El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-18
THE CITY BONDS ELECTION.
The School Measure Nay PaSs.-Tht
Others Will be Defeated.

The mayors proclamation for an
election on Tuesday, December I, to
allow the taxpayers to vote on allow
ing the city to issue $4,000 10 bonds,
has been out for some time AID h as
be n published in the legal form pre-
sctibed by law.
In the election there are three
| bonded issues TO be voted as follows:
For erecting school house in the
second ward and improving the Mesa
school building, $4,000, $1,000 of
| which is for erecting the school house
in the second ward and the balance
is for improving the Mesa school
house.
FIR erecting city hall, $50 1000.
And for funding the city's indebted
ness, $50, 900.
Thus the issue stands before the tax
payers and their votes will say wheth-
err or net the city shall plunge $4,000
in bonded debt in one day.
The consensus of opinion around
town is that all The Dond issues will be
defeated at the polls, except that for
he erection of d school house in sec
ond ward. This issue may possibly
carry, but if it does it will not do so
with any big ma jority as the tax pay
ers generally are ainst bond issue,
but they all acknowledge the need OF
another school house.
As to the erection of $50, 600 school
house the majority of the tax payers to
whom the HERALD reporter has talked
is against tie erection of such a build
ing they think it entir ely il a 'equase
to the needs of this city and a"e in
'avor of waiting until the city is in
condition to put up building that will
me e5 the demands of glowing city
and be the equal of other public build
ings within the city limits. This is
sue will probably be defeated.
10 regard to tunci"g the city's in
debte duess the majority of tax payers
are against such a move and they al
see iu it a scheme that was gotten up
| by city scrip scalpers and delinquent
| tax payers to fill their purses at the
expense of the people. The Taxpayers
admit that by funding the city's in
debtedness city scrip will be brought
| up to par, and To at those parties who
| have been sea ping the scrip at from
50 to 80 cents on the dollar will get
dollar for dollar on their speculations:
| while the delinquent Taxpayers will
| not be pressed to pay up as the city
Will not be in need OF the money due
| from them for taxes to the city, and
there is always a way for q city gov
eminent to get around pressing friends
| for th cir taxes which are over due
A large number of property owners
see another way of bringing scrip up
| to par and that is by pushing the tax
suits that the city now has in The courts
| against Delinquent tax pay ers. There
| are now pending in the higher courts
| of the state for SIS 900 due the city by
de1in quept tax payers and as the high
err courts have in other instances al
| Nays declared in favor of the collection
of these taxes by the city, there is no
reason to believe that they will not
Il f,x, ,,fE Do l.
suits against delinquent tax payers.
These suits are liable to be decided any
day and when they are the city
treasury will have enough mcney to
bring all city scrip up to par and they
will not have bonds to pay after awhile
for thus making the city's CT edit good.
These are reasons why the tax payers
will oppose the funding of the city's
inje btedness. They see their way cut
of the darkness without placing the
city further in debt and they also see
where it is to the interest of delinquent
tax payers to vote and work for the
funding OF the city's indie btedness, be-
cause by thus doing the city will not
need the money they owe and there
i'll be no demand to push the suits
now pending against them.
II there is anything that will pre-
vent the collection of the city's suits
az oil 81 luO III iltq uobO 1dAt ~ cTS, Tue
present city admin stration Will be re-
spopsible for the same. The tax suits
were brought before this admiDistra-
ton went into office, but they had no
sooner got intO power than they de-
clared the water works bonds null and
void, thus tauglipg up an already
knotty leg al question ard if the higher
courts decioe against the city it will
re because the attorneys for the de-
PENDANTS in the tax suits have taken
advantage Of the city administra-
tions acts which were favorable to
their clients
Now hat the time for the election is
drawing near the HERALD viii ley
further facts before the people for
their consideration so that they
Can vote intelligently on subject
that is 80 vital to the interests of this
city.