The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-09-28

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The Mayor also transmitted to the Board
a copy of u resolution passed by the Board
Of Trustees of Public Schools on the 22d
inst, requesting the Mayor to ask the City
Councils to take such action rs may be ne
cessary to procure an amount Of money sufli-
cent TO pay the salaries OF the teachers and
laborers OF the schools due them up to Sep
tcmber 80, 1869, to which resolution the
Mayor respectfully invites the carly and IA
vorable attention of the Board.
Also, a communication Informing the
Board that the President OF the United States
had approved the following acts An act
granting certain privileges to W. c. Bate
man, and an act granting certain privileges
TO Rev. =. Z. Boyle.
Also, communication approving the fol-
lowing acts II: Au act authorizing the erection
and lighting OF lamps In certain streets; an
act granting certain privileges TO John
lyman; an act to change the grade OF Water
street, from Ninth street cast to Eleventh
street west.
Mr.. Stewart offered the following
Resolved, That the city register be, and here
by 10, requested to furnish this Board, at its
next meeting, with statement Of all the
money received from the several markets OF
this city for the fiscal year ending June So 1869.
Adopted.
Also an act for the relief Of tho Church Of
the Evangelical Association. Referred.
Also the following
Whereas by the laws OF this corporation the
Uity Councils are empowered TO establish
market houses and to regulate and con.
troll the same by the passage of such laws,
from time to time, as In their Judgment may
be deemed proper; and as there has been esta6.
lished q market house III the western part
Of this , city; on S, Pennsyiyanis avenue, near
which 10 the property OF private parties, and
10 not subject to the lawsof this corporstion
respecting market houses, is occupied for the
butchers and dealers In vegetables, two or
three times per week. therefore
RIolrcd, That the Corporation Attorney he,
and he 10 hereby, most respectfully requested
to inform this Board at Its next meeting IL, In
his opinion, the above mentioned market.
the laws Of the corporation.
Adopted.
Mr.. Croker offered q bill to repeal section
. of an act entitled, can act in relation 10
weights and measures, approved September
10, 1869, to take effect Immediately. accom-.
panied by petition from 100 butchers and
dealers in the several markets of the CITY,
asking that the law abolishing the use of the
spring or dial scale now In use In the markets
may be repealed.
The bill was ordered to be referred TO the
Committee on Police and printed In the Jour
nal, and the committee to report on Monday
evening next, and the bill made the special
order for that evening.
Also, bill TO construct sewer in Twelfth
street west, from Massachusetts avenue to
street northi which was passed.
Also, bill to pave carrIagcway In + street
north, between Seventh and Eighth street.
west; also, bill to improve X street north,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets
west. Referred.
Mr.. Chase offered bill TO set the curb
stones and pave the footways and cutters on
the north side of p street north, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets west;
also, petition OF property holders In square
No. 2l7 for the grading and paving Of the
aleys IN said square at oncci also, petition
OF ClttEgus for the erection of a pump or
..iuh, IN street north, corner Of Thlr.
""nIh street west; also, bill to prevent the
gpropCf use OF water from pumps and
we.ls, al. Of which were referred.
Mr.. Connolly offered bill to repeal an
act 10 open, grade and pave an alleyin square
36s. Referred.
Mr.. Connolly, from the special committee
10 whom were referred the charges of J. II.
crane against Mayor Bowen, reported that
the committee were progressing In the said
duty; that on the day succeeding It's appoint
Incnt, while this Board was In session, q COM
mItteG appointed by the Common Council
was organized, and Photographic reporters
cupoyedi that from considerations both Of
efficiency and economy the committee of
this Board thereupon accepted an Invitation
TO be present at the session of the committee
of the Board Of Common Council TO take
note OF the proceedings thereof, and to avail
Itself Of the testimony there taken, and sub
iurut.S T. AXE further testimony, IL neccs-
sury, TO full and satisfactory report
MI Connolly further stated that the re.
port so freely circulated In the community
that the committee or any member OF It has
been opposed 10 u full and fair investigation
Is incorrect In every particular. lie himself
had opposed the reading of the charges be.
fore the Board had been Informed, and be.
fore he knew what their nature was who
had made them, and against whom they
had been madoi regarding such previous in,
formation Us proper and necessary to rotcCt
the Board from the presentation and reading
of papers not proper TO he read before thi,
body, and hence unit to be recorded in the
proceedings.
Mr.. Moore hoped the report would he
amended In some particulars, and said tho
chairman of the committee had summarize
disposed OF the charges, and wanted that
fact to be noted.
Mr.. Connolly asked that the report be
printed. He had no objection to the gentle.
man from the Fourth ward offering In the
same COnuCCtlOn u minority report.
Mr.. Moore said hc had objected to the re.
port unless the amendment was printed
with It.
The Chair stated that the question would
be upon the motion of the Alderman from
the Third ward, unless the Alderman from
the Fourth ward placed his amendment In
writing.
Mr.. Moore said he would do so IL the
Board would suspend business for AN hour
or defer thc question until he could properly
prepare II.
Objection being made 10 tho DELAY. Mr..
Moore objected TO the report being received.
The report of the committee was out Of or.
der-contrary to the rules Of tho Board.
Mr.. Connolly said the objection came too
latej the report was before the Board.
Mr.. Moore still objected, and thought II
characteristic of the chairman of the special
committee, who was appointed to that posi-.
tlon contrary to all parliamentary law by
Mr.. Baker, who was then, as now, occupy.
ing the chair.
Mr.. Connolly reminded Mr. Moore that il
was iayorite hobby with him to Interrupt
the proceedings of the Board. If lac Insisted
upon doing on the floor what he had done 40
many times, and had been doing for several
minutes, he should Insist upon the occupant
of the chair yacating the seat aud allow Mr..
Moore TO occupy II. We have rights a= well
rs he, and we propose to maintain them
without dlctation.
Then followed an lndescrlbablc scene of
the widest confusion; the chairman beating
the table violently with the gayel Mr.. Con.
molly cmphatlcally asserting his right to the
floor, while Mr.. Moore asked the Alderman
from the Third ward TO address the Chair.
AMER debating the question for some time
upon allowing Mr.. Moore to write out his
amendment, Mr., Champion asked If the re-
port presented by Mr.. Connolly was from the
committee, II SO, he should, as member of
the committee, object TO It's reception. lie
had not boon consulted, and would not tolc-
ata auch a nrocadure He might be strange