Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

spending results. Some of it is hid den away in salaries to city officials. and their clerks. and of course. can. not be seen. Still the sums thus doled out shows just as much results as the major part of the big apprbpria- tions.
 The people are wondering what their money is producing that they pay into the city cofiers. They are ] beginning to realize that Sauter has struck the right trail. Everybody con- cedes that he knows just what he 1 talks about and say that is reason whr he is sat upon by the powers l that-be. It is predicted that the time will come when Emgelbert SaUter will be a power in the city meetings.
 Tn people are very heavily over taxed or rather the city. is going into expenditures that are waste of the public money, in that many of the eX- penditures are eXtrayagant and un- necessary. There is no public = provement to show for the money ex : i pended. The present administration and the one that preceded have spent an immense sum of money and the results are not discernable. There was a great hue and cry of the way the Mahan administration, spent mon- @J for about every dollar expended. Take for instance the sidewalks, the muni- cipal building, the general condition I of the streets, and so on. Still these expenditures that showed results are as mills compared with dollars with the expenditures of the present time I Mayor Mahan did things for the permanent Improvement of the city and did not waste the public coin in the ferry business piggeries. auto mobiles salaries and the like, nor .ir matters municipal that show amateur management. Mr. Sauter may be fal removed from the perfect man, and he may be a trifle cranky in some of hi. ideas, but he is dead right in city f. nances, and to repeat there will come a time some day when the tax payers will follow his leadership in matters financial in city meeting.
 It is about time the ordinances ana charter of the city of New Londor were printed in book form and avail. able for public perusal. It is doubt. ful if there is a man in the city, anC that includes the corporation counsel who is familiar with the city ordi nances, as there is no possible way tt get at them as a ready reference. The. have not been printed as a whole il iSoS IiLdH NudILSr OE d century.
 There used to be an ordinance ant is is perhaps in effect now, that Il, expenditure in excess of $500 coult be made without asking for bids. I this ordiance is in effect it is beine constantly violated. At presen city meeting an appropriation wa! made of S6000 to purchase an auto mobile truck to gather the swill fo the piggery. Instead of one truck he ing purchased two have been procure, at a total sum of about $12, GOO. It ii understood that the money for one O the trucks was taken from some othe appropriation. That in itself is not il accordance with the charter and or dinances, and therefore is not on tfr square.
 There were no bids asked for b, advertisement in competition or other wise when the two trucks were pur chased. They may be the very bes obtainable, in the minds of the offi cials who did the purchasing. but local agent of auto trucks was hear, to say that he could have furnishe, two good trucks two that would hay done the work of the other two an at about half the price, and that tn cost of maintainence aside from Q n fuel and the pay of the operator. no J one cent for the first year In othe words he could have furnished fou