The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-23
VILLAGE MEETING.


and read the warning. Wm NJ. REID
ESQ, was chosen Moderator and proceeded
to the business of the meeting. The first
article in the warning was brought up.
Miner billiard moved tax of 10 cents tc
pay the necessary current expenses OF the
village, be raised. j. G. Baker moved tC
amend by substituting 25 cents Mr.. Hill
lard said that Is cents was all that was
necessary TO be raised according to the es
Inmates that he had been able to obtain &c
light the streets and provide night watch.
man.
DR.. Woodhouse believed in retrenching
our expenses, and instanced the city oil
Burlington which has twice the population
of Rutland, and grand list double that OF
ours. That city pays $1,000 for the col
lection and payment of $4,000, while We
pay $40 more than they. We can retrencl
expenses and reduce our village payments
if we try. The village pays three per cent.
for the collection of our taxes, while the
town pays % per cent. This is too much.
The sewer tax our astute trustees paid .
per cent. and pay 3 per cent. for school
district tax. The Doctor believed in ''hard
pan economy" Let us get down to econo-
my. Why do we pay the Treasurer $500
or $400 year? Some think the object OF
government is to give somebody office. lie
believed 90 cents was tax enough.
j. G. Baker, Esq, argured in favor of y
25 cent tax As for Burlington S400 pays
for lighting the streets and putting out the
gas, but the man does not belong to the
police. Here is it done by a Waterman
whom we pay $780, or about $500 a
night lie then gave some of the estimates
of the village payments. The Gas Light
Company has bill of $1,000, which he
was informed was down to " hardpan If
prices. If it is too much. put it where il
ought to be; night watch and police $500,
with not cent for arrests; fire depart
ment, 81 ,000 which is the estimate of the
Chief Engineer, much less than for years.
The next item is reality and not an esti-
mate. We voted the Hook and Ladder
company for past rents. 5000. We did
not owe them a cent. and they had no lc-
gal right to expect it, but it was voted and
became a part of the Indebtedness of the
village. Another vote was that of $40, to
Patrick Pagan, for which the village was
not liable for. Then the salary of the
| Treasurer, 800, not $500 or $500. If that
is too much, then elect him on the suppo-
sition that he is to have nothing. The
next item is for insurance and printing,
| $50, which figured out will show it is not
too high lightning rod, $121. so; attend
ing town clock, S25 new gas posts, $40 !;
interest on bonds, 5000, and other items,
amounting in all to $4,413.50. The 10
per cent. tax is only half enough to meet
the expenses, while 25 cent tax will
make it 81 ,475, leaving $50 extra to meet
all contingencies. This estimate is fair
one. We need these expenses and cannot
reduce them by "hardpan" prices. If
you have a police force perhaps you can
get liquor fines to go into our treasury. If
you will investigate these bills of cost when
paid out, you will find more paid in costs
than received in fines The question is
whether 25 cents shall be raised or less.
The speaker believed in the highest tax.
Miner Hillard then followed in an en-
phatic Speech saying we have been hum
plugged here and might as well talk it
plainly as it is. Take for instance the
sewer which we have had building by our
trustees. They have expended 81 800 over
and above the appropriation and the sewer
has brought more water into the village
than it has carried out. We have high
way tax of $4,000, which is $500 oyer
and above the appropriation. What con-
fidence can we have in men who will do
this? Then the Village Hall appropri-
alton was $4,000 and they expended
$4,000 more with no legal right. Fifteen
cents tax, is enough to vote. If they will
tell us where all this money goes to per-
haps we will give them more. 1t has been
grab game and the thing must be
watched. They tell us we are Arabs and
vote like Arabs. This word means robbcr
but we care nothing for that Fifteen
cents is all they ought to have. Such work
was never heard of before. You may talk
about Tweed and other villianous men and
their doings. 1t is nothing compared to
what has been carried on in Rutland
village.
In the case of the Village Hall, when
they had used the SIS, 900 they should have
stopped and asked for more money. The
same with the highway and with the
sewer.
A motion made to adjourn was over
ruled, and the previous question of 25 cent
tax was voted upon. On motion the
house was divided and tellers were APP
pointed, consisting of Messrs. j. w.
Cramton, NJ. billiard, Geo. Willis and L.
f. Saddler, who reported the vote as stand
ing 1913 for the tax of 25 cents and 15e
against it, So the motion was lost.
DIR. Woodhouse then moved a tax of 20
cents. Chester Kingsley moved to ad-
iourn. John w. Cramton said he was
surprised to hear any taxpayer make a mo-
ton to adjourn. Let us do something
while we are here and not have to be called
out again. If tax of 90 cents is too much
give us 10 cents and we will make the most
of it.
The motion for 20 cent tax was ther
withdrawn and the motion of Mr. Hilliar(
for tax of 10 cents was voted upon ant
carried by uioa poce vote amid great ap
plause.
The second article in the warning, OF
motion of Mr.. billiard, was dismissed.
The third article, providing for a hear
ing of the report of the committee appoint
ed to examine the accounts of the Trustees
was next in order