New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-30

REGULAR MEETING.


Presentation. Charles j. Leeds, Mayor,
presiding, and Administrators Bertoli,
Brown, BouBy, Burke, Landry. Mccarthy
and Pilsbury.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
were approved and their reading dispensed
with.
Communications from the Mayor and Ad.
minisfrators.
The Mayo; laid before .ae Council the
following message:
MAYOKaL-I % new ORLHaN.
City Hall, June 80, 1876.
To the City Council OF New Orleans:
On the twenty ninth Of December last
submitted TO your consideration message,
in which objected to .he ordinance adopt
ing an estimate OF the receipts aud eNpen-
ditures Of the city OF New Cyleans for the
year 1915.
In this message ! made the following re-
marks. VIZ:
The amendmen: to the State coDstitu.
ton relative 60 the city OF New Orleans.
which has probably been adopted, provides
that no further debt Of the city can be
made, money borh>wed or boDds issued. II
is therefore necessary that the city should
receive . sufficient euui from taxation,
which. together with its other sources OF
revenue, will enable 1t to pay as the require.
meuts of the city may need. II tax OF
two and one-hals per cent be levied. and
it is not paid-as. indeed. | believe it can
Eot be-how is the city government. 20 be
administered The fire department must
be discontinued and the police discharged,
the lights put out, the Wa!erworks sus-
pended, the drainage machines stopped and
the public schools closed, because the people
are unable 70 pay :hese necessary eXpendl-
tnres, together with the interest due the
public creditors. /. il manifest tina. this
Impoverished people can not pay both. Is
not the emergency one which iustifes you
in disregarding the laws, even admitting
their validity under ordinary circumstances!
And should you net, therefore. reduce the
tag TO a point which the people can pay p
The inability Of the people to pay SO large
a tax, which l then asserted, has proved
to be true. With the utmost energy on
your part, with the greatest inducements
to prompt payment, the time has arrived
when the receipts from take. will not meet
the expenditures. and the question now
arises: How is the city government TO be
administered!
Even if, in disregard Of the constitutional
amendment, you were satisfied 70 drift
along" maxim. appropriations without the
means to meet them. making purchases at
exorbitant prices, i, would only be for o
any price would put stop TO this mode OF
proceeding.
What then remains2 Either the functions
Of government must fa.., .: means must De
found to sustain them.
As in the message l have just quoted,
I then advocated the suspension OF the tax
for interest, on the ground OF the public
necessity, 80 now see no way of protect
ing the public welfare but by taking from
the taxes collected . sum sufficient to meet
the current necessary Expenditures. reduced
tn the lowest point commensurate with the
efficient performance of the duties commit
ted to your charge. The public safety is
the first law, and this must justify you In
using the funds which should otherwise be
devoted to the payment OF specific debts.
If this Council had the control OF the police
and of the expenditures which they should
make. or Of those which are devoted to the
public schools, would recommend the i'm
mediate cutting down OF these expenditures
TO the lowest possible point, or their total
suspension for u time. But. as We have no
power over these matters. l am compelled
% advise that which seems to ine the only
practical mode o: sustaining the govern
ment.
CHARLLS J. LEEDS, Mayor.
On motion the message was referred 70
the committee o: the whole.
Financial and Other Business On Final
Passage.
Mr.. Brown called uy tine ordinances de.
scribed as follows. which, having been read
twice. were ROW on third reading, and they
passed unanimously. the yea. and nays
having been called on each. and all the
members present at POLL cali voting:
An ordinance providing for the payment
Of the pay roll. of the Departments of
improvements, Surveyor. Waterworks and
Public Bsildings and Commerce. beginning
bureau of Streets, labor
Hepsrts Of Committees.
BY Mr.. Bouny. and adopted:
I. Unfavorably on the following petition.
referred to him:
Mr.. and Mrs. {. Gsrdanne, +, +. Buck
ner. Lehman. Abraham Il Co.. J. Meyers,
P. Esteban, S. Ha.ting.. A. Socola. Mrs. c.
Hu.t, Clapp Brothers, agents estate of =.
Wartelle, w. 5. McMaster. Mrs. A. Beer
A. Mitchell, and J. G. Gag, agen: Ct Mrs. D
Reynolds.
2. Favorably by resolution on the petit
tons Of H. Valeton Il Co., Mullan 4 Hollo
way. for II. j. Mullan 4 Co., Miss NJ. w.
Cream. Q. H. X .rstendiek. J. P. Sarrazin
and Mrs. w. Hilton.
By Mr.. Burke, and adopted:
!. Reported fsvorab.y OF petition OF
William Swan. to cree. a water trough OF
Marigny street.
= Reported on pe.ition o. II. McGregOr,
e. w. Stinde and others. concerning i'm !
proper use Of nuisance wharves. informed
The Council that action had already been
taken to abate the nuisance complained Of;
and returned with the same the petition of |
might workers" referred to him at the |
last meeting, ststing that i; would be i'm !
prudent for the ETY. to take any action
therein-:he remedy sought for car only be
By judicial proceedings.
By Mr.. Landry, and adopted:
Favorably by resolution on petition OF
NJ. Meilleur, to erect ttealn engine at No. |
ll2 Poydras street.
BY Mr.. Mccarthy, and adopted:
DEPAK1HEs4 OF Poir.H
June 20. 1873. !
70 the City Council of New Orleans
The undersigned respectfully submits the
following bids, received in answer to the ad
inviting proposals tor furnish |
ing Il, 600 poisoned sausages:
Jean Dnbarry bids cents per sausage.
James D. Cole bids 32A mills per sausage.
ID. o. e. Brady bids 2ls cent? per eau
sage.
+. Gener bids 2le cents per sausage. |
Thomas Pickles bids %. cents per sau-
sage.
William J. Kelly bids :ia cent. per sau
sage.
A. Morel bids 3 cents per sausage