Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-03-11

H NOulu appear Tue CITY VI
in Senator Humans state needs TO be con-
OCCASIONALLY investigated. The finance COM
mittee of the Cincinnati council has m sde pub
lie q statement that there Is a present deficit in
the general fund Of over hall million, that the
whole deficit to July 1 will be 1871 ,S35 SO; that
the sewerage. police, street cleaning infirmary
and light funds are all deficient, and that the
whole deficiency to July 1 will be 81 900, ST. SO.
which the Council has resolved to ask the Gem
eral Assembly tor authority to settle BY the is
sue of bonds
One or the most reliable of the Cincinnati
papers-the GGzette-says the city by mslad-
ministration Is exposed to be sued as a bank
rupt; that "this shameful exhibit is but one of
the proofs that this city has not capable or
responsible government" that "the Council
ordains assessable improvements with so little
intelligence that il has become a regular prac-
tce to contest them for informality, and so
throw the cost on the general fund" and that
the Cincinnati government "is thing of shreds
ana patches that might do for
village but Is unfit for a large city,
We note further in regard to this shameful
exhibit OF municipal affairs in Cincinnati that
r appears the city has nothing to show for the
large expenditures causing this deficit. Our
District government is able to poiRt to the
grandest series of improvements achieved in
modern times as the vouchers for its expendi-
lures, and yet these officials have been bounded
at every step by the "liberal press - which IL as
dumb as an oyster in regard to the bad condition
OF affairs In Cincinnati and we might say Of every
other American city OF an hundred thousand
inhabitants. The sewerage, police, schools,
street cleaning, infrmary and light funds may
all be deficient in Cincinnati without word OF
comment, but if under all the burdens of carry
ing on the great work of impro yements and the
EMBELLISHMENTS occssioned by the refusal of
the oostructionists to pay their taxes and by
other efforts to cripple the District government
financially, there is deficiency in any similar
funds here, howl is raised in Congress and all
over the country about the matter.
Syphax, who was kicked out of the colored
school board so summsrily, and whose accounts
as treasurer were in such muddle comes for
ward Naturally as a witness In behalf of the me-
mofislIsts. Lawyers speak of two kinds of bad
witnesses; those who are too fast, and those who
are too slow. Syphax is OF the former class He
cheered up the hearts of his employers amazing
ly by his glib testimony that all the bills and in
debtedness of the cOlored schools were paid uo
to the date of the beginning of the new District
government. But on cross-examinatiOn by Mr..
Harrington the fast witness was compelled to
admit that the old corporation only gave him a.
treasurer a certificate that the cOlored schools
were entitled to so much money. This certin-
cate, which was worth about as much as the pa
per was written upon, except as endorsed for
redemption by the new government was de-
posted by him in a bank which advanced the
money on the credit Of the incoming govern
ment The SyphaXes, Cranes, Seversons,
Stephensons, and other discharged WORTHLESS,
are naturally coming to the front as witnesses
or the enemies Of the District government. We
wish the menorialists JOY of their allies
The memorialists are still "fshiBg" for some
thing specific in the way Of charges against the
District government. They sent out their
Fishing bill Of discovery first in the direction
of records and documents of the Board of Pub
lie Works. These were fully supplied for their
inspection, but after the most Industrious delv-
ing they have found nothing to their purpose,
and now ask permission of the committee to
throw out their drag nets again as last chance
of fishing something up. This time they want
TO drag in the dead a. we'll as the living. AS
was said Of JEFF. Davis, he robbed the cradle
and the grave TO supply his armies and su stain
his sinking cause, 50 the -nemorislists in their
desperate straits seek to rifle bank vaults and
business Offices Of the private papers Of both
the living and the dead. Well, let them go
ahead and make their drag. Let them have all
the rope they want, to hang themselves with.
The following sentence, reluctantly tels-
graphed from this city to the New York rrI6aHe
on Monday evening, must have tortured the
souls OF the correspondent and editor of that pa
per,-assuming, for the sake of the figure, that
they have souls. 1t refers to the answer Of
Governor Shepherd to the interrogatories pro-
pounded to him by the joint committee now in
yestigstiDg District affairs.
"a hasty examination of the document leads
TO The conclusion that the Governor has not held
back any of the Information asked for by the
committee, though considerable time and study
viii be required TO obtain from IL a clear con-
ception OF the financial condition OF the Dis
trict."
"Has not held back any of the information
asked tor" Is good.
The death OF ex-President Fillmore and the
closing of the different departments or the gov
eminent to- morrow has occasioned some spec
ulstion among the clerks a. to the number of
prospective holidays they will have on account
Of the death of ex-cabinet officers. The clerks
Of the Department Of Justice lay claim in ad-
vance to more holidays Of this character than
any other department, because Of the compar-
atively large number Of ex-Attorney Generals
now living.
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