Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-08
PLAN NOTPOPULAR.
That Of Making Appropriations
Next Monday Night.
AID. sOHR0EDER's NOTION Is IDLE
Even the Morning Paper Deprecates Such
aCourse and Cautions the New Council
to Make Haste Slowly ON Such an Import
ant Matter.


aCourse and Cautions the New Council
to Make Haste Slowly ON Such an Import
ant Matter.
Even the Union deprecates the
course proposed by Aid. Schroeder's
motion in last Monday nights coun-
Gil meeting to adjourn until next
Monday night to make the annual
appropriations. There is no neces-
sitv fer such undue haste in such an
important matter, and, as stated in
The ARGUS of yesterday, the policy
of the council should be fully out
lined. plans laid out and estimates
made before the appOrtiOnment of
available funds should be made. In
the light of these reasonable sugges-
tions, Aid. Schroeder's motion is
idle. and the mayor and council
should SO regard it. if they give it
serious reflection and consideration
before acting.
The policy of past administrations
has been to exercise judgment in
these matters and to take advantage
of the limit authorized ty law, and
therefore it has always been toward
the end of June before the council
devoted itself to the formal consider
alton OF the appropriations for the
year. THE ARGUS in discussing this
subject bears no ill-will toward the
administration, as a whole. Just en-
,barked. In this its attitude is quite
i'm contrast with that of the morning
paper toward Mayor Medill through
out the two years he has officiated as
the city's executive, and who, by the
way, is conceded by fair-minded peo-
pie. irrespective of politics, to have
given the city one of the cleanest,
most business-like and progressive
administrations the city has ever
had. Revenues have been judicious-
ly distributed, appropriations prop
erly apportioned and properly ex-
pended, and despite dull times and
oppression, public improvements
have gone steadily forward, until in
fact, there is little to do other than
to complete that which is now so
well under way and which has been
pushed to the utmost limit possible.
The principal streets are paved or in
course of paving. and with proceed
ings under way for work interrupted
by the county court. The sidewalk
system is fully outlined and mostly
carried out. The standpipe on the
bluff is arranged for. etc. But OF
course there is much to do in con-
Meeting up. as to the standpipe and
extending the water system to the
bluff regions as contemplated by this
project.
Take Time to Calculate,
1t takes time to calculate as to
the expense involved in this work OF
completion. Mayor Medill's vale.
dictory deals intelligently with what
has been done and outlines compre
hensively what remains to be done
1t gives facts and figures in a man
ner that cannot fail to be of great
value to his successor, but estimate:
must be made and all matters taken
into view before the city commit:
itself. Hence the utter absence oil
knowledge of the situation by Aid
Schroeder as evidenced by his mo
ton.
The Union seems to have grea'
fears of Mayor Knox having an adj
ministrative policy similar to Mayor
Medill's. The Union should not fee
sensitive il the new MAYOR sees fl,
to walk in the footsteps of so excel
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