The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-07
IRRECULA LARITY OF
 PROCEDURE IN PAYMENT OF WHITE? Audit Committees Report Took Precedence Over
 Regular Council Com
 nittee's Action Rumored Today That Fur ther Details May Be Re- quired Before Bill Is Or dered Paid May Smoke
 Out the Mayor.

The opposition to the approval of
 Peter Whites bill asked today upon
 what authority the Audit committee
 Common Council last night with re-
 port on resolution that is still pend
 ing action of the council. Sentiments
 expressed today in the City Hall re-
 garding the report of the Audit conn
 mittee, the opinions of the city att
 torney and the bill of White, would
 still indicate a hostil feeling among
 those who have opposed the White bill
 from the first because it did not defi-
 nitely state the expenditures for which
 he asks over $4,O000
 Speaking of the situation city hall
 attache today said:
 "It is the aim of the opposition to
 make White show a more itemi3ed &C., count of his expenditures, insofar as they pertain to the assistants he em- ploys. It has been generally conced- cd that the expert accountants at city have been hired at the rate Of
 $15 q day, and expenses. It now ap- pears that these assfstants are get- tinS less than that amount. The op- position wants to know all about this matter.
 Here the Audit committee comes before the council with a report con- tatning opinions from the city attor- ney, on q resolution that has not be- como created. That resolution of AL
 derman Moran. which concerns this
 White bill, is in the hands of the l Mayor awaiting his veto or approval Until such a time aS he sees fit to send 1t back to the council for tho Icouncils action, the resolution remains without effect Since the resolution
 has not become affective I don't see why this Audit committee has any right to come before the council with l a report upon it, which would tend to i influence the members of the Board of sAidermen. v l white has furnished more item l ixed bill and ift many fespScts 1t Is
 better than his other one. If 1t had
 order in the 6iret place there prob ably wouldn't have been all this trou- bIe. When White addressed the coun-
 cil last night he said that he would not reveal the salaries he Is paying
 his assistants.
 for the city has his pay made out tc himself personally and not in blank 1 eted form to the head of the depart ment who employs him. That is what Moran's resolution proposes to do ir l this case. It aims to have the cheeks \ doing the work for the city. Nov how do we know that The 6trAtfieid | hotel won't send in a bill to the city after White finishes up his work. fo1 | the payment of bills contracted there by White against tbs city? The Aud. lit commftt~e tells us that Tn paylne I the money TOT the rooms and meals te | White, it goes to The Sfratfield. | eve would like to know what sort of a contract the Audit committee ! entered into with White. The City at ] torneys opinion says that there are | certain clauses in that Moran resolu- | ton that conflicts with the contract made by the Audit committee with | White. Now there are three men on | that Audit committee supposed to be | looking after the welfare of the c1fy. If they have made an agreement that ! blanket bill,. including laundry ex- penses and 90 forth, that shows a weakness in the committee. An ordi- nary council committee would not be as negligent as that Why shouldn't the money and checks be drawn to the order of the one furnishing the services or supplies, as is tho case in every other department of the city. '.So far as there being any record of the contract made between the committee and White, there is mono. The only thing of record Is the cefti- the work. Officially the finance com- n1ittee has no authority to approve the resolution or to take any action in connection with 1t until the mayor takes action on it.
 eff the mayor does not take action before the finance committee meets then that committee will necessarily table the report of the Audit conn mittee, pending his action"
 John Taylor. chairman of the Audit committee said that there is no for nal contract existing between the committee and MT. White. He ex- plained that letters written by him self and sent to MT. White, and MT. Whites replies were the only docu- ments in the nature of contract These he was willing to show.