The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-11-14
REVENUE EXCEEDED.
The City Council at the Extreme End
of the Rope.
ALL IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD STOP.
Such is the Recommendation OF Mayor
RussPll-Regular Meeting Of
the City COuncil-BiG
Batch OF Bills.

Such is the Recommendation OF Mayor
Russell-ReguIar Meeting OF
the City COmcil-BiG
Batch OF Bills.
Mayor Russell, during the progress of
the council meeting Monday night, read il
statement full of figures, giving the csti-
mated income from all sources for the
year ending December 81, 1891, and the
actual and estimated expenditures for the
same period, the latter exceeding the for
mer by something like $40. He earnestly
requested the council to then and there
take such steps as would stop absolutely
all internal improvements until the first
of January, when there would be funds
from other sources TO meet current eX-
penses.
While Mr.. Russell was talking Mr.. Wad-
dell, chairman OF the council committee
on finance, appeared, and supplemented
the mayors address by the statement that
the expenditures for October had exceed
ed 5000, and he, too, as chairman of the
committee, urged entire suspension of all
luISEHil improvements. TIC it' 'NNh
urging this step, he said, for months, but
his warnings had not been needed.
\ long and tedious wrangle followed on
Il motion to pave certain parts of blocks
of streets with the macadam on hand.
The gentlemen from the Second ward had
u tilt with the members from the Fourth,
and statements and counter-statements
flew back and forth thick fast. The spread
ing OF the macadam in question will cause
an outlay for labor of several dollars, and
this, taken in connection with Mayor
Russclrs and Councilman Waddell's state
ments OF the condition of the city treas
ury, was used as. an argument against the
proposed improvements for the present.
Something must be done, the members
say, to relieve the stress, but meeting after
meeting is held, and at each meeting hun
dreds of dollars of claims are read and
ordered placed upon the claim book, until
that account now aggregates something
like $1,000. The 5000 added Monday night
helped to swell the total.
Mr.. Phetzing called the attention OF the
council to the bad condition OF a certain
plank walk on East Main street, where
two persons, u lady and Il little girl, had
been injured recently, and recommended
that, as there was no money in the treas
ury to pay for repairing the walk, the
pavement, as a matter of safety to the
public, be torn up. Damage suits might
ensue if the walk was permitted to remain
in its present dangerous condition.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
The council met at the council chamber
Monday night, with Mayor Russell pre-
siding and all the members present except
Messrs. Waddell and Walk. The mayors
gavel fell at 7:45, and after Register More
land had read the minutes of the last
previous session, the reports OF the col
lector, recorder and register for the month
OF October were read and ordered filed.
These reports are given in detail in an
other column.
Ethan Allen stated that he had received
notice of back taxes upon property owned
by his wife, Captain Lesueur and w. G.
Musgrove, and he thought he could find
receipts for the most of the taxes, but if
not, he would pay, the council agreeing
to remit penalties and costs.
Mr.. Walk came in at this point.
A petition asking for a gas lamp at the
intersection of the alley in lot SO, block 1,
First addition, was read, and the lamp, on
motion of Mr.. Walton, was ordered.
Mr.. Walton, from the committee On inn
provements and repair, reported favorably
on George Farrar's bill for pavement on
south street, and the report was approved
The chairman also stated that the com
, mittee had seen fit to repair the bad mud
t., hole at Twentieth and Mill streets, at
cost of some $50, and this part OF the re-
port was also approved. The bills fol-
t lumber and work were allowed.
, Mr.. Fegert, from the committee or
= claims, read n batch of allowances, which
! were ordered registered and placed upon
the claim book. The water company was
paid 1915 for hydrant rent, and the Ga'
;. company was paid in full to October LIST
, The gas company's bill for October was
, registered.
Mr.. Waddell appeared and tool his seat
Mayer Russell read a statement showing
3 that the expenditures had exceeded tn,
. probable receipts by $40 and requested thu
\ council to shut down on all further i'm
u provements until on and after January 1
1892.
Mr.. Waddell, from the committee OF
= finance, reported that the city's indebted
s ness was IS, 19S. 81, and hat the expendi'
lures for October had been $650.5S.
The taxes of Mary Mcintyre on certain
lots used by the city as n roadway wer,
n abated.
n Mr.. Walton moved that the city attor.
n ney be instructed to write to ii. G.. Clark
asking the Missouri Pacific railway com,
pany to create a flag station at the foot o
Tenth street, and the motion prevailed.
U Mr.. Simmons moved to adjourn, but tn,
U motion was not seconded.
U Mr.. Walton moved that all macadam OF
U hand be spread OIL Third east OF Main.
U Mr.. Waddell moved to amend that tn,
broken rock lay in the heaps until ther,
s was money in the treasury to pay 70
t moving it, but his motion wasn't in it
s and the original motion prevailed.
e Mayor Russell appointed William G
e Golightly as calaboosc keeper for tn
month of November, and the appoint
e ment was unanimously confirmed.
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