The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-15
NOT YET PAID.
City Still Paying Interest on
$4,000.
City Treasurer Hale CorrobO-
rates State Journal.
LAST UNTIL MARCH.
Money From Taxes VIII Then
Be Exhausted.
As Stated $50, 900 Will Be Left
When Banks Are Paid.
No More Money Available Until
July /.


day thatin his opinion the city finances
are in about the condition stated in
Tuesdays State Journal.
1t is believed, however, that the mon
ey of the city viii be entirely exhausted
by March l or 15,and the city win again
be paying current expenses on borrow
ed money.
From County Treasurer Philips today
the city received IS, 200, which is all that
it will receive till the next tax-payment
in July. This payment of $4,000 com
pletes the payment of $4,000 to the city
since December 20, out of which sum
only about $4,000 remains to start the
new calendar year. OF this sum of $780,
900, City Treasurer Hale stated today
$25, 900 would be used in paying up out
standing warrants.
This leaves about $4,000 to pay cur
rent expenses till July.
In order that some idea may be gain
ed as to the amount of money Which the
city is paying out every month from its
general revenue and general improve
ment funds, which is now represented
by an available $4,000, the following is
statement of the disbursements for
the first three months of 1901:
January -.-...-.... $15 1875 90
February Observation-Disclosures. 15,S44.19
March NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1854. 53
The total expenses for the first six
months of 1901 were $s1, S1&07.
FROM CITY TREASURER.
oNcN~C
why he did not take up the outstand-
ing warrants with the money which he
has already received from taxes. He
said:
''I did not take up the warrants be-
cause I wanted to wait and see how
much would be coming in from the
county for this half of the tax payment.
I think now that I will be able to take
up all the outstanding warrants, and
have about $4,000 left on hand. The
expenses of the city run from $4,000 to
$4,000 a month, so that the money will
last for about two months"
WHAT TREASURER PHILIPS SAYS.
County Treasurer Fl. M. Philips said
today: "It is a great mistake to sup
pose that the city is going to receive.
$4,000 more from me at this time.
paid the city treasurer So 900 today, and
that is all that I will pay till next June
or July. We pay to the city general
funds about $i56,OOO a year, and have
already paid $50, 900 of that sum.
LAS to the money due the city for
tax sales, 1 can say that those who
estimate it at SIS 600 are very much too
high. 1 do not know just how much
there is but I should say that not over
Sc, 600 at the outside This money is be-
ing paid to the city as fast as we re-
ceive it. Mayor Parker received this
information from our office this morn
ing, and 1 also gave il to Col. Hughes
when he was In office. Col. Hughes
knows, or ought to know, that he was
mistaken in saying that the city has
$4,000 or $4,000 coming from this
source"
In all the estimates of the expendi-
lures of the Hughes administration no
account has been taken of the immense
increase in court costs and witness fees.
No record of this increase can be given,
as the costs are not figured up by the
courts or the witnesses paid until the
final conclusion of the case. 1t is gem
orally understood that the total in
crease of court costs during the Hughes
administration will be from $1,000 to
IS, 900.
A half dozen or more articles in the
Topeka Capital this morning, very
ex-Mayor Hughes in permitting various
extravagances, among which was the
increase of his own salary, when the
city was obliged to pay 6 per cent in
terest on every dollar the mayor has
drawn for his services while he was in
office.
1t is necessary at the beginning of
every administration to strike a bal
ance and see the city's condition. Good
business men strike balances often and
curtail expenses when the revenues are
found to be below expenditures.
In this paper last evening a plain
statement Of facts was made about city
affairs. These are facts and figures of
record and however unpleasant they
may be the wholesale abuse of this pa
per will not remedy the condition of
the city's treasury. The garbled quo
tations from what was said, misrepre-
sensations and falsehoods made by one
paper against another, should not de-
ceive the public. Every councilman