Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-23
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II The Board of Aldermen met at the usr,
hotsr last evening.
On motion, Mr.. Chamberlain took In
chair.
| SWEARING IN. THE NEW MEMBER,
The Alderman elect, Mr.. Hugh McCres
1 was swosn in as member Of the Board
By the clerk.
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT.
The election of President being declared
in order, Mr.. Blanton nominated Mr.. Nc
Crea.
| There being no other, Nomination. Mr.
Me- rea was declared duly elected. -
Upon taking bis seat, the President cleo
thanked the Board for the honor conferred
upon him, and promised to perform the du
ties of bis Office TO the best of his ability
TIPPING LICENSES. -,,--
Aid. Douglas moved reconsideration OF
the vote BY Which the bill transferring the
business OF issuing lippling licenses from
the County Clerk to the City Recorderl was
passed, and also to appoints COMMITTEES Of
three to investigate the sui ject. Agreed to,
and Messrs. Douglas, Chamberlain and
Pentecost appointed said committee.
ALDERMAN PENTEcosT's OFFICIAL CON-
DUCT,
The special committee appointed by the
two Boards to investigate the action of
Alderman Pentecost, as chairman of the
Street Committee, presented their report.
CThls report appears in another column
A LIVELY DiaREssIoN.
Upon the conclusion of the reading of the
report OF the Special Committee, Alderman
Pentecost rose and said that he had a reply
to the charges made against him in said re-
port, which answer he requested might be
read. As The reading of the answer was
commenced, Alderman Douglas rose in an
excited manner and said that anyone who
charged that the report OF the Commit
tee was false in any particu-
lar, was IA liar. yThis inter
ruption was resented by Alderman Pente-
cost, when high words ensued between
himself and Alderman Douglas, when the
parties started towards each other in an ex-
cited manner. The City Marshal seized
Alderman Douglas, while Recorder Duling
stepped in front of Alderman Pentecost.
AS Alderman Douglas was observed to keep
one hand in his pocket, the President called
upon him to deliver up his pistol, as Alder.
man L C1JCCOcb uau pldCCu tGuG 1T6S-
ident's) hands his pistol.
After some delay, Aid. Douglas handed
the City Marshal his pistol, with instruc.
tons to be careful of il, whereupon Aid.
Fenteeost took another pistol from his
breast pocket, and handed 1t to the City
Marshal.
Order being restored, the reading of Aid.
Pentecost's answer was proceeded with, as
follows:
MIR. President and Gentlemen of the
Board of Aldermen: 1. This committee
states that purchased of the lessees of the
State prison one hundred thousand Q0O,-
OOO) bushels of stone at PC. per bushel and
agreed to receive them at the prison.
/. In answer to the above allegation 1
would state that they (the above commit
tee) had in their possession at the time of
signing their report written contract be-
tween myself and Col. O'Conuor, one of
he lessees of the penitentiary, binding him.
self to deliver one-half, that is to say fifty |
thousand bushels, of the above mentioned |
'tone on the streets of the tenth ward.
2. They also stated in their report that l |
approved accounts for r. II. Huff for forty |
one hundred bushels of stone, when he only |
had about 1900 bushels.
The facts in this case are as follows: R. |
q. Huff was breaking rock to sell to the
icy; knew it; he had two piles of rock, |
,ne on the corner of College and Priestly |
streets and the other on the corner of |
Franklin and Vine streets. knew that he /
vas hard pressed for money-he b wing
money from the Recorder and |
'thers for the purpose of paying the men
or breaking the rock. r. II. Huff called
N me the latter part of November or the
rst part of December and requested me to
MEASURE said stone for the use of the CITY.
t was entirely inconvenient for me to do
D at the time, and SO | stated to Huff. He
allied again and urged his impoverished
ondition as an excuse for his importantly
] wanting to have the stona measured. |
eing cognizant Of the facts, and ceing in
of the fact that he had another
lie of stone on the corner of Franklin and
line streets, which was much larger than
be one he wanted me to measure, on the
orner of College and Priestly streets, and
being inconvenient for me to 90 even
len, directed him to go and measure the
lie of stone on the corner Of College and
riestly streets, reserving to myself the
ght, and so stated to him, to measure
re stone before they were used. He |
ent and measured the said pile of
one, on the corner of College and Priest
streets, and brought me the measure
rent which was 400 bushels as measured
y him. l then said to him (Huff) before
approving his 1ccount that if upon my
easuring the said pile of stone measured
find any error in the measurement will
Ike enough from the pile which you have
a the corner of Franklin and Vine streets
oresaid to make up the deficit if there
Iould be any. He agreed to this and up !
] the above conditions l approved his &C.
'unt on the I'd day of December, 1872.
n the 9th day of December, 1872, l mea- {
Ired said pile of stone on the corner Of I
ollege and Priestly streets and discovered c
| error as per Huff7s measurement against I
e city of LII bushels. at once noti- I
d Huff of the discovery of the I
ror. He told me to take charge of the pile I
stone on the corner of franklin and !
me streets to make up the deficiency, 3
lich Immediately did. l subsequently b
d them (the stone on the corner of Frank a
and Vine streets) measured by Maj. Il
,ster, acting city engineer, and they measur-
1881 bushels, and 2, 1929 bushels of stone &
the corner of College and Priestly il
reefs, making 6,210 bushels of stone al a
gether broken by Huff; now taking the Fl
100 bushels be was paid for Gas per his q
N measurement) from the above 6,2l0 n
shells, leaving balance due him of 2,110 b
shells of stone, which balance was paid
n duff by the Finance Com a
ttee. This error in the measure g
snt of the stone on the corner of
'llege and Priestly streets by r. 81. buff
s discovered by me on the 9Th day of 81
,cember, 1872, and notified w. Haslam
the purchase of said stone on the 9Th day =
December, 1872. (See w. Haslam's tes-
1ony.) l called upon his Honor,
} Mayor, and requested him to CT
We committee appointed to tie
7estigate my account as Chairman of SC
} Street Committee, having learned SC
1t it had been stated by some person that th
accounts for Huff for stone nj
ich he did not have and 1 requested the To
oointment Of the committee of investiga- as
q to prove the falsity of the rumor. He Sc
uested the Finance Committee to ap-
Mt committee to make the inVes- OF
ltion requested, which was done on the a
day of December, 1872. (See certificate of in
rotary Of Finance Committee.)
they (the committee) further stated that So
pproved this account of r. 81. Huff7s at frt
rate Of rs bushels to the perch, and re- in
ed to my testimony to sustain that re- vo
did not moaSurn aaid - A.