Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-20
CITY Hxpenditures.

We recur again to the annual expenditures of
the city, fOr the purpose Of imposing upon ouI
voters the necessity of looking well to their men
in The vote for Councilmen, on Monday next. The
recei, ts and disbursements for the year 1853 are
now public property, and we call upon the voters
to look well 10 them, and see the necessity of re-
form in the discussing departments Of the city,
The receipts for the last year, from the legtimse
and annual sources of revenue, amount to the
sum Of SIG, 0S7 40, and what has become of it!-
There has been expended in grading &c., &C.,
S2l.567 06 Water Works, 80 9O2 81; for Fire
Department sl1,s25 IL; for Sanitary regulations
and Board of Health S40S,07; Public landings &C.,
S5,045 IA Market house &C., S932,09; Gene
terry $4,000; Lamps &C., S2,69s Is; Fees to Al
dermen, Sergeant, ODrrseer of chain gang, Tailor,
lOitnssseS &C., &C., tie snug little sumCf $685.,
60 to Richard Joiee, for injuries, Sl26, and for
miscellaneous expenditures, S3,632 &c, making an
aggregate of current expenses amounting to $780,
SOS %. Then there is to be added to this sum
the interest on city debt, amounting to S4s,1ss So
and Railroad expenses extra of subscription SlO'-
722 O5. Grin generaI terms the entire receipts
from all sources, revenue, bonds, &C., including
$3.50. 600 borrowed for subscription to the Cincin-
natl and Marietta Railroad, are 1884, 1923 80, and
scription amount to but $3.50, 200, leaving the sum
of SI3i, 1923 so rs the apparent ordinary and cur
rent expenses of the city for the past year, while
the legitimate annual revenue Of the city for the
same period amounts TO but S76,Os7 40, leaving
an excess of expenditure beyond receipts of $751;
s35 40, which amount has been raised by loans
and the issue of ctY drafts, yet outstanding and to
be met in future. We may not be strictly accurate
he hefo US
In the face Of such expenditure as this, who will
not dread for the futurel We know that it will
be argued that some of this outlay went to meet
expenditures heretofore ordered. Grant it, and it
only proves that the evil of which we complain is
no new thing, aud therefore the more dangerous,
fer of all habits old ones the most difficult 20
eradicate.
But, further, the report before US presents no
statement of liabilities incurred, the pay day of
which is yet in the future. We know not what
these are, and have means Of knowing, but any
one WHO has read proceedings of the Council
during the past year will have no difficulty in de-
Gliding that the amount OF these Liabilities wiIrfar
exceed any brought over from the previous year,
and we fear will GyfuLLy exceed them. With this
deficit of s5s.s36 40 staring US in the face what
voter will fail on Monday next TO cast his vote at
the polls for men who will contract the expsndi-
lures Ct the city within its available 1eceipts!-
What voter will fail 10 perceive the inevitable
consequences impending in the future unless some
immediate and substantial efforts at reform be
made and earned out. We propose tomorrow 10
give short comparison of some of the expenses
of the past with the preceding year, Snd to show
how startling has been the increase in small items
merely, and TO show that. e1orbitant as were our
police expenses in 1852, they hive been far e1-
ceeLed in 1853.