, 1876-03-29
MUNICIPAL FINANCES.
Comptroller Hayes Searching the East.
ern Cities After Grcenbacks.
ITo Has O Dagful OF City Certificates
Which 1Io Cannot Easily
Dispose Or.
Tho Humilinting Condition to Which Har-
voy D. Has Reduced 0hi-
oaEo.

There Was apparently no GiAngo IN th6 con-
diton Of tho city finances yoa!orday-at teast
mono for The bottor. Nothing was heard from
tho Grant Comptroller, who sccma to havo no
bottor inclt iu pursuit Of tho goli'on tloeco than
his Psychological predecessors. Tho latest til-
ings from hin, wnro dated nt Boston, mud in-
tiicatol TINT ho expected TO bo In New yos1s
Sunday ami Monday. FuEtlor nothtng ila1 born
llonrd--or. to spoak with atrlct accuracy, tho
Mayer and tho Comptro'ler'a Cliof Ctorh Far-
we'll, deny that nnything has boon l,oalu.
TIE SITUATION Is NOT PHoMts1so
1uet 1T rrcaoat, inaa,nlch as Tho Comptrollor,
will his bsgful Of certificates. Ia prowling
around tho big cities and meeting with about Nd
n,uc! ancccaa In peddlIng off h!s papor AZ If It
weso aomo now kind OF patent pills. Tho spoc-
taelo iB not altogether rcaasurlug 10 tho support
ers Of tho ovcrgroun usnrper who holds his
seat by powor Of patronage. 1mngino the pm
trinrclAl 1layca floating Ills conspicuous boartl
and kicking his tired eoln Ia tile outor rooms OF
ths Now York pavnbrohors, Ike rs If ho were
workable Jcw with mind intent on old clothes.
Suroly, tho credit Of Chicago under CoIyn ia
a,,ns low enough when 1t l,as to koep man
with baskotful Of its papor. Oh tho
monetary highway Of tho country III hopes tint
ho may, like tLe iiuckEter lato at night. chance
to pick up o drunken or n foolish sayfaror.
Tho farce OF crcdit-haTkinH can no fusshor 20.
In tho meantime tho police force, tho Fire De-
nart,nent, tho acknowledgements, auu the employees
OF the Board Of Public Works,
REMAIN UNPAID FUN FEnnuAny.
It Ia the custom to phy about tho 10Th Of tho
mouth succeeding tho one IN which tho money
Ia earned, but nearly tho whole OF this month
has passed and The payments for Inst mouth
havo not been made. The money which might
have liquidatod thoso sa'ary-claims has
money with which to pay aalhrios ana. worso
thpn that, there Ia not the smallest prospect Of
nuy A. preoent. 1t noeds about 9l4G,000 to pay
tho fire, police, aud school aalares. and thoro IL
hand, and will not bo worry soon, untoas matsors
take sudden and uniooked-for change.
In thia unpleasant condition Of Affairs, It Ia
we'll to noto that thoro Ia rcmotfy at hanl
thoro Is way out OF Chlcagos troubles sure
salvation aud very present holp in time Of
mood.
WIS NAME IL coLy1s,-
II. D. Colvjn,-aud the people know ho Is their
fortress OF ntrength. because he owned II up
himself; with that shrinking 1uodesty which has
characterized all Of thls mana actions, hn has
explained aeyo.al tin1os that ho could HIT up tho
cisy's credit aud borrow monoy right hors In
Chicago Whenever ho wanted TO.
in u1gen: If sasto from New York that liz hanls
wore tod bocauso Chicago hanka and bhnkcra
/ would not tako tho initiative In lending Harvey
their money. then tho Mayor loapod boldly
nt9 tho b5oao and pntt;ng ; 40 or dsa hi' hst
myself; I'll show these Neu-Yorkors thnt tho
Chicago monoyed men have confidence In tue
present Administration. Before Monday night
{thiH was Saturday, boforo Monday night will
have proposals. for at least half million dollars
Of Certificates"
And then tho great coward whined around
amon9 tho mon who Ind tho money; aud they,
bonR gnnoray polished Eentemen. gave him
quietly to understand TINT thoy Ind
no MONEY TO LEND
70 tho .prcacut Administration but ho. being
big, and prolsno, and g1oss in nhtuto. undertook
to override tho holders OF tho funds and to
bluster them down,-bus he didn't got tho mones
all tue Bamo.
It ie therefore, entirely In order for tho tax-
payer to ask tho Mayor through The Ta1nuNr
why he didn't got the money aa ho boosted he
| could and would The answer ts obvious.
A paper OF this city said yesterday that 1Er.
Hayes hnd tclcgraphad that ha had succeeded In
borrowing money enough TO meet tho cortih.
catos duo up to juno l i; but this seems on it,
quiry to havo boen falsehood. No auch telo
gram has boon received, ard It is evident tha
Tie Comptroller has not baen by any means 10
fortunate as tho asory would make him out.