Show MUNICIPAL AL GRAFT CRAFT IS HARD ON SHOALS OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS American Reform Party Appropriates 1000 to Hire an v j Accountant Who Will Attempt to Show How Tax- Tax 1 j payers payers' Money Has Not Been Spent j JOGGLE WITH FIGURES TO COVER CORRUPTION R Raising Salaries and Creating Positions to Pay Political 4 D Debts i T Together er Wi With Ih Ignorance rail ce in Mall Managing agi ng t It Finances Put City in in III Bad Way i f fi I American party part now In Iii control SaIt Lake City I Is 18 steering the Iho mun muI mu- mu n I rat craft toward the shoals of or financial distress as rapidly and effectually ef er- fc as ever er a II pilot steered his 1113 a chosen course courso Salaries are aro being raised on tho the pre pre- that city have been un- un t 1 new men are arc being n added ded to lo lothe the he rolls In Jn the various departments 1 tic tho fact that the duties are arc no numerous an and no harder than J ey have havo been high hl-h prices es are arc paid pattI t t. tAl political favorites who sell to lo the city cUy petty graft lurks M In the tho depart depart- bills aro are recommended an and through the council with a reckless reck reck- 1 IC less abandon that bespeaks either carelus care- care J loss lus i management or wilful waste waslo With Increased expenditure all the time the tho reform crowd clOwd Is heaping henlIng heap henl Ing lug ing moro more burdens upon Ullon the taxpayers I instead of or adopting a n policy of or re re- re Inspectors Like FillS Files Inspectors buzz aroun around the various departments like flics Illes in a bottle with will nothing in particular to do 10 but lut draw 6 salaries and officials audit ault check out indorse and anti certify salary vouchers un until until un- un til Ii the system stem looks like an endless endle chain o of civic servants ser pal paid for watchIng watching watching watch watch- ing one uno another Under Iho tho present system o of city government It is doubtful doubt doubt- ful fuI whether retrenchment will over ever overcome come and it Jt Is little wonder that theall the tho all administration mInIstration finds fins itself H-el up a against the tho point blank proposition of oC raising the Iho tax Je levy Coupled with evidences of irregularities In the management u of the city's j business are arc Instances of or gross nor h-nor- tin ance-tin fUl tho the part of ot councilmen councilman and andi t J o Javo V O- O 0 tu hIS tac I 1 r pp U nt tJ In c d f i In ll Chairman Ferry of or tho the com com- o of tho the city elty council councH started a tL astory astory story among his men committeemen to the effect that the tho city had overdrawn the tho general fund une to tho the extent of or 20 and that thal Interest was being paid aid to the bank on that amount Since the city hat has about Ii In the bank batik bankIt It Il was not thou thought ht to be he just the tho proper prop prop- er caper to pay interest on a small overdraft wh hon whon n the city still had monc moncy money mon mon- c ey cy In the bank hank that was not drawing Interest City Treasurer stated stat tat ed 1 to tho the committee e that no interest had hail been paid on the tho over overdraft Another An- An Ant i t I other member of or the tho committee i Is authority authority au au- au- au for fOI the tho statement that the treasurer had made arran arrangements ts to pay PUY Interest on the overdraft o but hut since Mr Ferry haul hall raised the question tho the matter has been dropped J Now the city treasurer says that there Is no nl overdraft and that 1 there can bo ho none in an any one fund so long as the tho city has money in other funds in the hank batik The Tho various va va- noun rious run funds 14 are ale kept separate In the bank banI as the ther deposits o of individuals arc aro kept But nut some Borne of or the members of oC the finance committee dont don't know this The They do know however that nearly r OOOO has been beon wantonly spent out of the general fund with nothing to for It but personal receipts for forthe or ortho tho the payment of rewards for party fealty II v llo ow 1 JI t Is Paid On April 1 1 Or or 01 thereabouts tho the city paid as tho ho four per Ier cent cont interest on tho the water bond Issue of or orI I 1905 1 05 and as four per cent interval inter Inter- val st on sw sewer r bonds of or the same issue to the thc United States State Mortgage ago and anti antiTrust Trust company of or New York At the tamo time was Pall paid as Interest on old water A bonds This was vas an old issue Isue of ot Tho The sewer bond I Interest was paid out of or the contingent fund bond Interest was an and the tho water patti paid out ott of or tho the water vater works worl s fun fund 1 The no interest cst on the tho water A bonds was also paid laid out of or the tho water works fund it Il that it was Irregular ular to pay any of or the