The San Francisco call., 1898-04-29

from the statement made yesterday to bert, local agent of the surety company. He declared his company stood ready to pay the bond, but first wished to ascertain what could be realized from the property of Widber It would then pay the deficiency. He stated that no demand had been made upon the company, and that consequently there could have been no refusal to pay.
 When the Mayor called the meeting of the Supervisors to order there were present Supervisors Devany, Delany, Dodge, Morton, Britt, Smith, Clinton and Rivers. The surety company was represented by Mr. Gilbert, who was accompanied by his attorney.
 Mayor Phelan laid the object Of the meeting before the board in the fol- lowing statement, which he read:
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 2S, 1898.
 To the Honorable, the Board of Super visors of the City and County of San you that the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco is a defaulter In the sum of $117,0S 79. and that he has confessed to the dedication and has been indicted by the Grand Jury for the crime. His fidelity was insured by the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland in the sum of $100 900, as required by law, and in said bond, prepared by the City and County Attorney and approved by Mayor Sutro Auditor Frederick and a Judge of the Superior Court, there are no condi- tions under which the right of the city to demand payment on the failure of the Treasurer to perform his official duties faithfully can be questioned.
 On Tuesday, April 26. I and the City president of said corporation with a view of arranging for the collection of the amount of said bond. l made a verbal demand upon the president for the pay and was informed by him that a formal written demand could be made upon the authorized representative of the company in this city, and that he had communi- cated the decision of his company to the Board of Supervisors, which is self-ex- panatory and which has been received and will be laid before you at this meet ing. which I have called for this pur- pose.
 The urgency of this meeting arises from the fact that the fiscal year, is drawing to a close, and the public business re- quires the funds that should be available in the city treasury, and which by req son of this dedication have been seri-- ously depleted. l trust the Board of Supervisors will in their wisdom, see fit to authorize the bringing of suit in the name of the city and county against the Treasurer and his bondsmen.
 With respect to the counting of money by the Mayor, the Auditor and Judge of the Superior Court. to which the Surety Company makes reference, I de- sire to inform the board that the said officers have done their duty and that by reason of their count on the 26th of last March of the moneys in the treas ury the dedication of the Treasurer was discovered. Were it not for this fact the length to which the Treasurer might have gone in depicting the treasury can- not be estimated. The method by which the commission proceeds is to enter the i great vault, open the interior safes, and i to see and count over all the money con- taned therein. Two-thirds of the con- 1 tents of the vault ordinarily is contained in open trays and exposed, and the other third Is contained in sacks, for the most ! part under seal of the mint of the United l States. These sacks are removed from ] the interior safes. some of them weighed and others opened and counted, and the seals of all carefully examined
 On the occasion of the last count ] when the discovery was made, it ap- 1 peared to the commission that these seals were all intact. In passing back one oi l the sacks, which. the commission had | taken from the safe, Chief Deputy De ia l Montanya testifies that he heard a sus.