Show OFF ON A JUNKET some of the city among 0 ng them mr CP 01 Meara Mears have become considerably nettled and aroused over the within the lost last day or two of the startling 1 frequency with which the name of mckay occurs in connection with the benefits arising from appropriations ampro out of the mayor Ps contingent fund as all disclosed by the records of the auditors office the particular items to which attention is in directed are as follows folio we feb L por for the th ma mayor 2715 feb 6 archie mckay 2006 feb 10 BOY botoe theme theae amounts are all exclusive ary afy I 1 in D the way of regular remuneration the first item represents the put pur chase price of a number of law books book for the office this it la IN claimed is ia an expense which the taxpayers tax papers should hould not be called upon to bear dozens of competent law lawyer yere it la is alleged would willingly furnish their heir own libraries and advice to the city fur for the privilege of drawing and spending a very comfortable annual stipend pertaining to the office A AS a to item no 2 that does not seera difficult of satisfactory explanation the city cites a chief executive has abw always had bad the be right to appropriate bonef assist stranded and unfortunate persons to their homes by the purchase of railway tickets that la is what whar it is ia said was done in this case but the obit objection etton cornea comes to in making direct payment to the mayors clerk that in ia what the councilman declare must stop atop item no ste 3 la the one over which the main trouble will come that it transpires went into abra pocket of mr roy mckay as a partial expenses of an eastern junket for the purpose of investigating the question of electric lighting liae singular part of the transaction is that the voucher shows the expenditure to have been made as aa per instructions of the committee on improvements councilman callister Calli ater is ia chairman oft of abe he committee and to a NEWS man he be stated that the action was wholly without authority so BO far faraaj as the committee was concerned they had not even considered the question the nearest approach to it wits was when he bad a brief conversa conversation tiou with the mayor when the latter said something about it being a good thing to investigate callister said he be assented to this expressing the thought that archie arabia mckay abe mayor clerk might collect and oom pile toe the necessary data lie he bad not the he slightest idea however that bat it was the mayors intention to send buy on an a JuD junketing expedition and know knew nothing of it until after afier he hal had gone councilman omeara his hie disapprobation in the following char act emphatic terme it il seems to me that the mayor major has baa an entire misconception as ae to the purposes of a 8 contingent fund huoh a fund is an emergency fund and should be used for no other purpose ee I 1 don dont donit it see aee that there was anything in the nature of emergency needs in sending mr mckay off on a junket it if the mayor wanted to do tom he be should have cume come squarely belor the council and asked for an appropriation as ae was wa done to in the case ot of pratt anu ano devine Devin aad eBud other beads of departments when they have gone off to attend annual mayor alendia ming I 1 ie the ibs chief executive ot of the city but be assumes ananies altogether too moo responsibility I 1 am a member of the committee CoMmit tele on iMProve improvements Menta stud and isy with mr callister that the committe eom oom mitte know knew absolutely nothing of the junket it was a hasty unnecessary action act lou besides it was irregular there them la is a right and a wrong way to do these things we can got get more boos bona fide information formation n direct from mayor of detroit on municipal ownership 0 01 electric lighting plants than irum from soy any junketer Junk etor we can send out it can bf be dune without out cost too it if we intend anten to do anything besides malting making a great grand stand play about saving a year we want most put a stop it seems too bad though that thuie are not a few more mckays to pro provi vi 0 for As to the expenditure for law books booke for the city attorneys attorney Is office mr 0 omeara said 1 I think that fliciani with a salary of 2500 a year anu aau a 1500 assistant ought to be satisfied it in view of the further fact that hit bit family to is so well pr provided ovidea for otherwise then as to appropriating money to the mayors clerk so eo that he be cau buy railroad tickets at a sc alpers office or any where else it dont look well weli dwor basken in 10 such cases always re ft tufted the voucher to be maje out d dt I 1 to the person who sold the ticker in that way there its is no explanation plan atlon necessary councilman mulvey the remaining member of the committee when a keu as to whether or not dot he knew any thing about mr mckay a eastern trip politely replied 1 I am not in the habit of talking to the public on committee affairs affair ts sm am nut not a believer in it and must decline to be interviewed 0 archie mckay the mayors clerk was soon murii during it theda w on en abbed bedasto as to what had bad bt bateu eu the custom I 1 thelast the past with reference rence to 0 railroad tickets lor for haupers paupers pau pers saiu said ti it at for the past two years no ne bait bad acted all alf such he denied that a ticket bad been bouthi rm nm a scalper during thai period and addie i that the appropriations from the cou fund had bad always been made direct to nim him aej turned over to 10 tait uvion pacific or rio blo grande it according coor dlug to the road on which the person would take his der departure arture mayor glendinning was seen late thursday Thura wt wl ill refe euco to the mauer mailer and taid yes yee I 1 did give mr mckay for the partial expenses of h bis is trip I 1 took I 1 k from the co contingent D til agen t fund which I 1 had bad a perfect right to oo no so as mayor of the city I 1 bad the right to make it 1000 if I 1 wanted in addition to the above he be gave out the oli ul lowing owing typewritten statement on the sub subject jec toe in regard to my paying 0 B R mckay from the mayors mayora contingent fund are those I 1 n monday last that mr mckay who is ia so ao electrical engineer was goine east baat on bullins sill connected with his bis profession the committee on improvements prove ments of the he city council as well as aa myself had under consideration the question of lighting the city for the coming year and as aa the matter of the city owning a municipal lighting plant bau baa been more or less discussed for the past year or two I 1 thought bought the present time ilme most opportune to got get such information upon that subject I 1 therefore asked mr bit mckay it if be would be willing to investigate the matter for us ue while he be was waa F bast 48 tj AD and d it Is so what the probable expense woul be after some ome consideration be replied that such an investigation would necessitate his visiting several municipal plants to in cities where he did not expect to go but if I 1 heaired it he would visit such ouch places and chang merely the actual expense of so dotor doing which would probably not exceed believing that this ibis would be muney money well expended and that it was waa a proper charge to be made against the be contingent funda fund I 1 paid it |