Arizona republican., 1895-05-07
WE TAKE PRIDE In Pointing to the Fol-
 lowing Record. Every Pledge Has Been
 Fully Redeemed.
What the Closing Republican
 Administration Has Done.
A Council Meeting Last Night Which Ought to Have Been Att
 tended by Every Phoenlcan.

The last regular meeting of the pres. ent city council was held last night. The monthly routine business was transacted, annual reports of the various officials were read and the body adjourned to next Thursday night when the vote at the city election will be officially canvassed and Mayor Moni- hon and Councilmen Goldberg and Lacy will retire to private life.
 If every voter in Phenix had been present at last nights meeting every vote cast today would be cast for the Repu blican ticket. Itisa pity that the Republican campaign management didn't think of this and arrange for the meeting to be held in the assembly hall and thus close the campaign.
 The showing made by the reports would have convinced dSthe honest and intelligent voter that the city had done we'll in Republican hands, better than It had done before in other hands, and that would have been the strongest possible argument for the continuance of the Republican party in charge.
 It would not have required any com ment or explanation to show this. The figures alone on one hand would have been sufficient, taken 1n connection with the improvements and reforms of which all are cogniZant,
 The city's receipts for the year have been $41 GOO. Ths council has ex- pended $42,000. The larger part of this sum has gone for the payment of current expenses, but about $15 ,0O0 has been spentein public improvements and 5000 has been paid in interest on bonds and for the reduction of the | floating indebtedness. Under the head of improvements may be mentioned the additions to the fire department, in which $6,0O0 has been expended in grading streets, $3,000; in street cross ings, $l ,0OO; in extra lights, $700, and Tn the badly needed Center street un- derground Hume which furnishes a solution for bad smelling problem with which successive councils have been confronted, $500. Not less than $1 400 has been spent ln taking care oi hobos, an item of expense during the past year tenfold greater than ever be- fore.
 The council has done something else better understood by laborers who have had municipal employment. City warrants have been raised from .95 tc par, thus redeeming reflection pledge that every dollar paid laborel employed by the city should be worth dollar.
 And this leads to another saving this council has effected. By reason of the fact that the warrants have been below par it has been necessary to maintain an extraordinarily large urgency fund. This has been wiped out because it is no longer necessary to maintain it. Ii has been devoted to the redemption oi outstanding warrants thus saving an. nually to the city $400. The floating debt was reduced by $4,OC0 last night In short it is shown so clearly that il cannot be contradicted that the present city administration has done every. thing that the Republican party year pledged it to do. It has in fact done more and has left the city in such shap pc that another Repu ublican administra. tion by the grace of the people today may take up the work and go on with out hitch.