Year: 1860

relation to this enterprise. The future alone will
snow If he is not now as much in error in refer
ence to the affairs of this city, as he was in regard
TO the condition OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company.


THE CITY HALL.


ms enterprise is recommended because of the
iaciIlty OF borrowing the money, or a part of it,
from the McDonogh fund. The city will have to
| pay the interest on this loan, and it really must
strike every one, if this be So that it will be as
much DEBT, and as much a burden-if it be a bur-
uen at all-it borrowed from the McDonogh fund,
d. II borrowed from any other source. There is
not now any immediate present necessity to
erect this building, that which we now have can
De made to serve for years all the purposes of the
city The objection is not so much to this building
IN itself, as to the time of commencing it. We are
attempting too much at one time This is the sub
stantial objection. If keeping within reasonable
rate OF taxation, should find hereafter that we
can erect this building, the time will then have
come to erect it. The cost Of this building is
varlousy estimated, and the future only will show
what 1t will am0 unit to. After the experience of
the JAIL 1t certainly is most important to avoid mis-
takes OF the description then made, especially in
relation to building as expensive the City Hall
must be.


PARKS.


These improvements, desirable as they are in
themselves, and when located as to accommodate
the masses of the people, may be found to be most
expensive, and become burden too heavy to be
borne by community already as greatly embar-
rassed by debt as this is. The location of a Park,
however large and beautiful, at point remote from
many portions of our people, will inevitably lead
as II already has to applications for more parks
so as to suit the wants, and accommodate the peo-
pie IN the various localities of the city. Ia this view
the cost these parks will be greater than this or
any other community of its means possibly bear
A statement has been made by Mr.. Swami as to what
the one-cent from the Passenger Railroad Com
pany will pay. This, after ALL in the most favora
bic view of the subject is but conjecture, and no
man can tell certainly what it will Weld. No one
knows better than Mayor Swami the uncertainty
OF the continuance of the system which now paws
this one cent. 1t is yet be egalized existing as
1t now does, at mere sutlerance, the Legislature
has refused to grant the desired charter Mr.
Swann's own official declaration is on record de-
fnltivey to the effect that the company ought not
to receive and will not receive charter, because
OF the failure of the grantees under the ordinance
to comply with the obligations which it imposed
on them 1t then, the five cent system be Abandoned
and the three-cent system be substituted ia its
place, this whole fund, from which much is ex-
pected, will have to be surrendered. The Park
de1t, hooerer 'cW, an Gny ecent, hare to be pail.
What this will be, is not known but it NAV be
conjectured from the experience of New York and
other cities, that from million to a million and
half of dollars, will thus be expended, and if other
parks should hereafter be established, there will be
commensurate increase of cost. The true ques.
tiOn however, in relation to the parks is one as to
the right OF the city to make the purchase without
q special grant of power from the Legislature.
rms IS question properly for the Courts, and if
the decision should affirm the power, the commun-
W must be content to submit and acquiesce in such
result There have of late been so many usurpa-
tons OF power on the part of the city authorities
that the time has come to force them to keep with
in lnr-iti otah han, DO