El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-07
TRIPS AND THE
COST Of MAKING
Orndorff Compares Califor-
MIA Trip with One Sweeney
Made to Austin.

expenses-nine days at $50 a day, and
I then So for two nights he worked.
7 he Kelly administration spent $45- 900
on the disposal plant that did not
dispose. ar. Sweeney served four
. months as mayor in 1910 tlackinE two
days.. He drew pay for the four months
\ and $500 additional voucher No. 400
for services rendered on paving mat
Ier-foGr months at $3.50 month, $1,000
and 5000 additional. making a total
/ OF $4,000. or $3.50 a month for his
services.
Sweeney is supporting the ring
crowd this time. When Sweeney left
office the city was in debt S2s5.O0 and
a bond issue was necessary to fund this
indebtedness
Inspectors
The new county hospital was being
INSTRUCTED when we came into office,
November 1914. The ring had one
inspector on the job, though they aow
raise a cry against inspectors. and
they had Jim Conkling. too. 'on another
Job then. Doesn't the public think il
would have been wise for the old ring
to have rad some inspectors when they
spent So09,0C0 on the north loop. and
ether roads, and $4,000 on the dispO-
sal plantG Nothing is left to show for
the WORK.
Ed Pryant is court interpreter, as
nearly everyone knows.
There never was a concrete inspec-
ter at Ysleta-another false statement.
The county engineer has Frank Can
delaria as oithulithic inspector Why
Is II tha= the cement company, at its
own expense. maintains an inspector
on the upper valley concrete road now
being butt by Lee Moore under con-
fract2 - hy does the First National
bank have a contract with Mr. Mas
Quelette 10 inspect and audit its books
twice every year, Business-that's
The reason
MiIeaEe Proposition
Regarding my collection Of mileage,
Roy y. BsrnUm, appointed by the ring
makes up the payroll and issues the
warrants iCr the county commission
ers. I am allowed three cents per mile
going ana coming. whether ] ride.
walk or fly Only twice since 7 have
been in office has my salary exceeded
500 per month We never drew one
cent of pay on any trip we ever took
Compare this mileage, that am justly
entitled 20, with the $4,000 We re-
covered from Turney & Burgess Sec
the last audit as to the shortages and
mismanag cement Of some Of the present
officeholIers under the old ring
crowd J quote from facts and fig
ures, not I am told
Raise In Valuations.
challense Mr. Quad, or anyone
else, 10 show one specific case OF an
unjust raise fl valuation. Show it,
Mr. Quaid, show it, We were nomi-
mated in July; the old ring crowd
fixed the tax rate in August. and cut
the general fund nine cents, the jury
fund 81 cents. We took office the
following November The following
August put the general fund back
to p cents and the jury fund to six
cents. yet the raise in county taxes
was only 10 cents on 800. The tax
OF the small home owner has not been
raised at al. and his present vslua-
ton was fixed by the old ring crowd.
50 whatever he is paying. is on g val
uation fixed by them.
In Comparison.
TRY to discover what became OF the
100000 they spent on roads See the
plant that won't dispose Hear
the walls o. those who have lost their /
iObs under the new administrat ion. /
and then see the new poor farm built /
Nv the present county commissioners /
see the neH hospital. remOdeled. and +!
conducted BY the present administra- l
ton. See the new courthouse, the !
finest in the state. See the new con /
crete and bitulthic roads built under
p five Eea1 guarantee, and investigate |
he recent raises in valuations and I
then vote fer the men best suited 10 |
administer the affairs of the county !
This is all we ask
Times Supported Bond Issue.
The Il Paso Times, which has been /
bowling ABOUT the present county ad- |
lost the county printing /
hat II hau Eeld always, when We came i
into office end we also raised the as /
-essment or that paper TO parity /
nth other property, adding $4,000 to I
the valuation. The Times supported |
the poo- farm bonds for S100 900, the /
auditorium 10 the courthouse. $3.50. 900; /
the road bond issue Of $500 600 and /
the scrip issue to complete the roads.
500. 900. The old ring crowd voted J
Tor the courthouse before We went into /
office. S41S,C 600. This totals S1I6S. 600. |
The taxes brought the balance up TO |
the s2,603,CO0 the ring is talking /
about e. T aso county il 90 big bust 1
ness institution Il takes business men !
10 conduct Its affairs. It is getting too /
Big for the old ring crowd. for they 1
have never been known TO put UP men 4
II this type for office"
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