The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-29

Council Committee Says Work
of Special Auditors Was
Careless.

The report Of the special auditors was
put through the whitewashing machine by
the city council last evening The report
was signed only by William Craig and
Edwin Williams Chris Flygare, the third
member Of the committee, refused to at
tach his name to the paper and to The
I Herald gave as his reason that ne had not
I time TO consider it Embodied in the min
, uJeS or the meeting al which the full re
/ port was originally presented was the
/ comment passed by Craig. GIasmann and
/ Critchlow. The finance committees report
/ occupied several large typewriter sheets.
J Inc tlr5t paragraph contained the follow
/ ing dash Of whitewaSh. After carefully
I examining the report Of the special audit
/ ors and comparing same with the records
/ OF the recorders office, We find il so at
( variance with the facts that we are at a
loss to know from what source they ar
rived at their conclusion. It is evident
! from the marked DISCREPANCIES in the re-
port and the record that the work of the
special auditors must have been done in
[ a very careless manner"
Then followed the citation Of number
, OF warrants which the auditors report
claimed were not properly Endorsed and
signed In each instance they stated that
the papers bearing these qualifications
were filed - the recorders office and
/ this fact alO,- bears out the contention of
MeSSTS- Harris I'D HOllngsWOrth who
INSISTED Jnat the - NTrant proper on file
+ in the auditors Office was the one that
should be indOrsed and signed instead of
the committees report filed with the re-
cOrder- In their OWE defense the commit
Tee laid great stress upon the work done
at the present time being merely a con-
unuatlOn of custom which had covered
many years They admitted that num-
Der of regular payTOlls had not been pre-
scented before the council on account Of
I DelnS regular salaries payable at the end
Of each month under resolution by the
council The contention made was en-
tiTeiy foreign to the reports of the audit
b L.,
sued with a view Of attracting the atten-
ton Of the people from the real facts in
the case In closing. the committee took
this little fling at the men who did the
auditing: Owing 10 the incompetent man
ner in which the special auditors have
done their work We attach but little i'm
pOTtanCe TO their recommendation. and
for legal advice we would prefer to con-
suit the city attorney. Since that part
of the report which deals with the finan-
cial condition Of the city is not affected
by the discrepancies appearing in other
parts. we would recommend that. with the
exception of said discrepancies. it be ac-
cepted and filed.
There was no discussion OF the question
in open council 4 motion to allow the
800 due them for their services was passed
Immediately afterward. with Councilman
R b Paine voting III the negative
Fire Chief Paine submitted Z number Of
recommendations to the council. which
were prompted by the recent fire in the
business district. He asked for four ad-
ditiOnal fiTemen at the central station
that a station he established on the bench.
that more hydrants be esta blished
throughout the city; that more allcyways
be opened, with fire hydrants in them:
that water mains be extended as far as
Five Points and that the Five Points fire
department be brought up to the standard
The recommended tons were referred to the
fire and law committees.
The Trades and Labor assembly asked
that when contracts are let for city work
the eiEht-hOUr-day clause he included
therein They claimed that there was
gross violation Of this law by the con-
tractors handling the city work.