Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — CANNOT EXPEND THE MONEY. [ARTICLE]

CANNOT EXPEND THE MONEY.

Cincinnati City Restrained from Ex-

pending 910,000 on G. A. R. Judge R. B. Smith of the Ohio Supreme Court in the suit of A. M. Stem, t taxpayer, to restrain the city of Cincinnati from expending SIO,OOO for the entertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic during the encampment next September, found that the objections to the appropriation which had already been passed by the board v of city affairs were valid, and granted an injunction. The court ruled that “the purpose of the expenditure is beyond the scope of the power of a municipal corporation.”