Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13
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d0rsing an unnecessary extravaganza
in a loan Of $4,000 or some greater
sum. AS we show in another article,
none Of the gentlemen engaged in this
work can come within hailing distance
of one another i'm their figures, and are
agreed on nothing except that there
must De a loan.
The Inteligencer is the worst be
fuddled of the lot. In its frenzy it has
already shifted it's ground two or three
times. varying it's position as the light
pours into it's mental vacuum and ac-
cordiug to the data it receives from day
to day from the office holders at the
City Han. who are attempting to boost
the loan through. An instance occurred
Monday when it announced that the
$4,000 appropriated last year for bal
ance due on the stone bridge had been
spent for interest, while yesterday it
said that this money was not spent, but
was held in the treasury. This is but
one instance Of many showing how far
the organ is al sea.
Yesterday it presented a most curl
Gus bunch of figures having for its OBJ
ject the demonstration of a big deficit
last year as an excuse for a loan this
wear Its table is more than remark
able. and the formidable total labori-
ously patched together falls to pieces
instantly upon analysis. 1t figures up
a total gas board deficiency" Of $24-
299I5, and in the very next sentence
admits that all these items We're paid.
The query arises: Is the organ mad,
or does it think the people have no
sense at all?
Then it figures up another total Of
1920. of which $4,000 is also a gas
board deficiency" and then adds the
total of the first table to it (Which it
said had been paid, the result being
S66.61915. From this S12,32O of prin-
cipal and interest of electric light
loan due this year is deducted
and the balance of S5429915 is
presented as deficiency which
should have been provided for
by the last Council, a statement art
fully worded so as to leave the impress
sion upon the casual reader who looks
to his newspaper for information, that
that sum must be added to the ordinary
estimates of this year, and that it is
this which makes q loan necessary"
which is entirely false. Let us examine
the items of the Intelligencer's table.
1t first presents three items of gas
board deficiency
Coal .659 10
Interest electric light bonds. 1898. 4 500 90
Interest electric light bonds, 1884. 1920 90
S24.29o 10
As the InteIigencer admits that these
items were paid out Of the city's gem
eral fund" we are at a loss to know
why it publishes them at all, to say
nothing Of falsely chasing them as a
part Of this years deficiency. So they
may be dropped. Its second table is aa
follows:
Electric light bond of 1898 Gun
paid. 5000 90
Electric ucht bond of 1894 cum
Electric light bond OF 500 .due 5000 90
Interest electriclight bond oi1o95
IluoI. 4.S-O 90
Deficiency i'm Gas Board S9f...... 1900 90
Total.................................S42,32o 90
Add To- this the deficiency appear
iug boz the first tabie...-..-........... 24,299 10
And we have total oi........-S66.61 10
Drop the S242g915. which our neigh
Dor says was paid. ont of this frightful
looking total and we have S42,S20 TO
deal with. OF this. $4,000 of light bonds
and $L320 Of interest falls due this
year. and. therefore certainly cannot
be figured as part of a deficiency from
last year. This leaves but $4,000.
which is further reduced by $4,5O0, the
difference between what the Gas Board
asked for and what has been allowed is
by the Finance Committee This
brings it stu further down to S25,50O.
\ Then the Intelligencer admits a credit
/ balance of St069.70 outside Of the stone
/ bridge money. which the City Clerk has
added 90 his estimated receipts, and
which is as available as cash in making
both ends meet, the Intelligencer to the
contrary. Notwithstanding This fur
Their reduces the alleged deficiency to
below S21500. and no amount Of jug
/ Cling with figures can make it a penny
more: and this is no greater sum than
has been carried over from year TO yeaH
for the past half dozen years.
] This Council has no greater burdens
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