Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
BILL IN COUNCILS
FOR FOOD EXPOSITION
Measure Offered at Mayors Re-
quest Appropriates S25,000
for Proposed Show
OBJECT PUBLIC WELFARE

\u appropriation of $25.oOO to establish
next year food exposition to he man
aged by the Philadelphia Food 6Ommis-
sion Is asked for in 4 bin ia.roduced IN
councils this afternoon at thc request Of
Maror Smith.
Tn" appropriation will likely he made
to the Mayors department as u part of
the 1918 budget. and If present plans are
carried out a central exposition will bc
established ut city Han and branches
in other sections. The purpose as OUT
lined in the bill is "for the education and
welfare of the public"
Another financial measure introduced
transfers $4,000 in the Department of
Public Works to provide $23,G02 for ex-
pcnses of Clean-I'p Week last May and for
supplies
Councils provided for depleted payrolls
by the passage of a Sl,200,00 temporary
loan that must be repaid within four months
out of 1918 revenues. BY this move, supple
mented by transfers to cover bills not in
cluded in the loan, the Administration hopes
to meet all demands until the years end.
The loan by no means covers all the bills
incurred upon tn. faith and credit of the
city, as coal bills aggregating a half mil
lion and many other heavy charges will be
allowed to go over the calendar year with
out any attempt being made to pay them.
The whole Of the Sl,200,00O will be utilized
for wages, salaries and other personal items,
except S32o,"b3 for interest on new loans,
Among the wage items in the loan sched-
ule are Si3is39 for the police payroll and
S32,177 for salaries: S30.675 in the Fire
Bureau, $4,000 in the Electrical Bureau.
sl22,5OO III the Highway Bureau. $l22,5OO
in the Water Bureau, $500 for inspectors in
the Street Cleaning Bure&l, $4,000 for
wages in parks and $l0,36i for salaries in
the courts
Until Councils Finance Committee COM
pleteS It's task of cutting down budgets and
strikes some kind of working balance no
move VIII be made TO fix tho tax rate
rms Will probably be done at A special
meeting TO he called later in the month, as
todays meeting Is the last regular one be-
iore the time limit on fixing The tax rate
mas expired The financiers plan "A number
OF special sessions Of Councils between now
and the close of the year so that a general
cleanup of financial and other matters
may be made before the present body OIL
cially dies and the new body is created, the
first Monday in January.
Other bills passed today provide for the
Improvement of roads in the southern sec
ton of the city, effecting communication
with shipbuildng plants now under con-
struction for the laying of terra Gotta pipes
ana for the opening of Il number of streets.
The old calendar will be cleared of bills at
the last two regular meetings Of Councils
in December and vt the special meetings
which will be called for the latter part of
November and the first part of December.
Many of the measures now on the books
will be allowed to die "A natural death with
the expiration of the present body. These
measures. among which will likely he the
transit lease ordinance, will have to be re-
introduced IN Councils after organization
the first Monday in January.