, 1875-05-22
THE CfTf.HALi.

The Committee on Etfccto snd Alley1 30f tho
South Division will moot At o'clock this After
uoon in tho City Clerks ofllco.
The Finance Committee yesterday continued
their session on tho nunua, appropriation Of tho
Doaril Of Public Worlss, and cut down moro than
they wsro ablo to figure upon.
Hermann 11a.tcr, ctltor Of the !Haats. .2ettang.
yo.terlsy rendered TO Mayor Coiyin hts rcslgna-
t.on ~ u,nn,bar ot tho 1'nblio Library Board.
No renoon Ia assigned md no SUCCESSOR has yet
bocu nnu.ed.
Tho astontIon Of FIro-Wartlen Patch has been
called 10 largo frnmo barn now In procaBs Of
erection In Tho vicinity Of iiiuadafo and Rush
nsroots. Thore yot romain eo,1,o kind souls who
think 1t legal to violate strict ilro ordinance.
Rounisman Thomas 4. Floyd, OF tho Cottage
Grove Ascnue Station, was yesterday agraignetl
hctoro tho Donrd OF Police for inat.antinn to
duty, aud waa promptly discharged. For Ike
oIenso, though lighter in uature, 4. u. Thorno
waa lined tiye days i'ny.
Henry nrcenobaun, Yesterday called upon tho
Law Department with Tho hope Ut squirting thent
mp to spee,licr offorsa IL tho improvement Of
West Division Btroot. Tho city last year passed
M appropriation for. grading md filing tho
ntsect. hit thUs fnr this hAs not bocn done. On
tho other hand, tho Weh. Hitla lark Colnms-
soncra hays dono nj! In tletr powos to improve
tho stroc: By building sewers, planting srcu7,
and making other improvements along tho street.
NllefeEoro Mr. 9recnobauu praYa that tho Lnw
Department immediately draft an ordinance for
tho performance Of tho work.
Judge Dickoy was ;ealotlay feeling eligh.,y
t1iscoucerlel oyar legal decision whereby tho
city has Lost Homo *5, 200. In 1867, during tho
p1ocoss Of stscet-opoulnE, lot to Russell E
Mathet'a Addition waa condemned by tho city,
aud Taa put down in tho nanio OF u. A. D:aXg.
Shortly aHerward l1uasell 4 Matlcr notified
tic city that tho property helouEo1 to them. and
that Bragg Echl but n ta1-ttslo 10 It. They ttoi,
brought suit sGhinst tho city to pay ogor the
sHd you a s ' f STn ask sa sa re
home from tho War ho claineu tho uoley nwasdoI
Oil tho condemnation, but Instituted no suit
AGAINST tho citT unlis noarl. ton years AfterwArd.
.tftcr the ilro Of 1871, duriug which all city
1ccoraa woro destroyed, bragg seems to havo
sul:ed upon that unfortunate occurrepoe, for
shortly EfLor llo il found with his case in the
Circuit Court, where ho lad All adyores IecIson.
lIo nppeaied Tho case 10 tho Suprnuo Court,
Whero the Circuit Court decision Was Reversed,
and. consequently, tho city have been Obliged to
pav for tho land twice. Az soon M Bragg at
tomptod to obtain tho condemnation money
.1ndge Dickoy filel bill In CIancery against
Bragg and Nussa'1 i Ma.hes, fot the nnrpeso Of
obtaining information to to Nhom ts19 ulonpy
really belonged.
Tho Aldermen aro rapidly bceomipg tired Of
npirtualxca repartats stId. In the vanity Of
thor elYnsd to ascertain hnw tho nows is OBJ
taned, TINY seem to lavo Lost wllht common sense
thsy ever Ind. Some Alderman placed spies In
yariuua portions OF tho building at the lnat
CriTatn meeting. and nel1otod pcrgcns for such
si,ira guilty Of rocout acts which they would o1-
ceodlnEIy 1egret to have naaAo public. Two of
hoso mon na.crt thnt tho engineer Of tho build
ing. atr. William Donol!n,, aided tho reporters
Ia tcir rea.7.chca, fret, by allowing them dowu-
stairs through bis room: second. BY coucoxliug
them from tho Aldermen who Nenk down to
search tho,n out; aud third, by seeing thas
tho coast waA clear before allowing them nut.
Until yesterday AFTERNOON tho Aldornon bAltevod
that Uonellan waa playing faec, aud no doubt q
majority Of them still bcl;oyo 80. II tloFo wofo
any reporters downstairs (which III yet to DO
Eroven) Doncllnn waa certainly a. ignorant OF
thpir wl1crcabousB ~ tho guile!oss Joo Forrest
or any other ono or tho 1yo Aldermen VINO in
vtstGated tho basement previous to tho close OF
With tho loss ot hin poeltion, and suspicion has
been cast upon him wrenefpiiy, ns ut lcast u
dozon other persona, including more than
ono Alderman. viii testify, Il called upon
to do 80. In this connection. It IL but
proper to ssato thst tho lnrge majority Of tho
Council rro strongly opposed to tho secret neot-
ings which, hayo boon hold during the past woek,
md on this account many of 4hon, 6uoh AZ AID.
Dixon, Narseu, Stout, O'Dricn, Quirs, and other
respectable members Of the contamptnous
txopty-two, lavo not attended, them.
Mayor Colyin iB snd always has beou
opposed To- aocross meetings without
In which case lo, as we'll az many of tho Alder
Incn, acknowledge TINT tue reportsrn have not
betrayed the conllance reposed In thotn. 1t iH
sincerely To bo opod that tho tails about tho re-
,novnt Of Dopollaa is merely Alaermanlo brag-
EAlUciQ.