Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-20

Both Boards of the City Council mel
yesterday In special session, to consider
railroad matters on which action was not
finished Tuesday.
BOARD OF COMMON COUNCIL.
While waiting for committees to report,
the police bill, of which q synopsis has
heretofore been given in the UNION AMI
AMERICAN, was taken up and passed Its
third reading. The bill was then sent to
the other BOARD for their action.
President Oraighead took the floor and
offered a resolution providing that all per
quisites paid to the City Marshal be de
Quoted from his salary, and that in future
all his perquisites be paid over to the City
Treasury. The resolution was adopted.
President Ciaighead offered bill pro-
viding that the Finance Committee be
authorized to pay the reward heretofore
offered for the capture of Cad. Perkins to
the persons who shall establish their claims
thereto. The bill passed three readings
and was transmitted to the other Board.
A bill to appoint two special policemen
was rejected on its second reading.
IN CoNyzNTIoN.
Both Boards then met in convention,
when President Craighead, from the COM
mittee appointed to wait on the legal
counsel for their opinion in regard to the
legality of the proposed lease of the Nash
vile and Decatur Railroad by the city of
Nashville, said that Judge Cooper did not
c1me 10 town yesterday, and that there
fore the committe were unable to report
any legal opinion.
The following communication was then
read:
OFFIoE OF THE JUpGE OF THR COUNTY
COURT OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, NASHVILLE,
April 10, 1S71.-Hon. K. ]. Morris
Mayor, jas. B. Craighead, Esq, D. F.
Carter, Esq.-Gentlemen Your note,
stating resolutions passed at meeting of
your City Council, requesting me to call
the County Court together, is before me.
In reply, / would say that at the January
term of our Court it anticipated the in~
terests We have in all railroads lead 1g out
Of Nashville and the movements of the
same, under new laws affecting the same;
and in its wisdom saw fit to select Board
of Railroad Commissioners, whose duty it
is to see after the interests of Davidson
county in ell roads that we have stock in.
A part of said Commissioners are now at
Louisville making gsettlements, etc. There
fore, with all due respect to your honora-
BILE body, deem your request insufficient
to call the County Court together. Res
pectfully, your obedient servant,
W. K. TURNER,
County Judge.
President Oraighead then said that he
understood that the Directory Of the
Nashville and Decatur Railroad would as
semble in this city tomorrow (to-day).
He therefore offered the following:
Resolved by the City Council of Nash
vile in convention assembled, That the
Mayor of the city be and he is hereby re.
quested to address q note to the Directory
Of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad, ex-
planning TO them the action taken by this
bvdy w ILiO date, aud tho UarIsO VI dolsy
in any definite action, also to request
them, in view of the vast importance of
the negotiation they have in view, that the
matter may be delayed as long as possible,
so as to give this city an opportunity of
being heaid in the matter.
Resolved, That a committee Of five be
appointed to confer with the County Rail
road Commissioners upon this subject.
The resolution was adopted, and the
following gentlemen named on the COM
mittee: Messrs. Patterson, D. F. Carter,
Craighead, Chiffon and Geo. W. Smith.
On motion, the Mayor was added to the
committee.
The following telegram was then read
ATHENS, ALA, April 10, 1871.-F. H.
French, President Board of Trade: Cur
Board of Directors meet in your city to-
day. Submit your proposition at once.
Other things being equal, / am decidedly
In favor of Nashville. JNo. t. TANNER
Mr.. Duling made motion that the May,
or and President of the Board of Trade,
the committee appointed on Tuesday, be
requested to visit Messrs. FOgg, Brown
and Cooper this morning, and if they were
ready to give it, to receive their opinion !;
if not, said committee to consult other
lawyere The motion WAS carried.
REMAkKs OF DIR. z. H. sABIN, WOE PRESIDENT
oF THE RoCKPoET AND CINCINNATI RAIL-
ROAD.
DIR. Sabin then addressed the Council as
follows:
Gentlemen: 1 am obliged to You for this
audience-but do not take it as a personal
compliment-for my visit here is not of a
personal character. l am here emphati-
cally in q representative capacity. First,
to REPRESENT to yoa the merits o. the Rock.
port and Cincinnati Railroad which, by its
connection with the 0wensboro and Rus
ssllville Railroad, must soon es ablish a
new and competing line from Cincinnati
to Nashville. In raising the assets that
have, as we think, placed our railroad on
financial basis that, with judicious man
qgement and persevering effort insures its
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