Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-02
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


CITY couscILs Board Of Aide,m,s The
Board met at the usual hour, the President, WIN.
r. Bayiy, in the chair.
nominating John d. Clark for police magistrate
In the Third District confirmed
Mr.. Miller presented the petition of Charles
Steadman ana others, asking permission to build
asewer; referred to the Improvements commits
tee.
Also, the petition of T. d. La Fontain. asking
for the remission of fine; referred to the claims
committee
Mr. Smith presented the petition Of William
VI. Grips, asking for the unex pired license a
teo Coleman; same reference
Mr. Miller, from the improvements committee.
rPorted bill to trim and gravel F street north,
from N1nth 10 Fourteenth streets, and for other
purposes. To this bill had been appended yari.
Gus amendments, by the lower board, w hich were
here discussed at considerable length by Messrs
MILLER and Dovei and finally, all Of which Were
Mr.. Miller also, from the same committee, re-
ported a bill to authorise Charles Steadman,
Thomas Lawson and others to construct a sewer
In the centre of and Twentieth streets; passed
Mr.. Houston, on leave, introduced a resolution
in relation to iron pumps referred to the improve
ments committee
Mr.. Goddard, from the police committee, re-
ported joint resolution authorizing the Mayor
20 Offer a reward of SlU for the arrest of such per-
SONS might be convicted Of firing the house
eIsed by the Hook and Ladder company, in the
sixth Ward.
Pending Its passage
Mr.. Moore referred to the fact that at the last
meeting one Of the gentlemen from the Seventh
Ward had entertained the Board in amin advert
Ing upon the financial affairs of the city The
gentleman had submitted facts, but had
spoken with such positiveness, very emphatically
repeating and then reiterating his conclusions,
that every listener unacquainted with the subject
Of his remarks must have been impressed with
the conviction that the statements thus adya
Were at least an approximation to the true condi-
that statements Of so remarkable a character
should have attained publicity; and this circum-
stance had rendered the more fnpe alive the dutv
for their correction. The object Of the gentleman
from the Seventh Ward had seemed to be to may
Nifty to the greatest possible extent the city's in
debtedness. First referring to the old funded
debt remitted TO us by our fathers. and which no
recent administration has attempted to discharge
he started with the sum Of SSOO.OOO Aludino
next TO the floating debt which descended from
the late administration, composed of the gentle
mans own political friends, he charged further
indebtedness of SlOO,UOO And then he assumed
that none of this floating debt had been paid
since the present Mayor was installed into office.
but that on the contrary it had been increased to
the sum Of S5ID.OOO. And thus the gentleman
reached the CT fusion that the present indebted
ness OF the city was 81 ,3U0.0CU.
Fortunately, our financial affairs Were not near
80 bad as was here represented, and the gentle
man should have known it, He ought al least
10 have awaited himself of all the information
within his reach before he ventu, ed to imprrss
Others with erroneous opinions upon subject so
intimately connected with the public credit On
such subject no one, whose duty it was to pro-
tect the interests OF the city, should speak heed
iessly and at random, as the gentleman seemed
20 have done, when an hours Examination would
have enabled him TO speak with some degree Of
certainty. IL had been two or three months since
each of the members of the Council Were furn-
1shsd with the usual annual publication, pamph-
let form, contaiping all the enactments and an
account Of the receipts and expenditures for
the fiscal year ending on the 30th Of June last
a recurrence to this report would show the
financial transactions Of that year. No one. on
examining that document, could fail to perceive
the following facts:
The amount Of money deposited in the bank by
the City Collector was sI37 Dos 2,
The amount Of money deposited in
bank for licenses, &c, was. 69,2A 81