Show The T Report of the Experts i I 1 The Th m h following article appearing in the Tribune October 21 is the sort of excuse offered by the Kearns party for suppressing that six thousand dollar report on the financial condition of the city THE REPORT OF THE EXPERTS j r j. j I I Intelligent Int cut voters must be ut b at a loss s to I. I t ll the t 11 e hue and cry cr made by b the th opposition op op- I the able Ted ion of or the of experts employed bythe by bythe bythe 10 position press about alleged suppression report the d city h y t to devise ai a new s w of ul bookkeeping and aud keeping account for J municipal af nf- falls fairis Inasmuch as these experts' experts investigations tig and und conclusions will merel merely go to the till routine office work and not t the substance of actual receipts and nud expenditures neither as asto to the amount of receipts nor the purpose for which the expenditures were were male made the voter must boost be at nt u a toss Joss ti t understand what special importance can cun attach to this thi report iu in a public way or particular bearing that report could have on on-an on an elec elee- election tion Lion campaign These experts were employed d to devise a reformed system of ur book and Account count keeping Ill for the different de departments of ul the city I There here has riot not been een the uI in these matters rs that was vas de desirable and therefore the finance committee was author anthor- authorized I ir to t employ to experts to de devise ise tise and und report th th s uniform and und better system with the tup judgment of the committee t lert on Is ly it pretended that this report l would show 01 ur could show sho that there has b been baen ell more ulo money ey received b by the city than is is accounted for fur forby furby by th treasurer 11 s and aid the auditor Is it pretended that this report could show any au U thiu thing jug different erent 1 iI in 11 the tile way of receipts and expenditures front from v what hat has hns been reported In hy by hythe t the these bee e officials of the tile tit city y Nj N. Not t at all aU There is 18 not only no reu reasonable e expectation of this but hut there is is' b no possibility of of f i it it t. t Neither is there an any possibility that there should S i be he tiny any new limit light thrown i an any ny contracts or ur expenditures from the public funds What then is this uproar all about f Nothing a at t all rill it is mere wind There i l i- i nothing substantial in n it is no possibility that there could be anything substantial stant stan stan- t In ul it These experts experts' do n nt t deal with with- thing except the mariner of keeping the till acc arc i They have nothing to do with the tilt leti levying of 01 taxes tuxes the handling hundling g o of the tIle p public pub lie Ill 1 money Either ther hr by uy way of r of-r 1 r ce cc vin ing it or expending it Their labors l urs mas muy be compared to tt- those Chois o of clerks or experts experts' who would hang change a tic tho system s of or account keeping of a u lri- lri gate A ate or state bank when tha bank c canie lee to be hp organized as us a n national bank The rlue sy tem of account keeping e ing wows i d hu harts Vt to be e somewhat hanged changed and the reports made un tin- under der different 1 schedules from the thc old in iu some Soule res respects I Ft would not be bc expected that these clerks ks s rl-s yin in making b this t change Baru re Id deal in iu any allY respect i with th the substantial affairs af at fairs of the bank They riley would have ha nothing to do with the Chie actual handling of an am any of UJ Uie money either by way vay r of receiving the h same or Ol lu making expenditures in iu U the name of the tho t ball bank They would simply do what any aua accountants d do in III providing an un appropriate system stem o of f. f accounts they accounts they would woul slake make e such changes l ll H as wore were necessary sm b by breason reason of Jf t tJ the diller different r q nt character of tin tICa divisions of If accounting n as Precisely efy the that l t sort of tiling thing 4 i 1 is s what the rile experts al' al are doing ng fur for this city eity Whether Vr ll ethen the x of u account o keeping that will propose will be adopted or 01 u not t l i is a 1 rima t- t tl Ui r entirely with the tile committee and the with the or ma J Ita having illg the the final a approval val yal 0 or disapproval al To 10 11 hold 0 Id that there ther coul 1 Ih be any special political significance in work ork of this kind kindor O or 01 tl that it would afford alfard ale slate rial ti 1 i is t. t absurd It is absurd to tin think that th Jt an all any substantial tiei m Mild could be f made as to tlc tho tl c hand handling of the tIt city ity funds lx except ept sib a at anH matter nH ter o of f and nd not of 1 r t 1 n Sl 1 M. 