Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-29

allowed to 60 along with it had been stoppe
BY the city, much to their loss.
After Mr. Lane had spoken the question
was then open for
ALDERMANIc DISCUSSION.
Mr.. Hubbell arose and addressing tn
Mayor. said he, (Mr. Cook was not acting a
Mayor when the tight over this same ones
tion was had last wiuter He said that com
mittee had been appointed before to investi.
gate the claims Of contractors upon the cit.
works, and that an engineer from Rock Is
land had been employed by said Commit
tee, to investigate the matter, and that he
found the work Of certain contractors sadly
deficient that the matter had nov come up
for second hearing, and as it had beer
fairly investigated by select Committee ia
proper way. and - it was q general
rule that corporations always got tn.
worst end of such matter when carried
into Court. he thought it best to allow
the awards and settle the matter at once
He stated that Brayton 4 Boies had taken
the contract to grade Gaines street at 90
cents per cubic foot. and that they could
do it for Is. therefore the loss of the job
was loss Of IA cents per cubic foot on all
the earth which they were kept from re-
moving by the City Council. He wished
to have the matter settled then and there,
and should vote for the resolution.
AID. Corbin arose and offered resolution
TO the effect that the amount awarded by
the committee to Brayton d Boies, as DOW
due on labor performed and material fur
nished. be paid provided that said b. d B.
give up and cancel all contracts made with
the city, and shall release and discharge
the city from all liability He said that he
could not vote for paying the award
Of the committee in full So far as the re-
port awarded them money for work done,
he was willing to adopt as it stood. In his
opinion, they should not recover profits for
work which never had been performed
The city would find it difficult matter to
pay for what had been done. This would
be his course of action with regard to all
the bills reported upon.
Aid Washburn hoped the matter would
have been settled at this sitting, as he wish
ed to have it done with. He could not ad-
vice any member to vote for it unless it was
legal; but he hoped they would see the
necessity of letting the matter 60 no further.
He should vote for the adoption OF the reso-
luton offered by Aid. Hubbell to pay the
award Of the committee.
Aid. Macintosh remembered how B. 4 B.
were stopped on Gaines street, and, to com.
pensate for their loss there, and to keep
them quiet, they were given contract on
Brady street at figure much higher than
other responsible parties would do the same
work for. This in connection with other
matters induced him to oppose the bill.
AID Sears said he would oppose it on the
ground that no such amount was due them.
He was not in favor of paying any award
which included speculative damages. And
further that b. L. B. had had other work in
the city to nearly the same amount they
would have received had they finished their
Gaines street contract.
AID Morley wished to know if the city
had ever stopped their operations on Gains
street, and if it had not fulfilled its part of
the contract, to which Aid. Hubbell replied
it had net.
The motion to pay the whole award was
lost.
The resolution offered by AID. Corbin was
then adopted.
Next came up G. G. Arm dts contract.
Aid Hubbelll said that he would oppose
it on the ground that nothing was due
and that if one award was to be disallowed
he would 60 in for disallowing all, and test
their merits in Court.
AID Corbin said he would 90 for it. as
the Committe had given the award as being
for money due for actual services and not
for any speculation damages.
Aid. Cannon went against it on the ground
that it was not due He said that Arndt
had already been overpaid.
Aid Washburn said he should go against
it. He was willing to vote for the adoption
Of all the awards, but if one was to be reec-
ted he would vote to reject all.
On being put to vote the award Of the
was sustained.
The awards to Stuhr and Dittel we're also
sustained by the Council.
This matter being disposed Of
AID. RAINING
with solemn visage, and with one
hand in his breeches pockets and the other
holding copy of the best printed and only
paper in the city-ths
DAILY IOWA STATE DEMOCRAT,
arose to point of semi -politico-personal
Referring to notice there
in contained, he put it to any one having
whether there had been any
whereby cash should not be
paid into the Treasurer's hands, or whether
it was newspaper articlei
MAYOR COOK
answered that the collector had not been
ordered not to pay any money into the
Treasurer's hands; but that the Marshal had
said in bis presence-he thought Aid. Hub
bell might have been present also-that-in
fact, he believed that the ordinance only re-
quired collectors to pay over monthly-the
interest would be due in August, and the
money would be required to pay that inter-
est and that there was no intention to -
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