The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-30
OF IDAHO AFRAID Of REPORTERS
Auditor Reiser Wants His Fig
ures Protected.
ADVISES TIE COUNCIL
CITY PREPARING To BORROW
MORE MONEY.

Two or three times the attention of
the city council last night was drawn
to the fact that it is not yet definitely
known how much money was expend-
ed, extravagantly and otherwise, last
year by the municipal soIons As Of
/ ten it was brought out that the treas
ury viii be empty soon and that the
banks viii have TO be touched for the
customary overdrafts covering at least
a ten months period. The members
avoided any discussion of the financial
/ topics.
/ Auditor Reiser addressed a commu-
nicatiOn to the council, stating that he
4 intended TO submit his yearly report of
/ the city'S financial transactions there
/ with, but had been delayed on account
/ OF not receiving some data in time
/ from other officials The COmmunica-
| ton also called attention to the re-
/ quirement of law to officially publish
/ the financial report in a newspaper OF
/ general circulation.
To fortify his position, the auditors
/ communication stated. The public
/ interest in the city's financial condi-
/ ton having been unusually aroused
during the past year al the result Of
/ political assaults upon the admmistra-
! ton, II would seem advisable 80 size
the official statement as wide a CJrcu-
lation as possible. And in ORD to in
sure its reaching the citizens withou-
I first being edited by the enterpTisIlS
| reporters who frequent the council
chamber / respectfully ask authority
/ 10 publish the statement officially in
/ at least two of the daily neYspa pers
/ of the city
Illustrative of the frosty reception
/ given Auditor Reiser,s effort. motion
was quickly adopted, on RObertSOn's
! suggestion directing the recorder to
notify the auditor that when his man
I clal report is submitted to the council
/ it viii advise him when and now to
/ officially publish the statement.
| The finance committee recommended
/ that it, with the treasurer assoc,aued.
/ be given authority to arrange for Ior-
/ rowing sufficient funds for summing Jhc
/ city the ensuing year.
The committee also recommended
/ that it. with the mayor associated. be
! granted authority to arrange for p~O-
/ tecting any such bonds as may De pre-
! scented for redemption from the re-
| funding issue under the call recently
/ issued. The desired authority vas
/ granted in both instances.
! Ten thousand dollars was appropri-
/ ated to purchase the Mountain s,'.r-
! mer Resort company's lands and wa
/ ter rights in Parley's canyon.
characterization Hobbies.
/ A resolution was offered Dy -,Hn-
! strom- reciting that the board Of health
! IS keeping record of all cases of
| smallpox. whether the victims have
1 been Vaccinated or not and it appears
/ that information is received only
through the physicians attending such
/ cases, and it is charged that tins in
I formation is not entirely reliable The
! resolution, therefore. directed the
/ health department to accept no state
d.
I vaccination unless signed by the per
son having smallpox or by his or her
/ parents or guardians.
The resolution was defeated by a
vote of to s. the affirmative votes be
ing announced by Canning. Cottreli,
FeTnstrom, G r. Howe, Edgar Howe
and Reid.
Fernstrom also offered a resolution
Teciting that it has been stated that
some physicians who visit smallpox pa
I tents afterward mingle with other
persons without fumigation and di-
recting the health department to re-
port if there are ny rules of the de-
partment gOVernil such matters The
resolution further S AaIled for a report
/ as TO why regular tests are not made
on milk and water.
/ The resolution was laid over for one
| week, after some little discussion as
to the pTODriety of joining the two
questions, and as to whether there
.
physicians were violating the ethics of
the profession.
Canning offered a bill for an ordi-
nance Te-Creating the Office of sanitary
! and food inspector. who shall receive
an annual salary of 81 600, and to have
also the services of a deputy at a
yearly salary of 500. The bill was re-
ferred to the committees on municipal
laws and finance.
Streets in Bad Condition.
Supervisor Condie's recommendation
that the streets leading to the depots
from the paved district, and State
street from Ninth to Tenth South be
nut in good repair. was referred to the
committee on streets.
| on recommendation Of the commit
tees on streets and sprinkling, the pur-
chase was authorized Of 1l115Xl32 feet
of ground in the interior OF the block
facink on Seventh South and State
streets, together with 103x1S2 feet ad-
joining and rjght-of-way- The tur-
chase price agreed upon is $500. and
the purpose is to provide site for the
department stables, shops and storage
for the watering carts.
/ When the council adjourned 1t was
agreed to meet in special session Fri
day evening to pass upon the ordinance
approving the form of bond for the
city's $4,000 worth of refUnding bonds
recently sold.
! Whittemore and Hewlett of the Ii
brary committee reported adversely on
the request of the trustees for author
ity to incur the expense necessary to
keep the library open on Sundays. On
| Thomas request. action on the report
was deferred for one week.
| A resolution was adopted changing
the hour of council sessions and com
mittee meetings from 1880 to o'clock.