Daily Republican., 1888-12-07
CITY COUNCIL.
POLICE FOR EIGHTH AND
FRANKLIN PARK.
A Stirring Up Of the Oommittss Meet
inRs AgaIn-A Temperance Debate
No Money TO Fpy Mayor 1 ar
TIDEtOn's Detectives.

I @AANa WNAO AOOA0u IUE IN
CITY Cjunoil Last night and they came.
Every member Of Council except MI.
johnson wGs In his seat at an early
hour, aRd there was lively skirmisbIns
All along the line from the opening to
the close.
MT Q1inn, from the Finance Com.
mitlee, presented . report, which was
edop ed, to pay an old bill for work
done In Spring alley TO Patrick Car
berry amounting to el23 so, and ths
oity auditor was Instructed to enter a
lien upon the estate Of the late Jacob
HerdmAn for the amount.
MIR. SAwdop, from the Police and FL
nance Committee, reported In favor OF
granting the prayer Of the petitioners
for on extra policeman to be continued
81 Eighth and franklin Streets Park
ai winter. Some lively opposition was
expected to this report, but It was
adopted unanimously. But the Police
Oommittee reported adversely on . bill
to pay Dr. DFsvo S27 for profesnona,
services and that report was adopted.
A communication from II II. Carter,
superlntet d9nt OF the p, ". q b. RAil
road, was read, stating that orders had
been given that no cars should be left
standing at the street crossings con-
'rAry to the city ordinances, and Ooun
oil WAS thanked for calling attention 70
tie MATER.
The City Treasurer reportsd el6s, s,606,.
% 10 bank to the credit OF the oity, and
t421 % TO the credit oil the park f1nd.
The receipts were As followt: r csived
from NJ. j. Msaley, S640, $500, $3.50; E
z. Moody, Sl75, t61 20 $50, $40 7b; W.
Z BwiRRett, SB; W. B. Hyland, Sgl9 38
Sl7 90; Patrick Dillon, f57, Frederic
II. Robinson, t94 90.
The city auditor reported having eE
Anined III accounts or Il p Moo for
the year 1888, hnd found them correct
The Finance Committee made similar
report. The reports were adopted and
be clerk iugtruo,6d to inform the city
ressuTtr that e P Moody had settled
10 full for the year 1885
Building Inspector Dillon reported
having examined tuildinzs valued ~
t35 100, issued ~ permits and collected
B57 during November.
Coal OIL IuHpentor Samuel DuTney 70
ported having examined 4,0E0 gsllcns
Of oil.
When Mr. Qliun presented the CITY
Council pay roll, amounting to S343 40
sBd made q motion that 1t be paid, The
lively time Of the evening commenced.
Mr. ShArkey moved TO refer the pay
roll back to the oommittss for corrgo-
JloD, a. he saw that some OF the mem
Oers OF Council were credited with 38
committee mestingE, more than ore .
day for the mcnth, including Sunday
Il was slnoply 40 imposBib.litY to at
tend 30 many legitimate mmitteB
meetings In a month. II was an outrage
uIol she tax payers, aud the property
boilers In his section Of ths CITY weFa
mAkinR complaints about 1t. Upon his
motion he demanded o call Of yeas and
nays.
Several explanations were made OF
votes aB the roll call proceeded.
MF. MoKenDey did not sea what wat
to be gained by \ reference of the
report, which he took for granted wal
| ooTreot.
Mr.. Roberts went into an extended
explain alton Of his vote He didn't see
what was to be Rainsd either by . refer
enoe OF tha re- ort, rs II would 90 back
TO the Bame committees who made It up
and of course they would not change
the report. Bat he did not believe IN
the manner In which the money OF the
tAxpAye ers Was pSid away to these oom-
mltteas. He wansed to see more OF the
business OF Council transacted In Opau
CouDoil, and not In q few select com.
mittees Where o few members roll up
immense bills for meetings.
Mr.. Quinn Taiaed the point Of order
that Mr.. Roberts WAS not speaking on
the reference Of tbe report, but was i'm
pugning the motives Of other membe's q
OF Council.
The chair decided the point well
taken and advised Mr.. Roberts to con
ino himself more closely to the ques-
tlon Of reference.
Mr. Roberts started again but only to
become little more emphatic In bis
denunc!stion OF the heavy sAlAried com
mitteeE. This Council meeting, he
said, WAS the peoples committee, where
all could be heard and this was the
only placs and chance q large number
OF the members Of Council ever have OF
speEking upon important subjects that
come before Council. A number OF
members never get . smell Of . com
mittee meeting. Important mAtters
come before ihs committee composed o
se'eot few End there every Thing Is
decided and put through Council,
while otk OF members we're kept In iR
norance Of the debates In the commit
tees and THEY are Left to hnd out the
merits Of the questions the b Of way
they could.
He wanted these matters to come be
fore Council, where all could have 3
chance, He cared nothing about the
committee money, IS he got paid for
att Cndlpg the meetings Of Council, bat
he HRnttd TO see . change In the man
J Ter OF holding committee mestlnRs
which resulted only in large salaries tC
q few select member, while Others were
, kept 10 blisstuI Ignorance Of what
transpired ia the committee rooms.
Mr.. Roberts said he would vote "yea''
on the question Of reference.
Mr.. sbRrkey, in explaining his vote
\ In favor Of reference, was very emphatic
in his denupoiaion of tho system oi
} taking the peoples money under the
plea OF 3S committee meetings . month.
lie didn't suppose that the reference
, OF the report would amount to anything
! evsp II carried, but he WADted to place
, himself or record in opposition to thesG
! committee meetings.
Tbs motion to refer was rejected by
yeas 10 II nays, IS follows:
Yeas-Msasrs. Bower, HAWkinl, Nc
Bfide, Mccall, MoHenamln, RobertI
aud SbArkey,
NAys-Msssrs. AyArs, Baugb, Besl"
Chambers, Doley, Davis, Dllltn, For
cat. MoGoniRal, MoKsnney, Moore
Quinn, Ryan, saWdon, Shea, White
and President FArra.
The interesting tilt on the committe'
bu1ipess WAS the prelude to the NOR
interesting debate that followed on th'
yeport Of the iolut polios and hnanoI
Committee adverse TO paying Mayo
. Harrington Sl94 "a, the expenses 10
private dstsoi7as employed to 6real
up the Illicit sale OF Intoxicating liqno
IN ihe oily. The following is the ms
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