Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-01-27
CITY COUNCIL.
A regular semi monthly meeting of the City
Council was held last uight.

The Board oil Aldermen, at eight o'clock,
was called to order, and immediately after the
reading OF the minutes, upon Invitation, pro.
ceeded to he chambers of the Common Council
TO elect Corporation Attorney, to fill the va
cancy CAUSED by the death of Col q. Il. Stuart;
a Physician TO lie Poor, and OVerseer OF Poor
for he Third Ward.
Upop the return Of the Board 10 their cham
Der, al 9 o'clock
MIR. More moved a reconsideration of the
vote by which the bl 10 abolish the Board OF
Public Works was indefinitely pus,poued.
DR. Jui.usnu explained that the Board could
uut, protesting as lhy md, to be governed ny
pallia mcblary usageS, entertain the subject
again, a mutluu to pustp"ue lodehultely haVlng
been made at PREVIOUS meetlngi the notloo
10 lud, tniey postpone meant to carry the Dill
out vi the Board aud 1t could not considered
again DUNG the session, but 1t motion to
post p"ue TO d Certain period was made, then
the bill would cnwe ny for consideration at the
time stated He hoped the Board would make
the dlatluciinn, and that the President would
rul. the mutton out OF order.
Mr. Moore said hat they voted according to
their own rule, 4; ID motlun To lUdehultely post
pone meut 10 postpone fpr the ulght, tnat De-
lug SESSION Ut CuuLcll.
The President read from the 18th section CT
the City Chart r, bearing upou the subject, and
said that accor lug 10 the rules OF the Uulted
States COugr, IS, When motion TO Indefinitely
pv,troue d sui CT was maie and carried, that
sui jccl c1ulI uuI Ur again considered durlug
the se>>luu, Lu, guided by the section OF The
Cisy Chartcl he had just read, be would decide
that the niutou was III order.
DR.. Johnson SAID the City Charter had been
gotten vi hulli.lly, aud contained mistakes;
session ui the Clt, Council was from the lst
of July to he Isl OF July, aud meeting had
nothing 20 d, with il If they abolished the
B,ad of Public Works what was to be done
, with the ;nuuey to be collected Tor the improve
ment of the streets the nouey was collected
for that ! u pose. AID bad to be SO expended.
The City Council, h. said had not advanced
one cent to the Board OF Public Works, but
il had advanced n,oucy tor the property
holders.
The motion to Indefinitely postpone was re:
, considered, and she bill to abolish the Board
ui Pu!llc Works VAS taken up.
Mr. Moore sand that the Board OF Public
| w urks had had 10 warmer Trend than himself;
| he had voted against he last ReveDue bill be-
cause he favored the Board of Pu5lic Works,
but he found nov that the city could not stand
the expcu,e of its CONFEDERATION; II had already
The people OF Columbus street, he SAID, say
that that street is in a worse condition
now than il was before the improvements were
made; he could not find but one man in his
Ward thai was in favor of a continuation of the
Board Of Puoic Works; 1t was cloak behind
whlch to throw everything: the money topay
the contractors would have 10 come out oil the
CITY treasury and that every dollar that bad
been eylmuded had been spent IN the Third
Ward. He said that the people OF bis Ward
demanded that the Board of Public Works
should be doue away with.
DIR. Johnson said that the gentleman, MIR.
Moore, had talked all around the subject with
cut ouce touching on the point. The grad
log OF Columbus street, he said, cost but
81 900, and that street at prescut was 10 bet
ter coudilon than any street 10 the city there
was, ia the Office Of the Board OF Public Works,
map, showing the Improvements that had
been couy.lccd, aud those that were to be
completed as the backbon Of the improve
mru,s they bad to commence on Columbus
street j: IL the Improvement of the streets they
waited system, aud that the Committee on
Streets could DOT aud would not attend to the
mater as it should be attended TO st. Asaph
street stood as monument OF the want OF
proper management; there was not man Oh
the Committee on Streets who had the back
bone to ORDER the Alexandra aud Washington
Railroad 10 take its track down on st. Asaph
street one waued iavurS tlom, and another
did uut want The I'll will Of, the railroad COM
pauy; The properly holders who had acquired
their property 10y The sweat Ut their brow were
willing To ray tur The improvements, but those
who had got it by lie ltagc were the ones who
had raised the hue aud cry aud refused to pay
ct l 10
said he kurw au old orcd wumao who Dor
rowed the mouey 10 pay iur the improvement
OF her 1.-THE II" perry, while large property
hu d.rs r, fused TO pay f T their improvements,
aud was paid lar tn, III out of the CITY treasury;
he, as Taxpayer, would never consent to lct
Mr.. } .hu Green and Mr Richard Lloyd 90
scot free urd c, mpel MesSrs. Richard Windsor,
B. Wn, at ey, the Odd Fellows and others to
bay for their improvements, and as had al
ready bceu intiuated the bills uncpllrcted. due
the Board of Public Works, it that Board was
abolished, would never be collected. The B ,ard
of Aldermen, be Said, would not do this IN
justice.
d. French could not see how, by abolish
iuy The b ard OF Pu,lic Works, would relin-
uuish tir, N Or anyuur Else rum their obliga-
Mons; h" wa always in favor OF system of i'm
pruv,ment, IN the CITY was not at present
10 o~ul. ion 10 ,taud it, and they had 10
practice >y>icm ot cc,nomy, and that by
c.url"uI.g 10 operation the Board Of Pubic
Wutk, the city ha'i to pay the salary of the
meuberS "f that Is ard
Mr.. Moore said DR.. Johnson had taken
particular pans t. throw sand 10 the eyes Of
the ucml,,r.; the Cry Council had ordered
the improveue is, aud that the Board OF
Public Works had 10 power 10 clllect taxes;
ne >>urr,,y tn see The gentleman So forgettuI
abou. ST. A>aph street; he, Dr. j., had coue
iuselt aud ask, d that the grade Of that street
lie changed he, Mr.. NJ, knew the railroad
company wouId uul take It's track down. The
Guy C"uncil, hr said, had ordered the work
to be done on Column US street, and the proper
~ holders On that street were bound to pay
for it.
Mr.. Lycs said lie was in hopes that south
Columbus street w,ull have been improved be-
fore the Board of Public Works was abolished,
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