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Show THAT COMMITTEE REPORT AGAIN The Morning Exanuner this morning makes the following statement So far as the Siandard's statement ih:it the commission Is hiding OUt some fifty thousand dollars of ex pense thai rthould be harg.-d lo this administration, that, of ourse. is nonsense non-sense The sum is extravagantly an surd And even if it wore tru-, a re turn of ten thousand dollars applied by one former mayor to his private ;ti terests would reduce the balance rTJ I ( omfortably " Now. In the rirst plnce. It so hap pens that the publisher of this paper was at the head of the administration i hat Is being eompaied w ith the pros ent eommlsslon form of goemmem; and for that reason. It Is only nam-jral nam-jral that this paper should not only 'defend the administration of Us pub Usher but be justified m point ing out if unfair methods have been adopted to discredit the administration administra-tion of the said publisher Simply to show our faith and confidence in our own publisher s lty administration this paper offers to clve the Carnesie library $1,000 if the following state ments are noi true Rrst Thnt the city auditor's repori published in the Uenmg Standard as an advertisement by authority of the city commissioners on January 27. lain, does state that the present commission form of government irans ferrcd from Ihe waterworks depart men t to the general fund $8,250.49 Second That the same auditor's statement does show that the rommis sion form of government has trans ferred from special tax funds to the genera) fund $8,772 59 I Third. That the same auditors report re-port does show that the present com mission form of government received from the treasurer of Weber county as taxep due the previous a I in I n 131 la Hon for 1911 $21,006.50 i-'ourth That t in- presenl omm -slon form of government did increase the tax levy at least 15 per cent Fifth That the committees report shows that as the result of said in crease of tax rate and valuation ol property, that the commission form of government received $75.00(1 mor. tax money than did Mayoi Glasmann'i administration in 1910, and $24,000 more tar money than said administra tlon received in 1911, Now, If the said official reports do not make the showing substantially RI slated, the F.venlng Standard will donate do-nate to the Carnegie library $1,000 on condition thai the Kxnniin-r shall pa) the library the sum of $1". if the ae statements are false Now then, in making tin- iln-statement, iln-statement, we do not even alnt to imply im-ply that the commission form of U" eminent of Ogden is a failure It may be all that Its friends expect of It We simply object to the presetn COmmla sioners taking the money that was left by the (llasmann administration in the waterworks and special tax funds, and with i paying the city'? expenses, ami then claiming rr-dn for those sums of money without stating that the Glasmann administration left the motiey Second, we object to the commission form of oM-rnmeut taking tak-ing the $21,006.50 from the coun:y treasurv left by the Qlasmann administration, admin-istration, without giving rredit lor the aame Without nuestioninc. at this time whether the commission form of gov eniment did well we simply make the foregoing statement ;i s a defense of the previous administration. If the previous administration Is given credit for the above sums of money, which It is entitled to hav.-there hav.-there Is no eomparison necessary. Everybody Ev-erybody can that the (.ilaamann administration has nothing what i to fear in a comparison with ihe pre;. lent commission form of government, if the facts are fairly presented. Of i ourse, the K.vaminer knows that .the publisher of this paper was at the head of the former administration anil It has not the honesty In Its entire I makeup to give Maun Glasmann's administration ad-ministration credit We challcngeflp Examiner to have the i lty auditor make over his signature, a state rnent whether or not on December 31. 1911 Mayor Glasmann's admiulo traiion had the following suras of I money Just where stated, which the I commissioners received Money In special tax funds $ 8,772.59 Money In the waterworks funil 8,501'J Money left with the county treasurer for 1911 taxes . 21.006 50 Increased taxes over lftlO.. 7o.000.0u jlncrcased taxes over 1911 . . 24,000 .00 If the Kxaminr will have the auditor audi-tor make a sworu statement concerning concern-ing the above, we promise to publish It In full on the front page, four col umns wlde: with big scare heads. Now. If the Examiner ctoeB not want to go beton ihe public a tvllfal fal- aiflcr. we suggest that it call for the Auditor's report i So lar as one former mayor applied i ten thousand dollars to his private in tereSts, the Examiner simply lies when it says that it so happehe that that former mayor left thai ten thou Band dollars hilly protei ted, standing In the name of Ogden City and a commission form of goeiniuont deliberately de-liberately withdrew from the company com-pany In which the former administration administra-tion had subscribed for the water rights, which the commission form of government surrendered repudlat ed and threw away, and when the clt) commissioners withdrew from the South Fork Reservoir company the siocldiolders voted to go ahead with out the city ir the city voluntarily threw away its rights even a form r mayor has a right to pick up that hlch has been rejected and thrown away. rtrt |