The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-05

OF employees TeQueBttnR all employees
Of the city who are not satisfied with their present
| pay TO resign, that their places may be filled bv
others who will not yearly petition for increases.
A resolution to request the Committee on Port
Wardens to report upon the expediency of the
construction of new ice boat was referred.
Mr.. Potter called up the loan OF S1,sOO,OOO de-
| signed to pay;
| For the Landsdowne estate, 100000
| For the deficiencies of 1885, 1,5O0OOO
! For House of Correction, 100000
For increase Of teachers salaries, 100000
81 i,sOO, 600
| A communication was read from the City Solic-
| tor, stating that the city could only use money
borrowed tor the erection of House of Correction
through the commissioners appointed by the Leg
islature.
Mr. Potter, therefore, moved to strike out the
item of one hundred thousand dollars for the
House of Correction.
strike out the item, but would rather borrow the
money to extend the prison, and thus avoid the
The subject was postponed for one week
Select Council bills came up.
The resolutions of request to the Governor; OF
instructions to the Mayor and city directors in re-
ference 10 the city stock in the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to lay water pipes in the Twenty
third ward, and to request the Committee on wa
ter to report ordinance to name commission
to examine the purity of the Schuylkill water,
lauDg to nuisances, referring to the erection OF
frame sheds on the wharf between Almond and
Poplar streets, was referred to the COMMITTEE OF
Port Wardens of Common Council.
An appropriation of five hundred dollars for re-
pairs TO the Boys High School was referred to
the Committee on Schools from Common Council.
resolution of instruction 10 the Commissioners
of Highways to direct property owners en- Spring
Garden street, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth street,
to pave the sidewalks, was agreed to-
Mr.. Cameron presented petition to open Twen-
ty-!hird and Twenty. fourth Streets between north
and south College avenue. Referred TO Committee
on highways. Adjourned
Equal RIeHTs ASSOCIATION. Pennsyl-
vGnia Equal Rights Association held meeting
on Wednesday evening, at the Hail. Ninth and
Spring Garden streets. Mr. Robert Purvis pre-
sided The folio wing resolutions were adopted:-
ReSOfUed, That we rejoice that the Legislature
of our State has passed an act, and it is now
law, prohibiting the exclusion of the colored
people from the city passenger cars and that the
disgrace so long resting upon this city, in con-
sequence of such exclusion, is now removed;
and we encourage our friends everywhere to
press forward until every other natural right is
granted to dislranchlsed and oppressed people.
ReS0tUed, That GlIUeTSdt suffrage is UniUerSdi
right and any limitation or qualification must
be impartial as regards the natural condition of
mankind.
ReSotued, That the recent elections in several
States show Democratic gains wherever the Re-
publican element manifested a weak and tempo
rizing spirit in accepting the issue OF universal
suffrage, and that the signs Of the times are
prophetic, and verify the assertion of the Age,
of this city, that "a new day is dawniug;" and
that we counsel the true friends of universal
suffrage to act promptly and decidedly, or they
will sacrifice their gains and lose their political
6upICDdCys
| ResolUed, That the recent bold stand taken in
recent Southern conventions in favor of equal
| rights is commendable in them, and reflects ad-
| ditional disgrace upon the North in withhold
ing universal suffrage; and we foresee an early
and vigorous struggle among political parties
tor the so-called negro vote; and while it is the
duty, it is the wisest eXpedency for success for
! any party to at once proclaim the right to the
ballot to all, irrespective of sex. race, or color,
| for whoever so vindcates and obtains this right
| will naturally receive the support of the new
| voting element.