| Show WILL INCREASE TAXES Plan of American Administration tion ton to Got Out of Hole Hol by Piling Ping Burden on People PAY FOR EXTRAVAGANCE mid end H a l Half nl Mills 11 Proposed for tor J ind and azid One Ono SHU iiii 11 lot for to Aqueduct to Heavy Load ad Tonight the city council counci holds an adjourned session to lix fx tho thu tax tl levy le letor lev for tor the ensuing year and It if the tho con elusion arrived at a yesterday afternoon ht lit I a n of the tio finance committee I Is la carried out Olt a I levy le ot or 1014 IG 16 mills wilt will willbe wil wilI be mantle made This Is un Increase e of ot 4 Y mUle mills over Oe the tho levy of ot last year and will mean an In additional burden burdel on out 01 the taxpayers of at tho the city el if they the will 1 stunG stead for Cor It i Just to tam help out the tho ex cx extravagant administration ot of tho th affairs allaire by tIle tho American party FOR SURPLUS FUND It His Is proposed by time the committee committed to add n a 3 SY j mill mi tax tate for tor the time purpose e of providing for tor a 1 sinking fund to redeem the tho elys bonded Indebtedness and also alsoto alsoto to pity pay p y interest on al time thu tl bonds Instead of ot taking caro curu cne of ot that tha out of the thu general contingent expense fund It I Is also adam proposed to add one unc mill mi to last years levy bevy to construct a 1 concrete on ott North Temple street streel from frol FIfth to Ninth West Vest We t street to avoid the over oer overflow overflow flow fim of City creek and ond consequent floods in that portion of time tho city This I could be bo done out OU ciu of th waterworks fund lund but bul the administration Is going golu i to hold Its Is regular funds In II reserve as us nearly ua liS possible so that transfers may ay be ba made mid from them to the contin contingent contingent gent fund arid and cover up the tho overdrafts In that fund lurid and ancl make the people leopie pay for tax that Improvement by an 11 additional SPECIAL LEVY Those present at the th committee meeting yesterday afternoon were May or Thompson A s City Atty Dininny Deputy City Cly Auditor Stephen Col Cal Nelson of the tho began of ot the ad nd ministration n luck Crab tree Davis Dane Fernstrom and ana Ferry nn insIsted that the law would not permit of f If n it special levy levY for n a sinking and Interest fund but ns as tho assistant attorney declared that It would be legal the committee decided to recommend It Thu ho l levy loy vy as us 0 recommended I by tho the com corn o Is practically aa as folio con fund 5 mills street sIred fund s 5 nulls mills mUs waterworks sewer Real ana an l library mry Sund 2 mi mis mIlls ing Id and Interest te rt fl fund du 3 34 mills mils of Que duct l I mill mi lAY BB DE DEFEATED DEI IN COURT Tile Tho law states what the tho council may ma lix fx i tho the lovy levy for fur but It i does doea riot not fol Include a I a levy for lor sinking and Interest fund hence it I Is claimed that I a levy for lor or that n purpose rP se could be ba defeated In court As A to fixing tha tho li levy loy section of court f the tho revised statutes ot of C lS iSIS OS S rends reads as tot fol lows Annual rI t ho t nUi ot M t July of each year CAr the g city council at nt a regular meeting thereof shall counci ol by ly b or or 01 resolution levy ley on tho the real realand realand and personal property within wI tho the city ct made taxable by law lawI 1 I Not to exceed 5 mills on the dol dot tar lar Ii to defray contingent expenses 1 l 2 I Not ot to exceed 10 mills on tho the mis dollar dolhar to purchase water sources streams ms and the tho land band land upon which said streams ore are appropriated aJl and canals i to construct wn wai arid and ad to supply water for or Irrigation and othe oth purposes 3 Not ot to exceed 5 I zulus mills mUs on tho the del dol tol bit lar lr to open ope II Improve and und repair the tho streets and ond sidewalks 4 Not to exceed C mills on the dol lar I drains r to tc construct and ane repair cowers Bowers und end Ild 5 Not at to exceed 10 nulls mills on an the thai dol doh Ian lar I to construct and maintain gas gasworks gasworks works electric light works works telephone lines street railways or bath luth houses house Nothing is 15 mentioned therein about a ale lovy for a 1 sinking shaking or Interest t fund at atall atau all au ni and it Is therefore thre foro claimed that such mch a n levy would bo be Illegal The he com coin committee also ISO decided yesterday to com corn complete pleto the Improvements for which con contracts contracts tracts trots have havo been boen let up to ditto clato but not to attempt any oher contracts this tins year ear |
