Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-04
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
THE DRAFT.
Message Of Mayor caven.

On MONDAY January "a tue CIV Counch met,
and His Honor. Mayor Cayen. delivered the fol
lowing message:
Gentlemen Of the Council:
wish To urge upon your attention immediate
action in reference TO filing our quota with
volunteers The enrolment made in June
1864, preparatory to the draft ordered July Is
1864, showed c,Jj1 persons subject to draft
in Center township. of which 9S4 were charge
able to the township outside aud 1,513 TO the
city The whole township quota assigned upon
this was ,423, of which the proportion outside
was about l63 and that Of the city 259 The
township was entitled to i credit OF 729 surplus
leaving 694 TO be furnished, oil which the town
ship outside was charged with 50, and the city
with 6l4 Wheu the daft was made AL re
manned To be supplied. The city furnished 42l
OF these aud the remainder were substitutes
Should the enrolment now lie the same the quota
of the city would be about 757. aud that of the
outside township about 81.
Under the call of July, 1864, the assignment
OF quota was one in SIX OF the enrolment, ard
the enrolment remaining the same would now
require about one in ten The troops furnished
was perhaps eight per cent. OF the enrolment 4
portion OF which were substitutes, and would not
subtract from the present enrolment
Ii might be safe 10 say that this, with the de
auctions from the correc.,oU OF the enroll ent.
will reduce the enrolment twenty FIVE per cent.
and would require one drafted man TO every : l.,
enrolled
If the correction is universal, we neither make
nor lose, having as many TO furnish under a
small enrolment as a larger for as the
number TO be finally furnished remains the same
a. the number enrolled decreases, the per cent
age of those who to he drafted out of such
enrolment. increases
Our enrolment will be probably 5000. and
within "A fraction Of one in eight to be drafted
To pay bountes to ISL men at 81 30 each. would
require Sll3,55 and a premium of so each.
s. $40. in addition. making $l2l 100 in all II
the enrolment is 3 OO0 tins would be S2l 90 To
each enrolled man
II is very important TO lose no time | much
fear that If We wait until the legislature can
pass an act authorizing us TO borrow money and
10 get our bonds printed and then sent out to be
negotiated we shall lose valuable time. We can
negotiate them east Oh better terms than here
The banks can do better than loan sheir money
10 Us, except at rates cannot afford To pay.
We will require To negotiate large amount not
only iOf this appropriation, but also TO redeem
bonds already issued and the warrants sold 10
procure volunteers under the previous call, and
20 fund our floating debt Ii will be best To
make this one transaction aud send some one
east who can take time. TO negotiate to adyan-
tage. Should We wait, however, to do this, be
fore commencing TO volunteer. the draft will be
upon Us. | understand that il is the wish Of our
citizens that quota shall be slled by the paw
ment of bountes, and that they expect Us TO de-
wise ways and means to do it, they being perfect
ly willing to paw the taxes necessary for this pur
pose
Twenty five dollars from each enrolled man
will probably be sufficient. | propose that the
Council appropriate SIPS 900 in the manner uro
vided in the resolution now pending on the sub
jet. except requiring that thswarrants shall be
sold at par will to- morrow morning borro "
on nv own note s. 600 and place the sam in the
hands of the Treasurer and advertise in all the
the papers for volunteers. Each ward shall call
a meeting for TO morrow night. or Wednesday At
farthest and appoint committees 10 collect.
The names are elsssei alphabetic ally on the en-
rollment lists. Appoint committee for each let
ter OF the alphabet and such committee shall
search out and collect from every person whose
name begins with the letter TO which be il as
signed In this way the work can be thorough
with proper system and soon done
This committee on the first night sh Al raise
among themselves. in each ward, 81 ,WO. aud
/ bring II TO the Treasurer next morning who shall
deliver theR warrants for the amount
This committee shall see every enrolled man
AID take with them the warrants, and sell them.
delivering them on the spot, and shall. from DAY
10 Day, report the money TO the Treasurer ana
/ procure other warrants As the enrolled men are
ali supposed 10 De able bodied and in the prime OF
+ lie, certainly there are but few Who cannot al.
ford 10 pay S25 Under the pressure of the for
mer draft about three hundred men raised S62
VVO, being over 5000 70 the man. .nd most OF
them being laboring men. and the amount being
actually gwen avay. while nov we simply pro
pose that II shall be loane,l for short time and
draw six per cent interest
AT the hFst meeting AT tie Wigsam 4, tai.~
! funds Tor the former draft s2- 900 vas sub
scribed, but when the draft took place II left the
few who were drafted 10 bear the en,ire load
while now every man hs- probable contineeuc,
N the result. enough IT least 20 induce him Il
loan the CITY SIS 90 for short time on interest
MANY would do more than this Tor one. an
wiling TO say that woald represent, one man il
each Saru in the city. or ten men in the fund oi
twenty, II need BE, in nv own ward MANY citi
Eens tho are hot subject = The draft would con
tribute he railroads and machine shops
which could lily spare their engineers and tire
men and other employees. will coutrbnte. A. the,
have before. ~ith iiberAlty Let u then not de
lsy until the draft = upon " AMI AL Is hurr
and confusion We hsv~ the fear aud selfish
ness. A. veil a. the patriotism 81 the most activ
Of our population % appeal 10. Borne thus b,
all, IL Is almost tribe Wbeo re attempted be
fore 20 raise nonev by Donation, resolution