Show FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CITY the present prefect fast pace city council or rather a few members of that notorious body of municipal wonders won dere are awakening to a full realization of a painful state of affairs that they are vainly endeavoring ing to indefinitely ward off it to Is with reference to the condition of the city finances for more than a year past conservative business men mein have predicted that which it is ie now conceded must come before the present council serves out its term of office and retires retiree again into that career in winch its ita members were seldom seen or heard beard of and irom from which they were suddenly shot from a political catapult into public life at the outset of the year 1893 councilman bel who is chairman of thu the committee on finance prepared an estimate of expenses and revenues ie revenues venues of the city fur for the present year and ana after a great areat deal of labor and many warm words succeeded eucce eded in having the schedule adopted it showed that the total estimated receipts of the period named would be thit that the cash on hand band at that time amounted to making a total of aval available lable funds ot of the expenditures for the year were ff figured at or in round figures about this schedule was prepared prim airily for the purpose of serving as a eulue to the councel bad and beads of departments part ments in their disposition of city funds and to act as B a curb on their apparently parent ly inherent lavishness tf of money that does not belong to them it was also decided that all officials should make estimates of the needs of their departments and send it in requisition for supplies and not buy them when where and how they saw proper as they had been in the habit of doing previously council resolutions are like the traditional dit ional pie crust made to be broken as from the very outset the expenses have been exceed exceeding inz the estimates and some of the councilmen are getting seriously L unarmed as to the consequences quen ces though they tail fail signally to open their mouths or take any ady decisive action regarding the matter in the council meetings councilman heise said to a NEWS reporter yesterday something will have to be done soon we will have to pull in our horns as we are going too fast our present policy is suicidal I 1 predicted to Trea treasurer purer duke a year ago what is coming now but I 1 was laughed at and ignored the money sot set apart for the year will if our present course is continued much further be gone before the last quarter commences the of the city have got more burdens now than they can bear and it wont do to tax them any more because they wont stand it councilman Is quoted by a brother councilman assaying ob won wont athe the next council give ush us h 1 1 when they come in and find we have left them nothing to work on 91 9 1 the fact ie 12 sald said another municipal solon solo nour our successors will do just as says and he might have added that the taxpayers will shower upon us a supplemental blessing of a similar character ili councilman karrion when he was informed what mr heiss heine had said cast a daub or of darker colors on this uninviting financial picture by saying instead of the money being gone at the expiration of nine months it will all be exhausted in six months 2 |