The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-11-18
COUNCIL MEETING.
The Mayor Tells What Has Become of
the Money.

|
the Money
At the council meeting Monday
evening all were present except
Aldermen Gonnermann and Frost.
After the reading Of the minutes the
mayor addressed the council as follows:
Gentlemen of the Council:--To my
mind it seems q rare situation, when
your chairman finds it an almost abso-
lutte necessity to consume your time
and attention in an effort to shield and
protect the members of this body from
the innuendos and aspersions, the in
situations and limitations of one of
it's members, as to the honor and in
tegrity of each individual alderman.
For, when member of this body pre-
sumes to go into public print and bold
" intimate that he himself is the only
one who has the general welfare of the
taxpayers at heart, and that the action
of his co-laborers have by their profit
gacy and carelessness bankrupted the
city treasury, | can but feel that the
honor, the good intention and personal
character of each individual member,
including the one making the charge,
is assailed. Nay, more; | feel that it is
an intimation that the council Of
Kenosha has become body Of
I" boodlers," in which list even their
accnser must be classed, since he has
sat peacefully lin our midst for seven
months past and aided by his vote and
action in defrauding the people of their
tax money. And it is to disprove this
and show to the members, each and
all, and to prove to the public to whom
these slanderous insinuations have
been made, that the calumnies charged
against this body are false in every
particular, and without the shadow of
| truth for a foundation, save perhaps in
one instance, in all the transactions of
this body, and that instance is the eX-
pense involved on West Main street;
aad in that the accuser is as much, if
not more, to blame than any one else,
that this statement is made.
The statement offered is as follows,
and to the best of my time, and that
of the city clerk, shows just how much
money this council had when it came
into existence, how much it has ex-
pended and what for:
CONTINGENT.
| Appropriation for 1897. 5000 OO
April 49, 1897, overdraft.. 5l25
May g. 1897, transferred
from license fund. $500 90
May 8, 1897, transferred
from justice account. 123 10
Total available cash. ...... 1871 So
1888 10 1928 10
Balance on hand May 3, 81 2,871 SO
| Salaries of city officers. 2,549 40
I Paid for insurance 90 90
Rebate of taxes ........ 294 08
Rebate of liquor license. 124 SO stts
Rebate of dray licenses. l10 90
Paid for election eXpen4eS.. 1854 81
Justice and witness fees.. 81 20
Boarding city prisoners. loo ~
Sundr1eS. Observation-Disclosures. Il is
Deficit November 15 1897. 726 n
s3,598 so 1888 80
| FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation for 1897. 5000 90
Balance on hand April Is, 1897. ........ 1919 AZ
Receipts .............,...'....... III
Expenditures:
Salaries fremen. -. $3.50. 81 ,295 90
Hauling apparatus 1875 90
Telephone ........ 81 95 ~~o2
Coal for city hall & engine
house. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. % oU
| Improvement and mainten-
ance of fire alarm system 342 50
Feed, Shoeing & veterinary
for horses. ............. 2o2 70
| Plumbing and furnishing
engine houses. ............ 100 w
Repairs ............. 94S5
Sundr1eS. ............... 81 %
Deficit November Is, 1897. 1872 AZ
s2,5la 90 82,5l8 90
STREETS, ALLIES AND BRIDGES.
Appropriation for 1897 ......... $1,000 90
Balance April Is, 1897. ,2S7 20
Receipts .............. .......... ....S 90
Expenditures:
Improvement w Main St...S 4l2 50
Building Island BRIDGE. 389 rs
Building tool house. ......... III so
Filling gullies Ashland
ave, Congress & Middle SITS 467 40
Thing Salem ave. 125 81
Thing Chicago & Balm sts.. 25 co
Repairing approach to Main
| st bridge .................. lao IL !.
Street sweeping ............. All 81
Salaries -. ................. 733 a
| Lumber. 645 ~
Rolling Market St.......... 122 63
Labor hardware & sundries 1893 25
Deficit November Is, 1897. 1880 Al
$3.50 81 $3.50 81
SEWER AND PAVING.
Appropriation for 1897. ...............S134 O4 81
Balance April Is, 1897. .S6 500 IS
Transferred from water works fund. 1,723 40
Receipts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,107 O2
| Inspectors salary, Moth,
King, Kelly & McGivern. IS 604 so
Sewer on South & Chicago
SITS & sewer connections
/ on Prairie Ave-. 1.147 70
| Sewer pipe. .......... $50 81
Demming ST Improvement 4S5 IL