New-York tribune., 1871-10-10
MIR. WARRENS REPORT TO TIE CITIZENS
COMMITTEF.

yawning chasms and impenctrable Jungles
to the verge of which the Tammany OIL
garchy has brought us. None but the abso-
lutely blind can now fail to see that Tweed
and his associates were rapidly hurting
us along to ruin and destruction. The
report of Mr.. William E. Warren, with the
table of appropriations and expenditures Tor
the year 1871 which is appended to 1t, Is an
overwhelming testimony to the vlllalny OF
Tammany financial management. Said Mayor
Hall in his message last June: The opera
ton of the Two Per Cent bill 30 Tar, III
reducing expenses, in preventing schemes
against the Treasury, and arrcsting through
out every department that tendency to
"extrayagance which is the peculiarly
"of the age, even in private life, has proved
perfect answer to the frenMed attacks that
were made upon it," Before these words
were written, the Board of Apportionment, OF
which Mayor Hall is q member, had appropn-
ated for the expenses of the current year. ln-
dependent of the immense amounts which the
Legislature had authorized them to cover by
the issue of bonds, a sum upwards OF So,OOo,ooO
i'm excess of that to which they were limited
by the Two Per Cent bill. This meeting Oh
the Board Of Apportionment was held on the
the 10Th of May Only four months later, to
wit, on the 14th Of September, OF the i'm
mense sum of $2S,529,1OO 81 set apart
for such of the public expenses as must be
provided for by taxation (even under the
rlonstrous laws passed through the Legisla-
ture in sealed envelopes, to be opened only In
the chamber of Gov. HOtfman), there re-
NAMED uncxpendcd aside from the sums re-
quired to pay the State tax, the interest on
bonds, and that portion of the old funded
debt falling due this year (S1,1S4,97O 69), only
81, ,860 0S2 4}--a sum less than the unexpendcd
balance from the year 1870 with which they
started. This triflng sum was all that was
left to pay the running expenses OF the City
and County Governments from the 14th of
September to the 1st of January, 1872 After
all the inducements Messrs. Tweed, Sweeny,
Connolly, and Hall have had this Summer to
make good their loud professions of economy
and retrenchment and after starting out with
$4,000 900 more than they were entitled 10, this
2.S69,OS2 43 was all that remained available
to carry them through TO the new year. The
only way Mr.. Connolly could have gotten
through without issuing bonds totally unwar
ranted by law, would have been to convert
the outstanding acceptances or Revenue
bonds into 3O-year Consolidated Debt bonds,
and to have forthwith supplied their place
with at least s12,OOO,OOO of new accept
ances or Revenue bonds. Had the voluminous
reports of the Controller and Mayor, issued
five months ago, satisfied the public and the
Press, the deficiency would in all probability
have called for the reissue of the entire
S23 OOO 900 he legal limit, and the great trick
of reducing taxation to $S3,OOO,OO0, while in
creasing expenses to $G0,OOO,0OO or $75,0OO,0O0,
would have been carried out to perfection and
to the unbounded delight of Mayor Hall,
who ia said to be merely a disiuterested
spectator of the exciting game which Messrs.
Tweed e. Co. are playing with the lives,
liberties, and property of the citizens of New
York.
In the place of more extended comment to-
day Oh the valuable report of Mr.. Warren, we
respectfully submit to our readers the follow
ing analysis of the unexpended balances,
which we have compiled from the long table
appended to his exposition of the fnanciering
of the last two years:
Total appropriations by Board of APP
portonment for ordinary expenses of
City and County in 1871. 2S.59OIOO 81
Add unexpended balances of previous
years ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,902,547 6S
Total. .......................$3 .$3 422 64S %
Total expenditures to Sept A.......... 1SS9O470 30
Unexpended balance Sept. 14....... $l31O2,177 96
Required during remainder Of year for
redemption of bonds, erclusiro Of
City and County Revenue bonds. 1S49 97o 90
For payment Of interest 3,468,522 90
For State tax 66S1, ,601 IS
Total for interest, redemption Of
bonds, and State 81. .2ss 0s5 50
There remains for current expenses
from Sept IA to Dec. S1.....:........- 2seeoss 4s
Total unexpended balance. 1T s6