The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-07
POPE FILESHB REPORT

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Kjellberg, bears the Name Of M. Shay,
444 Jackson street. Credited with three
| days on Feb. % ara a day and
wages being $685. On consolidated
pay roll he is given credit of
Sll.25. This party was an. reality a laborer
named Morgan Sheehy and ne never
worked longer than Originally entered by
the street commission On a time roll
returned by M. Marquafdt, p Nealon is
credited with eight days, his total wages
being s11 .25. On the consolidated time roll
the amount is raised to S1725 Nealon
| says he never saw the warrant. Street
Commissioner Symonds gave William
Davitt a credit of $3.50. The consolidated
roll shows that a warrant was drawn to
3 his order amounting to $3.50. Davitt says
he never received pay for more than i've
days work
NJ. Sheehy was credited by Commission
er Kjellberg with working day and
three quarters, but in some unexplained
manner the warrant was drawn for day
extra. Sheehy never received the war
rant Spectators drew it for him.
A. A Montbriand, of rs Canada street,
furnished an excuse for the issuance of
two checks, the total of which, accord
ing to the original time roll, should have
amounted to SIS, but which when made
bear the Endorsement of A. Mt Brien
and E. NJ. Dickinson, a Spectator, but
Mr. MontbIiand says the Endorsement
was made without his authority. He never
was paid for the work credited to him
and did not sell his check
A warrant for S6.3S was drawn to the
order of J Sullivan, but his name does
not appear on any of the time rolls fur
nisfled by the commissioners.
These are only few of a hundred SINH
lar Irregularities that have been unearth-
ed, says MIR. Pope in his report. but they
serve to show what may yet be located.
Fay and Time holls Hiissing.
The work of the bank examiners office,
the report says. was greatly hampered
by the unexplained absence of a number
of pay and time rolls, which Commission
ers Kjellberg and Swanson were both
asked to supply by data supposed to be
in their possession" Kje1berg furnished
what is supposed to be a correct state
ment, but Swanson explained to the ex-
aminer that all his rolls had been burned
and his memory failed him. kiellberg
was dismissed from the department last
March, but Swanson's dismissal only fol-
lowed when Mr.. Pope intimated to City
Engineer Ciaussen that ne was not 4
trustworthy person to have.
While Street Commissioner Steeg and
City Engineer Claussen receive general
censure for placing their signature of APP
prevail to time rolls that had never been
compared with those returned, both daily
and weekly. by the street commissioner
and foreman. their only direct connection
with the fraudulent practices that are
alleged to have existed, is when they fall
ed to report Swanson for having sold
about $3.50 worth of city sand and pocket
ed the money. Swanson sold it to the
ST. Paul Lime and Cement company and
used city labor in loading 1t in wagons
belonging to the cement company. Swan
son was never asked to return what he
had Illegally taken.
Where Stceg Failcd tt Do His Duty.
Where Steeg failed to do his duty the
report says, was in placing his o. X. on
the time rolls that he had never COM
pared with the reports as furnished by
the street commissioners. Interlineations
and extensions Of time were often made
after these rolls left his hands, but he
gave them no attention. Steeg and Ga-
han. MI. Pope says, informed him that
yerification of such extensions was not
their duty.
IF all these, the report says, who pre-
pared the daily and weekly time rolls
had attended to their duty and been hon.
est, and If the warrants based on these
those named in the warrants, the city
would have received full value for it's
money and all officials would have vouch-
erS for their actions. II the officials had
been attentive to their duties, he further
says, the system which it seems has pre-
vailed, could not have been used as de-
vice to plumber the city treasury.
None of the time rolls has been signed
Or certified to by the various commits
la.Yt oil 1of, n
K. of Supt. Steeg. Relative to the issu-
ance of time checks, Mr.. Pope says they
were given out freely by the commission
ers and Bookkeeper Gehan, often a scrap
of paper torn from q notebook sufficing
to enable the holder to secure his money
Warrants issued on the presentation of
these time checks the original owner
never saw, something, Mr.. Pope says,
that enabled more than one dishonest
official to use for an excuse in padding
his weekly report By the use of ficti-
tious names, he dFewis warrants to his
own order. a5 q
Anot'ier Report Coming.
The next report to- be made, Mr.. Pope
says, will deal exclusively with known
padding and swelling of the pay rolls by
certain of the street commissioners and
others in an official capacity. This was
done by means OF the. time cheek system
and VAS an abuse of he,authority which
places the warrants in the hands of the
commissioners for distribution among the
men. Many of these warrants We're peck-
eted and cashed.
Attached to the report is some CORE
spondence between Gen. Pope and J. F.
Gehan, in which the latter is informed
that he could see the, report before it was
made public and make any explanation
that he saw fit. In his answer Mr. &C.
han says he gladly gave Mr. Pope all the
help he could, but he thinks Mr.. Pope
overestimated the value of certain trans
actions that he points out as irreguiari-
ties and discrepancies Swanson viii fig-
IRE considerably in this portion OF the in
testigation.