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Show I 'CITY'S FINANCES 1 NOW, AND THEN BOOMERANG THROWN AT HEAD OF FORMER CITY ADMINISTRA-iTlON ADMINISTRA-iTlON STRIKES BACK AT THE AWKWARD WIELDERS OF A 1 DANGEROUS WEAPON CITY COUNCIL WILLING TO MAKE f A COMPARISON WITH PRESENT RECORD OF CITY ' COMMISSIONERS. J Vm Notwithstanding Ihe fact that T. jj amuel Browning was president of tho 3 ty council during the last Glasmann -1 dmlnlstratlon and is now one of the fi a'reo cltv commissioners under the 3 ew form of government, the Morn-iMpg Morn-iMpg Examiner says: ; I "When Mr. Glasmann turned the a fbooks of the city over to the new M fofficlals, January 1, he left $14,-jffoOO $14,-jffoOO in unpaid bills, and only IM 1S793 94 in the tieasury. In addi-A addi-A Ition to the unpaid hills which he J fshoved over on the new adminls-rjj adminls-rjj Stratlon ho had Invested $10,000 jj fof the taxpayers' money In a li proposition which he is now try-fglng try-fglng to convert to his privato ln-M ln-M Itorests. When Glasmann was mayor, the M c-v derived n revenue from fines 1 land forfeitures amounting to $50,- 1 'm00 a year Electric alley and the ij Kgamblers were paying tribute to i ikthe Glasmann administration and i if.there were twice as man saloons lj join Ogden as there are now. Ellm- ijlnatlng all this revenue which t fiOlasmann had at his command '.' ifand not including the waterworks, ' if which shows an increased profit lover last year, the present adniln- 3 'fjistratlon has 3aved the taxpayers t Ji$4,500 during the first six months ifVover the same period of the GlaB- ' 1 man administration. A comparison of the city's i books for the first Eix months of 1911, with the first six months of r 1912 will verify theso figures. '' The commission form of gov- ' ernment in Ogden shows a big Improvement over the Glasmann form, and up-to-date It has been In favor of the taxpayers. I All expenditures, under the old form of city government, .had to be authorized by the council. Tho mayor only had a veto power. Still 'when Mr. 'Glasmann, who is attending attend-ing the convention at Provo. returns, jive know he- will accept full responsibility respon-sibility for any shortcomings which Jjustly may be chargeable again L his ! administration. We know ho will be as pleased as any one, If the present city administration can make a good financial showing, as he had an Important Im-portant part in advocating tho com- Amission form of government, repeatedly repeat-edly having aald that with tho right (k1nd of commissioners a saving of at .least $50,000 could be made. , The last city council was a representative repre-sentative body of men, having the .best interests of the city at hearL The record of those councllmen no doubt will compare favorably with the present city administration, at least, a number of them are ready to make a comparison. '? The present city government ? .scarcely lifted a hand toward making 1 (improvements until after the first six ; "months of this year. Tho last Glas- mann administration did more lm-l lm-l -provement work than any other city J (administration in tho past twenty i 'years. Some of the improvement j work was covered by a bond issue, Ybtit over and above the bond money, j ithere were thousands of dollars ex-1 ex-1 jpended in macadamizing streets. j .jDUildlng new pipe lines, enlarging and I 'concreting the reservoirs, and mak ing other betterments. As to the indebtedness left by the Hast administration, a larger Indebtedness Indebt-edness was left by the Brewer administration, ad-ministration, which, if deducted, I would show that while figures do not file, sometimes liars you know the treat . oo. |