Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27

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| sCity OouncAi-fr0oeeOngs Last Night. +
Council met last night at the usual hour.
President Terrence in the chair. Minutes of
the previous meeting read and approved
Mr.. Hollister presented resolution 10
the effect that Kemper-street be vacated.
Adopted.
A petition was presentedby Mr.. EQqleston.
from four OF five hundred citizens asking
that Council provide for retaking the census
Of the city. Referred TO a select committee,
consisting of Eggleston, Noble and Bosley.
| A communication from the Board of
Supervisors was read which recommends the
| purchase of a new steam fre-engne at a
cost not exceeding $500.
| A resolution, contracting with Messrs. A.
| Il b. Latta, was made the special order for
next Wednesday evening.
The appropriations for the expenses of the
| city for the month of October were made
and the report of the City Auditor read and
| filed. ",'T
Mr.. Weasner offered a resolution, author
| izing the Passenger Street Railway Company
to construct track on Fifth-street, from
Central-avenue to Smith, providing the con-
sent of the property could be had.
Mr.. Marsh thought the company should
come to Council with the consent of the
property holders, and not get permission of
Council first.
Mr.. Weasner defended his resolution, and
stated the reasons why the company asked
TINS privilege. The passengers from the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway
could be then carried directly to the center
of the city.
Mr.. Eggleston thought this resolution was
contrary to law, and, although IN favor of
the movement, preferred to have the matter
lana over until the City Solicitor could give
his opinion in regard to the legality of the
passage of the resolution.
MI. Hays, the City Solicitor, was called
upon, and stated that he thought it was safe
to grant the request of the company if the
Conncil regarded it as wise to do So al
though strict construction of the law would
probably apply only to such roads as had
been begun and not completed.
MIR. Snodgrass said this was not an extern
sion OF road, but was intended as con-
nection of two distinct routes and therefore
could not come under the section of the law
which had been referred to. He thought il
was equivalent to establishing new road.
and this could not be done under the law
until the Council had advertised for pro-
posals for the contract.
Mr.. Marsh said the matter must be
brought before Council, if at all, by ordi-
nance, and hoped it would be done legally
Mr.. Weasner stated that he believed the
Council had the authority to pass this reso-
luton, else he would not have offered it.
The connection would be an accommoda-
DIODeTlY-lOAQeIS
did not consent, the resolution was null.
Council was fritting away its time, and he
hoped the discussion would cease and the
resolution pass.
Mr.. Eggleston hoped it would be referred
to the Law Committee, in connection with
the City Solicitor, and that they would re-
port the proper thing to pass. This was
offered in the shape of motion, and after
some discussion it was defeated by O vote of
seven to sixteen. The question on the res
olntlon was then put and carried by vote
of fifteen to eight.
Mr.. Eggleston appealed from this decision
and held that it took the votes of eighteen
| members to pass such o resolution. 1t ought
to state, he said, how long the companies
wished to occupy the street, and what the
contract was under which they intended to
construct the road.
A long discussion ensued in regard to this
appeal, in which Messrs. Weasner, Marsh
Walker Snodgrass and others took part.
The charter Of the city, the Ferguson Bill,
the ordinances of the city and rules of the
Council were quoted at length, and the sub
Ject OF street railway contracts discussed dd
nduseam. The decision of the Chair was
sustained, by vote of thirteen to nine.
Mr.. Weasner offered a resolution to the
effect that the City Auditor be instructed to
pay no officer of the Police Court or police
men any witness or jury fees due to another
person, lor Wnlch SAID othcer may have re-
ceived the order from the person entitled to
the same.
Mr.. Whitcomb opposed the resolution, be-
cause, he said, the money would not be saved
to the City Treasury. The fees come out of
the pocket of the persons who are presented
before the Court, unless the defendant hap
pened to be some wretch whose destiny was
the butcher-shop over the way.
Mr.. Marsh said there were universal wit
nesses" about the Court, who were called
upon all occasions, and had themselves called
merely for the swearing seventy-five cents
out of the City Treasury.
Pending the discussion of this resolution,
Council adjourned.