mandamus suit filed by W WP WP V VP P OMeara in the supreme court and was I ordered to take such steps as may m be to protect the cit s Interests |