Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-25
DAVENPORT, IOWA, SUNDI


skirts Of the city in unfrequented and IN
travelled thoroughfares. are being improv ed
regardless of travelled streets and other To-
calities. and utterly unmindful of special
tax Of $s0, 900. and a general tax of SIS 600
and an empty treasury, with taxpayer
begging for the adoption of some relief aet.
that their property may not be sold for
taxes they cannot pay during the pressure
of the times.
The last meeting Of the Council, bills to
the amount of between Sc 900 and 4s, 900,
were passed, with no money and no bonds
to pay with, and when resolution was Of
f'red to stop any further expenditure Of
the $4,000, BY the famous Committee Of
SIX" it was voted down, to 4, nothwith-
standing there Is an execution Of 81 500 and
costs. now in the hands Of the Sheriff to be
levied upon city property, with no money
to pay it with. This execution was issued
in favor of Iowa College for the land taken
for . street through the College grounds,
and We now call upon the Sheriff to levy
upon our Fire Department apparatus, as
means Of bringing Macintosh and Sears to
their senses Look at Main. Should not
the road fund pay this execution Of 81 500
and that beautiful street opened, and make
passable if there is IS, 600 to be squsndered
elsewheres Having one Of the finest grades
Of any street leading north. this street is
permitted TO remain closed, while Alder
men are improving their property. at the
public expense, utterly defiant Of the pub
lie voice or of public contempt.
So reckless have Macintosh and Sears be.
come, that as majority Of the Finance Com
mittee, and with full kno owledge Of an out
standing injunction, they were ready to re.
port bill of $500 for Wilkes "Burlesque
of Davenport Past and Present" and would
have secured the payment of the bill, but
for the timely movement of Judge Grant in
causing the Sheriff to formally serve the
Council with the writ of injunction, which
had been granted for months by the Court,
but which had not been served because of
a tacit understanding, that the bill should
not be passed by the Council "Whom the
gods wish to destroy, they first make mad
Sears and Macintosh seem determined to
defy public opinion and bankrupt the city.
An order has just passed the City Council,
to borrow about $4,000 to pay the interest
on our City bonds. and yet, while we are
borrowing money to pay one debt, these
men create new debts with recklessness that |
is wholly unaccountable
We are heartily sick of the review of the
of the Council in the matter
and We naturally inquire
what is to be the end of all this profigacy? |
Wilt tend to attract emigrants to Daven-
porti Or will it carse our lovely city to be
avoided by all who dread alike our wild cat
currency, and our enormous taxes? Nero
fiddled while Rome was in flames. and AID.
Sears become poetical and funny, while we
Ny osA s"e ~ sss'.. =. ~-ss .s.tanSr which
Will banksupt our etty. WAn DR.. Burtis
on Fifth street. asks to expend tW6 8 three
hundred dollars in front of his hotel, and be
next year by applying it in
payment of taxes, AID Sears and Mackin-
tosh lay it on the table. Do they remem-
ber how Fifth street was sold out to tire /
and the city assumed to do what
the Railroad agreed to do.
We shall have more to say Of this in fu-
ture.