Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-04-30
ARRANGING FOR A Big DIYVY
WORK OF FAPPORTIONING THE CITY'S
REVENUES Is BEGUN.
Tenth Ward Citizens Before the Com
mittee En- Masse - Park Board
Wants S4O,OOO-ComptrOll-
cr Lund's Figures.

The tug of war began yesterday after
noon when the joint finance committee of
the two houses of the council met with
Mayor Jones and Comptroller Lund, In the
lower house council chamber, to discuss
the apportionment of the city's revenue
for the ensuing fiscal year. The spending
: of the citys cash Is something extremely
fascinating to a great many people, ana
the interests which have to be consulted
are so many and so varied that the COM
mittee will undoubtedly take two or three
days to build an apportionment ordinance
intended to suit everybody; and then there
will be some who are not at all suited.
The committee barely made start on
the work yesterday. While waiting Tor
Alderman Seddon, the committee gave au-
dience to number of persons who wished
to urge the Importance of making provision
for matters in which they were specially
interested and these hearings consumed the.
better portion of the afternoon
A delegation of Tenth ward property
owners, headed by ex-Councilman kidwell
and Professor White, were first heard on
bnne Tnes Oft e G an puba South
Nineteenth and Lydia. out Flora avenue
and Vine street to Twenty-sixth street.
that while they were loyal citizens and
| never kicked on paying their fair share OF
taxes, they thought the burden OF building
| settled territory which it Will traverse
would be too much for them, and they felt
that the city ought to help by building I,1 .at the
| leaving the property owners to pay Tor the
branches from that point: They 4e presented a.st
was was that Rs the net seWer should be built south
| from Nineteenth and Lydia, by the follow-
ing route, at an approximate cost OF s6o,-
| Grove to Twentieth, east on Twentieth to
| the alley between Grove and Flora south Ii
WsDt4Tyt 14s ssy to TTentys5st orn soath
| Flora to Twenty-third, east on Twenty
| third to Vine and south on Vine to Twenty
| sixth.
The second plan present led was that the
sewer should this year be built from
| point at the north line of the workhouse
se' Same Route named above owe. but leaving the
! portion north from Twentieth and Flora to
Nineteenth and Lydia as an open, sewer e.
| This would cost about $4,000 or $4,000. The
| open portion of the sewer would run
through a deep natural channel and as it
| would not be offensive, at least not un-
bearably so. The committee. promised to
ton.
| President A. r. Meyer, of the park board.
next presented the reasons of the board for
asking an apportionment of $4,000, showing
| just how the money was to be spent if al
lowed. Mr.. Meyer explained to the COM
special levy can be spent for the salaries of
officers and employees and for many other
| necessary expenses.
On behalf of the Provident Association
| Frank A. FaXon made an earnest appeal
| for help from the city. Mr.. FaXon said
| that the care of the deserving poor was a
| burden which in reality should be borne en-
| tirely by the city, but that many liberal
| minded citizens were willing to assist with
| time and money. He thought the city
| should do its share and argued that the
| making of a regular appropriation for the
| association would not only give something
/ TO hn a1N 1Ana 1nI Nt, hut ola
| those who ask others to contribute van
| tage point in argument which they did not
| now possess.
Comptroller Lund has prepared some fig
| ures giving his idea of what the apportion-
| ment should be, working on a basis of an
| estimated revenue of $780, 900. He presented
| these figures to the committee yesterday,
| but the time was too limited to do more
| than look at them. The comptrollers fig
| ures cut the police from $4,000 to $40. 600;
| the fire department from $160,000 to S140-
| 600; the garbage fund from $4,000 to S14. 900;
| the workhouse fund from SIS. 900 to S12. 600;
| the board of public works from 100000 to
| $150,O0O and other estimates in proportion.
| The figures of the comptroller are held to
| be conservative and the probabilities are
| that all the departments will be given
| something near the average between what
| they have asked and what the comptroller
| has figured on.
| The committee will meet again at 10
| o'clock this morning and then the real
| work will begin.