Daily Republican., 1878-12-20
THE CITY COUNCIL.
A short GessiOn-The Finance Com
sssissse alter City Treasuess VIM
cent W In . sharp Stick Mr..
Mctittmehey opens War On the
DOgs-No More City AceOun ntanss

MctiIinchey opens War ON II
d Dogs-No More City Accountant
= To the qualification and almost to tn
o surprise OF everybody the City Counci
4 had q short session last evening. Pres
ident Lichtenstein took his seat prompt
ly aud called the council to order. Tn
Finance Committee being called upol
: had nothing 10 report but the tolowin,
i. which was read.
TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF TIL
CITY COUNCIL.
GENrLEMES:-Your Financ. Commit
: tee, to :" HON was referred the com,Lu
nicstion OF the City Treasurer at til,
stated meeting, beg leave report al
follows:
We have given said communication
due consideration, and finding nothing
therein that is not already known, ax-
: cept that portion wherein the Treas urer
compares the present Council to pre-.
ceding Councils.
Your committee has the greatest re-
sptct for the City Treasurer, but we
beg leave to differ with him when he
states that it takes the constant watch
ing Of both himself and his assistant to
prevent Council from ov-rdrawing their
appropriations. He says all are alike
in this respect. The first year h. was
Treasurer, he says that he found six
appropriations in danger Of being over
drawn. Tut he found il out afterwards.
Your committee would most respect.
fully remind the Treasurer that with
all his ALLEGED watchfulness, he has not
prevented preceding Councils from
overdrawing their appropriations, and
he need not go back to the time he was
first made Treasurer, but less than four
months ago. When the present Coun
Gil came into power they found not only
dve.approprations overdrawn, but the
bank account also, The present Coun.
Gil have not overdrawn any Of their ap-
preparations, therefore there cannot be
any parallel between the present and
preceding Councils, ,as the present coun.
Gil have not done anything that requi-
res any watching by the City Treasurer
or anybody else.
The ras, ali,y Of Two-d, he says, may
be nothing to what may be done in the
Tleasurer's office in this city. We say
in answer that unfortunately for th-
city, IT, has had some experience in
Twe-disn. But it is an undenia ble fact
that all the Tweeds in this city We're Of
the same political complexion as the
City Treasurer, and therefore cannot in |
any degree apply to the majority in the
present City Council, or the party they
represent.
Your committee would state for gen.
eral information that the bulk of the
city's money is deposited in bank by
the tax collectors to the credit of the
city, and simply receipted for by tie
City Treasurer, and is paid out in
drafts or checks, and each check OF
draft must have the signature of the
President Of the City Council and
Clerk of Council, and also the City
Treasurer. Very little money in ac
tual cash passes through the hands of
the City Treasurer, only the rent Of city
property collected by the Clerk of the
Market, and small amounts from the
Surveying Department, the whole
amount not exceeding 81, 600 per annum.
As the Treasurer says he does not want
a ball Of wax or a lump ofdCugh in his I
office, your committee would recommend I
that the position of Accountant or
Treasurer's clerk, be abolished. And
a and Ia, L., 1.
paramount duty and object of the ma
jority in the present Council, we hope
tnat will BE- done, and $720 per annum
saved to the city.
1t is the opinion of many that if the
City Treasurer will devote less time to
writing lengthy communications and
more time to the practical duties Of his
office, he will have no need of an assis-
.ant. .joHN GUTHRIE,
A. ]. HART.
The City Treasurer reported bal
ance in bank to the account of current c
expenses of $6,35l.57; reported to have .
paid out since his last report, to the !
Water commissioners on the Cool
spring Reservoir, $723.S6, and had I
paid out in total 3,553.n. Q
The Street Commissioner reported 10 |
nen, and eight double teams employed a
inder him for the past week with I
,ay roll of $53sS. l
Chief Engineer McIntire reported q h
nen employed in his department for the l
week ending Dec. l7th, with pay roll c
# $23O.52.
A communication from Mayor ALL Il
nond was read, stating that he had ap- 8
pointed D. b. Woodward city prison
eeper for the year commencing Janu-
,ry first, 1879.
A petition from Davidson & Bro,
skiing for a space of sixteen feet on v
ling street in front of their marble cut c
ing establishment to be left free on t
market days was read and referred. fl
Mr.. .McGlinchey offered and had read a
he following resolution which was Ii
dopt-d: v
Resoiued, That the Law Committee be T
nd are instructed to have an ordinance ei
repaired to externinate all dogs run
ing at large within the limits of tn.
ity. G.
Mr.. McGlnchey said he was induced to c
Her this resolution not from anything II
. had seen in the papers, but from a h
,nse of duty he owed to the safety and A.
elfare of the citizens He could =,
OF see any use for so many WORTHLESS M
lrs running at large endangering the C
yes of the citizens.
All the dogs in the city thrown to- =,
ether would not weigh feather in the a. a.
ale compared with tho value of one " o.
uman life. a. a.
Mr.. Norton said he would not oppose "
,e motion, though he thought the reso =, =
ltion too sweeping when it included all -
10 dogs. but ha was in favor of rattinu