The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-29

| tlemen who made that report-aIl OF
them-were Republicans, Sanborn and all
the others. Every one a Republican.
| Now I presume -+hat-aH Of you GENTLE
men are wondering where was the watch
| dog of the treasury willie all this finan-
| ciering was going On. T was his duty to
| know just exactlNs what took place in
that treasury The charter makes him
the auditing officer Of kie city itself, and
| it is his duty to examine the same and
| it gives the comptf6ller power to go into
| his office and find But what the treasurer
| is doing. l say that he was not only the
watchdog Of the treasury, but 1t was his
| duty to know just Sxhy-he did things and
the reasons that 1<haTe for stating this
are these: It was the custom of the city
| treasurer. as required by law, to publish
a statement Of the affairs of the city
| treasury, and in going over this matter
] have found that on July 1, 1896, the
treasurer had deposited $166 600 or about
$4,000 more than the law allowed
McCaFdy Takes Care of Funds.
Now it is impossible to believe that a
man who is believed to have run the citys
finances did not know of this fact, but
there is additional facts to prove that the
comptroller did know all about it, but
some other banks got very FESTIVE about
the deposit in the Allemannia bank and
made complaint. I think some of them
appeared before the common council
either in November or December, 1886,
and the matter was brought to the at
tention Of the council. The comptroller
was present and he explicitly stated that
in the matter of the depositing of city's
funds he purposed to favor his friends.
0aughter) Now l do not know what
our Republican brethren would say if l
want to state further that $4,000 of the
citv's money was on deposit and settle
ment was afterwards made by which
the city took $4,000 in full settlement
of it's claim against the securities on the
treasurers bond or other bonds so that
the city lost $4,000 cold hard cash on this
piece Of fnanciering.
Now as I started to say. if we had
Democratic administration and a Demo-
cratic mayor and if we had a Democratic
treasurer and a Democratic council would
not they have raised a shout from the
house tops and with a megaphone?
Seventy thousand dollars lost because the
treasurer put the city's money in an IN
solvent bank for thexpurpose of bolster
ing it up. OaughterY They simply call
ed it financiering. It has been said here
tonight that the strong plea of the coun-
Gil has always been tflatAthe charter must
never be violated whenever there has
been salary Of Democratic Office holders
to be paid and MG6sardy has failed to
act up to it and when the school teachers
after doing their work presented their
vouchers he has found excuses to put
them off. THE charter does not allow Us
to pay you although YOU have done the
work There is a great comptroller.
Charter for the Teachers.
He got away from them, but when 1t
comes to question: of letting his friends
in on deal l am forced to quote the.
old Quotation made by a Republican Of
fetal in Pennsylvania to illustrate what
he said about the institution. What is the
city charter between friends 2l'~Jt seems
to me small matter for the comptroller
to turn down his political foe. 1t does
not require much moral courage. but in
each case in regard TO his, friends say
Mr. McCardy has bean weighed lin the
balance and found venting, as has been
shown by this report of the common
council eApplause.) (Applause) (Ap-
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