Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-08-24
LAYS CITYS
CREDIT BARE
COMMISSION REFUSES no PAY
JUST OBLIGATIONS.
PARTIAL TO SALARIES
Political Servants Must BE Projected
Consistency H. NundCrlul-l,m-
crgCuClcs Hinge on Finance,

llnun inc EUhu nNlilt ANA llfl'lNl'N' v
unsesaillhlc standing of the city
with Mayor Martin gone and r. NJ
wooden commissioner of finance and
revenue acting as mayor, the COM
nl.sion unanimously agreed ~ not al
low bins against the city which were
created prlor ia the first Of last July
Tho commissioners based their ac-
tiou upon AN opinion ut Attorney
General West In which the states lc-
poI adviser nolds il 10 be unlawful ror
cit, to nav debts contracted previous
to tbo end of the fiscal year out Ot
the succeeding years levy.
II a. noticeable however. that the
commission drew very fine har-lIne
distinction. a distinction that parakcs
nf such a. uicoty that it spreads itself
Au,znn UIto AT the second glance.
when II took the salary bills from the
stack of other bills that has accumu-
lated during the past two or three
months and. notwithstanding any
opinion Attorney General West may
have handed down i'm connection with
having bills created one year ont ot
the succeeding wears levy, allowed
them IA lac paid
If Mr. Vests opinion Is held TO be
tho law in the one case, and not in
the other. II certainly looks Ike the
cor,nissi,r has ulaced itself In po-
,i,ta, ,'hi,h i5 rnoynIainablo If
,h.ro f. ,ry dinoronre .n far Hs the
law is concerned in the relation of
pavments AS expressed 10y the attor-
nov peneral. il has 50 far failed to crop
ont anywhere along the line, and II
,ho ,on,,,iseion wore afraid of LAYING
tb.mgolvos lioble IA prosecution should
tbcv ,lIow tbe whole bunch of bills,
49,, .,t,,,. u.,huitv ynuld uudoubtcdly
ncc,, throurh allowing any part Of
r,a h.at Iii, for n is simplv ono
,i,I. T., ,I,, ,rhnIo chain maj has been
rono,od
~, ,,,os,nt commiesion Is starting
T., MIA tjt IYtn In thc game. II
,,.,,,id conn IA hn afraid ia disregard
,,a t,,,. ,r tho stntc and the law as
Ioid down I'm the city charter. The
nroson, commission. # will be remem-
Larod naid no attention to the re-
,,,,tron,ants or tho civ charter In the
,nntt,r' .,r koenip,, tl,o treasurer of the
,,,'u,5o, hond and thcro was "A per-
,,.1 ,.,o,,Jino o,,o,, sovora1 weeks when
I r. uonltins former city treasurer
,,dar ,n bord IN his knowledge
no,. ,o tho l,nnwledpe of the commits
,ion
And il wn,iId seem that If the com
mission wero afraid 10 disobcy the law
thnt thoIr consclcnces would have
noo,od ,hom at least a little bit when
thev racently uppled with the sewer
rnnd ana transforred money voted Ivy
40 noonlo for a special purpose into
a,o,ro,, rurd This was done with the
an tnovIodge of the complications
,,hicb II mipht have caused should
onvono h,vo taken the trouble to have
zone after the members Of the com
mission J" for the violation Of the law
Rut the commissioners had explicit
ronGdenro In tbo citizenship Of Tulsa
,,bich bo. remained unbrokon In this
ana Instance and the amount of mon.
o, borrcwod from the sewer fund has
sinco hser repaid
,rhoro Ia naturally reason for al
uhirse ana if an unlawful transfer
80 fnrdg can he made. II would seem
,,,t - is not preotor a danger to RC
oho,d and nav hills ont of this year,
,oy,, that vero created before the he
Ginning or n ospociallv when vciw IN
,bc ligbt mai some of the bills so ere.
a,od groro so Maid
rho di0orenco which ariscg between
,beee two inetapces Is perhaps more
clearly brought out in the report OF
mo commission proceedings as giVef
nv the oniciol organ in which 1t seek.
,o nnIoad about s2O. 900 worth Of tn,
,rn,ii Hills in the CITY auditors otic,
an tho former administration, when