Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11

tence. or equally gross neglect OF It's
duty in failing to enforce this small
economy.
To throw the people off the scent and
cover up the pitiable helplessness ana
incompetency of its party friends IN
Council the Inteligencer. pursuing the
tactics of the fish that discolors the
water in order 10 escape from its enc
mics. throws out a cloud of irrelevant
figures and misstatements, the whole
of which is a tissue of utter falsehood'
which we will do our best in the limit
ed space at command to clear away,
Speaking of the increase in the city $
debt which the proposed loan would
make the Intelligencer says:
The latter statement is untrue, since,
even IL the S50.ooo loan is made. there Wlli
ba no increase OF the debt. but an actual
decrease. as SIS 40 of the principal and M -
terest of the debt lis 90 De PAID OF 500 V'O
more than The proposed loan
How the lnteliigencer THINKS lhls
Council can borrow money and not in
crease the public debt is a mystery;
large proportion Of the payment Of
which it speaks is for interest and
thus has no bearing on the face Of the
debt. which viii remain.
Here is lie No. .:
I'm REGARD TO the responsibility for the
situation. the Register. and every noGy
else knows that the present Council is pm
mo- wise Cl1rge1hle with NJ, ana every iiiill
who has knowledge or CITY aIldiIs
knows the Registers statement is the
raukest partisan cemagosy
The present Council Is chargeable in
that it might have kept the expendi-
lures within the revenues, as every
Council in the past has done and not
allowed every last penny that every
department chose to ask for, since it is
notorious that estimates as a rule lean
toward the liberal Lie No. 8:
The truth of the matter IS that the def
cit which now cOufrOnts Council, ana
which 10 must provide for, rs legacy
from the late Democratic administration
The "legacies' this year were just
about what they were last year and
they should have been met this year
as they were last year by economy.
There were no deficiencies left from
last year: but, on the contrary an over
flowing treasury. Lie No. A:
one item of $4,000 for instance, is in
the shane of back bills for the gas board.
Another item of $500 rs IN the shape on
two electric light bonds, one OF WhlCu
should have been paid IN 1915, ahI lAe
other was due last year. Another elu,V"
item is a bin incurred IN lNs5 Tor the gas
hoard for coal which should have been
paid that wear and was paid by rObplnS
am appropriation which was made Tor the
stone bridge leaving "a deficiency.
The above conglomeration evidently
has been written by someone who does
not understand the situation and does
not know what he is writing about.
The $4,000 part of it is simply entirely
false and shows a deep seated DISPOSE
ton to tell what is not So Our neigh
Dor adds
The present Council has made no appro-
priatiOus. except the monthly apprOprla-
on the appropriations last year.
Being q reform" Council it certain
ly should not have pursued that course,
or. having followed that far in the foot
steps of it's Democratic predecessor, it
shouldhave gonea little farther and ex-
ercised similar economy. Here is lie
No. 3:
Again. when the REGISTER states that the
rast Democratic Council left surplus of
S1s UOl iu tho treasury 10 asserts what rs
not true. The apparent surplus IN the
treasury statement had no existence.
Ii had existence and was an actual
surplus: the statement Of the Register
was exactly true. as Will be shown by
the books Of the City Clerk. Lie No 8:
To Ohe surplus) represented money that
had been appropriated TO pay a balance
ON the stone bridge (Sl9WO ana Tor Varl-
GUS other purposes, but Whlch had not
been paid because there We're no funds
This is false; the sum was not paid
simply because the matters in litigation
had not been settled. The Intelligen-
GER continues with this ridiculous non
sense:
Last year. also, 5000 was taken from
the contingent fund of the Board of Pub
Die Works and used 20 meet current eN-
peuses iu other departments.
And that was wise economic meas
ure that might be initiated with pro
priety this year had the present Coun-
ell wit enough to adopt it. Our con
temporary winds up its dreary mass Of
falsehood with this palpable trick and
misstatement:
Vow. the situation is just this: There is
Or will he a deficit this year of nearly
$4,000. owing 90 the fact that obligations
due long before the present Council came
iu We're not paid.
Oh. no, That is not the reason of the
$4,000 deficit. That exists because,
after allowing every Tom, Dick and
Harry in every department everything
asked for. the Finance Committee
found itself $4,000 short. The usual
policy has been to limit expenditures to
revenue. Our mUuthful and hypo-
critical neighbor concludes;
If the Register will take a business view
of the matter. instead of attempting TO
make Iii senSeless partisan point, IL VIII
holm 10 relieve the strain its party Gre
ated.
The business" views Of the Intelli-
gencer and it's party as shown in this
case are: spend an you have and theI
borrow some more. These are not the
REGISTERS business views. nor are they
the business views OF the taxpayers
and citizens Of the city Of Wheeling.