| Show T MULVEY BALKS AT FINANCE SCHEME Officials Scored for tOl Attempting to Pad City's Available Assets FORCES COUNCIL ACTION Bransford Follower Admits Palpable Distortion of Figures to Det DeI De- De I Public 1 t When the tho finance committee of ot the city council presented a financial rc- rc Iu t. t last night designed to deceive the tha public ui hit Into bt believing believing- that the Bransford administration will wind up the tho year ear with a surplus of or j in the treasury treasur Instead of ot a a. deficit of oC as shown by the auditors auditor's corrected figures the efforts to explain how ho those these figures were arrived at showed such a palpable distortion of ot facts figures and finances that oven even M 1 L I Ji E. Mulvey pillar of ot the Royal noal Arch of oC tho the American party part balked bathed at nt acceptIng accepting accept accept- ing In It Ho lie declared that between tho the figures of ot the auditor and those thoe of ot the finance committee hacked backed b by the treasurer neither he ho nor any anyone one else could tell where the tho city stands financial manC finan man C cial lali y t The Tho report of ot the finance committee caused a wave of ot Joy to spread over oer the he council bc because ause It stated l t that the h revenues Te lor ji ear a a Surplus over all expenditures for the year amounting amounting- to rile Tho smiles mlles of oC pleasure were wore forced to fade Into frowns of discomfiture when the tho finance committee sought ou ht to explain the method of oC lI figuring figuring- b by which this result r sult was attained J. J B. B Moreton and Deputy Treasurer Frank Godbe who did most of tho the talking talking- for tor the committee com corn admitted that the tho committee had harl no authentic figures for Its estimated estimated esti esti- mated appropriations on which the re report re- re I port ort was based They were forced to admit further admit further that Jn In a n portion of ot the revenues was was Included d of tho sinking fund It was admitted that It ItIs ItIs itis Is illegal al to use 1150 this fund as a ft revenue fund but tho the Information was vouch vouch- fated that It ii had been used a as such fiver ever since Ince the tho fund Was nas created d. d It was run rung In to swell tho the surplus 1 I Library Fund Included I Then It dev developed that of ot the tho library fund not nol one ono cent of which can bo be touched b by the city was also included in the committees committee's report It was vas a needed needed to to make make-a showing so it was as put in also In the auditors auditor's re report report re- re report port showing tho the deficit neither of oC thc these o funds was as Included because they are arc not a part of oX tho the available funds of t f the city and cannot be bo touched le leall legally le- le gally all b by the Ule council e Although It has been an unwritten but constantly observed rule to consider con con- conI eider sider but half halt of oC the gross Jross receipts of tho ho water department as available a revenues revenues revenues rev rev- for tor an any one year the tile finance committee gobbled up the thc whole who amount of amount of 1 and added it to the available revenues re to make mako the showing shown show show- ing n ng greater eater The additional furnished in this wa way which does not belong to the available revenues of or I 1911 was needed to make up that surplus sur sur- plus PIUS of ot 11 An additional fund of about collected collect d from licenses which figures figurea were Merc not In the hands of the auditor at atthe atthe atthe the time he made his report showing sho a deficit of ot was added and the balance balanco of or the surplus was made I up of estimated savings on their ap apPropriations appropriations ap- ap by the various depart- depart ments Thc Thes p j e estimates consist o of promises by the thc heads ot of departments they will wilt each ga save c a certain amount o of or the appropriation In the tho budget t nf oC his hl iiI Among AmonI these estimated savings s was an Ji Item m mot of ot to be bo saved b by the engineering engineering engineer engineer- jn ing department An official of ot the de department department de- de admitted that if It his department department depart depart- ment saved it would have ha to do some strenuous stunts of ct econ economy m forthe for tor forthe the res rest of ot the year ear I rJ Figure ure IU bt When hp report of the committee was analyzed and stripped of ot the est mated sa in savings s items and the tho illegally included funds members of the council began to see that the figures of ot the auditor came pretty near hitting the mark as 88 to e exact act conditions Then Mulvey declared the tho time had come cometo to call a spade a spade and let Jet the people l know no exact exactly what the the financial condition of ot the city is and forced the council to demand that the tho auditor and treasurer get set together and present an intelligible report showing facts and figures as the they are not are not as the Bransford administration would like to have the people believe belle them to be |
