Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-04

to lehInu You there Is 2 more serious
subject Ill youc hands tonight. the hand
ling Ola reputation.
The citizens OF Lancaster are looking for
your verdict. L:ther there is 4 deficit or
there is not. / ask You ~ face the issu,
like men. and knowing the charges not to
be well-founded, let your vindica.ion he
rs open rs was your accusation.
Believin. that upon consideration of the
subject You will appreciate the great ill.,
justice which has been done me. and. bein"
governed by sense Of right. you will at
once relieve me ofa charge which has not
and can not be sustained,
Respectfully submitted.
EDWARD WELCuANS,
City Treasurer
LANCASTER, Pa, Nov. 3, 1850.
Common Council,
The following named members were
present
l Messrs. Albert. Barnes, Beard, Cormeny,
| Davis. Downey, Franklin. Hartley Hays,
! Hershey, johnson. Lichty. McAIullen.
sing, Smeych, Snyder. Springer. Storm
dent.
| The standing committees were called
over in regular order. but made no re-
| ports.
Mr.. Barnes, FROM the finance committee.
| reported back with negative recommcn-
dation the ordinance introduced at the
October meeting Of councils providing for
4 temporary loan Of 5000 top pay for Bel
Sian biorkng North Queen street from
Orange to Chestnut. He moved that the
ordinance be laid upon the table. as the
season is now too far advanced to go on
l with the work even if councils did pass the
ordinance. and i'll his Judgment the better
plan would be to postpone the matter un-
I til spring, when provision could be n:aic
for this needed Improvement in the annual
appropriation. Tho ordinance WAS conse-
quentIy tabled.
The City Trrasurer's accounts.
VI. Barnes presented also the report OF.
| the special committee appointed 10 inycS-
| tisatc the accounts of the city treasurer
| and receiver of taxes, together with expert
| CiarkSOn s statement of the condition oi
said accounts, which had been acted upon
| III select council at its October meeting
(and printed in full in the IvrEIILGEycEH
ut that timcl, and moved that common
council concur in the resolution Of select
council, directing the finance committee tr
demand from the city treasurer the SUN
OF S2,4l!.3J, shown to be duo by Mr..
Clarkson's examination, and if th" said
amount is not promptly paid to place the
claim in the hands of the city solicitor for
collection.
There boin. an evident disposition
. among the cauncilincn to know something
more ahou. t!is rather complicated
ease" Mr.. Barnes. who is u member Of
the special committc. and OF :hc finance
committee, stated that u supplemental ex-
animation OF the treaS:lrer'; books had
revealed the existence Of some 5000, which
by u clerical error the treasurer lad omit
ted to charge himself with, but which ho
acknowledged his readiness at any time to
make GOOD, and which reduced the amount
Of the alleged tieiici: to about ST, 800.
Mr.. Beard looking very har;l ut Pres;-
dent LevcrGooI, wanted to know il this
investigating committee had finished it's
labors and whether the report now under
consideration Was g final OGc.
Dr.. Lcvcrgood, who is I member OF the
committee, requested DR.. Davis 10 take
the chair, and III answer to- Mr.. Boards
query, stated ut some length the manner
in which the discrepancy had evidently oc-
Cured and how the committee had dis
covered it. He did not think the COM
mittcc would have any further report
upon the subject to which it had devoted
careful attention. DR.. Lavcrgood stated
that the inquiry had been conducted in
good faith. The committee looking to the
interests OF the city had patiently examined
into tlc treaSI!rcri accounts, which had
appeared t, be some $1,000 short, or rs
subsequently transprcil BY the discovery of
nine hundred and some odd dollars o.! taxes
which the treasurer had accidentally ne
elected to charge mp, about $500 short.
DT. Lcvcrgood protested that hi; motives
,t,,,. Of
tee and as president of this body were for
the welfare Of the city. He wanted to do
his duty, and only his duty, and in this
connection perhaps it woul,i not be out Of
place for him to mention the conduct
of some Of the members Of cOuE-
ell" notably of his good looking
friend from the Fifth ward" who with the
requisite number Of colleagues had signed
! u request an,! transmitted it to him as pre-
sident common council calin, for = spe-
cial meeting OF council tD act upon this
very matter. but who when the night Of
mcctin:. arrived managed to get rs far as
the curbstoEc, where hi; spine suddenly
weakened, lis knees smote together. and he
found himself physically incapable OF
mounting: the stairway to attend the rect-
ing which he had been instrumental! in
calling. and which was obliged to adjourn
iOr !.:ck OIL y quorum.
Mr. Beard inquired whet!levthis investi-
CATION into the trca>urcr's accounts did
not extend back for period of eighteen
| months.
The president said it did
Mr.. Beard then said it looked to him is
il the gentlemen who had been the
prime movers in the securing of this spa
cial committee had either neglected their
| former trust as members of the finance
committee when they si"Ucd au,liis of the
treasurer account declaring them to be
| correct, or else the present inquiry was
actu:,ted by malice.
! Mr. Hays moved that the resolution !c
referred back with instructions to the iIi-
| vcstigat!nr committee - report to coun-
| cils the exact amount Of th: treaslrer's
! deficiency.
Mr.. McMullcn remarked tina; he wan;
cd to Sc justice done. Ii tn: city treas
urer is one penny short in his accounts he
was in favor OF forcing him To pay up;
but it would be absurd fox councils To
/ proceed against tue treasurer before they
know tie >,au,,;u- II the cas-. This rcso-
| luton c.:l,s :ov t,:s y1Hetti5u " =. 600.
when later cxl.,:.2A;:Aa SHOWS ,i;e treas
urer'S arpagcl: ,eIic,,s::y = :, nearly 4
thousand dr.:a:s less
| Dr.. Davis took ci.e >!;.:, vIcw of the
case and WIS happy - second Nr. iIays's
motion. i.c did no5 w.ln; IL shield the
guilty. hu, lie wanted t. give the accused
i fair show. Tni>.rcport has been made to
councils without giving the treasurer any
| opportunity 10 explain: he hoped there
! W.-c gucuri, cent .cmcn present to vote to