The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
THAT CONTINGENT FUND
How Mayor Glendinning Has
Discussed the Money.
REPORT MADE BY THE COUNCIL
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
All the Information at the City Au-
ditor's Office Made Public-A1l the
Fund Exhausted Before the Eighth
Month of His Term@Something
More Needed to Explain.

The committee on finance. in its re-
port to the council last Tuesday night
on the condition Of the mayors con-
tingent fund, stated that something
like $4,000 expended by the mayor re-
quired an explanation. Appended to
the report was a list of the items OF
disbursements as appearing from the
books of the auditor. This list is COM
plete and gives all the data at the au-
ditor's office from which to determine
! for what purposes the city'S chief eX-
ecutive has drawn on the fund This
! detailed report of expenditures is as
! follows:
Jan. 13-Contingent expenses, $500.
Jan. 15.-Expense of sending pauper
to Butte, $2O.05.
Jan. 17.-Contingent expenses, $1,000.
| Jan. 29.-Typewriting three copies of
auditors annual report, $3.50; 16 copies
and financial statement for December.
per order of council, So; $3.50.
Jan. 29.-One ton of coal for Mrs.
Gallant, $5.25.
Feb. 1.-"Foote & Everett on incor-
| porations," SIS; Dillon on municipal
corporation" s12; exchange, Is cents;
s2715.
Feb. 3.-Paid C. E. Stanton for costs
in case of ]. A. Groesbeck VS.. Salt Lake
City. s1315.
Feb. 4.-Stationery account for may
ors office per month, Parsons, Derge
Book company. $685..
Feb. 6.-Contingent expenses, $3.50.
Feb. Gone ton coal each to Mrs.
Bourgeois and Mrs. Emberg, 1915.
Feb. 10.-Two thousand copies audi
tors report and labels from Star Print
ing company, $lS.75.
~ n X Q'X n
ing east to look up electric plants for
committee on improvements, 800.
Feb 14.-Expense of sending pauper
j. W. Cook to Cheyenne. $3.50.
Feb. 15.-Paid John James three and
one-half days extra services as clerk
of police court, $11.50.
Feb. 15-Paid John Smith one days
service as assistant janitor, moving
furniture. 81.
Feb. 17.-Pail George Raleigh for ex-
penses of witnesses in behalf of city in
case of Oscar Peterson VS.. city, $40.
Feb. 17.-Paid c. F. Emery for half
expenses sending pauper John c. Rob-
inson to San Francisco, S13.25.
Feb. 1S.-Paid c. NJ. Dull for three
copies of mayors annual report,
etc, s24.
Feb. 1s-Paid E. D. Hoge for legal
services. etc, as per receipt, s147.s5.
Feb. 20-Street car tickets for De-
tective G. A. Sheets, IS.
Feb. 20.-Tribune Printing company
for 5000 copies mayors message, $12
Feb. 20-Contingent expenses, S53-
Feb. 26.-Legal advice, $500.
Feb. 26-Chicago ordinance govern
ing fire and police departments, So.
Feb. 2S.-Amount paid Willard Young
to be used in purchase of land near
sewer farm for outlet to Jordan river
$500. (Note-This amount was returned
to James Glendinning, mayor. as per
his receipt to the auditor, March Is,
1880.
March Paid A. W. Raybould II
days at $3.50 per month for instructing
successor in office to work, s56.S5.
March Paid George r. Raleigh as
expenses for witnesses in case of Gar
rison VS.. city, SIS.
March 17.-Compromise in case of ].
S. Garrison VS.. City, $S52.50.
March 17.-Half expense sending
Mrs. ]. P. Payne and children TO
Butte, s1o.05.
March 1s.-Street car tickets for
Sheets, IS.
March 2O-Street car tickets for
Raleigh. IS.
March 21.-Expense making survey
for city attorney Qegal expense), $3.50.
March 25-Paid F. B. Trip witness
fees in case of Garrison VS.. city, $500.
April Half expense sending pauper
Mrs. C. NJ. Barton to Harrison, Neb.,
SIPS.
April 2.-witness fees in case of Gar
rison VS.. city. and stenographer in
same case. s72.55.
April 2-Charity transportation. $3.50;
paid Mrs. Paddock for girls to Reform
school, s5.25; tickets to Fairfield for
widows boy, $2.25; groceries and beef
to poor families, $50; s36.
April 4-Street car books for Sheets
and Janney, detectives. so.
May 5.-Groceries for poor as per bill
of Wiscomb & Co., SO.
May S.-Letter press, $40; postage
stamps, So; municipal newspaper, S2.O5;
Webster's dictionary, SO; expressage
on ordinances, $1.25; "Shaw's Govern
ments." two volumes, 81; Poor in Cit
les" Cfor mayors office, 1880.
May 2O-Half expenses Mrs. Isabella
Owen to Omaha, $3.50.
May 21.-Fare for pauper TO Pueblo, !
per receipt of I. A. Benton, 50.
May 23.-Contingent expenses, 5000.
May 30.-Fare, S35 and SO, expenses
two paupers to Portland, Ore, s45.
June 1.-Expenses two paupers to |
Ogden. NJ. Gross and Jake Halko- |
Wiz, SO.
June S.-Paid on account rent of
Boys Home per receipt, So
June 10.-Half fare pauper to Den /
yer, per receipt of 1. A. Benton, 1880. /
June 15.-Fare pauper w. H. Walker !
TO Chicago, $10.65.
June 17.-Fare pauper NJ. Cobansk to !
Grand Junction, s3.25.
June 1S.-Fare John Boes and wife
to Omaha, $50.
June 19-Fare of pauper to Ogden
and actual expenses to Carson City,
1925
July 11.-Half transportation pauper
to Denver, SIS.
July 13.-Contingent expenses, 5000.
July 21.-Half fare pauper Laura
Joyce to Butte. Mont. Sc.
July 25.-Sending pauper to Oma-
na, SIS.
July 25.-Expense sending Guerra
vann to San Francisco. railroad fare
and other expenses (pauper), $50.
July 2S.-Paid C. F. Emery for ex-
oenses and railroad fare, Mrs. --
and child to Omaha. $3.50.
Aug. 4.-Contingent expenses, 500.
Aug. e.-Contingent expenses fire.
mems convention $4,000 allowed by
Aug. 2O-Contingent expenses, s2S6.3S.
Total. s7,O00.s3.
AS will be seen by the above the
mayor exhausted all the cash in the
und before the eighth month of his
erm of office had expired. Now the
council wants an accounting and an
as to the purposes for
which contingent expenses" stands.
There is nothing on record to show
or il.
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