Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-18
NO BENEFITS, NO TAXES.

Bonds--Ald. Mccarthy Claims 1t Is an In
Justice to the Sixth Ward--He Protests
and Will Invoke the Law.
Taxation without representation led to the
revolution, the formation of the American
confederation of States, and many other
things good and bad, among the latter of
which was the formation of the Republican
party and the browning misfortune of the
century, "that man Hayes" And now comes
Alderman Mccarthy, backed by his con-
stituents, who raises the shibbo-
leth Of taxation and benefits going hand in
hand. or inaugurating new rebellion on a
small scale.
The GLOBE, in its issue of yesterday morn
ing, in its report of the proceedings of the
city council, mentioned the introduction and
passages of two ordinances, one wiping out
the sewer districts heretofore existing in the
city, and the other dividing up the proceeds
of the $4,000 of sewer bonds of the $780,
600 authorized by the legislative act of 1873,
yet remaining unissued, between several pro-
posed sewer improvements.
Aid. Mccarthy represents the 81 xth ward
in the city council. This ward has been
attached to the city since the issuing of these
bonds in 1873. It will also be remembered
! that one of the compacts in this article of
union was that the taxpayers residing within
the territory thus attached, should forever
be absolved from all part in the payment of
any debt contracted by the city prior to such
| union.
The sewer bonds above mentioned were
authorized prior to the absorption of what is
now the Sixth ward, and 1000 were issued
and became an interest bearing debt against
the city Of St. Paul; but, owing to the
financial depression then existing, and the
necessity for curtaiiing expenditures, a halt
was called upon all public Improvements,
except those of most pressing necessity. The
$4,000 of bonds not then expended, but
authorized, were withheld by the city gov
eminent.
Times having improved, the city fathers
decide that it is wisdom to re-inaugurate the
public improvements stopped by the fnan-
cial crash, and hence the ordinances
of yesterday directing the issue of
course, the bonds, though authorized
to issue by the act of 1873, do not become a
debt against the city until their actual issue
under the authority of the ordinances passed
yesterday, and equally of course, the resi-
dents of the Sixth ward, have to bear their
proportion of taxation for their payment.
This is the status of the case, and as no
provision was made in the division of the
proceeds of the bonds for the Sixth ward,
when the subject came up for action yester-
day, Aid. Mccarthy entered his indignant
protest against the gross in
justice 1t was proposed to
do his constituents. He pointed out the
great anxiety manifested by the city proper
to get the Sixth ward annexed; reminded his
heares of the money spent to create union
feeling; the promises given if the union
should be made; the solemn obligation in
corporated into the compact of union alb
solving their tax payers for all time from any
part III the payment of any debts contracted
prior to the union, and the acceptance by the
city of certain obligations outstanding
against them.
Many of those obligations Aid. Mccarthy
claimed had not been fulfilled; that they had
been taxed for purposes from which they
were promised absolution when the union
was perfected, and now in addition to all
this it was now proposed to impose this ad-
ditional bond debt of $75, 1000, for which not
one cent of benefit was to be received, upon
the already overburdened taxpayers of that
ward. Against the act he protested in all
! AAoAAoJ NAA SAACOIACy, d11u LIZ I'D
pealed to his confreres not tc
do the contemplated wrong. Failing
said he, to do Us justice in this matter, 81
give you solemn notice that every power Of
the law, by injunction and otherwise, will be
used to prevent the imposition o. this tai
upon my constituents
The alderman spoke with great earnestness
and power, and while several aldermen took
occasion to express their sympathy with the
protest, the opinion was general that public
necessities demanded the issue of the bonds
III question, and that under the law the Sixth
ward must bear their proportion of the bur-
den: Notwithstanding this opinion, AID
Mccarthy re-asserted his determination to
invoke the aid of the law in every possible
manner, for the benefit of the tax payers OF
the Sixth ward, and there the matter rests
for the present.