The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-17
The Spells.


Won NAV drive away buzzards from the carrion, |
but thew at once return, impng and f1uttering, to
their rerast So with the Delta, though we have |
shown its false statements in regard to the fged
salaries, and its abomnably extravagant estimates
Of the feed Offices it yet returns to the charge,
and now asserts that the Tax Collectors will
receive 21,000, instead of $4,000, as it stated
yesterday:
To show that the Tax Collectors will receive but half
will be hut s7Otoo Mr. Lawrason, in his Financial Report
Board Of Lqudao, and Of the Munie!pai,y amounts
az which the assessment Of 80 40 Ooo would
amount TO t10l 900. This is colectabe by the Tax
Collectors What then are The correct facts and o
9n ns s PEI cent Tsf on M, ssD; on .
Two and half per cent on balance s6O00O0. 1900
Total amount of commissions colectable sa0o
The amount of tax to be collected for municipal
purposes is $650,000. 1t is estimated this year
there will be collected 100000; the commissions
on this amount are $500. But the Delta now
brings in the Liquidators Tax ignorant of the fact
that the Board have ordered the Secretary not to
issue apv bills until there is decision Of the Su
preme Court on the constsutionality OF the law.
Whenever that question is decided, then it will be
time enough to fix the fees for those collections
Who shows ignorance in this matter, the Delta or
the Crescent?
But the Collectors do not require any clerks
says the Delta, for every body pays up taxes with
out being dunned. 1t is true that 1884, 45l were
received from Jan. | to March l, and thus saved
the payers and-a- half per cent. discount. But
nearly every person notified OF this provision
of the law, in favor of prompt payments, by the
Collectors in person. Nearly all was paid in the
| last week of the time, occupying flee persons to
receive the sums, and they frequently assisted by
| tbs Treasurer and Comptroller.
| The Delta, in calculations, beats the milk maid
in the spelling book
s1 go GO 81 g wou a b e
ToIa comm sons fo!two Collector, two month THREE
THOUSAND -Four 1IgSpaEp AND sr.TEggN DoLLARs !
@ in Ell s bsGse Of The tax
facts from the Treasury of the Second Municipality
This is very pretty calculation to be sure but
a single fact upsets it. The Collectors had only
$650,000 to collect and more than one half has
been received. The remainder is to be collected
in drblets
So much for the fees of Collectors, based on
taxes not placed in their hands, and waiting the
tardy action of the Courts.
But the gross error in regard to the fixed salaries
is thus ingenously explained:
Of the G5escsnt AZ speaks Z Officers have saa
means are l ed to the fixed salaTes For example the
a,y Q, me rst Lieutenant o. the liked at
able Offices than this
The persons who have held these offices of
fired salaries " for the last year., are the especial
friends of the Delta, and we readily admit its sl-
perior means of acquiring accurate knowledge OF
the true value of these offices. We can only speak
of the compensation allowed by law. The law
| fxes the salary of the First Lieutenant at nine
hundred dollars. The Delta, which speaks by
| the card, fixes its comforts at $l1OO, and they
| sum up the figure Of $4,000. We shall be under
obligations to the DELTA, if it will furnish u.s. in
common with its other readers, with list of these
comforts, SO that the General Council may sstab-
| fish an uniform tariff of stealings. The charge
which the Delta thus makes against its friends we
| by no means intend to endorse. We know nothing
about it. The Delta speaks from the documents
Let the Crescent do dogive authority for its
| mens We always have the documents before us.''
Will the Delta give its readers sight of these pre-
| cious documents, which nicely feather the prin-
| cpal nests. No wonder the occupants hate &c
leave them. BY the way, would it not be goot
plan TO appoint an investigating committee like tina
| which last year serutinized the Treasurer's an,
| Comptroer's offices, which shall investigate tn
means and APP lances by which the offices allude
10 by The Delta, made so " comfortable ?'
The Crescent will get the prntingt necessary
that object that 1t should make itself party
gross MISREPRESENTATION by which the oficehoders of III
Municipality have 40 long deceived and robbed The people,
The Delta has sort of prescience in regard +
the distribution of offices. But the positivenes
with which it speaks of the Crescent's printing, ii
a matter of absolute knowledge founded on the re-
port of the Committee which waited on Mr.
Brugniens, charged with the delicate duty o
securing his vote for the Delta But when they re
ported his positive refusal, then burst the Delta
heart and mufiiing up his face in the blanket o
ncorruptibe patriotism which he had stolen from
his neighbor over the way, like great Caesar, fel
vanquished by ingratitude-a warning to all poll
ticans how they trust to Independent Aldermen.