Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-28
LOCAL NEWS.

For Thursday colder cloudy and rainy weather
is in,li,aed for the Middle Atlantic Stat and
Virginia.
CITY COUNCIL.
regular semi-monthl;- meeting OF the
CIV Council was held last night.
IN THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
a quorum was present shortly af.er eight
o'clock, and upon the board being called 10
order and the minutes of the prece eiiDg
mr., ting read, the committees were called
for reports, after which a communication
from the Auditor notifying Council of the
exhaustion of the fund appropriated f'T
cleaning streets was read.
Mr. Bryant explained that over 81 100 OF
the sum set apart for this years street
Gaming had been spent by the ex.Superu-
tendent Of Police, and that it would require
about 500 more to prosecute the work up
to he end OF the fiscal year-May 3lst.
After some debate as to the amount ne
ces-ary Mr. Bryant finally offered reso!u-
ton arpropriatng $3.50 for the purpose,
whith was adopted.
A message from the Mayor vetoing the
acts ordering the paving Of Queen street
from ROYAL to Pitt, and Columbus street
from King to Queen, was read. The Mayor
bases his objections to the ordinance on the
fact that there are no provisions III them
for compelling property owners along the
line OF said proposed improvements to pay
their proportion o. the COST a'so that the
mode Of prosecuting the work is not proVld-
cd fort not being stated whether 1t Is to
he done by contract or not, or under whose
supervision. Accompanying the message
Was AN ordinance, drawn by the Corpora
ton Attorney, designed by tho Mayor as
substitute for the vetoed bills in which the
provlsos suggested by him had been in
serted.
The Mayors objections were sustained
without debate, and the ordinance he sug
reSted referred to the Committee on streets.
Mr.. Smith, however, declined TO vote,
saying he was not so sure the Mayor was
correct in bis conclusions, and read from
sect ion y; chapter ) of the corporation laws
where it is provided that those owning prop
crty on the iiGe Of such proposed improve
mnlS, shall he held responsible for two.thirds
of the cost thereof. He subsequently intro
tucpd an ordinance providing that in future
when any gravelng or grading is done on
any street Of the city that the ratio of cost
each property owner IS responsible Tor be
assessed against him.
Mr. Smith cesded that the rules be sus-
pended and the ordinance passed, but at the
desire OF Mr.. Bryant it, too, was referred to
the Committee on Streets.
Some business which had como in from
the Common Council was then concurred
in and after about an hours sess ion the
board adjoured.
COMMON COUNCIL.
fair attendance inside the bar and 81
solitary occupant of the benches outside the
bar made up,a full census Of the population
Of the Council Chamber at o'clock last
night.
The business was mostly Of q routine
character. Some items, however, led TO
some expressions of opinion.
When the application Of Mr.. W. Wallace
lIoon for leave to erect frame house, II
by IT. feet, on the alley running into st.
ASaph street near the old Columbia engine
Auri>c, came ny, the consent of The Graham
heirs aud Mr.. J. L. Zimmerman thereto was
fled AMI motion to grant the request was
mndc.
President Erchberg did not think that the
permission should he given without exam
ualiou unless all tho property owners OF
the einhhorhooa had S'gned, and the ap-
pcatiou was referred.
A communications from the Auditor sta
ting that the street appropriations had all
been expended, called out from Mr.. Brent
the statement that the present work from
day to day, until the end of the fiscal year,
would require an appropriation not very
great A very large part oI the 50 500 ap.
;ruptiaied tor the year had already been
expended when the present committee came
in, and it was the extraordinary rxpendl-
lures hast June that caused the deficiency
now
Mr.. Sweeney asked why that happened.
Mr.. Brent replied that last spring $500
WAS appropriated for streets-lor 1896.
During the lEst month the late Superln-
tcndcnt Coleman spent 81 go OF ths money,
So that wien The new superintendent came
in he had only $3.50 for the remaining
eleven n.3nths of the year. AT that rate
Mr.. Coleman would have expended some
Sl2 in the year.
Mr.. Fishrr-Oh, he did not Intend to keep
that up.
As less than twelve members were pres
ent the action Of the Aldermen nppropria-
ting 800 To streets had TO go over until the
next meeting.
The Council then adjourned
The c. Il O. CANAL.-The directors o.
the Chcsapeake and Ohio Canal Company
held meeting yesterday in Washington.
The superintendent made a verbal report
nIo a. condition IF tina