The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-10
His Draft on the Western Ger
man Bank Promptly Paid
The 5000, 900 Is Now Ready TO BE
Checked out BY the City of
Paducah.
MONEY Is STILL IN TIE BANK

bonds and getting the money on them
was consummated by City Treasurer
John j. Dorian, who accomplished IL
without any fuss and feathers, and
which could and would have been
done the same way IL was had not the
mayor and Others held sll their COR
ferenoes, whisperipgs aud sessions at
which the disposition OF the bond |
money WAS considered.
The city bonds were sill duly signed |
up Monday ami placed In Treasurer
Doriau's lap by the mayor. Tress.
urer Dorisn expressed them the same
d.y to tho Western German bank at
/ Cincinnati.
Al the same time Treasurer Dorian
expressed the bonds he drew DRAFT
for s2O0 900 on the Cincinnati bank,
signed by only himself, ant the draft
ives promptly paid, AMI 5000 900 is
nov subject 20 thu check or order ~
Treasur Dorian.
II will perhaps he Of intsrss, g.
note that Trt asurer Dorian IL the only
fiirsl who bas any right 20 handle
snch funds There wss no time when
10 was otherSise. vet the msvor hn
anoe committee and board members
for daps considered and discussed
ths disposition of the bond money,
and apparently did not consider
Treasurer Dorian in the matter at all
Colonel Dorian said nothing. H.
nal read the charter and knew no one
was authorized 60 handle the money
except the city treasurer, so he LEI
them proceed TO make themselves look
foolish so long as they did nothing ex.
cept talk. Had they attempted TO make
any other disposition Of the funds
than turning them ever 90 the city
treasurer, Colonel Dorian was pre-
pared to be heard aud he would have
been heard.
The administration not only for
some little time ignored the city
treasurer and attempted to take the
. whole matter out of his hands despite
the plain provisions OF the city
charter, but even went 20 far as Go
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of sending
the mayor TO Cincinnati after the
money or of asking the president Of
the bank to bring it down.
This is made the more amusing be-
cause the money is here and yet not a
single dollar OF the $500 600 was
brought to Paduosh. IL is ridiculous
to think Of our able officials discussing
the various ways of bringing the
7 money down, and Of tho RESPONSE
q bility Of express companies in trans.
l. porting large sums Of money, when
!. the whole Transaction was consum-
Z mated in few hours and without a
{ single dollar being moved.
s Colonel Dorisn was finally recog.
o nized, however, by the. administTa-
A tion. His name is the only one that
appears on the hundreds of coupons,
aud his name is the only one that was
signed to the draft for 5000. 900, prob
ably the largest ever handled by q
bank in this part of Kentucky. When
certain prominent city official went
to Colonel Dorian q short time ago
and attempted to bluff him by declar-
log that the city wanted TO loan out
= this money at a good rate OF interest
$ because the people were worked up
I over 1t, and that II anyone attempted
. to interfere ''he would be shown up.
( Colonel Dorian only smiled that bland
smile Of his and informed the official
that the people were not worked
up" about the amount Of interest,
but over the fact that it was necessary
to put out the money at interest at
all. The people were worked up. he
declared, because they hadn't been
given the improvements for which the
money was voted. That it was over
those officials responsible for the fact
that these improvements had not been
started and the money was not ready
to be used, that the people were
worked up.
Colonel Dorian has known all the
time that the law required the money
paid to the treasurer and deposited by
him. The money however, is in bank,
and whether or not the city gets a
dollar for the use Of it for whatever
length OF time 1t is allowed to remain