The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-04-27

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. men.
This may be eompiimen. web insendei
and, taking the intention for the act, ha,
to appreciate it; bat still do mot serious
object 10 his manner of offering it.
! Bat, as every man has bis rays, and
possessed Of bis own peculiaris;es, and TO
certain extent, the artifcer of his own rul,
4 of etiquette, shan be charitable enough /,
conclude that tho language above quoted
was intended as a compliment; peculiar
however, in the manner of Offering, to th
singular gepious from whence il emenated
i Now, il the English language means any
thing, and hare always been taught to be
live il did. the language used hy Babbitt i,
his Inaugural, (and quoted BY me in M
article of last weekly when be says ssls ha
" been discovered since the las. meeting o
I" Council, that there is large discrepancy
" IN many cases, IN the amount of Warrants
. issued, and in the amount of the sam,
I" Warrants Cancelled. In several instance.
/" these discrepancies amount to several hun
"dred dollars, and in large majority oI
I"t the instances, the Warrant Cancelled i.
g greater than the Warrant Issued. Wheshe.
"this discrepancy arises from mistake made
''by the Recorder in entering the amount oi
the Warrants when Cancelled, or whether a
forgery BY reising the Warrants, has no.
! yet been ascertained," was charge aimed
directly at either NJ. Treynor or ne. Who
else could the language have been intended
for? Every one knows that filed the
| ol'ce OF City Recorder, from March 1857 to
March 1859, and that Mr. Treynor filled it
nearly all the time from the end Of my last
/ term 10 the commencement Of The present
term and that very Little business of any
klad had been transacted by the city prior
TO the cammencement of nv frst term.
VIII Mayor Babbitt eou, nd that the Ian
guage above qnoted, vas net intended 10
convey to the Council aud to the readers Of
The Inaugural (..whcthcr they bad as much
brains as rnonkey or not'') that tom plGy
hal been committed BIZ the former Recorders
in the issuing aud cancellation Of City
Warrants, and that there was even proba-
bility that forgeries had been committed by
them. Taking the whole sentence in con-
nceson, would not the reader be led to infer
that the Mayor believed if forgeries had been
committed, that one Of the former Recorders
was the forger? But, Oh, no he don't
even intend to insinuatc that either Mr..
.. T1rauua. .ar I hnra- -a,taa aiahaaastlr
suppose he has learned since he wrote his
inaugural, that there is no discrepancy at all
between the s.Warrants issued and Warrants
cancelled" The truth of the matter is there
is none, and it is uttlery impossible that there
can be. The law requires the Recorder to
keep ssWarrant Book" in which shall be
entered the number If the Warrant issued.
its date, the name Of the pnyec, and the
amount. and tho Warrants when returned to
the Council and examined, and had the word
"canocledr written on their face. shall have
the word s'cauceled' written over their en-
try in the " Warrant Book And this is all
the entry the Recorder is required to make
of the cancellation Of Warrants, excepting
to credit the Marshal with the amount by
him collected and handed over to the Conn.
ell. There is no law requiring the Recorder
to keen list of the "Warrants cancelled"
And the list kept by Mr.. Treynor was one
made for bis own convenience, and which he
was in nowise responsible to the city for
errors therein committed.
From the Importance attached by Mr..
Babbitt to this list of 'Narrauts Cancelled"
had been led to suppose that the Council
had pissed an ordinance requiring the Re.
coricr to make out and keep such a list.
Bat fad sach is not the ease.
II Mayor Babhitt, in s'watehing over the
interest Of the city," takes o mere private
account KEEP. hy the Reoordero of the "Wa-
rants cancelled" as evidence of the financial
condition Of the citv. | certainIv think he is
a very unsafe custodian Of the peoples in
tcrest. A very unsafe person to act as
guardian of the city. He nor the Common
Council have no business whatever, tn take
the list of "Warranss cancelled" made by
NJ Treynor, "a evidence Of the amount
actually cancelled, unless he bad been re-
au,rel by ordinances 20 make such list.
will now dismiss this branch Of the sub.
isct BY trying 30 eplighten The Mayer as to
the correct mode of asceri aiming ths actual
indebtedness of the city. The Marshal has
u make settlements At stated period. with
the Council, at which time he is Tor ought
to bel credited with the amount paid over
to the Treasurer. Tbs Treasurer passes the
Warrants in his hands to shc Coeucif, they
they are then carefully examined Tor should
boz by the Finance Committee. and their
amount footed up and an entry thereof
made in the proper book.
Now, if the Mayor will take these several
amounts handed over by the Treasurer, and
foot them all up. and deduct the aggregate
from the aggregate amount of Warrants
issued, be viii have the actual amount OF
Warrants Outstanding. and there is no other
proper way of ascersainiug il.
Mavor Babbits .ars he will DO Recorder
Treynor the Justice to say that he KEEP; much
better books than did. viii not contro
vert this matter with the Mayer. as thsrs is
no quarrel between Mr.. Treynor and me on
that subject. But viii simply remark, that
with this assertion txhich | presume must
be tTas) and the books kept by me, ear
rrove Mr.. Treynor,s books to be about az