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Show UNSATISFACTORY REPORTS. It Is evidently the purpose of tho officials offi-cials of tho. present municipal administration adminis-tration to endeavor to confuse the public pub-lic mind with regard to the expenditures expendi-tures upon the crude and Ill-prepared water Bchcmc. Mayor Morris nmdo on Sunday a report which covered In' part the expenditures and the contracts. He admitted that his resort was incomplete, incom-plete, but said that In addition to the Items he set forth, "there should be charged against the special water fund all expenditures on account of Increased water simply made before the money was received from tho sale of the-bonds. the-bonds. These items consist of expenses of the special election, printing, legal and other expenses In connection with the bond Ifcsuc;.also expenses of engineering, engi-neering, negotiating exchange of water rights, filing on nddltonal rights, etc. A detailed report covering this matter will be submitted by the Auditor." 1c was reasonably to have been expected, ex-pected, therefore,, that tho Auditor, on Monday night, at the Council meeting, would make especial and satisfactory report upon tho matters omitted by tho Mayor, and on nothing else. Instead of that, he made a report which Included a number of items that the Mayor had reported upon, and 'left out others that tho Mayor, also had omitted. The Auditor's report Included the bonuses bo-nuses paid in cash to the Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood water-users for agreeing to exchange, ex-change, which the Mayor also reported; tho Auditor put In, also,. the -forty thousand thou-sand dollars squandered to no purpose In purchasing a one-fifth Interest in the East Jordan canal, which the Mayor also put into his report. The Auditor's, total was 510D.153.93. Deducting these items which duplicated the Mayor's report, re-port, the two aggregating 70,450. tho Auditor accounts for but 532.703.93. in addition to what the Mayor "accounted for. And the Auditor" falls to follow the wording adopted by the Mayor, so that It is Impossible to say whether his "other bond expense," "legal expense," etc., contain "the expenditures on account ac-count of increased water supply made before the money was received for the sale of the bonds," ."printing," "negotiating "nego-tiating exchange of water rights," "filing on additional rights," etc.,' as the Mayor put it, or not. These reports should complement each other, so that one in reading the two would have the exact Information he is entitled to, and would see what is omitted In the Mayor's May-or's report Is supplied in the Auditor's. But by reason of the divergence In the wordlng, one cannot know whether the Auditor is- giving this Information omitted by the Mayor, or not. But there is one thing that was conspicuously con-spicuously promised by the Mayor that the Auditor has as conspicuously failed to say anything about. We refer re-fer to the ""expenses of engineering." No Item named by the Auditor can possibly pos-sibly mean those expenditures, which were necessarily considerable. Tho amount should be called for and given. Altogether, this accounting for the bond money Is In a most unsatisfactory condition. As far as had, however, it shows that ihe money Is nearly all gone or pledged for the meeting of contracts made. But In order for the Council to know' much about it (the contention that all would have known If they had been attending to, their business Is cm-t phatlcally disproved . by the fact that nobody seems to know hov the account stands,) it will certainly be necessary to insist upon something like the Wood resolution. |