New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-04

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made .peci.i refer. nee 10 The increase ~ G''ys'
penditu,as and showed rom the footiegs In H.,
Controllers once that thn present will bs
BY fnr tho most expensive year that wo have
yct had. tho whole outlay reaohng near air
millions Of dollars Tho total amount OF tho
City debt Ia trife over fourteen NIL
lions. for which the Commissioners Of tho Sinking
Fund hold securities 20 the extent ~ about five and
ahalf millions, leaving eight and half millions un.
provided for There seems 10 be a tremendous
leakage through tho Department Of Repairs aud
Supplies, and also through the Street Department,
and the popular impression IL that the heads OF
those departments are making very fine thing Of
their Offices. Indeed in the political market either
of these and two or three other heads Of depart.
ments, would be rated at about fifty thousand
dollars a year for q man Of moderate abilities,
and for a smart man about q hundred thou.
sand. II is not difficult to determine who pays
theee enormous sums, but it is less easy to find
out how they are spent. The Controller slludes
to our miserable market arrangements which
are both expensive and disgraceful to the City,
and states that the City of New-Orleaus farms
out its markets so as to produce . revenue Of
$500, 900 year, which, with our population,
ought to give us half million at least. And yet
the influence of the parties in control Of the
markets is strong enough to crush the life out Of
any thing like reforms proposed in the Common
Council. The most ungracious exhibit made by
the Controller, and the one most disgracefal to
the City, 10 the Carriage Hire swindle, to which
we have alluded in another article. The his
tory of opening, grading and altering streets, If
it were tratbfuly written, would be striking
chapter in the narrative of public peculation.
But the curtain hangs too darkly over it to
be raised without more effort than We can
make at present. About the only increase Of
expenditure at which the people can legtimately
rejoice, is that for the support Of Common Schools
and although the State law bears hard upon the
City, the important interests of education, we
trust are 80 well understood that this heavy item
will be borne without murmur The little tribes
of 100000 for Contingent Expenses Of the Com
mon Council, and such pickings look small among
these large sums we are dealing with, and may
for the present be passed over. Appended to the
report are several tables showing the details Of
the expenses, and among them one stating the
amount of taxes and the objects for which they
were levied for each of the past six years. From
ths table the reader will see at glance the fright
full growth of City Expenditures in certain De-
partments, and may be able to guess why it is that
men elected to Office go in as poor as church mice
and come out with blocks of houses, bank and
railroad stock in abundance, and are generally re-
puted to be very wealthy, This report Of the
Controller is the most important one Of the year,
and should be carefully studied by the electors
who are called upon to fill City Offices in