The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-25
THE BOARD OF FINANCE
SOME OF ITS METHODS CRITICISED
 LAST NIGHT
By Police Com isstoner s. g. ThOmp- son Who Objected to Giving ExpIana- ttons Asked For-MOney Transferred from Police Payroll Account--Hear- tngs on Estimates Assigned for Vari- ous Departments.

l oNs DcPNA
 At the meeting of the board of
 finance last night S. S. Thompson and
 pr. Frank H. Wheeler, members of the
 board of police commissioners, ap-
 peared in response to a request from
 the board of finance that a represen-
 tative of the police board appear and
 explain why a transfer of $200 from the
 payroll account in the police depart
 ment to the sundry account and $200 to
 the repair account asked for by the po-
 lice board was needed. l Commissioner Thompson criticised I the action of the finance board in re-
 questing an explanation. He said that when a department was being con- ducted as economically as possible he | thought that the finance board ought to grant any transfer asked for with out question. He said that the time of the police commissioners was as val uable as that of the members of the board of finance and he did not like the idea of being hauled before the financiers of the city.
 He was informed that all that was desired was an explanation as to what the transfer was needed for and that all that was asked was that any repre- sentative of the police department ar- pear and explain. He was told that in the opinion of the members of the board of finance this was an entirely proper procedure.
 Mir Thompson then explained that the expenditure of $13S of the $200 ask ed to be transferred to the sundries account had already been contracted for. Dr. Wheeler stated that some re- pairs to the buildings under the charge of the police commission was absolute ly necessary and that it was thought that $200 would pay for them.
 The two commissioners were then asked about the $550 which the police commission had stated, In communi cation to the board of finance, would be needed to pay the expenses of the cleo tion to be held early next month. They were asked if that amount could not be spared from the payroll account of the police department and the two police commissioners finally admitted that it could be so spared.
 Later it was voted to grant the two transfers of $200 each and also to trans fer s550 from the police payroll account to defray the election expenses.
 Controller Rowe informed the board that the contingent fund in his depart ment was depleted and asked for transfer of $1,500 from the military communication tax account to his con- tingent fund. The transfer was voted as requested.
 Hearings on the estimates for the va. rfous departments were assigned as fol- lows:
 November 1.-The departmen of charities and correction, the town clerk, the city clerk the board of re- lief, the permanent pavement commits sion, and the corporation counsel
 November 1.-The assessors, the board of health, the tax collector the regis trar of vital statistics, the tax com 
 November 5-The park commission, the civil service commission, the gen. eral registrars the probate court, the Beaver Ponds Park commission, the supervisor of steam boilers, the harbor and on patriotic celebra tiOnS.
 November 6-The board of education, the department of public works.
 November S--The fire department, the lamp committee.
 November 1.-The police department, | the library directors and the control- Ter
 Notice of public hearings on the es- inmates will be made later It is ru- nored that at the next meeting of the I finance board the matter of the bills for badges for police commissioners would be taken up.