The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-14
HERE'S THE BUDGET
COMPTROLLER NEARBY SUBMITS
HIS ANIMAL ESTIMATE OF
NEEDED EXPENSES.
LOWER THAN 81 ALLOWANCE.
LESS INTEREST on TIE BONDED
DEBT TO EE PAID NEXT
YEAR.
PART OF RoNDs TO BE REFUNDED.
Vbe Conference Committee Takes
I'D the Immediate Consideration
IF the Document.

general fund, amounting according 10
the conptroller's estimate to S3Io5000,
so that the total sum necessary to be
raised by taxation will be $1,o48,82f.
This sum. as compared with the eStl-
mate as allowed by the council for last
year. is $50,497 less, the estimate for
1897 as allowed by the council being
$1,399,324.
In the item for interest and sinking
fund the amount to be provided for In
the year 1897 was $4,000, the interest
on the bonded debt being 1899, 1S5 and
for sinking fund $10,S15. For 1898 the
interest on the bonded debt has de-
creased to $685., $685. and the provision
for the sinking fund is put in at S1,415,
a total of 100000. The amount to be
paid by the board of water commits
sioners is $114, 200, the same as 1887,
and the tax estimate for next year Is
$685., 800. or $4,000 less than for 1887
The second item, for the redemption
of bonds, provides for meeting the 1913,
500 which will become due by refund
ing $500, 900 at 4 per cent, these to be
cared for by the water board and plac-
ed in the sinking fund of that depart
ment OF the remaining bonds, $40,o0O
are to be paid from the sinking fund
and $33, 500 from the general fund. The
$l5O,OOO of bonds due in 1897 were re-
funded and placed in the water board
sinking fund.
The third item, "tO care for the GER
tificates of indebtedness, as the comp
troller calls it, is the same as for 1891
the $50, 900 necessary for interest on the
tax levy certificates being paid from
the general fund.
The fourth item, for the support of
the fire department, is in the aggregate
the same as in 1897, 100000, but, owing
to a balance of $4,000 in the fund, the
tax estimate is just that amount less
for 1898
The fifth item, for the support of
the police department, is up to the
charter allowance, $1S5,O00, but there is
a saving of $4,000 as compared with
1897 as there are no back salaries to
be settled for, which was the case then.
The sixth item, to provide for the
lighting of the city, is $4,000, or $44, 500
less than in 1897, the decrease being
caused by the comptroller not having
$40, 500 in back lighting bills to square
I'D and there being a saving Of of Sl0,-
600 in the cost Of gasoline lighting.
What is saved in the gasoline lighting
cost, however, is used in placing more
arc lights in the business part of the
city and retaining the gas lamps dis
placed for the outskirts of the city.
The seventh item, for the payment
of water bills, is the same as in 1897,
s., 500.
The eighth item, for the cfty's one
third of the cost of the poor, aims
house and city hospital, the estimate
is $21,667, just 81 more than in the 1897
budget.
The ninth and tenth items, for the
support of the public schools, are given
as 1921, $50, being the full two and one
half mills on the valuation and $4,000
less than in the estimate for 1897.
The eleventh item, for the building
inspectors department, is $500 less than
allowed in 1897, $1,000 being the sum
for 1898.
In the 1897 budget the health depart
ment was allowed $9,9S0, an additional
$1,000 being tackled on for additional
work in the inspection Of garbage. For
1898 the estimate is only $3.50.
The thirteenth item, for the city's one
half of the maintenance of the city hall
and court house, is 81 400 less than in
1897 the estimate for 1898 being $18,610.
The estimate for the workhouse fund
for 1898 is 5000. In 1897 the estimate
was only $4,000, the fund having Jan.
/, 1897, a balance Of $4,000 to its credit,
which is missing for next year.
The fifteenth item, for the engineering
department, is $25, 100, which is an even
$500 more than allowed by the council
for 1897, although the engineers salary
is put at $4,000 for 1898, While it was
only $4,000 for 1897. This is owing to
a decision of the supreme court which
held the law reducing the salary of the
engineer to be invalid
The estimate for the board of public
works fund, item sixteen is $1S,620 as
against $17 100 for 1897 a saving of
So, $780, which amount and an extra
thousand was added in 1897 to pay the
was deciding whether there ought TO
be one or four commissioners. The
estimate for 1898 also provides for
salaries of $500 for each member of
the board.
The seventeenth item, for city off
GERS salaries. is $497S0 for 1885, as
against SAG, $50 for 1897 The Increase
of $3.50 in this department fund is ow-
ing to the supreme court decision,
which knocked out the 10 per cent re-
duction made by the council in a num-
Der of the city officials salaries in 1897.
The city treasurer, city clerk and cor
poration attorney VIII each get $500
more salary in 1898 than this year. The
ten clerks in the city treasurer's office
will be paid in the aggregate $3.50 more
in 1898, and $500 additional will be add
ed to the aggregate paid clerks in the
city clerks Office. The first assistant
in the corporation attorneys office will
draw $3.50 more in 1898 than In 1897, and
the second and third assistants will
each get $120 more salary next wear.
The street, sewer and bridge fund for
1888 Will be the same as in 1897, $3.50 0OO
The nineteen item, for bridge re-
pair fund. is put in the 1898 estimate for
$4,000. This is a reduction of $32. 500
from the amount allowed by the coun-
ell in 1897. The chances are however.
that the council, if the conference does
not change this estimate, will add ma
terially to this sum- The city engineer
estimates that at least 100000 will be
needed for repairs of bridges and a
number of the aldermen are talking of
$150,O0O to be used in widening the
south end of the Wabasha street
bridge.
The twentieth item, for the payment
of judgments, is boosted" $500 harder
| than in the estimate for 1897, the
amount put in for 1898 being $25, 600.
The twenty-first item, for printing,
advertising and stationery, is increased
as Col. Kiefer would put it, three hum
dred per cent" In the estimate for
1897 only $4,000 was required for this
fund while for 1898 the amount is put
in as $4,000.
For the municipal court fund, the
twenty-second item, the estimate for
1883 is $4,000, or 1922 more than for
1897. There are nc back salaries to pay
for next year, as there were in 1897
but the salaries of the two judges,
clerk, assistant clerk and stenographer
are 81 ,29O larger owing to the decision