New-York tribune., 1884-01-01
HUGH GARDNER DEFEATED
HIS NAME REJECTED By THE ALDERMEN
MR.. REILLY REsIGNs-ovFRRIDING VEToEs-PEo-
TESTING AGAINST THEIR TAXTs.

MR. REILLY REsIGNs-ovFRRIDING vEToEs-PEO-
TESTING AGAINST THEIR TAXrs.
The retiring Board of Aldermen held a three
hours session yesterday. President Reilly occu-
pied the chair until he offered his resignation Al
derman because of his election as Register. de
thanked the members of the Board for theTcOuTtesy
TO him, sent thanks to their constituents for elect
ing him to the higher Office upon which he enters
to-day and thanked the reporters for the careful,
honest and faithful reports of the Boards meet
ings" The resignation will take effect to-day;
Cornelius Burns, lQuOr-dealer at Ayenue-A ana
Tenth-st., chosen to I'LL Mr.. Relllys unexplred
term of six days. NJ,
Mayor Edison sent a letter nominating Police
Justice Hugh Gardner to be his own successor. MI
Seaman moved that the nomination be confirmed
and the motion was seconded by Mr: MelIs'
When the roll was called Edward Duffy
asked to be excused from voting, because he had
nothing against Mr.. Gardner and so did not wish
to vote against him, and he would not vote for him
because he was Republican; Mr. Wells also asked
to be excused IRON voting ai'hougn o4tn ne t ana
in which he lived was not represented by a Police
Justice. 1t had q CIVIL Justice and he said that
one of the Police Justices should be from that dis
trict. Mr.. Reilly and Mr.. Fitzpatrick were absent
when the vote was taken. The result was as fol-
lows Duffy and Wells being excused from voting:
Yeas-Cochrane, Finck, Fleischbein oCOnnOr Seaman,
-Nays--Carron,- De Lacey, n. Duffy, Farley; Foley,
Grant, Jaehne Kenney Kirk Mclaughlin, ONeil, RncR-
An effort was made to lay the nomination on the
table. Mr.. OCOnnOr stating that it was little IT.
regular for the Mayor to send IN nomination be-
fore vacancy occurred; but his motion was
lost by vote of IA to q. The Mayor was informed
of this action, but other nomination was sent In.
Several resolutions that had been vetoed were
then taken up and most of them passed unanl-
mOusly. Several times when there were not enough
votes 70 carry the resolution over the veto, Alder
men were called from an adjoining room, where
with glass of champagne in one hand and a sand
wich in the other they were expressing their re-
gret at the resignation OF John Kelly.
Lowering the glass and the sandwich the
absentee would, in mutied voice, vote
"Aye, - and then return TO the temporary free
lunch counter until the clerk again called his name
a writ OF certiorari obtained from Judge Law
renee by the Manhattan Railway Company; against
the Receiver of Taxes and the Board of Alderman,
read, il having been obtained to review the
tax levy, the railway company asserting that Its
assessed valuation Of S4,964lI3, upon which
tax of 800 s9l 20 had been levied, was excessive
The writ Is Tctumableon January IA. lhepetltlon
calling for the writ states that the company
N meeting the current and daily expenses;
New-York and Metropolitan Elevated Railway
Companies and if the taxes assessed are imposed
either the daily receipts or the rolling stock viii
have to he seized The Third Avenue Surface
Railway Company and The ErcalHg P0st Company
also protested against their assessed valuations
The complaints were referred to a committee;
resolution was called up and debated Tor
long time, which directed the Commissioners OF
Public Works to supply the new Court House with
a patent Vcutilatmg apparatus at cost not 10
exceed S27 900 A letter was read from Judges
DonOhuc, LaITemore Lawrence and IruaX, com
mcndng the proposed apparatus, and 1t was decIGcd
to have Commissioner Thompson see II the plan
proposed Was an cAltNt lNt Oi''
Mavor Edison was asked yesterday whether it was
true, as reported III an Albany dispatch 70 The
WOrid that deal had been arranged whereby the
Board OF Health and the Mayor were TO meet yes
terday and remove Street Cleaning Commissioner
Coleman and appoint Charles Wcldc in hs place,
and immediately attcrwaTd appoint Hugh Ualuncf
a Police Justice. The Mayor replied that he knew
nothing of any such arrangement, lie had sent In
the name of Hugh Gardner to succeed himself as
Police Justice and regretted that he had been re
iected by the Aldermen. lie had not made up his
mind whom he would name next
The Tanmauy men are strongly taNorlnG ChaIicS
Wclde for Police Justice committee having called
OIL the Mayor yesterday for that purpose