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Show BOTH CITY AND STATE HMDS ME TIED UP CmCAOO. No. 6. Chirnqo'fl streeLs may be left without electric lights, horses in the fire department may no loncer be given oats and scores of municipal projects halted as a result of a decision of the state supreme court today, tying up $504,000 of the city's funds. The decision stamps certain of the city appropriations illegal becuuso they were passed after the regu.:ir a pproprim ion bill. In addition to aJTet.-ting the electrical, elec-trical, fire and police departments, t he decision stops the paying of fees to real estate experts attached to the board of local Improvements. Mayor Thompson tonight admitted that the decision would seriously cripple the citv. and tejgraphrd Governor Dunne asking for a conference Monday. It is eperied thnt a cp.'dal session of t lie l-Kif-;aturo will he asked to allow the citv to levy a special tax to meet the deficiency. defi-ciency. The decision today followed one Inst nifcht which tied up approximately O'ni.ooo jn mate appropriations and which will necessitate an extraordinary session 1 of the legislature. A. J. Russell, state treasurer, tonight said that the state treasury would be empty by April, and Governor Dunne announced an-nounced at Springfield today that there was no money available for the expens-es of an extra session of the legislature. |