Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-07
CUIHBtRT SAYS TAX
 IS DODGEO BY HOTEL
Special Auditor Finds All Money Accounted For by
 Douglas Officers


 E T. Cuthbert. who was employed to audit the books of the city. made a report to the city council on Sat urday night which was to the effect that the system of accounting might be greatly approved. but that be had found that all moneys collected bv the various officers had been properly accounted for. Mir. Cuth' bert called attention to the fact that the Gadsden hotel and the Queen hotel had not been paying license tax in accordance with the number of rooms reported by each to him when be called on the management of these hotels.
 The ordinance providing for no tel licenses requires that for each room 25 cents must be paid guar terIy. That portion of the report referring to the hotel licenses paid DN tue NxatCA A-A-~A
 den is given as follows;
 When checking up the licenses collected, I observed that the Gads- den hotel paid on June 2O' 1910; September 24. 1910; December 6, 1910: March 1. 1911, the sum of ten dollars, being 25 cents per quarter for forty rooms As I was well aware that the Gadsden has more than forty rooms. I ascertained from the management that there were ninety-four rooms. which means that instead of paying S1o per quarter. in my opinion, they should pay s23.5o' which means that the amount re ceived by the city was for the four quarters above mentioned, S54 short of what was due the city.
 "On March %. 1911. the Queen hotel paid a quarter license of s75o, in other words. 25 cents per quar- ter for only thirty rooms, and I as certained from the management of that hotel that they had sixty-four rooms, which means that for that one quarter the amount received ny the city was ss.59 short.
 'Ordinanee No. 4, section Il. reads as follows Every person. firm. association or corporation car rying on or conducting a hotel CT inn shall pay a quarterly license tax of % cents for each room in said hotel or inn. provided no license shall be less than two dollars and fifty CS2.50) cents quarterly"
 The city council, in considering this part of the report, decided that these hotels and all other hotels in the city should be required to pay a license tax under the ordinance on the average number of rooms used, and that the managers should make an affidavit as 10 this number when called on quarterly for the + cense.
 The auditor also directed atten. ton to the fact that many of the bills audited and paid by the coun eli were not properly made out and certified, and also rec~-- -1ed that all supplies for fre -louid be purchased on an c1- from the city clerk. and that tE SC orders should accompany the demands when presented for payment
 Lambertson Makes Complaint.
 T. Nj. LambertsoH, who owns some flats in the city, appeared before th' council, through his attorney, A. c Lockwood. and complained Of th' price he was being charged fol water. He claimed that he ha' been charged s26 for water in thir teen rooms. using approximately 5e Oe0 gallons, and in this connection cited that the Douglas Improvement company had paid s45 for approxi mately 350,00O gallons of water fo the month of May. Mir. Lambertso was of the opinion that this wa gross discrimination against th small consumer. This complain was referred by the council 10
 committee with instructions to cor fer with the water commission an report to the council. There ar other complaints in the city regar' ing this discrimination and the nov made by Mr. Lambertson may
  expected to develop considerabl discussion along this line Accor ing to the reports of the water cor mission. the total cost of pumpin and distributing water in the ci' amounts to about 13 cents per tho sand gallons, while the large co sumers like the Douglas Improy ment company and the Nacoza raaroad are only charged 10 cen per thousand gallons for their wate However, on the other nano'
 must be taken into considerable that the Douglas Improvement COT