Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-21
Total reduction since '65S251 ,S4s, 1927 3:
DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT.


DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT.
Tico and half Years in the City of Ne.c
York, the Democracy hdping FuU Sieay.
Facts taken from the Slcorn Statement be-
fore Judge Bdrnard's Court, not contro-
eerted By the City authorities, and upon
aohich the Court has granted Injunction.
INCREASE OF THE CITY DEBT.
According to the official report of the
defendant, Richard B. Connolly, Comp
troller of the city and county of New
York, tor the year ending 31st of Decem-
Der, 1868, the funded and bonded debt of
the city on the date upon which said de-
PENDANT, Hall, entered upon his duties as
Mayor, amounted to $34 746, 030; and the
funded and bonded debt OF the county, as
evidenced by the same official report,
amounted to $15,sS2, s0O.s0; making to-
gether total of $50, 62s, e3OS0
The last official report of said Comptrol-
Ter was made up to the 31st day of July,
1871, and by this report it is shown that
upon that date the funded and bonded
debt of said city amounted to $17,914, 10S-
81 and the funded and bonded debt of
said county amounted to $35, 743, 5000
making together total of $113, 657, 25e. 81
From this deduct the amount of the debt
of said city and county when the defend
ant, Hall, became Mayor, as shown above,
Sc, CPS, 630S0 The difference is the in
crease in the funded and bonded debt OF
the city and county during the two and a
half years Of the present Mayoralty, $685.
OPS, 427.71.
In addition to this sum of $63, 02S, 431.11
raised upon the bonds of said city an6
county, the Supervisors of the county, il
| accordance with the provisions of the
statutes enacted in that behalf, claws o
/ 1869, chaps. S75 and $40, and Laws 0
1870, chaps 1872 and 1889, levied anc
raised during each of the years 1869 ant
| 1870, by tax upon the estates by law sub
ject to taxation within said county, TO
the support of the city and county gov
ernments, and to pay the quota Of SAT-
county of State taxes for each of sal
years, as follows: In 1869, $21, sos, $50. "a
in 1870 %, $50, 12771; making total c
81, S7S, 66405 There has also been PAL
into the treasury of the city and county
during the years 1869 and 1879, and tn
first six months of 1871, on account of as
sessments collected during said years, a
the plaintiff is informed and believes, So
975,071.09, and from the general fund So
r e36, 65735, 1851, 72S. "A, making t.
tai of 500, 500, 1902 40; to this add the il
crease of the funded and bonded debt, {
S above, So, OPS, 42771, and add further tt
t floating debt and claims made against Il
e city and county, unpaid at this date, whic
e together, as the plaintiff is informed an
It believes, exceed $21, 000,O00.00, and Il
: total is $147, ,870.20 showing the a
g erage expenditure and cost of the COVER
|. ment of the city and county during Il
); two and half years of the defendar
/. Halls, nIayoralty to have been per We
= $59, 0S7, 54S.0S, or upwards of five and on
: half per cent. upon the fixed valuation
y the estates, real and personal, subject
= taxation in said county, the fixed yalu
. ton of said estates being, according to t
" report of the Commissioners of Taxes a
l. Assessments, for the present year, (1ST
he 81, 075, OO0,OOO
: So much is known. What the fioatil
and unsettled claims may amount to,
Of man can say. Allowing the city a
y county of New York to contain one N
IN lion of people, which is considerable mt
Ut than the actual population, and we ha
an expenditure of more than SAT
u u capita, or for each man, woman, a
70 child, for two and half years of ci
W government, and 10 extraordinary We
re of improvement, more than $50 year
* y capita for local or municipal governme
ne Applying this ratio of expenditure to
e. nation, whic would, no. doubt, be II
e. lied if the Democracy should be entrus
- with power--and estimating the pop
ri. ton at 81 a.00O, 0000 for convenience,
sir because that is no greater ratio of exc
ed than allowed for New York-and the
Sa tional expenditures for one year would
or coed $3.50, 100000, an amount gres
cir than the present national debt, and 81
l. er than the expenditures of the ma
during any year of the war, though
a. times more than a million of men W
under arms.
CONTRAST REcAPITULATED.
hat LIST. In two years ana one month
nd Republican economy, the national
res was diminished $215, 765, 66374.
Cd In two years and seven months