Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-08

N0lle ne was long 80 /
to speak on the subject. So
lid several others. The Chair declared
hem all out of order.
Alderman Vincent again moved the
previous question, but his motion was
lost.
Alderman O'Donnen got the floor
and said that his motion was merely
to have an ordinance standing on the
books enforced.
Alderman Cartwright, as Chairman
of the Landing Committee, wanted to
know of O'Donnell, if he was not in
huenced to make the motion
by the letter of Capt. Hicks?
alderman O'Donnell answered that
it was not.1 This matter, continued
Cartwright, is merely a personal
affair between Capt. Hicks and Mr..
Clarke, which any recorder could set
tie, but which the Board had nothing
to do. This attack ON the st. Louis
Packet Company was in his opinion a
piece of petty prejudice row be
tween certain parties which they wish
the Board to decide. If the gentle
man (O'DonnelD was aiming at the
WharfbOat merely, let him propose a
resolution, and if it is to the interests
of the city the Board would pass it.
Alderman Cartwright stopped a
moment, and five Aldermen got on
their feet at the same time. Alder
man O'Donnen got the floor, however,
and saidthat he had no personal feeling
in the matter. He did not know
Capt. Hicks, and many of the st.
Louis Packet Company's employees
were his personal friends and acquaint-
ances. The letter was handed him by
the Wharfmaster. He simply wanted
right done. The law laid down what
should be done, and in the matter up
he was acting in direct opposition to
the interest OF some of his best friends.
Alderman Gallagher said he under
stood that there was $500 a week
wharfage derived from that wharf
boat. If such was the case he was OPP
posed to removing it.
A further desultory debate was car
ried on for some minutes, and at last
the whole matter was referred 10 the
Landing Committee.
ANOTHER ROW.
BY Alderman Cartwright:
Resolred. etc., That the City Engi-
neer be instructed to authorize j. x
VI. LOuden to have the landing at the
foot of Union street paved with stone
on the same terms as the work which
they are now doing.
MI. Cartwright stated that this was
a break in the pavement the width OF
Union street, where the stones had
been taken up by q former City Engi-
neer for some experiment. If this
were put down il would give the city
at least two hundred feet Of front that
she was now cut off from in wet
weather. Messrs. LOuden would put 1t
down on twelve months credit, With
ont interest.
Aldermen Foley moved to table,
but on calling the ayes and noes the
motion was lost.
The argument on the original
motion was taken up and Alderman
Marshall, Foley, Vincent, Gallagher,
Cicalla, Dyer and O'DOnnell, each
spoke once or twice OH il, A motion
to refer was made by some Of them
and voted down, after which the
original motion was put and ut last
prevailed.
By Alderman Dyer:
ReSOlred, etc., That the City AttOr-
ney be requested to report to this
Board what action had been taken
against citizens who were Overdrawn
on the books of the Comptroller; also
what steps had been taken 20 secure
the deeds Of property sold for city
taxes. Adopted.
BY the Sames
ReSOZred, etc., That the street force
he forthwith reduced TO twenty-five
men.
Alderman Foley moved to table.
Lost.
The ayes and noes were then called
Oh the original motion and it gas
adopted by u ayes to , noes.
STILL ANOTHER RUMPUs.
Alderman Dyer, after the passage of
the foregoing resolution, said~he had
still Gae more to offer. He prefaced
it by saying that the manage
meet of the CGIaptrOller's office
needed looking into The
COmptrOllers of the city of Memphis
had all of them, it appears, always
been in the habit Of allowing certain
persons TO OverdraW from the city
treasury at will, and to take therefrOm
such money as they wanted, In JUS
tiee to MI. Baugh, be said, he must
say that he had done less of it than
any other. In the former administra-
ton however, il bad been carried TO
such an extent that n man, W. ..
LOhand, had OverdraWu over four
thousand dollars, and his Comptroller,
Mr.. Clark, had also Overdrawn over
thousand. He held there in his
hand a list of those who now stood
upon Mr.. Baugh's books oVeFchecked.
He found to be so, Mr.. LeftWiCh, Nh.
Bridges, Mr.. Baugh, Mr.. Smith, Sar-
yeant at Arms, Alderman O'Donnell,
Mr.. Hoy, DR.. NeWsOm, Col. Morgan, |
Mr., Richards, and others, to the
amount of S21j4, and that too when
he firemen end street force were not
paid.
Mr.. Dyer then read the resolution,
which provides, lst, that the Comp |
be instructed heneefOrth to al
Ow no person whatever to O~verdraW;
ID, that no money hereafter be paid
any one indebted to the city until
heir claims have been adjusted by the
In explanation of this clause
Mr.. Dyer stated that "Dr. Dickinson,
he Assessor, was a defaulter to the
'ity in the sum of $4,000, yet a few
ago $3.50 was voted him by the
and instead of putting it TO his
redit toward l~iquidating the debt,
'1r. Baugh had paid it out to him.
such action is infamous, and
'1r. RaugR is too old a business man
lot to know that he was wrong"
That third clause provides that a vi0-
alton of this resolution will submit
he Comptroller to be discharged.
Alderman Cartwright said that Mr..
was an officer under bonds,
responsible for his actions. This
esOlutiOn and attendant matters
ught to be referred to the Finance
Committee. Mr.. Baugh should not
e made responsible for the actions of
1r. LOfland or Mr.. Clark.
Mr.. Baugh came forward, and by
emission of the Board made an ex-
lanation. So far as he himself was !
)ncerned, when he came into the !
fice Of Comptroller, there was S625
iandiDg against him. He had as an
fset claims for $3.50, $50 of which !
as certified to Mr.. Richards, and the :
by Mr.. Lofand. When Mr.. |
LcDavitt was acting Mayor he wished I
stop his salary, but he explained it |
him perfectly satisfactorily. As to c
Dickenson's matter referred to by
r. Dyer, he (Baugh) had acted by
der of the Mayor and City Attor-
~, having refused to pay him until
dered to do so by Mr.. Leftwich, in a 5
instrument. As to the (
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