The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-30
PkOcEEDINGs or THE CITY COUNCIL

ADJOURNED SESSION.
MONDAY, August 30, 1859.
FIRST BRANCH.-Present-CALE HYNEs, Presi-
dent, pro teD, and all the members, except Messrs
Ford, Houston, Glanville and Talbot
The unfinished business of Friday being the call
for the yeas and nays on the motion to reconsdeIa
the vote which ordered the printing of the journal
of the Committee on the City Passenger Railway
Mr.. NEWMAN took the floor, when
The PRESIDENT remarked that the question as
not debateable.
The yeas and nays were called, and the resolution
to reconsider carried by the following vote;
Yeas-Messrs. Randolph, Beacham Beale Jen-
kins, Cunningham, Hamilton, Clarke, w ood Balm
Mues-l0.
NaysIMessrs. Hynes, Henderson, Mace, New
man, Addison, Montague-6.
Mr.. NEWMAN moved that 500 copies of the re-
port and accompanying documents be printed
The PGEsIDENr.-"The gentleman's motion was
out of ORDER
Mr.. MoNrAGUE.-"The chair does not understand
the gentleman"
Mr.. NEwMAN.-"I moved t. order the printing
of 500 copies'
| The PREsIDENT.-'Yo ou said 500 copies''
| Mr.. CUNNINGHAM.-I rise to point of order
The reconsideration of the vote brings the order
| to print 500 copies before the Branch.
! Mr.. NEWMAN.-"l offer my motion to print 500
copies as an amendment Mr.. President why has
the Clerk of this Branch refused to send the iour-
nal to the printer An order of this Branch has
been disobeyed, and the Clerk would not have ne
| elected his duty unless he influenced by some
member of this Branch His card as published in
the Sun newspaper states that he was told to retain
the journal. Who is the President of this Branch ?
! Are not you, sir Then what right has Mr.. Ford,
who is acting Mayor of this city, to instruct the
Clerk to disobey the order of this Branch. 1t is
an outrage"
TIE PREsIDENT.-"T gentleman is out of order;
| he is not speaking to the question"
Mr.. NEwMAN.-"1 will reach the question in a
moment"
The PREsIDENT.-"You are out of order''
Mr. RA tha foil hlo
| solutions:
Whereas, it is currently rumored in the community
that the passage of the Passenger Railway Ordinance
brought about by fraud and corruption and that
members Of the City Council received moneys con-
sideration of their votes and influence; and whereas;
such is the fact is due to outraged people that the
facts should be brought light that the innocent
should not be made to suffer with the guilty, therefore
Resolved By both Branches of the CitV Council That
JOINT Special Committee be appoin to investigate any
rumors charges that current in the community
in reference to fraud corruption that may have
taken place in the passage of the Passenger Railway
nance, and that said Committee have power for
and papers, and to administer oaths witnesses
| and all persons summoned before them.
| Mr.. MONTAGUE said that he rose to a privilege
question. After he left the Branch Friday even
ing, he had been assailed by two members of the
Branch, one of whom was the verv Lazarus of the
Branch who feed upon the intellectual and fnau
cial crumbs which fall from the tables of his supe-
riors, and who has not the ability digest the one
or appreciate the other In what particular is he,
| Mr.. Montague,) an assassin of private character.
Can any member rise in his seat and say that his
character has ever been attacked by him No sir
| never bad. Do the members of the Branch know
that the member from the 18th ward during the
last session of Legislature, when effort made
to secure grant for City Passenger Railway,
was in Annapolis acting in the capacity of lobbyist
who received his fees-to defeat the measure?
and this man is member of the City
Council. That member had called him
Mr.. Montague) childess man, and assigned this
fact as the of his desiring the publication of
the minutes. 1t was a fact that he was childless
but that was not the reason for his action, If he