tho interest out of or the tho contingent ent Inter Interest t funti It u fund funt As AH there Is no water bond interest In- In in interest was natural that the terest should be paid out of or tho the water waler waterworks works fund which Following this irregularity w tho thu re r IP- IP illustrates tho the o of fonn Part party Councilman Black old In I and apolitical a a. council experience In tho the city political grasshopper whoso faith changes chances like the color of or a 1 chameleon introduced and amI had passe passed a r lu- lu that Wai at tion May 31 1906 providing sc Ie seer er since itice water nn and tho the OOOO bond Interest est was vas paid out of or the SOl gen general be a authorized auth- auth t 1 eral oral treasurer fund the city orl d to draw u a like amount from flom and the waterworks anti and sewer t fund place It to the tho credit of or the tho general fund und Juggle With Vili WithIn In tho the words of the tho A Assyrian pool poet anti and n a time this wa was a wanton waste of or J thol tm display of colossal I Ignorance since sinCo from the thO ni taken money was neither 10 In- In fund nor nOl was It tf 2000 treasUres the tho city at the of or monolith M of th ii would have shown tho the of finance tho thu amount that committee that interest paid was anti anel his re resO- resO o- o there were two funds fund despite c frenzied So of or the Jugglers political an and the n finance garbled the figures both nou facts shortcoming I to their covet cover I and politically and J tried th the w with H l tO down public m L OOOO statement that the and tl raid paid I on last years year's issue of or b left loft o over oyer r bY D t selver bonds bod was a debt t the o last administration If th the publiC 5 ho 11 It would u claim wallow swallow the tho very easy to convince tIle the ir 1901 that 1 t the interest paid on the tho theof I IssUe left over o from frOl ISUe of or bonds bond was wa also I. I other to lo tho ho disparagement dis dis- ra JJ o of the present re regime But the Interest was as not due April 1 I 1 1006 lOG antI and It would have been utter foil folly to lo have paid It earlier The councilmen coun- coun who stated Monday Monlay nl night ht forthe forthe for the tho benefit of or the press pres and anti public that the tho payment of oC the Interest was an Imposition Imposition Im ml- position upon this administration displayed dis- dis played an effort to deceive the people as ns to th true con condition of or affairs affairs lI Try to need Deceive C On July 1 1 the city will have havo to pay in interest on series 7 8 S and 9 0 of oC the old olti rerun refunding ln bonds and anti tho th transaction making possible 10 this payment payment pay par I I ment mont will sili not admit of oC a resolution b by the council to tu pay the tile money back Into 1110 the general fund There Is not enough h money in the general fund t to pay hay the Interest In a dog dog- fi light fight ht Hence the tho Interest cannot como come out of or that fu fund Cund tid No dodging method of or the city council coun coun- cil cn can blind the public to tho true state of oC affairs and anti no borrowing borrowing- f pay Paul pi proposition can cover the Iho of or the tho present present pres pres- ent administration Ral-Ing Ral Taxes The city has no sinking fund to meet the bond I issue ue that amount to about four millions of dollars dollars- A sinking fund will have to bo ho created b by the present administration and this excuse e will ho bo lI used cl to lo explain to lo the Iho public public pub pub- lic Hc the reason for raising the taxes in July rite Tho taxes will III have to be bo raised not only to cover the bond Issue but lut butto lutto to provide money to meet the tile added expenditure and gros gross extra a extravagance ance of or orthe the administration A levy for tho the sinkIng sinkIng sinkIng sink- sink Ing fund will not be the tho only one added added added add add- ed to lo the assessment already alread exIsting for fOI or money Is needed and anti needed bad badly I Jj 15 I Ii n 1 h no n. n on-ha on t criticism of or extravagant expenditure anti anil wanton waste o of public lc rUn funds I-I I and andin andin in order to provide tho the public with the real facts 1000 has 33 been heen appropriated appropriated ap ap- ap- ap to be bo pal paid to accountants who will gather gathel a mass of or figures to lo show how the people where the tho present administration is saving mon money y In other words the American party is buying 1000 worth o of protection with Ith the taxpayers taxpayers' rs' rs money The unalterable facts remain that the cH city is spending more money than han ever ver before accomplishing less le paying more political debts and adopting methods unless unIs chan changed ld will eventually ally rob mb Salt Kalt Lake Lak of its It financial prestige prestige pres pres- tige and its HH cn credit it |