The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-31

cate With the above mentioned pentle-
men 70 ascertain II any OF them could be
secured Tor this purpose, and what they
would charge. and then report to the
committee for further action. That was
the last the committee ever heard OF the
matter. Although Mr.. Edmundss name
vas not mentioned as an expert at tho
lime, at least not TO the committee for
that reason he could never have been
engaged by the Finance committee
Last Thursday he appears before the
committee and reads document which
III every line shows that It was pre-
pared for nothing else but political pur-
poses. and as such should not be filed
or accepted as a statement coming from
or authorized by the Finance committee.
The city should not be called upon 10
pay out money for labor performed for
no: other purpose than To mislead the
public.
Ferney Almost Funny.
To show TO the members OF the
City Council why the city should not
be responsible for n work unauthorized
and utterly unreliable. and Of no value
10 the city whatever. H. may be neces-
sary 10 call attention to n few OF the
statements contained in the above-men-
tjoned document.
The gentleman leads out with the
criticism that the city Will NOT receiA,
all accrued interest on the bond money
which II Is entitled to. That statement
lacks common sense, and is by no
means an expert at business transactions
According TO his calculation, the Trust
company should have paid the interes,
on The bond money TO the very minute
hat the money was received in the
Ireasurer's office at Salt Lake City. The
Tact Is that the money was drawn by the
city IN New York. and the discrepancy, as
he calls II. is the time required TO make
the transfer
Make q Discovery.
The next is his attempt to criticise
the engineering department There
among other great discoveries he has
made, is the statement that S72ll5 ought
10 be transferred from the contingent
fund and credited 10 the bond fund
as the money properly should have
been paid out OF the contingent fund.
His excuse for making this great and i'm
portant recommendation is, that when
tne work contemplating the increase OF !
our water supply was commenced IL was !
necessary TO buy equipment for the en- |
gineering department to carry on the |
increased work in the department And |
because there might be a possibility that |
me instruments bought for that pur-
pose might not be entirely worn out or
destroyed before the work is completed |
therefore. his opinion is that It should
De charged against the contingent
tund which is now already depleted
and he entirely forgot, or he did not
Know, that there always will be water
problems, and that the engineering de-
partment Will always be engaged in some
Kind OF work in behalf OF the water
system OF our city, and as such the IN
struments can always be used by that
department: and II only shows that the
gentleman was entirely unit TO sit as
Judge OF the engineering department.
Still Another Spasm.
And 10 further demonstrate this. we
wish TO call your attention to the
sublime and stupeudous gall and stu
pidity OF the gentleman's statement
wherein he claims that the engineering
work TO secure an increased water supply
Tor salt Lake City should not have cost
me city over per cent OF the money
expended, When the commonest kind of
oookKeeper, man without business
experience, no knowledge OF engineering.
knows nothing whatever about the dim,
Guilty and the enormous work and plucl,
III LOOK TO formulate plan, and complete
cross sections and specifications sets |
himself up as a judge of work that
engineers nave spent eight or ten years
on, and have failed TO bring in practical
suggestions that could be adopted, the
question arises as to who engaged this
gentleman. For what purpose was he
Was It to receive information,
No. II shows clearly, further IN his re-
poi', euat II was 10 iniSlead the pub :
TIC Tor political reasons; for he pro-
ceeds 20 say that since the present en-
slneer has taken charge OF the work the !
sost OF the engineering has decreased
Iso per cent. Is that an honest state G
mentT was he SO ignorant that he did I
not know that the engineering work for
me increased water supply was all done |
oy the last administration. and all that c
is necessary now is to supervise the {
contract 80 that the work will be {
properly carried out7 Why did not the I
gentleman tell the TRUTH For n more (
oareraced falsehood was never uttered. L
Kelsey Is Attacked =
The present engineer Is certainly ro- @
sponsible for an extra expenditure v
which is useless. of from $4,000 to b
Stoo.ooo on the building of the conduit !
,.o1e. was II not he that urged. day O
ana night, not to repudiate his recon- D
mendation to spend the money, when the c
OF the members of this Council II
openly and everywhere stated that they I
we're opposed to the grab? Was II not
ne mat brought the American party
party caucus, and then with a politI !
al whip, brought TO bear such influence
nat tne scheme went through? To prove
NAT II is useless, We might call your
attention TO the fact that several thou
sand feet of that conduit was comnIeted
before this administration came inta
power. and that over the most dim
cult part OF the whole distance. THAT
part that was completed is going TO re-
main as IL was made. with the excep
non OF little cement wash inside which.
loes not In any way strengthen r. An
other words, the proposition is 10 leave
Tell enough alone, which is a monumenf
% The sood work done by the last adj
and protest against the
eckless and indefenceless grab or the
bond fund by the present ndmipJstrat,on
Expense Accounts.
Then is taken up the incidental ex- r
sense account in q manner OF finding n
'ault. The records in the Mevor'a go