The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-27
MORE MONEY TRANSFERRED
BOARD OF TINANCE VOTED TO RE-
 CO1TMEND TRANSFER or $a6, 6,65e

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 Commissioner Forsyth
 Calls the Transfer a steal-City Con- troller's ofnce Hours Arranged.
 The needs of the department of pub lie works were well taken care of at the adjourned meeting of the board of finance held yesterday afternoon. It was voted to recommend to the com mon council that $2s652, which was appropriated at the beginning of the current year to harden various streets, be transferred as follows: For street sprinkling, $2.S1s05; for street cleaning and repairs, $11,0o0; for repairing pave ments, s5,000: for the stone crusher, $500; for walks and curbs, $1,O00; for the contingent fund of the sundry &C., count, $6,102.50. The resolution provid- ing For this recommendation, which was offered by Commissioner White, was not passed without considerable oppo- sition.
 Tn offering the resolution MT. White said that there was no question but that the streets needed hardening. He said that there were streets in his own ward that needed hardening, but he did not think that such thick top dressing for hardening as is' 'called for in the specifications should be put on. He said that he did not see any other way to get money except to take that set aside to pay the city debt. Contin- uing, he said;
 tl,{ %A nIJr~ rent expenses and I for one am not willing to begin work under the new charter by taking for current expenses money set aside to meet debt
 T believe that it is good policy to meet current expenses out of the years income It is all right to issue bonds to pay for permanent improvements but let us use for current expenses what we have. Let us put up with g. little inconvenience until we get the appropriations ready for next year, when we will try to take care of all the departments.
 Controller Brown entered a, strong objection to passing over the needs of the police department without consider. ation He said that he thought that something ought to be done to meet
 
 now forty or fifty men are needed on the police force and he thought those already on the pay roll should be paid. He said that the police department was doing good work and needed every man on the force.
 Commissioner Forsyth said that he should vote against taking any money from the appropriation of street hard ening While he thought that the po- lice department was doing good work, he also thought that this department was as guilty as any other in exceed ing it's appropriation. He seaid that he did not care to go to the board of aldermen and argue that 1t was a good policy to take money from hardening streets when there is 10000 for which there is at present no other use, which might be used to pay current expenses,
 Commissioner Dove agreed with MT. Forsyth. He said that If the money was in the hands of the board of finance for that body to dispose of, he would vote that it be used to meet current expenses instead of being used to pay for street hardening, but as the money has been already appropriated for street hardening and the orders have been passed he thought that the mon- ey should go to that purpose. He could not advocate the transfer In the board of councilmen.
 Commissioner Mansfield said that the question of future indebtedness was a serious one. He thought 1t more neces- say that this be looked out for than thet streets. be hardened. He also thought 1t more important that streets be cleaned than that they be hardened. He said that he would rather the ap- propriation for hardening Humphrey street, on which he lived, be used to pay for cleaning some other streets than for hardening Humphrey street. He said that he would like to see the police department provided for, but thought that the general welfare of the city should be looked after first. He was not prepared to vote to take s40,- 900 already set aside to meet a future debt. He said: We should live with in our means. This 000 comes un- expected. Let us use 1t as principal
 Controller Brown thought that it would be great injustice to the police department If the needs of that depart ment were not provided for.
 Mayor Farnsworth thought that the affairs of the police department would be well attended to by the new board of police commissioners. He said: "1 be- lieve that there are now men on the force who are no good at all, but also believe that the new board will do away with this I know of one in stance in which fourteen complaints concerning certain officer on the force were made fin sixteen years and even then that man was only suspended three months when he ought to have been discharged. The man was reins stated, and ex-Superintendent Smith who now receives & pension of s75 per month from the department, recom- nended his reinstatement. Over s519 Der month Is now being paid out of the pension fund, and there are men on the pension list who are as well able to work as men still on the force who re- ceive s per day for their work. Any appropriation made to the police de- partment ought to be made on the un- derstanding that the men in that de- partment be regarded"
 The mayor also said that the city engineer had told him that the thin nest street hardening that he would recommend was six and one half inches and that a contractor had told him that