The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-02
BLAME CLERK FOR
A.. {. MORETON BILL
neutrality-suspicious. Expose Re-
suits in Account Being
Sent Back.
EZRA PAY FOR EMPLOYEES
WANT MONEY BESIDE THEIR
REGULAR SALARIES.

Following The Herald-Republican s
exposure of the attempt to slip an ille-
gal bill for s720.25 in favor of A. z.
Moreton, son OF Councilman j. B.
MoFeten, through the city council, the
water committee held a special meet
ing yesterday afternoon and submitted
substitute report in which an at
tempt was made to explain how it hap
pened that an employe in the city
treaSureF's office swOre falsely 10 the
bill without the knowledge of the man
in whose favor il was drawn
The bill was finally referred back
20 the city treasurer with a request
that he make out the bill to the indi-
Viduals who were entitled to the
money. Accompanying the report of
the committee was a list of seventeen
individuals who. the city treasurer
said. were entitled TO the money which,
according TO the bill as originally pre-
sented to the council, was due A. E.
MoretOn. OF these seventeen individ-
uals, ten are connected with the city
treasurer's office and four or five of
the ten are regular employees of the
office and drawing monthly salaries
as such. This, it is maintained, is
plain graft, inasmuch as the city ordi-
nances do not provide for extra pay
for those employed on regular salaries.
The original report of the water
works committee of the council as
made last Thursday, was that the bill
in favor of A. z. Moreton be allowed.
The report drafted yesterday after The
Herald-Republican exposed the graft,
said: Your committee, to whom the
bill drawn in favor of A. E. Moreton
for $720.25 for writing and delivering
l6,S47 water tax notices was referred,
begs to report:
We find that although the amount
Of the bill is correct, vet its presenta-
ton in the name of A. z. Moreton is
not only erroneous. but unjust to Mr..
Moreton.
Admit 1t Is Irregular.
THE presentation of the bill in his
name is irregular, as the bill is made
out and presented without the knowl-
edge or consent OF Mr.. MOreton, by
the treaSurer's office after having been
sworn TO in the name of Mr.. Moreton
by an emplOye in the treasurer's office
who exceeded his authority. Because
OF this apparent error in the face OF
tho bill, IL should never have been
presented 10 this council by the audi
tors office.
I'VE further find that the presen-
tatton of the entire bill in the name of
Mr.. Moreton is unfair to him, for the
reason that there were seventeen per-
sons employed in common with him
by the city treasurer TO do this work.
or the $72O.25, only S60.69 is due him.
We are informed that the treasurer's
office took the liberty of putting Mr..
MoretOn's name TO the order in order
10 save making out separate bills and
warrants 10 each of the seventeen. In
view or these facts, your committee
recommends that the S720.25 for max
ing out and delivering the 16,947 no
tees be put on the list TO the credit
of Gideon Snyder, city treasurer, and
that he disburse the same"
Accompanying the report of the
committee is a list of the clerks VINO
are supposed to have made out and
delivered the notices, and included in
this list are the following clerks in
the treasurer's office on regular sal
airy: L. E. Macarthur, $5135; w. O.
Norrell, $51.35; c. H. Kraft, S51.35;
B. Snyder, S60.69; NJ. NJ. Beaver,
$6O.6S. Others on the list for amounts
ranging from SIT to $50 include w. r.
JOSH, Edward Beaver, Laura Godbe.
Guy Snyder and Miss Snyder
City Treasurer Gideon Snyder saws
these water tax notices were delivered
by these messengers personally Other
members of the administration say
they were mailed and the city paid the
postage.