| Show THOSE AGAIN a 1 4 A orrt time ngo the 1 City cily Council ti wan wa WI naked tor Sor an In appropriation I for tor tho th ii cremator amounting to bout about The rile majority of or tho lh finance recommended rr that the tho appropriation nl bt be made hut but a t I minority report was atc also I i presented In 11 which the tho Council i warned against extravagance ance In expenditures I for tho simple reason that tho the revenue of ot tho thu City CIl Is a not Ilot to 4 meet tho the current Mr MI Kern Fern 1 t strom declared that the tho contingent fund cund would waud bo be overdrawn nt at leut by Oct 1 At tho end Ot of or the tho year I there thre would be a u largo deficit for or tho the next administration to face This statement was wal wa made macic In tho the Council meeting on the tho 2nd of ot July JulyTh Tho Th defender of f had ed edI I no other reply to thin than thon Mr ernstrom it n Is 10 a tc Mormon us tL It if that had anything to do with tho the finance of C tho the City We AVo asked the theOran Oran Organ for tor or tho the correct figures It If Mr Fornstrom had ial not given them thern But Dut In Jn vain lIln Abuse was Wa tho the only tiling of ot offered Then Jh TI wo we a iL financial state statement ment set fet forth very cry clearly the condition of tf the tho contingent fund und the only fund LUnd from froni which tho thu current ex cx expenses expenses pence at of tho the City can be met Five mills is Ic the 1110 legal lel limit No o matter m how bov many other othoL funds may mU have hav been bow crOat creat created r ed cd C for tor special purposes only mills tan can aI be used for or the tha continent ex ac expenses ex expenses When th tlc five mills taxes ta cs licenses fines etc are oil cli counted there remains or ar the he years revenue for tor 1 current expenses only and con consequently at the rate Inte ot or extravagance no In vogue here thero her will nt at the tho end ond of ot I the year be l i an nn enormous deficit in tho the contingent fund That was the show showIng In Ing made nod mid nothing tha Un t defender of or GlUtt has luta Bald hitherto has lias given pity any hope of ot a ft I more inure encouraging financial condition Nn Wo We ore 1110 told that tho the tax levy lovy lat last year was wait eleven mills ROil and not and andr r that consequently tho the total ot of the tho City is much larger Irger than stated d in to inthe Inthe the News But now does that better thE tho condition The Tha total taxation for tor all nil purposes might have havo 4 been thirty mills or fifty But no mutter what It II t was yaa last year y or may maybe mn maybe be this year only fives five mills can bo be 1 used legally for to tho the contingent fund end and If It tho the organ advises Its Hs toola In Inthe the th Council to 10 appropriate any money III li h tho the special funds fund for Cor tho the running I expenses It simply advises them to commit a felony That Is all nU allBut allBut But jut the dishonest effort to deceive the 4 taxpayers Into believing lH unit that the tile City i has ha plenty of or funds fonda with which to lo oper operA I A te Ie the tho government machinery when In Intact tact fact tho the only fund from which the City can mit draw drar for tor Unit purpose Is Ia so s depleted deleted ns os to lie he practically exhausted t tells its lit own tale If It there were no rotten rollen condition to hide tIlde there would ho be no necessity for tor falsifying by mak making makIns ing Ins It that the City has hus cloven eleven mills to spend when hell the tho law allows allowa only live |
