Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-27
NON FOR CONSOLIDATION.
The Bill is Completed and Pub
 lished in This Issue.

Many Radical Changes SuggeslcL-The
 Tax Question Settlctl-Thrre Will Be
 Only Five Wards--A Special Voting
 Place Will Be Provided for Water
 vile, Which Will Be in the Second
 District.
 Tie draft of the bin providing fer
 the consolidation of the town ana city &oNernmenrs is now public property
 'tlid Il leh0ovpS every man to read it
 over carefully and make known at the. proper tiple Whatever he may ind ill it
 lilat does nCr meet with his approval.
 together with such SuggeSl ions :lS he ptIefeH would be an Improvement upon
 tie work Cf the culunlittpp for no
 GoNDi. thp aldermen will want to hpar. NplhloA$ Oil the subject bpfOie Da%Sinw
 upon the matter tlc,in.c!vps. < cl1r-
 soy glance at tiie draft reveals the
 l;ct that 1T tnp p1i, sought was to ,lc- throne tie Stl"ctlH1n us many have
 'ohIenued from th, hrginuiny. the, r"LEnIttc@ has performed it's IaborS in
 ' HtuSl "iiicitGt lEluIpr. and deserves
 the thanks of all who desired such q
 change: buf cn the other hand. if' aS
 most good CitiztnS hoped the bill
 'S'fANt 'iiii Jt ltiltl,Slll0 aD0LI q more
 equitable adjustment of the matter of
 taNGti0n it i& certain that lio such pro
 vision appears in the draft. and the
 only hope new left in that direction
 III lh" minds of people Who are inter
 t&teu more from . financial standpoint than i'll any other way. is that tie
 board of aldermen will amend the rc- port so that Wllen it leaves their hands It Will contain some essential features which the committed overlooked, CT
 left out pu!pusely. The doing away With the town meeting. the appoint
 ment by the mayor of the board of as seSsors and the board of relief and he substitution of q board of chari- ties to look after the town poor falls far short of removing the evil tue city l taxpayers have been complaining of for several years past. We are given two tax districts. The town, as it eX- ists at present. will be known as the
 first district, and the city the second district. The former will remain as heretofore. and property in that dis trict shall not be taxed for any i'm pavement in which it will not share The second distlict shall continue to | pay as usual. that is. it will have | to meet all it's own expenses and foot
 part of it's neighbors' as we'll The ! public should bear this in mind. The 1 second district is a part of the first, i but the first forms no part Of the sec 1 Cnd, so far as taxation is concerned. | i'or example. when the seconds taxes | shall be :}5 mills on the dollar and l the first's 10 mills on the dollar. the
 rate of taxation on the inside will be
 70 mills. while that of the outside will | be but 10 mills. No change. what
 ever; so that according to the new
 plan we' shall continue to plank down | tDP dust for the maintenance of town | highways and town schools. just the same as if the bill never had been
 thought of. The first district has
 nothing to fear from the proposed
 change. It is not asked to bear any l part Of the burdens; of the second. and ! yet it is given a voice equal with the 1 second ill determining how these bur 1 dcns shall be borne. It's electors have ! rights i'll common with those of the
 second, can vote at all elections and | are eligible to any position in the gift
 Of the people Of the second. while the | latter are denied any say regarding
 the conduct of affairs in the first but | must assist in meeting expenses | incurred in til" first which
 they had no voice ill creating and can
 not by any possible chance become l shnrers in. not even to the extent of
 sending one of their children to the | town schools. We have nc desire to
 ilnpute personal or political motives
 to the committee. but We have no hes | itation in stating that the draft does
 net meet the case. and if We are to | have consolidation the bill needs con siderable patching on the part of the 1 aldermen. The injustice that obtains ! in rAl. ion tn I1+n hills still | mains and until this is remedied to l some extent. at least. it is difficult to | see what good purpose can be ob- l tained by closer union of the town l and city governments.