The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-13
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
WEDNESDAY. March l.

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FIRST BRANcH-Branch met Present John T.
Ford. Esq, President, and all the members, except
Mr.. Hynes.
Mr.. Glanve presented n petition from the Uni
ted Fire Company, asking :. special appropriation
of 81 800. Referred to the Committee on Fire Com
panies.
Mr.. Clark presented petition from tax payers
OF the 18th, 18th and 20th wards, asking exten-
sion of the Richmond market Referred to the
Committee on Markets.
Mr. McComas offered a resolution ordering the
City Commissioner to have gas lamps substituted
for the oil ones now in West Lexington street
between the Widows Home and Mount street, at
such points as needed
The Second Branch returned the ordinance pro,
viding for the building of the bridge over Jones
Falls, at Lombard.street so amended as to provide
for the cost being included in the levy of 1858, in
stead of 1853. The Branch refused to concur in the
amendment.
The Second Branch returned the report of the
Committee of Claims on the petition of officer j. H.
Piercey, with their concurrence.
The President submitted from the clerk of the Su-
perior Court ordinance appropriating $4,000, in
accordance with act of the Legislature, for the
purpose of arranging neglected work in that Office.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
The Committee Elections submitted a report
upon the case of John Hamilton, Esq. of the llth
ward, whose seat was contested by F. Key Howard,
Esq. alleging that there nothing sustaining the
protest of the contestant, and submitted resolution
that the sitting member was fully entitled to his
seat, and that the committee be discharged from
the further consider alton of the subject
Mr. StaylOr could not conceive that the evidence
already submitted to the public by respectable cti-
Zens who were driven from the polls, would Justify
such a report as the committee had made. He
urged that if a single legal voter was prevented
from voting, there was sufficient cause for referring
the election back to the citizens of the ward He
continued at length and in able manner, to re-
view the attendant scenes of violence of that cleo
ton, and expressed the hope that the council would
refer back the election, in accordance with the
mortal of Mr.. Howard.
Mr.. Harvey of the Committee, was opposed to any
such course as he believed the election there
as fair as at any place in the city-and if there
any fair voting in the city, there place where
| it was more fair. He hoped the matter would not
be prolonged, but settled to-day.
Mr.. Beale regarded it his duty to defend the ac-
ton of the Committee. He surprised at the
marks of the gentleman from the Sth ward, Mr..
Staylor, and referred him to the riots in his ward
two years ago, and urged that the difficulty
! instigated by parties going from that ward. The
eighth ward was responsible for the difficulty.
Mr.. StaylOr did not consider that what he might
say would make much difference in the result, still
he would only refer to the remarks of the gentleman
relative to the eighth ward, which he did not deem
had any bearing at all upon the eleventh ward ques
tion,-that charges of such kind were irrelevant to
the matter under consideration.
| Mr.. Wood would ask the gentleman, MIR.
Staylor,) whether he candidly believed there
majority of democratic voters in the city of Bati-
more.
! Mr.. Staylor-The gentleman has candidlv asked
me question, and will as candidly answer, that
believe fair election would result in the showing
/ OF majority of democratic voters.
/ Mr. Bcale argued that the Council could not go
behind the record of the Judges and Clerks of cleo
ton in that ward and they had returned the sitting
member as elected. He alleged that if the Judges
of the ward signed the returns after seeing men
driven from the polls they had violated their oath
of office.
The President left the Chair to reply to the re
marks of Mr.. Staylor, and claimed that the vio-
lence referred to, by him. originated with the dem
ocratic party, and he continued at some length in
an effort to prove this charge.
A vote was taken upon the report of the Com
mittee, with the following result:
YEAS. = Messrs. President Bande Maddox,
! Beacham, Dukehart, Talbot, Beale, Cunningham,
Hampson, Dunnock Dryden, Wood, Glanville, Ad-
olson, NJ M'Comas, Harvey, Clark-total Il.
NAYS. Mr.. Stayior-l
\ resolution from the Second Branch proposing
an adjournment to Monday afternoon, received
and concurred in, and the Branch adjourned.
SECOND BRANcH.-The Branch met pursuant tc
adjournment John B. Sedenstricker ESQ.,, Presi
dent, in the chair, and all the members present.
Mr.. Herring presented the petition of W F. Muir
doch, asking permission to erect shed for the sto
rage of guano. Referred to the Committee on Fire
Companies
A proposition from the First Branch, to increase
the salary of the City Commissioner from twelve tC
fifteen hundred dollars, was non-concurred in.
The resolution to remove the pump in front of thu
store of j. Edward Bird Co., taken up anC
adopted.
The ordinance prescribing the duties and fxinG
the compensation of the City Counsellor at twelv
hundred dollars per annum, was called up by Mr.
Simms and passed.
Mr.. Herring presented a supplement to the ordi
nance to preserve the health of the city of Balti
more, which was laid on the table.
The ordinance regulating the collection of the cit
taxes, appointing collector and assistants, &c.
was taken up and amended to give the cashie
and book keeper an increase of salary. The rate
of discount for prompt payment were also remodele
so to make them one-half per cent. per mont
from May to December. The ordinance was the
= laid on the table.
Adjourned until Monday afternoon.