The daily gazette., 1883-07-20
COUNCIL KILLING TIME.
One Hour and . Half spent in Adopting
the Report Of the street. Committee.

the Report of the street Committee.
The regular weekly meeting Of City
Council was called to order by President
Conrad at y O'Clock, a goodly number oil
spectators being assembled at the end OF the
Board OF Education room where the meet
ing was held.
Mr. Smith OF the Law Committee reported
an ordinancc relative To tie city markets to
Council, as rot conflicting with the charter.
Mr.. Garrett Of the Opening Street Com
mittce reported in favor of granting the
petition of William P. Frow, to open Union
street between Filth and Sixth at an esti-
mated cost of 500, also in favor Of grant
ing petition Of James Bradford and others
to bring Clayton street, between Delaware
to Pennsylvania avenues and Fourteenth,
between Clayton and DUPONT streets 10
grade at an estimated cost of $500. The re-
port was adopted.
Mr.. Eastburn of the Street Committee re-
ported in favor of complying with Charles
Gooding's petition to have sidewalk paved on
the south side of Eighth between West and
Washington streets. The committee
| also reported that the communication
of the Board of Health with reference
to the flushing cutters had been
attended to, and in favor of the petition oi
| the p, W. 81 B. railroad to build shed and
pave sidewalk at Third and Pine, also in
favor of accepting the amount of damages
named by the commission appointed to
| award damages to Robert and Thomas
Smith, at Rattlesnake run.
Mr.. Garrett presented a petition, signed
by so residents Of the Second ward, who
protested against Council allowing the ?.
W. 81 B. Railroad Company to tear up the
sidewalk for the purpose of making q road
way. Messrs. Blake and Eastburn argued
that the petition was not signed by residents
of the Second ward, but from wards !
over the city. Mr.. Blake argued that II it
was right for Council to vote Charles War
ner 81 Co. the right to tear up the sidewalk
| to make a roadway, it was equally right for
the railroad. Mr.. Garrett made lengthy
argument against granting the request Of the
railroad company.
To avoid further debate q motion was
made to postpone the matter for Que week.
Mr. johnson and Eastburn strenuously op-
posed laying the matter over, and Mr.. John
son said that the matter had
been in Councils hands for some
time and that the members should
| certainly know what they were doing
as they had visited the place twice. An aye
and nay vote was taken which resulted In
| 10 for postponement and IL against. The
matter then underwent long discussion in
which every speaker mentioned the fact that
| they were the representatives of the people
| and expressed themselves as being anxious
| to protect the interests of the people.
Mr.. Pickles offered an amendment to the
original notion that tfe company be allowed
to build their shed provided they allow the
sidewalk to remain intact bv building a
closed gutter and by keeping the walk up to
the grade" A yea and nay vote resulted in
the rejection of the amendment by Ii to 10.
A second vote to postpone was then taken
and resulted In 10 ayes and nays IL, and the
| discussion was then resumed.
President Conrad took the floor calling
| Col. Taylor to the chair and expressed him
self on the subject by saying he could no
see that Council was giving away the right
of the citizens. The subject, he said, mar
rewsd down to the question whether Coun
ell would give the company the right u
change the sidewalk, for by the change thu
citizens woull get sidewalk 10 feet wide
| instead of four feet, as at present."
Mr.. Farrell asked: "Wouid Council grant
| the same petition If 1t had come from a pri-
vate person 2" and also, elf Council had a
| right to sell or give away a public side
walk ?'' Upon being assured that Council
| had not that right he made the point that
the whole matter was entirely illegal
Mr.. Baugh then made motion to adjourn
which was lost. The ayes and nays on the
| previous question were then called, and had
/
| Mr. Pickles made the point that President
Conrad, who had taken part in the discus
sion, had no right to occupy the chair until
the question before Council had been finally
decided. The point was decided well taken
and Mr.. Farrell was then called to the chair
against whom the same point wa
made when Mr.. Pickles was callet
to occupy the chair, and h
in turn called Col. Taylor to the chair, ,wher
the calling of the yeas and nays was agail
resumed after excusing Mr.. Garrett. Tn,
vote resulted in Is yeas and 6 nays, tht
question thus decided being that the mali
question be put. The yea and nay vote oil
the adoption of the report of thI
committee was then taken ant
resulted In IL yeas and nay
as follows:
Yeas-Abe belle, Blake, Eastburu, johnson
Lynn, Moore, Pickels, Smith, Speakman
Stevenson, Taylor, and President Conrad
H. Nays-Baugh, Denney, Garrett, Grubb
Miller, McKenna, Murry and Newell-S
Before the vote was announced Mr.. Farrel
asked to have his vote recorded in tht
affirmative. The chairman suggested tina
he wait until the vote had been amt unced
The vote was then officially announced
when Mr.. Farrell again made his request
Messrs. johnson and Conrad objected ol
the grounds that the member had no righ
to change his vote after 1t had been an
nounced, which called forth a debate o
some few minutes when the rules were reai
to sustain the objection.
A motion to suspend the rule was thei
made which was objected to by Mr.. Pickels
who called for the reading of rul
80 which decided the matter, the rul
being that vote to suspend the rules mus
be uni nimous. The members having be
come tired of filibustering motion wa
unanimously carried that council adjourn
until O'Clock tonight. After adjourn
ment it was found that Mr.. Farrell had
right to have his vote recorded as he hat
been excused from voting on the previou
question and therefore had not vot ol
the question at all. He will in all proba
bility ask to have his vote recorded as ye
on the adoption of the committees report q
the meeting tonight.
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