The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-01
VANSER TICKLE
A Lively Veto of the 81
les of Alleged Find
Board Clerks. \
GROSS DECEPTION CHAN
Why His Honor Signed PreI
Warrants-Points For
Explanation.

Auere was no meeting or tnR..R
Finance this morning, owing
that no quorum could BID
Clerk German, however,
his possession a bomb, in
of veto from Mayor Wanser.
1gnited the bomb this morniu
every attempt to prevent its W
was without avail. The veto
| with the salaries of Clerk Ger
alleged assistant, Mr.. Thomas Nd
the betting ring, Gutenberg,
other clerks employed in the Cit
His Honor has declined to "a
salaries of the eight gentlemen, b
ne claims at the present time they u
indebted to the city different sums rom
excess salaries ordered paid them without
proper resolutions having been adopted.
He vetoes half dozenW6 e, p =
his reasons for doing so.S
Mayor Wanser in his
many increases made in 81
salary and concludes by sIA
herman owes the city 1888. 80 NJ
payments. s.
His Honor next cites the case OF As
slstant Mckeon, whose salary was i
creased as was MIR. Germans. He mai
| tains that McKeon owes the city $500 r
drawing S25 too much for twenty month
u. T. Croke's case comes mex
He maintains that Croks owed
the city, Sl3336 for excess pay notv
his Honor holds. is s166.66 to the city. E.
city $40; "Cnick" M McAnaIlys 0mys sisS' rae
Jack" O'Neill. S940; Jimmy Clark
| of City Clerk Scort's Office $500. "This
| troublesome matter has now reached a
| nOlQE when 6aOiai0n mn q INo do
your Board should take the initiative in
| solving the difficulty you have created"
continues the Mayor.
1T Is peculiarly annoying thing to
me, because l was misled by what cans
| not describe in any other way than by
! deception, into signing the warrants for
the increased payments during the
months of May, June and July.
Inc resolution directing the City
| Clerk to draw warrants covering the
| payroll OF your Board as printed, and
such printed list was submitted to
me with the assertion on the part Of
| one of your employees that it
was correct. Doubtless this printed
| list has carried with it an evidence of
genuiness, as in no other way can l ae-
count for your Board passing the pay
1 rolls month after month.
| In the month of August l made a care
| full reading of the minutes of your Board
| and learned the results above outlined. l
refused TO approve the payments to the
eight emploYesH~ above .named IorA
The mouth of August az the
amounts called for. All of the eight
employees consented to take the amount
| of payment for services rendered in
| August at the rate corresponding to the
| espectivs resolutions fixing the salaries.
and they were paid at that tate.
| then made an inquiry
as to what effect the amount of 50, 1876,
| being the over payments made. would
| have on the appropriation to your Board
| for the fiscal year now ending, November
| 80, 1892, and found that to
| continue 60 pay the aforesaid
| eight clerks the salaries corresponds
| ing to the salary resolutions, would cause
| a deficit, ana ! consequently refused to
pay their salaries for September. October
| and November in part. Your Board saw
the deficit as quickly as did. and have
made the following attempts to obvIata
the ditficulty:-
| l. The dismissal of efficient clerks who
had not oVerdrawn their salaries.
2. The reduction of efficient clerks'
| salaries.
"3.-The transfer of accounts. notice
| that in resolutions covering the Septems
ber, October aud November payrols that
Messrs. German and McKeen are at
tempted to be paid at the rate exceeding
the resolutions employing them.
II have paid Mr.. McAnally and Mr.,
| Hewitt their November salaries, inas-
much as the excess which they received
is corrected by their September
and October salaries herein re-
turned without approval. and because
their salary for November corresponds
with the resolution confirming their Rp-
pointment