The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-22
COUNCIL INVESTIGATES CITY EXPENDITURES
Meeting to Put Department
Head on Carpet Called by
President Moore.
PAY ROLLS TO BE PROBED
Move Seen as Development
in Strife With Mayor.

| City council finance committee VIII
meet this afternoon at city hall to
call department heads on the carpet
and investigate expenditures and
conduct of the various city depart
ments. Boynton j. Moore. council
president, announced today.
Council has provided extra funds
for a number Of city departments
and council has the right to know
how the city work is being done,
Moore said.
Some at city hall saw the inves-
| LEGATION announcement as a further
! development in the strife between
council and Mayor Duvall which has
waged intermittently since the first
Of the year.
Moore, today, also defended the
policy Of council in favoring oil COM
panies to lcate filling stations in re-
stricted areas.
! Council recently passed an orci-
nance authorizing a filling station
at one of the south approaches of the
Delaware st. bridge over Fall
Creek in spite of protests of the
board of coming appeals. The ordi'
nance, however was declared Illegal
by city attorneys, who declared the
measure cd not get the necessary
| two-third vote. Measures permitting
station at Forty-Sixth st. and Cen
trail Ave. and College Ave. are also
being considered.
Pay Rolls Ordered
City controller William c. Buser
said he did not know the purpose
of the special meeting, but that he
had been ordered to present IAN
itemized list of pay rolls of all city
departments OF recent date and a
list Of receipts from expenditures
made out of the gasoline tax fund"
Buser drew attention to the failure
Of councilmen to authorize transfers
Of fund necessary for repairing
street and cleaning thoroughfares
and sewers. He said he presented
the ordinance to council Oct. IA.
The measure would allot $4,000 for
street cleaning, $4,000 to repair I'M
improved streets, $1,000 for sewers,
$500 for city yards and $500 for the
stables.
Council has also before it an or
dinance to transfer $4,000 from the
city controllers department to the
administrative department OF the
board of safey and to the police and
fire department.
Fair Shape
Buser said the city is in a fair
financial condition with funds on
hand to pay salaries until Jan. ]
and that he will be able to pay off
the last 100000 of a temporary
loan before the end of 1926.
The budget however must be
supplemented by three large bond
issues now pending before council.
They are $1.60O,OOO to refund War
Memorial bonds, $26O,OOO to pay
court judgments sought by creditors
of the Shank administration and
sos, 900 for new motor equipment
for the police and fire department.
Others Called
It was learned that George Wood.
ward, streets superintendent; Ches-
ter c. Oberleas, city engineer, and
John j. Collins, city purchasing
agent, also were summoned to ap-
pear.
Addition OF many men to the
streets and city engineers depart
ments pay rolls just before pri-
mary and election may be inquired
into, it was said
Councilmen also are said Ito be
out after Collins" The movement
started by Councilman Willard w,
Ferguson last summer, to Gust Col
Inns, now is said to have been joined
by other majority faction members.