The Morning herald., 1876-07-27

this bad counsel. %S
Il is bad enough for the Democratic
council to have to shoulder the burthens
Of debt that q proaigase Republican ad'
ministration LEFT for them to groan and
sweat under, without being accused Of ex.
travasance. II was the Every Evening
which stated in its issue Of Monday thai
the city government was failure, under
any administration which had association
with politics in any way. 1t bases the
failure Of the present city government
upon an extravagant expenditure oft
appropriations, all Of which has about y
much foundation in truth IS that the city
government has been . failure under Dem
ocratic rule. The Every Evening is
groping in the same ignorance taat the
workingmen are; it does not know the
condition that the Democratic council
found council matters in, and the weight
they have since then had to bear upon
their shoulders
The party came into power after the
city had been afflicted With one Of the
nsoss eosrnH; political rings thai had ever
in.sssd itself upon any small community.
Tier ioans snd hsi 70 complete i'm
proyezsez.s 70 the CIR Hall 81 81 sxyenss
ot nearly O. quite Sl2 2atl snd the improve
uaeass On Fourth street. st IN expense es
several thousand dollars These wer
floating dsa.s Of the Old cos.acil. and mus;
be made good BY the presen: ccanal This
viii be easily done BY the present tax rate
which is coming in and will cover them.
Another iosting debt which the old coun-
Gil LEFT behind it was nineteen thousand
and some odd dollars borrowed from The
Ceol Spring reservoir fund. This they
never made COED by depcsi,ing their note
for the amount and thrust i, up the new
council as floating debt. If the present
council were to make it good it would have
to be taken out of the taxes, this would make
the appropriations fall short, which can
not te allowed, and they must place it
again upon the city, floating debt, not be-
cause they made ii but because they found
it. The tax rate Of IS cents on the hun
dred dollars will cover all appropriations
and sha; is all it will de. The city has
had two grants fro.a the Legislature 10
borrow money 70. the work on the new
reservoir aggregating sS25,ooo. and when
The Democratic Council took control there
was not an hundred thousand of the
amoun, left; taking their seats in Sep
| iember. and the last act having passed the
Legislature granting the Council power 10
borrow Sl25, 900 on the city's credit the
Is, Of March previous.
One of the chief charges asains, Coun.
Ill by the workingmen is, that if they are
unable,o give them work on the reservoir ii
is because the fund has been extrava-
ganiv used. or that they have borrowed
ioora ], as their predecessors did This is
! uca 80. ard ,he .ax rale will meet evenly
all appropriations. and hui for this san
borrowed from ihe reservoir tund. and
b.sfS-e spoken oi. the present Coanci
wpa}d .ezvt upoc ihs CITY no ! 1atins deb.-
( Ihs aElv var 10 Sig.e iLiS cli wnald be
20 Kerr sg+,cial INK fnis .ae Democratic
Cagpei! rssv T-oYsrlr weald usa take the
o3-zzs q 8a62s q thsv did 10; c-esie h.
/ a-E.szSs. .Af.er vhx. hss t,aan stated III.
sc-kiIlgrs, md the trering paper car
! stah sae lha. The Democratic Coapcil la,
Doa osan oot oi soch grsai e1lravag2pcs
+ Thev fcund The rase-vpi- f1pd when iAe,
Gang into power chi down in,c The Ugh
/ t,,-tacci u SIa1.e,a. Thev have been il
rower DOW lei months and there is ye
,s:i in The lre2sprr aaosl S5,tlss To it'
credit q the res=rveir, This is al
the roner the cify can e1paot
io- this Improvement II the CITY vss I,
PIT the old force TO work phicl
@ould bs seven hundred men. with The e.,
plovrnen; Of cz1s,his sum Of raeoey voul,
no. he sut1clen. to pay one weeks labor
and even il, S Mr.. Pyle suggested ai III.
meeting On TUESDAY night they pui ODE
hundred men 10 work, consis.ing OF ien @
the mos; neeay frnm esch ward, III,
suz il the treasury would nos be suf
| cent 10 continue then. 81 ii ior ihrse week.
/ after ca-.s and other iocideosSls had bee.