The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-13

Total Indebtedness Juno 1..."........ s6oS,S66 X
From the revenues OF the city for 1857
there will be required to pay accrued and &C
cruing interest and part OF the principal Of
the above Indebtedness, $70.5S7.l S AS follows
Interest on 1880 bonds, $1,000; accrued and
accruiag interest on the Compromise bonds
50 OOO p iucipAl and interest on Building
Lf.ar, SIS 600; principal and interest 90 Loan
OF 1871, $50. OUO interest on Loan OF 1881, w.
Oj95O; interest on city orders, IS ,OSi 6S.
The committee recommended that the
City Solicitor be ins'rnc'ed 10 draii
the annual assessment ordinance, proYid
ing therein that the levy on real estate
aud pers nal property shall be 81 cents
on every $lUO Of valuation, and III
addition 10 said so Get levy levy OF IL
cents in pursuance Of the act OF the negis'a'
ture OF 1879 for stIeet improvement pnr
poses; that W. B. Simpson, Gas Commits
sioner, pay into the Exchange Bauk the
amount OF money on hand, received from The
Trustees Of the Gas Works, Us shown by his
report for May, TO reduce the City indebted
mss for drafts III rGHsitu, and that the City
Water Roard be required TO pay 10 Msssrs.
List and Davenport, Commissioners OF the
Loan OF 1871, the sum of $ll 900 from the
water rent receipts Of 1888.
After the above had been read In the Sec
ond Branch aud motion to adopt had been
made by Mr.. G. o. Smith, Mr.. Stanley asked
for division OF the first recommendation.
The 80 cent levy was AL right, and he was in
favor OF it, but the puri osss OF the 10 cent
levy were not specific enough. BE was not
undersl God at trst. The law provides that
the money derived from this levy snail be
used for improving streets that have not been
paved or macadamized and for putting down
savers where there have been none. This
was not specific according to Mr.. Shanleys
views. His idea of being specific was to
name the streets on which work was TO be
done. He secured his sefvance however,
and both recommendations were adopted.
Mr. Stanley asked 10 have bis vote against
The 10 cent levy recorded, and Healy and
IIaberfeid felt called on to follow suit. Mr..
H Ibertisld made an. assault on the T., T.
w. in connection with the 10 cents, claiming
that 1t would all be put In the general pot
and no one would ever know where 1t went,
and the unimproved streets would remain so.
The next thing that caused talk was the re-
commentator that Mr. Simpson pay into
the Exchargl BRuk Sill .59l.46 OF TIE gas
money for the reduction Of drafts in trGnstm.
AIR. STANLEY suggested as an amendment,
LESS any amount .ht may be due on con-
tracts" but 1t failed 10 meet with approba-
liOn.
In the First Branch there was quite long
and heated discussion on this gas money
question. Mr. Hall was opposed 10 all the
money being turned over. 1t was not right.
1t came from only about 2 400 consumers, and
they aud their families were entitled 10 the
hene fit OF 1t. Messr,- Hoffman, Boring and
Wilson were very vigorously In favor Of
spending the mon'y, and itthe works wanted
little money 10 help oos in paying for con-
tracts, why, the city could issue draft The
recommendation was adopted.
In conversation with Secretary HI Zlett' last
evening, be. was found very much opposed to
the action. The works now owes about
SIC. 600, Of which S. 900 has 10 be paid to-day.
il was the intention to reduce gas to 81 90 per
1000 feet on ths tint OF July, less 10 per cent
II paid before the I0.h, which would mske
Wheeling gas the cheapest In the country.
"BuL, said MIR. Hszlstt, with this sort Of
action il can't be done" The. city already
consumes about one.tenth Of the gas, free Of
cost, for which the consumers pay.