Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-09-05

permission to cross Main and Chiekasav
= streets b. a resolution passed BY council Il
1881
A proposition from Street &-Lowdsn, 70 pa
: down cutters six inches deep at S125 pc
yard, was referred to the committee on con,
tracts.
The improvement committee reported thai
the Nicholson pavement, on Jefferson street
bad not been put down on q crossing as d.
. rected BY the resolution Of council, but they
recommended that s175O.92, they charged, b
. paid.
AID. Merrill read the ordinance regulating
the passage Of accounts, and showed that GER
tain requirements therein were not compiled
with on the part Of the auditor. No action
vas taken.
Aid. Robinson moved that various accounts
from the city hospital, for medical attendanee
on psupers, be referred to the county court for
payment according to law.
AID. Merrill objected to calling upon the
county to pay for paupers thai the county had
no hand in sending 10 the hospi al.
AID. Molloy moved that the city pay the ar
counts and sftsrward charge the amount 20 the
county. Adopted.
Aid. Kirby reported in favor Of allowing an
assistant 70 the chief Of police aud to the re-
eordsr.
T. was proposed to make the first lieutenant
Of the day police the clerk Of the recorder.
AID. Frazier offered an ordinance creating
the Office Of clerk Of he recorders court at a
salary Of SIS a mouth. Passed q first time.
AID Martin moved TO proceedt 70 The election
Of a controller
The mayor said be had vetoed the ordnance
creating that Office.
A message from the mayor was read vetoing
the resolution Of the board instrueting the city
attorney to establish proceedings having for
their object the recovery Of the Charleston
railway bonds, sold TO certain individuals, and
Vstoing the ordinance creating the Office OF
city controller. Also asking the board to
az &c upon some price at which the city bonds
created for the bonding Of a portion Of the
citT's debt shall b sold.
AID. Marin moved that the ordinance ere
ating the Office OF city controller be passed
over the veto OF the mayor. The nrestigat-
ing committee appointed BY The board had
found the various ci-y Offices connected with
the revenue department in a deplorable eondi-
ton, with one exception, that was the treas
urer, and be had to wait a month before be
could report, in consequence Of the condition
Of other Offices. The reports that the register
olght annually to lay before the board bad
not been made at all, or, il made, not al the
present time. The mayor, owing 10 the pres
sure Of business, had not supervised the vsri-
Gus officers Of the city, or seem hat they had
done their duty. According 20 the ordinances
the mayor had not performed his duties, and
be could not.
Tne mayor said the necessary reports we're
made at each council By the lax collector,
register and others.
AID. Martin was not aware Of IL. those re-
ports had not come under his notice. He did
not call in question the mayors good inter-
tons with respect to his duties, but be said
that those duties could be performed by no one
man. Yet when the city council created an
Office that would relieve him, be vetoed the
ordinance. The register bad said three or
four weeks ago, that Il was impossible for him
to perform the duties laid upon him. The
consequence o. these things are that the rev
nue. affairs Of this city are ia a condition that
Is confusion worse confouuded-H The tax
collector to-day can give no account q the
state Of things. He knows what be has c0llee-
ted, It is true, bus at this moment his books
are not added up. We have now the same
official syste as we had when a much smaller
city, years ago, vet the mayor SAYS we have
officers enough. I call upon the aldermen a.
responsible to their God and heir oath to do
their duty and pass this ordinance over the veto.
Would they do IL? Can they do il, and resist
dictation?
The mayor objected that the proposed officer
would interfere with the duties Of himself and
other officers and his eKistencs was Illegal.
He did not want to interfere with the board,
put to keep It right according 10 the charter.
AID. Martin explained that in what be had
said Of the taxcollectors, be did not intend 10
reflect upon the officer, but upon the system
which be had found, but did not make. Mr..
Bowen had well performed bis duties under
the circumstances in which he hat been
placed.
AID Robinson said that in TIE present con-
dition OF things, It was impossible for the va
nous officers 20 make the reports required
Ofhcial statement Of the last years none
tary doings bad not yet been made, though he
charter requires it 10 be done In within one
month after the election Of the board. Il
as well be argued that because five or
six years ago I'VE or six policemen were sufh-
Gent for the city they are 50 now, as object to
his ordinance, because It creates a new Of
beer.
AId. Merrill said the board was full when
the ordinance was passed and none voted
against t.. Such an officer existed in other
cities, and was wanted here. Other cities
through this oficsr reported yearly or oftener
coDdition Of the m~onitary Affairs. He be-
iieved there was nothing in the ordinance that
coHfietsd with the charter. Re thought the
board Should pass the ordinance over the veto.
He thought that 20 veto, not because the oTdi-
aznee is Illegal, bu- because there is a diaer- :
ance Of opinion about details was a high
handed measure.
Ala Hughes showed from The city charter
.hst power is expressly given to council 10
create such Lew Offices as may be necessary, /.
and 10 define the duties of the officer. The
cannot do an that is now laid upon him,
aud a rev officer is necessary. I
On a vote every member present voted for {
he ordinance, thus destroying the veto. The
voting were: Hughes, Mahony,
Joiner, Worsham, Crews, MeTril, Molloy, 4,
kirby, Frazier, Robinson, Anderson, Martin, ,
follinune--Ayes, - nays, o.. :
AID. Robinson offered an ordinance making !
{ necessary that the city controller should be
ubiect 70 The control OF Tie mayor in accor-
lance with the charter Of the city. Passed a
time and referled. {
sd. Merrill said that another part o. the
message vetoed a resolution thing
be charter gave him no power TO do. There {
we're things the board could do which the
mayor could not veto, and resolutions were
them. He offered A resolution:
Rcs0lred, That the portion Of the mayors 4
Message vetOing a resolution be not received.
AID. Frazier moved to refer the subject to q .
q
Aid. Robinson suggested that 10 refuse to d
sceiFe any portion Of the mayors message
would be discourteous. .
Aid. Martin denied the mayors power 10
a resolution. The Covode COMMITTEES in 20
even against the protest Of the Pres
dent, had earned on its Investigation az an Al
Expense Of thousands Of dollars. II the mayor 81
an veto a resolution, how could the board ever
10 horize an investigation into the conduct n "a
be MAYOR himself2 The resolution was one !
. inquiry and investigation, and the mayor
ouli not arrest its action.
AID. Merrill said the law on this suDj ect y
the giving or refusing Of the
signature 20 a Law OF ordinance. No q
och siEnature was required for a resolution. y
10 disc0urtesy was meant, but II the mayor n
al no righf to make The veto In question, the 81
Dard had no night 10 receive the portion Of the
essage containing the Illegal veto. ar
AID MeHiil's resolution was adopted by an
res 10 5 noes. uu
Council went into an election Of a meublr
" the Third ware, In he room Of Aid. For vi
who resigned, Mr.. Park, who had been ml
ected in his place, having declined to serve. n,
lessrs. Selby, Mageveny and Bankhead we're =,
10 nomination. Mr.. MagsYeny received s -
ltes, Judge Seiby a, and Mr. Bankhead I.
IT. Magsveny was declared elected
Council adjourned until tomorrow at three
in the afternoon.