The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-05
THE CsTY ADmINIsTR ALTON VS.. ~.

| Editor Democrnt-Under the heading Of The
Mayor and One of Our Correspondents" your
edit on OF tis ctobar a morning says that
| his honor the Mayor and several of our city
administrators" rad my communication is
| it Honest AMI acknowledged that it has caused
them surprise They contend thai not only do s
| my communication contain rnisapprnhension,
but also gross inaccuracies. deny either that
! / am under any misapprehension or hat there
is any gtoss inaccuracy in any statement made
by me.
I asserted, and again assert. that tens Of thou
sands OF DOL ars OF taxes OF 1875. with interest
and costs, have been paid in cash since the first
Of the year, and that the salaries Of employees
for 1876 remain unpaid and that their scrip sells
at about thirty.tbree cents For the truth of
this quotation OF price rsfer them to the DEM
oCRAT's financial column And II even the pay
rolls of July. 1876, are yet paid. when were they
paid In this connect on they ask themselves
whether The 60 respondent is aware that me
| among themselves are also employees Of the
| am. and was. thoroughly aware of the fact.
but All entirely to see The slightest bea' ing it
has in the controversy or how 1t makes me mis-
apprrhensiye or inaccurate In my assertion;
| their low rate Of wa.es with the understanding
that they won be paid In cash
To this reply is made to. the effect that the
! city made no such promise. etc.
| This Ia not a satisfas' DRY response. The Do-
lice were first engaged by the board under the
state. Subsequently they were turned over TO
| not only by officers and men. but by the public
at large, and commented on by the press that
| at the reduct q rat the men would be paid cash.
| and want some evid nee to show that this is
| an inaccurate statement.
! The MAJOR ant Administrators next make he
! following statement: AS to the selling Of city
scrip OF any kind on the street at 33 cents. this
| is also ca | d an ipaccuracy for the city issues
| no scrip at q can b ing the honor bic City
Adninstrat ,rs barrel full Of city scrip il they
will pay me 40 cents on tn. dollar cash for it.
! What means the law OF the last Legislature
! max ing taxes OF 1875 aud back years payable a
portion of them in city scrip What the
| printed tibleau prepared by sheriff Handy for
the benefit Of taxi ayers showing them that
$3.50 per cent Of II taxes and $3.50 Of rs taxes
with Interest printing and clerf g. costs are pay
able respectively in scrip Of 1874 and 1875? and
| what the d lily quota iof 8 in the DEMOCRATS
| financial column OF city scrip OF 1874-5-6?
| They deny that the s250,oO0 of bonds recently y
! funded by the gentleman just from Europe
were drainage ser es. / said that they were
mainly, or a o. them. of that series. and be-
| leve still that correct. | know the con-
nectiOn the gentleman from Europe with the
sub ,ogated transIe ee OF the drainage soindte
and would like to know when md where any
court that the taxpayer, of Orleans or city
aiministrat on elt ced ty them. should respect
declared these or any other bonds legal. L the
| present admin stration ara going to rest quiet
! ly under deci ions Civ out OF courts presided
over respectively by FL. G. DibbIe, Jacob Hay-
kins and John Z. Ludeiing, they are very far
from repre- -anting the people who elected tn m
to office. Those courts were organized TO give
the form of LEGAL sanction to stens Derp err ated
underaS arm0ths and Kelloggs regime.
/ am aware that the report OF master In