The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-20
TO REDUCE TAX
ONE-SEvENTh
MADE POSSIBLE BY LIQUOR
LICENSE REVENUE.

It Is Proposed to Use the Unex-
pected Money in Lessening the
Taxpayers Burden, Rather Than
Have It Frittered Away in Financ-
ing Pet Hobbies of Councilmen
Some New Health Measures-Pro-
viding for Police Matrons-Prop-
erty Holders Want Damages.
city and city special taxes will be re-
| duced about one-seventh or nearly Ia
per cent, If no objection comes from
common council or the recorder
Select council last night, pursuant to
n recommendation of it's committee on
taxes. amended the tax levy ordinance
| by subtracting from the amount to be
raised by direct tax on the people the
equivalent of the amount which the
actual receipts from liquor licenses ex-
ceed the estimated receipts.
The city controller estimated there
would be She. 1901 received from liquor
licenses. The report of the county
| treasurer's office shows that this estl-
| mate is $4,000 less than was actually
| received. With $4,000 lying around
| useless there was a general scramble
| among the councilmen for slices of 1t
with which to carry out pet hobbies
| that had been crowded out of the gen.
| eral appropriation ordinance.
When the tax levy ordinance came
up In select council at the last meeting
1t was referred to the committee on
taxes, consisting of Messrs. Quinnan,
Cosgrove. Cemons, McAndrew and
Merriman.
FAVORED REDUCTION.
Last night they reported the ordl-
nance with amendments reducing the
tax one-seventh The amendments were
adopted and the ordinance passed on
first and second reading. An adjourned
meeting will be held next Thursday
night to pass it on third reading.
The amended ordinance provides for
the following levy:
First class. .Oo375 on SOL, ,9S4 O6s-sla4 $50. %
Second Glass;. .O025 on 7,1O49iO-- 17,7G2.35
Third class -. OOlS15 on 6.591. .695- 12.370.67
Total $3.50. .......................S .S225, O63 q
The original ordinance provided for
levy of four and four-tenths mills on
first-class property; two and nine hun
dred and thirty three one-thousandths
mills on second class property, and two
and two-tenths mills on third class
property. This would raise $263,OOO.
Another amendment made to the or
dinance was the insertion of a clause
eli Nttln fty,rr k1,,,t l..
the entire tax levy for 1902" New
measures were introduced as follows:
BY Mr.. Regan--A resolution directing
that the electric light located on Corbett
avenue last week. be transferred to Sny-
der avenue. a mistake having been made
in the location. Adopted.
BY Mr.. Chttenden-A resolution direct
ing the director of public safety to place
on every telephone a card bearing the
telephone call of the nearest fire depart
ment house. Adopted. A resolution di-
recting the director of public safety to
have physicians report the source of the
patients. Adopted. A resolution direct
ing the director of public safety to pro-
vide free vaccination again, that small
poX may be stamped out Adopted.
BY Mr.. Nageli-A resolution narrowing
to thirty feet the roadway on Gibson
street, between Quincy and Taylor ave-
nues. Referred to the streets and bridges
committee.
BY Mr.. Oliver-An ordinance establish
ing grades on all ungraded streets in the
Fifteenth ward. Referred.
BY Mr.. Coleman-A resolution directing
the director of public safety to rigidly en-
force the ordinance of 1898, regulating the
speed of vehicles particularly automo-
biles.
GAS ORDINANCE REFERRED.
The Consumers Gas company ordin-
ance came over from common council
and was referred to committee.
Three common council measures COM
ing up for concurrence We're killed by
Chairman Oliver declaring them out of
order. One eXonerated rs per cent. of
the tax on the Thomas Kane estate,
essayed to charge to the ap-
for cleaning sewers the cost
of constructing sewer basin on the
corner of Quincy avenue and Olive
street, a third sought to provide cross
walks for the Second ward by resolu-
tion, when an ordinance is required for
such an expenditure. and fourth at
tempted to charge the cost of two sewer
basins at the corner of Wayne avenue
and William street, to ward appropri-
ations." instead of general street APP
Resolutions We're cOncurred in di-
recting the city solicitor to enforce the
ordinance requiring the trolley COM
pany to sprinkle the streets on which
it operates, and plank its South Side
tracks: providing for hydrant at the
corner of Crown avenue and Hemlock
street: permitting property holders on
Rebecca avenue, between Jackson and
Price streets to lay IA private sewer.
A resolution directing the city solicit
or to confess judgment for $1,000 in
favor of Muldoon & Bowie, for extra
work on the bridges. was referred to
Attorney II. j. Murray eX-
planned to council how the city was
morally if not legally obligated to pay |
the claim.
FOR POLICE MATRONS.
A communication from Recorder Con-
nell asking that provision be made for |
two police matrons in compliance with |
the second class city law, was referred |
to the committee on public buildings,
In response to Mr.. O'Boyle's resolu-
ton of June Il, Director Roche report
ed that 30 prisoners were employed i'm |
the parks for fifty days and that the |
total cost to date was S9553, of which
SSSl3 was for wages of foreman. The
matter was referred to the parks COM
mittee.
Damage claims aggregating S., ,1S9. 10 |
were presented by Seventh ward prop
arty holders for injury done their prop