The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-14
EVENING FRIDAY MAY Ia, 1869

was concurred in with slight amendments.
Adjourned.
COMMON BRANcH.-Presiden Joseph Il.
Marcer called the Chamber to order at quar-
ter past three o'clock.
number of communications were received
and appropriately referred.
One from Joseph Samson, asking for an APP
preparation to pay him for services that he
may hereafter render as interpreter of for
eign languages in the District Courts, Court
OF Common Pleas, Central Station, and Cor
oner's inquests
One from the Commissioners of Fairmount
Park, relative to the employment of addition
al counsel. .
One from Mr.. G. H. Baumann, inviting
Councils to attend the combination SRnger-
fest, at Engel q VOLTS farm, on Whitsun-
tide Monday.
One from Mr. Charles w. Hornor, COM
planning of the bad condition of Forty.frst
street, from Chestnut to Oak.
A resolution, offered by Mr.. Bardsley, re-
questing the Mayor to return to the Chamber
the bill authorizing the construction or q
sewer on Eighth street, Thirteenth Ward,
was agreed to.
Chief Engineer Kneass reported adversely
to Petty's Island as the cite for House of
Correction.
Mr.. Martin, chairman of Common Council
Committee on City Property, reported III fa-
vor of building the dog.pound in the rear of
the Eastern Penitentiary. An ordinance to
Mr.. Smith, chairman of the Committee on
Fire and Trusts, submitted a resolution for
the discharge of the Committee from the fur
ther consideration of the charges against the
South Penn, Spring Garden, Independence,
SchuyllSill, and Columbia fire companies.
Mr.. Smith said that in committee the sem
tence of the companies had been agreed upon,
but it was now impossible to get the men,
bers to sign the report, and he took this
method to throw the whole matter on Coun-
ellis.
Mr.. Evans moved to strike out the name of
the Independence Engine.
Mr.. Hetzell moved TO lay the resolution on
the table.
On this motion the yeas and nays were
called, resulting yeas "a, nays 6.
The ordinances from Select Council approx
ing contracts for the building of certain
schoolhouses and making an appropriation
| to pay the assessments in the Norris-street
sewer were concurred i'll.
The ordinance authorizing certain trans
| fer in the appropriation to the Department
| of Steam Boilers was postponed.
Mr.. Hetzell called up the bill appropriating
| four hundred and fifteen dollars to the City
| Controller for the putting up of shelving in
| the Controllers office. Passed.
The Finance Committee, through Mr..
| Shoemaker, chairman, reported considerable
| business to the Chamber, as follows:
Resolution instructing the City Controller
| to countersign certain warrant. Passed
Resolution approving the sureties of Will
| liam Thorn, Supervisor of the Twentieth
| Ward. Passed.
Ordinance appropriating $17O4 to the Con-
| trollers of the Public Schools, to pay Mary e.
| Crawford and Il. A. Walton for services rem
| dered as teachers. Passed.
| Ordinance appropriatng $133 AZ to the
Mayor, to pay for advertising and other ex-
| penses incurred in the sale of the property on
| Fifth street, above Noble. Passed.
Ordinance appropriating S1425 25 to pay
| fees Of the Sheriff and for printing for the
| Office of the District Attorney. Passed.
Ordinance transferring SIC, 900, and making
| an additional appropriation of $4,000 to the
Board of Health for cleansing the streets.
| Passed.
Ordinance appropriating $25O0 for Camp
| bells patent index for record books. Passed.
Ordinance appropriating $14OO for town
| clock in the cupola of the Shifiier Hose house.
| Passed.
| Ordinance providing for the sale of nineteen
acres and sixteen one-hundreths of an acre
of the Blocl5ley Almshouse ground to the
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania,
| for the price of $4,000 per acre, rayable in
| cash at the time ofthe execution and delivery
| of the deed. The committee in presenting
| the ordinance say that the whole of the Aims
| house property, comprising about 200 acres
of land, originally cost the city $170 per acre.
The University of Pennsylvania proposes
erecting new and commodious buildings on
the purchased ground. Passed.
| Mr.. Bardsley, from the Committee on
| Highways, reported resolutions as follows
To grade Melvale street, from William to
| Maple; to grade and culvert Fifty-eighth
/ street, Twenty-seventh Ward; to widen Cad
| walader street, from Master to Thompson;
to repave Delaware avenue, from South to,
| Shippen, and Noble street from Delaware
| avenue to Beach street; and to grade and curb
| the footways on Mulberry street, from Ok.
ford street to Harrison. The above were all
| agreed to.
| Common Council concurred in the amend
ment made in Select Council to the bill re-
| arranging and fixing the boundary lines the
| election divisions in the Twentieth Ward.
Mr.. Myers, chairman of the Committee on
| Police, reported supplementary ordinance,
/ prohibiting the erection of frame buildings in
the Twenty fourth Ward. Agreed to.
| Mr.. Smith, chairman of the Committee on
| Fire and Trusts, reported resolution sus-
| pending the South Penn Hose Company, for
| three months, for riotous conduct. Agreed
| to.
Also, resolution suspending the Columbia
| and Schuylldll Hose Companies for one
month. Agreed to.
| Also, a resolution suspending the Inde-
| pendence Engine Company for three months.
| Mr.. Evans moved to lay the resolution on
| the table. Lost-yeas l, nays 33.
| The same member moved to indefinitely
| postpone.
| This gave rise to long debate, in which
| politics were introduced. Mr.. Evans with
drew his motion, and raised point of order
| that the matter was not properly before the
| Chamber as the resolution disbanding the
| company bad passed Common Council and
| had been indefinitely postponed in Select
| Council, and that the committee had no
mower to originate business. The Chair, Mr..