The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-28
TAXPAYER LEAGUE
AIRED OBJECTIONS
Expenditures in City and
County Condemned at
Friday Meeting
ASK SEWER JOB PROBE
Have Induced County Attor-
ney to Take Up Matter of
Civil Prosecution

1fau the suggestions voiced at the
meeting Of the Taxpayers Protective
league. held last night in the court.
house are put into effect. the city
officials might as well lock up shop.
Eor various speakers at the meet
Inc said that the way the taxpayers
money was being spent ought to be
Investigated and several favored
s,opplrg the payment uf another
dime of money until after the next
election.
About two hundred women turned
ont for the meeting. The league
ialms a membership OF six hundred
Sind the city's population is $4,000,
KS Tate Brady. president Of the as
ISOLATION, presided at the meeting,
Merritt j. Glass IL secretary.
While both city and county Off
clals we're criticized for about
every official act since going into
office the biggest objections were
raised to sewer and paving projects
sewer job 166 was mentioned often
sneaker on that subject. He ended
but w Il. Orr. was the principal
by saving that the citizens OF district
No. 1866 were going to prosecute the
city officials, who they believe are
guilty Of graft and that the county
attorney had volunteered h 1
services.
To Investigate Sewers.
A few moments after Orr's
lengthy talk, the meeting passed a
motion proposed by r. j. Quinn, tC
employ an attorney to investigate
the sewer job in district No. 166 and
file suits against all officials be-
Allowed guilty Of grating. a COM
1mlttee OF five was appointed by the
Ehair to confer with the county at
torney and keep in constant touch
with him az to this matter. This
committee is composed OF T. j
Quinn, c. y. Davis, John p. Greg
ory. ia Yoder and Walter Chit.
wood.
As the meeting drew to a close
r. X, Hughes c.ade talk in favor
OF holding up the Spavinaw bonds
Things are getting 70 bad" he
said, that we don't know whore
any Of our money goes. Take the
second sewer bond election. Most
Of the monev spent--where? Not
long ago this city voted a big water
bond issue. i am in favor of APP
pointing a committee TO go before
the attorney general and get him 70
hold up approval of the water bonds
until after a new water board Is
elected"
But c. s. Meshew Of the real estate
exchange opposed the idea and after
his talk the subject dropped. 9th
ers who spoke at the meeting were
D. A. Hughes w. T. owen. c. A
Campbell. l.. +. Goff, L. ]. Quinn
r. c. Hughes, w. T.. Orr, S. r. Lewis
and p. b. Parr.
Pass Resolutions.
Three resolutions were brought
up before the n.eeting. All were
passed unanimously. The first came
from an engineering committee
which recommended that the Amer
lean Society OF Engineers be asked
10 conduct an investigation into
sewer and paving matter and con
tracts II was voted to have the
society report the findings of its In
yestlgation to the engineering com
mlttee.
In the second resolution tht
county attorney was instructed tC
conduct an investigation into sewei
matters and prosecute where sucf
action Is advisable. The third reso
lutlon was in regard to the Dawson
road bond issue. The meeting con
demned the forcing Of $500 "blooC
mon )" from Dawson citizens to OBJ
tain tho dismissal Of the injunction
suit against the bonds.
The next meeting OF the league 1
10 be held Friday night in the cit.
hall auditorium.