Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-08
Adjourned Town Meeting.

'he Towns Business-A Resolution to Appropriate $50, 900 for Soldiers Mon
 ument Discussed and Carried - The
 Other Business.
 The adjourned annual town meeting was leld yesterday afternoon at Loomis' Temple. About sixty persons were present at the opening of the meeting, and forty or fifty | nore dropped in while it was in progress. l Called to order by Town Clerk Sbuster. Town Agent Reynolds presided temporarily. Mir. Shuster read the call Charles R. Whe. lon and General F. D. Sloat were nominated for moderators. By vote of thirty-three to thirty-two Mir. Whedon was chosen. The Town Agents report was read by title. A motion was made that it be accepted without reading. MT. Beach said that before this was done he should like to know what means were taken to ascertain that the relief distributed from the Town Agents parties went to deserving persons. Mir. Reynolds replied that each one was investigated by clerk from the office and aid given only to those who were worthy. In answer to anoth- CT inquiry from Mr. Beach, Mir. Reynolds said that parties who received orders could have them made out upon whatever store they wished. There was no effort to divert this trade to any particular parties, and mer- chants generally did not care for it.
 The motion to accept the report was then put and carried then were received reports from the old town farm fund and the report of the treasurer of the town, which were ac- cepted excessively then followed the re- port on the redemption of the Quinnipiac bridge bonds. Treasurer Welch said there were received $1OO, ,OOO and $9S, 900 of bonds had been redeemed, leaving only g., LOGO out standing The report was accepted, so also the report of ti5 treasurer Of the town de- posit fund; inventory of the chattel proper ty of the almshouse showing an increase of $11, ,S12.G G5 over last year. The Town Agent explained to ex-TownAgent Johnson's inquiry as to the increase that 1t consisted of house. hold furniture, as steam had been introduced and in three years considerable changes had been made.
 Moderator Whedon then offered the fol- lowing vote:
 Voted, That the of s5o,ooo be and is hereby ap pr opriated from the treasury of the town for the erection of soldiers monument, and the Selectmen hereby authorized and instructed to the same to the commission for the erection of soldiers monument.
 Samuel Johnson and George Hotchkiss both together moved that the resolution be tabled
 Ex. Governor English in feeling speech recalled the response which made ia New Haven to the call to arms, and recalled the history of enlistment in New Haven, and
 said that New Haven was never in the rear
 in furnishing men and money. Applause )
 He pictured then with much power the
 scenes of the battle field. He thought that
 New Haven owes something to the men who
 sacrificed their lives Now the proposition
 comes up for monument. He wanted
 something done, whether the sum was great
 CT or smaller. He recognized the debt and
 hoped by the blessing of God to live long
 enough to pay his part of it. Applause
 Should the meeting refuse to appropriate
 Ma fc fnr
 ality and patriotism would become nothing
 it's illiberality and lack of patriotism would
 become hissing and by-word He would
 cordially indorse the vote. Applause fol
 lowed from the large soldier element present.
 Moderator Whedon read the following sub stitute resolution, which offered by Gen.
 eral Frank D. Sloat and which ex-Town Agent J Johnson seconded:
 Voted, That Samuel E. Merwin, James E. English Hobart B. Bgelow, Henry B. Harrison, John F. Weir
 Fox and John Mccarthy are hereby appointed 9 com
 mittee with full to designs and esti of New Haven suitable memorial to the soldiers ot
 the who died in the late war; and said commit
 tee hereby authorized to draw the treasurer of
 the town for such sums, not exceeding $5o000 as may be necessary to carry out this vote. On motion of P. F. Kiernan motion to indefinitely postpone the motion to lay on the table was overwhelmingly y carried. Captain Lawrence O'Brien as Democrat warmly favored the proposition. Wiegand Schlein thought the monument
 should be built in three years. A motion to that effect was lost.
 City Clerk Pigott moved as an amendment that the memorial commemorate also the sol diers who fell in the war of 1912 and the Mexican war.
