Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-03-14
LgrrgRs FRoM TME PEoPLE.


SOME FUBTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE EXPENSES
OF THE WATER DEPAhfAkhI-THh offloiAL
Acrs OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RHvlAwkD'
To ne Editor Of TIE Commercial
Hv,h SONS ,,ar,o;osion will ra,,lv hriaf4v and
van ySu. SF's 9.I -
truthfuly to " Citizen VINO appears again IN
the Gazette on Saturday last.
First did mt saw that Citizen made de-
,;,.arstaiv = false siatament INF fiat with the
NV Trassnrer's hooks which were oman 10 ihe
insneetion' Of the public. there was therefore no
avs,,sa Tor eilher a-(itzen or a memher ~ the
Ctv Gonncil 10 :. Ieliberafev ynoke false state-
mani = "
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IN my IoIisI e .. is...,s .s &
Yea 70 stare tnat WHINE 'he iunueu .roo o,o M
mn eeee ~ tno IVY W. Ia,
ne s,nklng iuhI p =, aug oi.y .nves1e y.
m per cent oonos Atuoulteu 10 .co mn m
apout'' .''.''''''''.'''..s.' go Soo'VVo"0
-..,-o 40
Ihus re9hc,ng tne actua, ueDt TO- Sol oS0 M
10 whioh Aau noaung t''OoV"
80 - -
And the total indebtness is...'.'... Sooo'oo''Vo
hope this will satisfy ''Citizen."
"Citzen's' idea of business must be rather
| limited II he supposes the City Council would
| appropriate Just money enough to pay the in-
terest on tho present funded delt OF the city,
with the full knowledge when the appropriations
we're made, that application would DO made to
/ the Legislature to increase the funded debt
i come llunufeu5 Oh llOusAuus
| coming year, and the charter OF the city eA-
pressly STIMULATING that no appropriations
/ should be made unless by a two-thlrds vote OF
/ the Council simple majority vote is always
| easie: obtained than two-thirds vote.
l hope this answer will account for the dis
/ crepAncy between $50 ILL.,, and $4,000
| / am glad "Citizen" admits the mistake that
i was made by his friends in laying the tax OF
too low figure, which lost to the city s4O,O 0o
/ without errors, but am sorry that he should
| hay tn RfatnmautR.
/ regard to facts as they appear upon the records
| to which lie appeals. As he has appealed to
the minutes OF the City Council to tho minutes
/ Of the City Council we will go, and II the evil
/ dence is not overwhelmingly against him, we
| will submit. By reference 10 the minutes oil
Cornell We find that at the meeting held Febru'
arv 10th, 1871 on motion of MIR, Gallagher the
| rules wero temporarily suspended (whlle the
| minutes were being read for the purpose OF ad-
hitting Messrs Dennis j. Mention aud Maris
| Taylor members elect from the ION ward After
their admission, the Democrats mad majority
| IN the Couhcll. Inc committees hao al Deeh
arranged at the meetlng IN september. but on
February 2fth, lofl' the majority NOT neipB sat
| lsned partially changed the committees, but IN
doing 80 gave great offence to portion Of Their
own members. who held that there should have
been thorough reorgdniz9t'oH ana the result was
that ererD committee III Conncil except the FL
nance Committees, was changed at the!meeting
| held March 3Oth, 1871. mus new men were put
in charge OF the committees and each committee
| knew from the statement piacei upon tho uesk
| of each member at every meeting OF Council
Just hoe much money was to the credl. OF the
several committees, and there could be therefore
no excnse for going beyond the amount on hand,
they should have kept within the amount appro-
priated and on hand The minutes OF the City
Council do not shou single contract made by he
CITY Council previous TO January, and then only
one, (for hauling) the ordinance requiring that
the contract for the city hauling should DO given
out in this month, but this is only to Fix
the price, as the hauling Is principally done
in tile Spring. Summer aud Autumn months
The contract for the Monroe street calvert
was given ont by Mr. Quinn. The
contract for grading Market street Ninth Ward
by the Committee on opening streets where the
excessive price of Sc 90 per square yard was paid
for rock excavation. and 81 50 per square yard
for removing earth from the bed OF the street.
challenge" Citzen'to the task ofproducDg sin
| gle instance of such prices having be8n paid
either by the City Council (under any admins
tration 6efore) or by any individual on his own
account for the same kind of work. Nay say
tina, these prices were not only paid, but paid
with the fun knowledge staring them in the face
that parties were ready to remove the rock for
81 30 per square ward. and the earth for so cents
, per square pard. How is this for economy !?
Think of this again my fellow Citizen" and
weep over the degeneracy OF the Democratic
Council Of 1871.
Various other streets were ordered to be
| graded by the same committee but at greatly in
Greal ed rates over former prices the highest