The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-31

datlon TO WhOm IL belongs ana 10 crltlciSe
those who have deprived the city of mon
ey, and are still Withholding and pre-
venting the city from receiving interest
on idle money which we as matter of
justice should receive?
Neglect by Thompson.
HE might have called the attention of
the council to the fact that in the bond
issue 10000 was set aside for the better
ment of the water system in the city.
And as this administration has been in
power for eight months nothing has been
done to use the money for the purpose
for which ii was set aside, while thou
sands of water users have been short
and have been deprived of sufficient wa
ter, when millions of gallons have been
running to waste in our creeks just be-
cause this money has been lying idle in
the banks and not been used for the pur-
pose for which il was intended.
Then in conclusion he makes another
glazing misstatement In an attempt to
show that the last administration did not
keep good faith in spending the bond
money as they were pledged to do. He
says that about $4,000 more money was
spent in securing water rights than was
estimated In said statement. This is not
true. The $4,000 used for buying the
East Jordan Irrigation companys stock
was taken from the fund set apart for
increasing our water rights in Utah lake
and the records in the city recorders Of
lice Will SHOW tIliS 10 DS the ldct
Employment Illegal.
From the above it is plain to see. we
think. that all the members of this coun-
Gil will agree with me not to recognize
this document as an official report nor
to pay any moneys out of the city treas
ury for it's production because it would,
in the first place, be illegal for Mr. Ed
munds was never legally employed by the
city. and in the second place he is evil
IDENTIFY unfit to carry out the intention
of the resolution, and then again, it is
written for no other purpose than TO
build up and defend the American party.
1t would be a crime to take money out
of the city treasury for any such pur-
pose more so on account of the finan-
cial condition of the city which confrontS
us today.
I'VE therefore recommend that this
communication be not received
Americans" Express Horror.
Several Americans Councilman Fer
ry in particular, professed to be horror
stricken over the strong language used
I'm the Fernstrom report. Mulvey and
Ferry both insinuated that Councilman
Wells was the real author of the report
This Mr.. Wells denied. He said how
ever, that he concurred in what the re-
port said.
81 dictated the report" said Mr. Fern
strom, land my son took it off on the
typewriter. | neglected my religious du-
ties Sunday to get it up"
Fernstrom then made vigorous speech
in favor of his report. common book
keeper like Edmunds. he declared, knew
nothing of engineering, and yet presumed
to criticise engineers.
Administrations previous to the last
one" he said, spent $4,000 on this water
problem. They produced no results. The
last administration-an honest and able
one-produced results, secured a water
system for the city and did il on a legiti-
mate basis, and yet you hire a man to
throw dirt on that administration.
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