Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-12
lion dollars, slightly exceeding that OF
Washington. which was just under the

lion dollars. slightly exceeding that OF
Washington. which was just under the
million mark.
Argentina. in the same year. met
Buenos Aires expenses in the items OF
police department, fire department, docks
and hacbors. water supply and sewer
system, the more important works OF
public sanitation. and the greater part
the Buenos Aires police department alone
Argentina expended 81 100000 The items
of municipal expenditure which are thus
met by the nation in the case Of BuenoS
Aires to2iittng the heavy item OF
docks and ha-bors. which finds no coun-
terpart in Washington. and as an offset
credit:ng the nation with all the cost
of sanitation and public education). ag-
gregated in Washington $685.. 446. or
more than the nations total payment In
that year about five and one-quarter
miliions) toward the maintenance of the
District of Columbia.
In 1907 the population Of Buenos Aires
was 1.146.S $50: that of Washington. by the
mated population of Buenos Aires today
is 1.3J0, 600: that of Washington. by the
census Of 1910, is a31 ,O69. Buenos Aires
is a wealthy, busy. prosperous commercial
city. fostered industrially by the nation.
Washington is poverty-stricken, cramped
in every way in commercial, industrial
and tax revenue producing development.
Thus impecunious Washington has
dpout one-IOuftn OIL the popular On VI
wealthy Buenos Aires: and raises in
local municipal taxation more than one
half as great a tax revenue.
What Brazil Does for Rio.
What has Brazil done voluntarily and
cheerfully for national capital upbuilding
and maintenance? In 1906 Rios total reve-
nue. was S16,O7j.575, Of which 81. 6S1 It's was
derived from extraordinary loans" The
sum of IS. 1850 came from ordinary tax
alton, as against about five and one-half
millions of local taxation in Washington
in the same year. OF this eight millions
of Rios ordinary taxation 3.742.975 came
from real estate, house tax" Gas against
realty tax of $3,54S, 5.63 in same year in
Washington. 1881, $50 from trades, pro-
fessions and companies" $1.523,O2O from
public services The main items OF
this sixteen millions expenditure in Rio
We're S,i1S44O on public works. $4.279. 900
interest and sinking fund. $3.50. $50 lad
m:nistration and other public services"
s.. $50 education. $626. 3S5 collection and
distribution of revenue, s266, pensions.
S:I1,5.5 hygiene and public assistance"
s1I3.st.5 Legislature, deputies (There
are $3.50 municipal employees, with SAL
aries agsregating $3.oO3.gO) Correspond
ing items of expenditure in Washington
for the same year were in a few items
as follows: Highways. $3.50. 1856; interest
and sinking fund, $780, general gov
eminent, sI34.434: education. s1,774.246;
charities and corrections, $1,O19514.
The national expenditures on Rio are
notable. In rebuilding the city, beginning
in 1856, the nation made for this pur-
pose foreign loan of SiO,OOO,OOO, the city
domestic loan Of $2O.OOO.OOO The ma
tional department of public works car
ries on the public improvements of city
and harbor. Between $15O.OOO,O 900 and
$2JO,OOOGC0. according to varying esti-
mates. has already been expended on
Rio. The police force is on the national
military basis. The botanical garden Is
supported by the national government.
Brazil joins with Rio in the work of
public education.
Rio is the industrial heart Of Brazil.
Most of the great national resources Gen.
ter in it and in some way pay tribute
to it. 1t is made by the nation CONNER
cially prosperous. rich, strong in taxable
resources. Washington has seen the
original commerce of its site reduced al
most to nothingness. 1t has been Grip
pied and retarded in industrial growth,
and its taxable resources have been re-
duced to minimum.
In 1906 Rios population was 81 ,443:
that of Washington by census of 1900
was :1e.71S. Today the estimated popu-
lation OF Rio is nearly a million: that of
Washington by census of 1910 is :s:S1 O60.
Thus Washington. with little more
tian one-third Of Rios population. raised
about two thirds as much as Rio in ordi-
nary taxes.