 James Reynolds, Town Agent, added tc the committee on motion of Gen. Sloat. Ex-Councilman Woolsey asked what the increase of taxation would be should $50, COG t,o at11 %n N1xryS h(yar m Reynolds said that tho town tax might be in creased three fourths of mill. As to how the towns expenses may increase annually he could not say. They increase and will in crease. Bridges and roads wear out and there are other contingencies. This year the expenses increased because of the increase O1 territory in the annex
 Councilman elect Gallagher asked just what the tax would be- Town Agent Key holds said that if $50, 900 be appropriated il might add three fourths of 8 mill to five mills. The Selectmen had not recommended any rate of taxation until they could see what action was taken here. Governor Eng fish thought that the money would not be wanted this year. He considered that the appropriation would amount to seventy cents per capita for every man, woman and child in the city.
 Henry ". Farnam was in favor of honor ing the soldiers, but thought it very pool compliment to them for handful of mer to come into u town meeting and vote away the money of 60, 900 people for monument If they wanted one let them put their hands into their pockets and build one. (Appleuse 1 groans, and cries of ''Ioo bad'') Councilman Woolsey moved that the reso lutions be indefinitely postponed. Messrs WoolseY and Plunkett were appointed tellers The motion to postpone was decided by ( count of the house, and was lost by 8 consid erable majority. Then the resolutions were put and carried amid great applause. Mir Stowe offered an amendment as the resolu tions were being put, but the chairman did not recognize him. Subsequently Mir. Stowe accused MT. Whedon of trying to bulldoze and the latter threatened to have him arrest ed unless he kept quiet.
 General Frank D. Sloat, Conrad Hofacker and Colonel Samuel Iolles were added to the committee.
 Votes were then passed as follows: Voted That tax of five and mills on tht
 dollar be and is hereby laid upon the polls and rate able inhabitants of the town of Ha and non-residens the grand lists of 1884, fol
 the purpose of paying the State tax interest loan
 and other necessary and lawful expenses of the town and that the be payable the first day of July Voted, That the whole of the income from the town
 deposit fund be and hereby is appropriated for th support of the public schools of the town and that
 be divided between tho city school district the West
 vile school district and the Annex school district il
 the proportion as the money raised for the pub lie schools by the annual town tax. Voted, That John B. Robertson, Andrew l.. Kids
 ton, James E. English. Gardner Morsa and Samuel Merwin, jr, be and hereby appointed managers
 of the town deposit fund for the beginning Jan uary 1, 1883.
 Voted, That Harmanus M. Wclch bc and s hereby
 appointed treasurer of the town deposit fund for the year 1883 and until successor is appointed. Voted, That the of $2,3O0 be and is hereby ap propriated from the treasury of tho town for thu payment of the salary of the Town Agent for tn. year beginning with the first day of January, A.
 1885, he to clerk for the treasurer disbursn State pensions to soldiers orphans without addition \ al compensation.
 Voted, That the Selectnen be and hereby au thorized to employ such assistance for the office the Town Agent as in their judgment may be neces
 sary, and to fix the amount of compensation for the ' same.
 Voted, That the of S1 ,OOO is hereby appropria
 ted from the treasury of the town in aid of the New Haven Dspensary in providing free medical .ist
 ance for the poor of the town for the year ending ' December 3l, 1883.
 ! Voted. That the S2 900 be and 1s hereby ap
 Haven Orphan Asylum for aid in supporting the poo children of the town for the year ending December ' 31, 1885,
 Voted, That the of S2,0OO be and is hereby ap
 propriated from the treasury of the town to the St ! Francis Orphan Asylum for aid in supporting tn poor children of the town for the year ending De | cember 31, 1885,
 Voted, That the Selectnen of the town be and they l are hereby authos sized to borrow money for the purpose of paying the necessary ex
 penses of the town and to give the obligations of thu ! town therefor; provided that the sum Dor ! rowed shall not in the whole amount to thai \ $125, ,000 at any one time.
 Voted, That the sum of Sl,00o be and is hereby ap