Show TO Iro PREVENT CITY FROM ISSUING I i WARRANTS DEBT LIMIT PASSED ASSED P j I I f ATTORNEYS NO NOW TO SUIT fOR AN INJUNCTION of 10 I I haig Violation of Law by Administration in Bad Handling Handling of Money Turned Into the City Treasury 1 by the Taxpayers t J 11 t Jo I r tJ j I PROPERTY OWNERS O BEHIND INVESTIGATORS 1 1 t Fund for Prosecution of Peoples People's Case Has Already Been Been 1 f. f l Pledged Misuse Pledged d Misuse of Funds One of Causes fo for f I. I Immediate Action Act on i. i I I CITY BEYOND LEGAL LEGAL LIMIT OF INDEBTEDNESS I I No city town school district or other municipal corporation shall become indebted to an amount including including including ing existing indebtedness exceeding four of r the value of the taxable property therein the value to be 0 ascertained by the last assessment for state and county i. i purposes previous to the incurring of f such indebtedness except that in incorporated cities the assessment shall be betaken taken from t the 1 last assessment for city purposes Art r of the State Stat of Utah 14 Sec 4 Constitution I The liabilities of Salt Lake City at the end of 1906 f were 4 1 64 q which included i I u stand g 65 Q Jl g W E a. a l rL r- r L The assessed variation valuation v aI atlon of f Salt Lake City in ill 1907 is is The revenue from that assessed valuation based on 13 mil mills s the highest levy in the history of Salt Lake is The overdrafts in all of the the- accounts at present o amount to over The city is now V paying six per cent interest on an overdraft overdraft over over- draft of since tile end of August and an l an au estimated overdraft of since the end of September i To Tu till the lit dt rity all ad In lii lis Jl JI mad career citi of oh cx cx- eral e prominent IJU S K C C. C nen of or Suit ball Lake Lalu have IlIIn cd nl- nl Ionic v into who ho ill ill iH tIll the condition of If the lit dt oily city nut anil ami further F Is- Is jiin stilt Mill t to enjoin the lie of ml c Uio 1110 cily ls Is s far H time the c limit of or It Its s le legal al in- in dt lIe II and anel nd Two attorneys are arc now at al work several eral days ays and will been for ha lave have C oon commence legal esal action In the tho whole people to demand deman name minnie of or the hi of or expenditure of or tho the an accounting public moneys to demand a a. cessation expenditure of or the course of or reckless Is etI that tho time city It ll Is openly charged issuing warrants without legal lebal authority It JL Is char charged chanced ell that the ell city is usIng and an other funds un s for Cor purposes not specified by law It Is charged that thaL the time city has overdrafts over- over drafts In accounts that are arc not supposed supposed sup sup- to lo be bo touched posed rio rio- has It Is char charged e that the lie city the accounts late hated the thc law in Sling Juggling Interest on onan onan six cent cont and In paying haying per an overdraft raft Hc of l business by Mono Money has been bent pledged cd to property owners men null and heavy hea the limo pay special attorneys to go into finances of the city elt and an give I e the tho peole peo- peo and to de- de denand e- e in iii the courts lle lIe le a n hearing nand mand an aim accounting of the lie money that has las been so recklessly ly spent The prel present ont record of oC misrule In tho the city s 1 time the mosi astounding a limit lists has hn ever ver n er come comite to lo Salt I hake k and it has ha brought hl about a condition that verges on Oh utter titter bankruptcy With Vilh the highest ta tax Icv levy ever maden made mado lii n Fall all ait Lake and nud the tho highest assessed valuation eves ever placed the city has had hadan hadan hadan an added all cd revenue lUUl in the last la t year and am anda ama a half that brought to it unlimited op- op lo to carry carlY on Improvements mil still I kee keep within the lie houn bounds othe orthe ot or he time I law nw With V a sagacious handling of or the thelly's lly's city's money the Ibo treasury would now have a balance Instead of an astonish astonish- a Ins ng o cr overdraft raft of r s which lot foi he time first time In the financial history o of the municipality has surpassed tho the funds on hand brought In by lh the bond Issue and antI the tho lie vast amount of uC special I eat a assessments Will Go lo 0 tIme Bottom The Time attorneys attorneys orne s 's who rimo e ba been look- look lug ng into the finances of tho the city at atho ho tho Instigation of f men amen who want to toeo see eo a check In the time orgle of or l- l ture tume will ill go to lu the very bottom of ot the condition of or the ell city nn and promise to 10 ferret out the time graft graft In ralL in the various arious departments that flint has helped to o deepen pe 1 tho the hole They will put pul the result of or their ob oh- obI observations atlon into a complaint demandIng demand demand- Ing ng an aim injunction against the city I from Crom I Issuing any more moro warrants of ot omit n kind They Timey will demand an aim early hearing In the tho courts and in tho the cIty lly will stave nave w to stains tuana time and the law last to explain why it has concI con- con cI a looted campaign mi of loo nil in the tho handling han of ot time the taxpayers' taxpayers money Tile The special report tor lor or wh cn me Ice ell city I has paid Is now overdue by b t W L. L e. e d j. j r I lIe se months The Time prospect of oC see see- lug Ing It Wan wanes s as us the election approaches ap ap- lot for 01 It is I intimated by b those tho loSe close to the time council finance committee o and the special auditors that it contains contains con con- damaging Information against time the present administration I The Time publication of or such conclusions would be lie disastrous to lo lh lie Ihfe AmeN AmeN- kearns parly which has ch chorge rge of oC the Iho administration of ot city affair However Howo if the special auditors will i inot not make malic the report public the Mt- Mt t- t a- a tO ne s 's employed by heavy taxpayers ers erg and prominent nl business men will demand to lo do O so because there Is a I ITh km know w what hat s ho-s become of or the lie money mone that the investigation In Flip Tho Th I ws nr-ws C on UIl Pace l lI c Tuo 1 I ATTORNEYS WORKING i iFOR FOR AN INJUNCTION II I I I Continued from romil Page One Une would bo bu Instigated by than I the thc administration was VLIS given si out nit yes yes- 0 es- es I Tho Time names of the lie attorneys s 's and the time business men behind them I nave O been withheld tot for time tho present I because c of the time gra e e importance of or orthe the work When hen the time proper time timime conies comes the names ninnies will be announced an and the taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- po payers will ihl know linow that they are arc to rc get geta a n. showing for their money mone Time They y haven't had hatI It yet I |