Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-03

disbursed by the Mayor for all pur-
poses during his term OF Office, or an
average OF Ss770i per year
Very respectfully.
JAMES GLENDfNNlNG.' Mayor
DALE GOES AFTER THE MAYOR
Councilman Dale moved that the re,
port Of the retiring Mayor be received
and filed. and that the aud tor be Ia
strunted to transfer the balance OF the
contingent fund TO the treasury. Mr..
Dale then proceeded to pay his com
pllments to Mayor Gl0ndinnlng. IN
his opening remarks he stated that he
sincerely regretted in the closing hours
Of the administration to refer 70 any
Official or the acts Of any official con-
nected with the administration, IN
harsh terms. Had the Mayors nc-
counting of the contingent fund, I'M
satisfactory though II was, been
couched in different language, In IAN
guage that WAS respectful. he wouju
have allowed 1t to pass. But as " was
by unchallenged. The Mayor hau Az
solutely accounted for nothing that the
Council and finance committee did not
know. He reported simply what the
vouchers on file In the auditors Office
showed 1t was what the vouchers
didn't show that information was
wanted on and on that the Mayor was
perfectly silent. The very items that
light was wanted upon were still IN the
dark. Just why this was the case
the Mayor probably knew pest,
1t was true that the Mayor
had turned back n considerable part
of the fund. But why did he divert II
In the first place. The fact is he had
taken $4,000 OF the peoples money ana
nut IL somewhere. That fact hlune
would place him and leave him under
the ban of public suspicion. The money
was taken for a purpose, and that pur-
nose had not been explained. II was n
shameful and deplorable state OF facts,
and the taxpayers should know the
truth, II had been promised that they
should know It, but 1t appears thnt IN"
promise had not been kept There
fore II was the Councils duty TO c2-
plain matters so far MS II could.
O'Meara said that Dale's motion was
an insult to Mayor-elect Clark--at least
that portion which referred to trans
ferriniy the remainder of the contingent
fund into the general fund. II looked
MS though he would not trust the man
who was his competitor In the last cleo
ton.
Dale resented this statement. and
said he had included that provision in
his motion at the instance of n fellow
councilman who sat Mt his side. lie
had not even thought of Mr.. Clark In
connection with the matter and did not
think there was another member or
the Council outside of Mr.. O'Meura who
would attribute such motives to any
one.
Callister, Romney. Buckle and ste
wart spoke in favor OF Dale's motion
and II carried on vote OF 10 to 2.
MINOR MATTERS.
A number of minor matters were
passed upon and the papers treating
upon them filed at this juncture, in
Guiding report from the dog tax col
lector whom O'Meara said had only
made t1i2 last month; the communicn-
tion from Fire and Police Commission
err Noble and Dinnlny who Dale de
clared were now happily dead and
gone.
MAYOR GLENDINNING's PoR-
TRAIT
The committee on finance. Romney
chairman, recommended that $3.50 he
appropriated to the credit of James
Glendinning, to be used In payment for
painting OF the latter's portrait TO be
hung in the Council chamber with the
Mayors of the past.
Mulvcy moved that the report be
amended so that committee OF three
from the outgoing Council be ap-
pointed to act with the Mayor. and the
chair named Mulvey, O'Meara and
Dale. Mr.. Dale objected to being named
saying that he had no knowledge of
nrt and as 1t was an engineering prop
osition he suggested that LeProhon be
appointed in his place.
This brought forth a. volley of laugh
ter and Dale despite his pronounced
objections was kept on the committee
ANOTHER CONTINGENT FUND
SHOT.
O'Meara presented a bill of 5000 In
favor OF Policeman shannon for money
side of the city. The bill was o. KID by
sic OF the city. The bill was o. KID by
the Mayor and when Dale facetlously
asked why the Mayor had not paid
1t out of the contingent fund Just
turned over to the treasurer, Romney
replied with II significant nod of the
head, He couldn't do 1t; he didn't have
1t" whereupon Dale replied, that's
the way 1t looks" The matter went
over for the next Council to act upon.
WARM SPRINGS LEASE KNOCKED
OUT.
Wisoomb introduced n resolution re-
curing the city recorder to turn over
10 Barnes & Byrnes, lessees of the
Warm Springs, the lease in his pos
session, and Lloyd promptly moved to