The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-01-25
1AnOheY rs. 1905.
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Of HUNTERDoN COUNTY.
soaE oFTse T1eas NOT SHOWS

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zeas, the people who furnish - Harsr
portion d the money expended for
public purposes, oaght 20 be given AZ
opportunity Of learning what mas
been done with the money expended
ring tho past year But tho neg
b ,ard Of freeholders has ignored the
LIVER end Of tho county and though
We can pay large part Of the tax that
L M far as our rights 20, as we have
NJ representation on the board and
no nouns Of ascertaining from local
sources information in regard to pub
lie expenditures.
Tho Pennington papers, which are
a#a o. 4
Is rife IN county affairs, which are
prone 10 praise rather than xpose
corrupt officials, enfgbton ne some
what, for all Of them print the state
ment. Tho Flemington Newspaper
motto IL based upon the saying
Where Ignorance is bliss. land VS.
get plenty Of comfy printing! tis
folly 10 be wise' and lose it. In
other words, SILENCE is golden g"
Tho old board Of freeholders estab=
hahea ratio Of k15 90 for each psper
publishing the financial statement;
the now board published the state
mont last Jaanary at sI2j00 each
The reason for tho raise ia unknown.
for at the old rate it could have been
published IN more papers for the
same amount of money.
Oar esteemed contemporary, The
High Bridge Gezotte. paper that il
not bought or frightened into silence,
publishes the following in it's issue Of
last week which we are pleased to
quote.
The county financial statement
which appears in this issue Of the CA
zFftR and IN other papers Of the com.
" Is the statement which the law re-
quires the county collector to publish
50 that the people OF the county may
know what had become OF the money
raised by taxation, SO import1nt w
THIS deemed by the Legislature that
section Of law was devoted to the
manner In which the statement should
be made up which is as follows.
Chat the account shall embrace
a detailed statement Of all expenditures
Of said boards for the proceeding year
including every description Of expend
itufes by items, the amount claimed
and the amount allowed in each in
stlncc, for what purpose, by whom OF
dered, and 10 whom paid" An in
speetlon of the statement will show
that the law has not been complied
with and the ordinary person will know
about as much about the detailed tx
penditures after looking it over as be
fore For Instance, OF the $,7,762 ~
spent for bridges and sudden destruc
ton, not a single item is given SO tina,
person can know the purpose OF the
expenditure nor the bridge upon which
it was spent
Perhaps the most interesting portion
of the statement IS that in the first col
umn under the head of Receipts"
which includes a number OF payments
TO the county made by various officials
as direct result of the investigation,
but which are not very lucidly ex
planned by the statement
The first OF these is al. s. Callan,
refunded 81, which was for a double
charge made by him The next is "a.
K. Dllts, for stenographers' fees which |
he had collected during his term and
had illegally retained since they be.
longed to the county and were SO re
ported by Judge Shipman These fees
he has since been paying over to the
two payments OF 81 each being
noted
Following this is Geo. NJ. Frech |
Ior prosecutor fees, $44s' This is
ouly a small portion Of Mir Ffech's in
debtedness and steps are being taken
BY the Investigators to compel full |
settlement Mr.. lrech has offered to
settle by paying $3.50 additional but
this is not satisfactory to the investig,
tors.
The next item of Importance is "E
+. Ham, refunded, sr7s." This is
a compromise settlement with Ham
on the tramp account lie charged,
it will be recalled, fifty cents for the
arrest of tfamps quite regardless Of
he ever arrested OF even
saw them. As there was no evidence
thai could be obtained as to the mum,
Der of arrests that actually were made
by Ham and suit would have been
so difficult to sustain, those interested
in the investigation acquiesced in the