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J il Ur s in them I l oj ili JC ie s Oil t lil i t t 1 1 fi t- t t M 11 I fl hM 1 1 iW I 1 l I It T r r n biro 1 r gt 1 lt ie c t a tt u 0 ra 15 t I 1 r L f by he li het t lW e lt- lt t will nil bl bc be reported to time tIle C council and when so so sore re reported ported will Je hc he o open Gil Jo to any tuy anyone's one ones one's 5 inspection ill But ut doubtless the i newspapers e will ill only y 1 print such s 6 81 1 report e 1 port a as llin may be he he considered of of 1 public in l interest cr t Undoubtedly al avery y tern i tn ge b 1 part part of it will be hp technical und and un informing ling to tho those e who are not hot experts i iu in a 1 fi figures So that the publication will not blot bo be in Hilt fun n as the the details details will be of no public public ins in in- merest Hud and the space it w uLl occupy would be wn wasted t s space 1 It i is not in the loh t likely that an any news newspaper ne aper in ill this city rity u would care caio to print that report in ill till fun because it would not Hot be worth the time s I ac i taken as a at news feature or of proposition 1 However this tan can be lw yul that tha t if it is s of su interest t a all ll through to justify it lib its P l publication entire it will undoubtedly be printed in full We Ve should shoud not expect t it to be a report of that character l' l however and do not see sec how lion it could be The mere matter mattei of changing int one system 8 of or account keeping ing to a another is a it matter ter of Sa such sueh C vital public interest el st n as asto i s to tu call chill Tor the use of ol large ll newspaper sl space ac to carry it i IV V AYe e c imagine giue as a matter clatter of fact th that t the impossibility i lity of or printing that leport 1111 un- ti y i it i is completed ted and reported u H to the trl c council eO 1 by t the tIte finance n committee is of 11 more moie campaign all use to the opposition than the report itself willlie when it is printed because until it j is printed all sorts orts of urmi es bill silly r suggestions tricky tricks and nud mendacious insinuations ati ns and sly 51 innuendoes oe eau can be he foup ed upon it and the time unwary rimy may be induced to believe things about this report that time the report would in in no wise justify justify Undoubtedly thi this r rl leport c port port will be open to to the public ju just t as soon boon as as tIle the finance committee receives it in ill ill completed form forn and has lias had bad tune time to examine it And Aud when it i ib o iO o received made e public we doubt if one voter iu in a a thousand l will care caLl the snap of hit his linger about it because e it has leas nothing to do with the actual money nl tio dons l of r the Hw city t bi only with the Hw method of lace keeping 1 a account of them and aUlI the thu a adoption option op- op tion twit of a uniform Astern in all an the departments depa The full farts facts in even every ery respect ire are it le to tobe be hc obtained ed now from the auditor and the treasurer without hesitation lemma demur or 01 reservation reservation res res- who desires lesu-e them could rould Iv be had after this by hy t any anyone one s Nothing more l possibly 05 report is made e than now no It is i to be e expected of course that these e experts will report strongly against other systems of or account kee keeping keeping- 1 ing b and will seek eek to have halve their own in- in x in-x It t may Inay be he that their s is K the best hest If t they eau can show this it il is likely that the administration will adopt t it If it is i not then sonic some other system s that i is better bet bet- betle beit bei- bei t ter le- lewill r will probably be put into use UH In the meantime however howel how el the 11 I digs outer outcry with to 10 this i is the baldest haldt t and most t respect to report puerile claptrap l r I rAnd And people of Salt Lake that thatis is all the Kearns party p proposes to give you for forthe forthe forthe the six thousand dollars of your money it paid for that report |