Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-05
CITY COUNCILS.
AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF CITY
. FAIAERS

AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF CITY
FATHERS.
Report Of Finance Committee ON CITY Treas
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pointing Clerk of Market Com
mittee.
An adjourned meeting Of select and COM
mon councils was held last evening.
Select Council
The following named members were
present: Messrs. Barr, Doerr, Eberly,
Zecher and Evans president.
Mr.. Zecher presented the report Of tho
finance committee containing statement
of the accounts of the city with Edward
Welchans, the suspended city treasurer.
He spoke substantially as follows:
MIR. PRESIDENT In pursuance Of
resolution of select and common councils
instructins your finance committee to ex-
anime the accounts OF the late city treas
urer, Mr.. Welchans. and report the Same
ut an adjourned meetin. tO-nighk, have
the honor to submit this their final report.
But before handing it 70 the clerk to read
shall ask the indulgence Of this body in
explanation of Il few things connected
with this investigation. .
1t is necessary Cor me to go back to the
commencement Of this investigation. The
reports of the special and finance commit
tees alc vet fresh in the memories Of you
all but cannot let this opportunity pass
without referring to the many delays and
vexations caused by Mr.. Welchans's fire.
quent refusal to furnish such information
as wOuld hasten and tighten the burdens
Of your committee OF his repeated re-
fnsal to turn over the books, moneys aud
other properties justly belonging to the
city; Of the personal attacks Of his
friends in and out Of councils; Of his
many false statements to the public of his
innocence. thus creating Il false sympathy
in this community; Of the unjust and un-
fair editorials and criticisms Of one of the
prominent daily journa!s-I allude to the
Lancaster lNTELILGENCER-whic in one
Of its editorials compared your committee
to hbellers and pcrjurers, thus not only
creating false sympathy in behalf of Mr..
Welcl'ans, but poisoning public opinion
against the committee; when the fact is,
MIR. President, the editors knew nothing
OF the condition of affairs existing between
the late city treasurer and the city. Tho
course pursued by this paper las been un-
fair and unjust throughout, and I here
charge it us untruthful in it's unjust at
tackS against your committee. But Mr..
President. We believe We have done the
duty cOnti,led to us. We had nothing to
gain personally by the investigation. My
sympathies were with Mr.. Welchans until
was convinced that the affairs Of the city
treasurer were not in the condition they
should be. When l saw VIC had duty to
perform, l proposed in this affair to per-
form it with malice toward none, but JUS
tice to- all. We therefore present this as
the result Of our labOrs, believing it to be \
just and honest report Of the books and
accounts OF the entire affair.
| Mr.. Eberly asked that the cOrrespon-
dence between the committee and Mr..
| Welchans be read, rs the latter had often
| declared that he had not been notified Of
the committees action.
The clerk real the following letters:
Notice.
LANCASTER, Pa, March :, 1881.
SIR: At u meetin. of the finance COM
mittee of the city Of Lancaster, held this
evening, | was instructed to notify you
that the salt: finance committee will meet
tomorrow Crhursday) afternoon, March
3, 1881, At 3 o'clock, at the city treasurer q
Office, to settle your account with the city
Of Lancaster, and that the committee re-
quest your presence at that hour, with all
the vouchers and papers in your possession
belonging to the city, or necessary to set
tie your accounts.
Very respectfully yours,
J. X. BARR,
Clerk Finance Committee.
To Edward Welchans, esq, Lancaster
Pa.
Affidavit of service.
Lancaster city, ss.
Personally appeared before nc, the sub
scribcr an alderman in and for said city,
A. J. Flick, who being duly sworn, says
that he did, Oh the Sd day Of March, A. ID
1881, between the hours Of and 0 O'Clock
in the morning, serve upon Edw. Wei.
chans, personally, the original notice OF
which the within is true and correct
copy, and further depOncnt saith not.
A. j. FLICK.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this
Sd day of March, A. ID. 1881.
]. X. BARR, Alderman.
Response Of Mr.. Weici,ans.
LANCASTER, March 3, 1881.
To The Finance Committee Of the city Of La"
| c0Stcr:
GENTLEMEN Your communication q
Marcl, =. 1891. requesting me to- meet the
finance committee this afternoon. bring
ing with n!:. the vouchers for settlement
with the city. is mt hand.
NV term of office will expire April 4,
1881, after which time | will cheerfully
meet tine finance committee and produce
the vouchers required,
Respectfully, &C.,
EDWARD WELCHANs.
The report of tie finance committee was
then read as follows: