Show ITE ITEMIZED STATEMENTS TATE DEMANDED RI Of cour course e the council Is right in d demanding nu an nn anH H itemized statement of contemplated expenditures from fron Street Commissioner loner Raleigh And the he council will h be he warranted In holding the street commissioner to an exact ex- ex ex exact x- x act observance of or that estimate it Jl will hill be hp warranted In ht n r refusing to permit him to spend money y beyond the limit of his Ills estimate and appropriation But what tho the council demands of or Mr h Raleigh should b by the state be demanded of the th city Salt Luke has absolutely no limit on the tho amount of It Its turBo ture ure And the tho result of It Is Ig that although the flue tax rate has ins been raised there II Is sure to be he a n deficit in ht this year of near a n quarter million dollars Ever Every department In the city should bo he required to o furnish an estimate of the amount of mone money needed for or Its work and when this estimate has been approved and ind the appropriation made the department should hould be compelled compell d to live within that allotment This f Is n a limitation limi- limi atlon tation the state can lay on the city and If It had ht been n lone done two years ears ago no Salt Lake would have havo b been cn vastly etter bolter off oft financially than it Is now The practical effect of th the failure to do business s In InthIs inthis thIs his business manner may be seen In the ea ease with which the tho called so-called Am American party will escape r responsibility responsibility pon- pon for the tho result of Its bad lad administration There has ha las been ben no limit on Its Us expenditures and It has spent ill all the mon money y In the treasury all It U could collect and anticipated the city's revenues to the extent of or two hundred hun- hun Ired dred and md Oft fifty thousand dollars For the expenditures to which U Jl ha has committed the city can not be bo provided for foi without that excess of outgo over Income And the administration that succeeds them will have lave the bill to settle Undoubtedly the rule of requiring Itemized estimates estimates esti esti- mates is a good one It certainly should apply to the whole city not city not not alone to a street commissioner who has fallen from favor because he has chosen to throw off the yoke oke of or the Tribune |