The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-06

old body. but what has been done as
remedy by the new The treas ui'er
has been ordered TO pay no more OF
the warrants issued after November
~. 1894. commencing with warrant No.
l7.0z4. That might seem a prudent
thing to do at first glance. But the
treasurer has money on hand with
which to pay some of the Warrants
why should he NOT Jisburse it? Here
| is the milk in the new county cocoa
lnut The treasurer is instructed by
resolution that:
THE money of Salt Lake county
now in tfle hands of the treasurer of
said cainty, less such amount as may
! be necessary TO pay warrants already
hcailed in by said treasurer, be and the
same is hereby made and established
las a special fund to be used for the
proper transaction of the business of
the county, and from which shall he
paid the salaries and compensation of
public officers required by law to be
paid from the sounty treasury, the
same to be paid upon proper. warrants
drawn in pursuance of orders of the
court and that such fund be used for
no other purpose.
Here is richness for your There
are officers of the county to whom
there is money due for services rem
dered We understand the assessor
holds warrants issued after the date
named. for 81, 250 on his salary. Others
are in a similar situation. There are
worlSmen who have had to wait a
couple of weeks for their pay and then
received it in warrants. They took
them to the treasurer, and here is
what they received instead of their
money needed for their own urgent
wants and those of their families En-
dorseds on their warrants is:
No. A Presented for payment
Jan. s. 1885,
NOT PAID.
Registration refused pursuant 70 an
order Of the County Court, dated jan
uary 4 1896.
This Endorsement neither affirnls or
denies the validity of this warrant.
w. p. LYNN,
County Treasurer.
The unfortunate people who have
worked in good faith for the county
and who expected, after waiting two
weeks for their pay, to get the money.
in some instances having borrowed it
for necessaries, are turned away
without a cent. and for what? Why.
that these new selectmen and their
associates may secure their own sala7
ries not yet earned!
That is going in for reform with a
vengeance. The new seleetmen cannot
bear the idea Of county g money
being used to pay debts legiti-
mately owing to men who have
earned and need the money, but
they are eager to secure enough
to pay their own salaries in advance,
even though they have to issue new
warrants while those now in eircula-
ton are virtually repudiated.
These thrifty gentlemen are too hun
cry for the ernoluments. That they
worked hard for their offices was all
right under the present system of tine
man seeking the Office instead of the
old rule. But their rush. for pay before
+ they have earned it. thrusting aside
other officials and needy day workmen
to whom money is due. in order that
they may secure their own prospective
fees is as disgusting as it is astonish-
ing to the public. If they use their
new broom in this way much longer,
they will sweep themselves out of pub
lie respect and provoke much harsher
criticism on themselves than that
which they have excited against their
immediate predecessors.