Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-29
SPECIAL AUDITORS
ARE D|sCRED|TED.
co,,uclI Committee Says Their
Work Was Car|essly Per-
formed.
AFFAIRS OF WEBER COUNTY.
OGDEN City Voting Districts Reduced
.Half--Boundarlcs OF New
Voting Precincts.

Ogden. May 2s.-At last nights ses-
.ion Of the city council the report of the
.reclal committee to whom was rc-
f.rred the report Of the special auditing
,onmlttee was presented and adop-e!.
Tho report was signed only by William
rraig aud Edwin Williams. Chris Fly
care the third member of the commit
tee refused to attach his name to the
paper, giving as his reason that he had
MOI time to consider It. Embodied N
the minutes Of the meeting at wh!ch
the full report was originally pre-
scented was the comment passed by
craig. Glasmann ana CritchlOW, The
finance committees neport occup I'd
several large typewrltten sheets Thu
Nrst paragraph contained the following
dash OF whitewash After carefully
examining the report Of the special
auditors and comparing same with the
records Of the recorders Office we find
Il so at variance with the facts that
We are at loss TO know from what
source they arrived at their conclusion.
his evident from the marked discr2p-
ances IN the report and the record
that the work OF the special auditors
must have been done In very careless
manner
Then followed the citation OF a num-
Der Of warrants which the auditors re-
port claimed were not properly Endorsed
and signed In each instance they
stated that the papers bearing these
qualifications were fled In the record
ers offcc, and this fact alone bears out
the contention OF Messrs. Harris ana
Hollmgsworth. who insisted that .he
warrant proper ON file in the auditors
Office was the one that should be in
d0rsed and signed instead of the COM
mlttees report filed with the recorder
In their own defense the committee laid
great stress upon the work done at the
present time, being merely contlnu-
alton Of custom which had covered
many years. They admitted that a
number of regular payrols had not
been presented before the council on
account Of being regular salaries pay
able at the end Of each month under
resolution by the council. In closing
the committee had this to say Of
the men who did the auditing' "Ow-
Ing TO the incompetent manner In
which the special auditors have dono
their work. We attach but little nmpor-
tance to- their recommendation. and
for legal advice we would prefer to
consult the city attorney. since that
part Of the report which deals with the
financial condition OF the city Is not az
I fected by the discrepancies appearing
I'm other parts, we would recommend
THAT. with the exception OF said dis
crepaucios. IT be accepted and hled."
There was no discussion OF the qucs-
ton Nm opcn council. A motion to allow
the $500 due them for their services was
pasid immediately afterward, with
Councilman r.. B. Paine voting IN the
negative.
Fire chief Paine submitted number
Of recomenmdatons 10 the council,
which were prompted by the recent :lrn
IN the business district. He asked for
four additional frcmen at the central
station that station be established on
the bench that more hydrants be o.
tahshed throughout the city, that
more alleyways he opened. with IRE
MIGRANTS in them, that water mains
be extended as far as Five Points, and
that the Five Points fire department lie
brought mp to the standard. The rec
concentrations were referred to the fire
and law committees.
The Trades and Labor assembly ask
81 that when contracts are let for city
work, the eight-hour- day clause be in
cMdad therein They claimed that
there was a gross violation of this law
by the contractors handling the city
work