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ormer city treasurer; they do not seem
D realize that any responsibility was
ttached to them, or was it their duty to
xamine more closely into the city's
inances than they did. 1t was the
;hairman's duty, more than any other,
% examine the accounts OF, and check
up the treasurer regularly each month,
and to see that his report was furnished
for publication. Had this been done,
1t would have been difficult thing, il
not impossible, for treasurer to be
short in his accounts with a city 80
burdened with debt. And yet this same
committee makes statement and credit
themselves with the amount of a de-
Ratification, that through their care
lessness the tax payers lose thousands
of dollars, and in the face Of this they
publish to the world that the city's debt
10 prac :ically nothing. What wonder
full thing imagin alton Is! How was it
that the chairman Of your committee
and your mayor had to raise $3l, 10000,
to pay notes due Fe bruary 18th and 26.b,
March cob, and April 9Th Of this year,
In order to save SAG, 900 90 of the Trust
Bonds. which were pledged without
moral or legal support; and part of
this money no doubt, is what the city
was robbed of. There is one part OF the
report of the finance committee Of the
council OF 1900, that shows that they
were aware of their failure to perform
their dxty, for they state the following
in their report;
"The floating debt of the city is the
one which bears the closest Watching
and that is the one which we should
feel the most interest, as in that item
multitudes Of official sin aud political
corruption may be covered up" 1t
dose seem that the quotation from that
re port lie worthy Of consideration,
when we realize the fact that this poor
city has been systematically robbed
for years, and robbed too during the
administration of the chairman of the
finance committee Of the council OF
1899 and 1900, and also during the years
of 1897 and 1898. We take 1t that the
chairman of a committee is the one
who, as rule, has the bulk Of the
work Of his committee to per form; he
ts the one that the Cthers look to, and
he is also the one to receive the bulk
Of the oommendaottn or condensation,
as he deserves.
Much is expected of the chief ex-
cutiye OF the city, and juctly so, for he
OF all the members of the Mayor and
Council Of this city, is the only one
who is paid for his services, and if it is
necessary, as an additional stimulus to
the binding oath of Office, he should
see to 1t that committees do their duty,
and particularly so the Finance Com
mitsee, for he is by virtue Of his office
ex offioio chairman'of this committee
as we'll as all other committees Then
why is it that this executive for the
past two years, and the one who i'm
mediately proceeded him, should have
failed to discover that the city's money
was being systematically extracted
from the treasury, Your committee
asked whyt Your committee would
ask why, for each and evesy year for
past years, no sinking fluid for the
redemption Of bonds at maturity has
ever been put aside, although each
and every year for years, an ordinance
has been passed requiring this to be
done, and naming the sum OF Que thou.
sand collars.
Your committee desires to call the
attention Of this council, to the escrow
or trust bonds. There should be in the |
treasury of the city $4,000, Of 8 per
sent Sewerage Bonds, held ia trust
Tor the remdemption Of $62.150. baIanc
of the per cent Compromise bends,
January 1908,
We hud that $11 900 have been dis.