Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-02
AGAINST POLICY PLAYING.

the Law COmmlttee-ImpOr Ac-
 tion in Regard to the City's Water
 Supply.
 The court of common council settled down to business last evening despite the indictment weather and passed upon several important measures.
 The city attorney introduced a reso- lution authorizing the construction of South Riverside street which was passed. The resolution was introduced in order that no technicality should arise. when the assessments were laid. At the request of the Rev Fathers Mulcahy and O'Donnell, Joseph McCar- thy, janiter of St Mary's school. was ap- pointed special constable without pay The city attorney was instructed to present a bill to the legislature asking for permission to take water from the towns of Morris, Woodbury, Bethlehem and Litchtield. It was done, in order | that whichever site for water supply was selected there would be no question of legislation.
 At the request of the fire commis- sioners committee was appointed to | confer with them in the matter of the house to be erected in the northern part of the city. The aldermen appointed l Messrs Rametti and French and the council Messrs King and Cross on the committee to act with the commits sioners
 A petition from the Washington Re form association, signed by nearly 400 names, protesting against the former action of the council in the matter of the employment of laborers on the street department was received and placed on | file.
 The law committee presented their re- port upon the ordinance prohibiting | Uamlnp It was as fellows "The law committee to whom was re- ferred draft of an ordinance to prohibit gaming, hereby respectfully report the l following substitute ordinance and
 recommend its passage:
 Be it ordained by the Court of Common Council of the City of Waterbury:
 Every person who shall keep or en-
 gage policy office or act as agent for
 any such office, whether such office is in | the city or elsewhere, shall be fined not
 more than $1OO.
 | In the council Councilma Kellogg
 said that the statutes covered gam bling,
 but did not cover policy playing. l Alderman Webster also explained the
 matter in the aldermanic chamber. | The aldermen passed the. ordinance by
 the vote of to 2. The following voted for its passage: Aldermen Webster, 1 Chipman, French, Rametti and Thomp-
 son. Alderman Rourke and Munson
 voted against it. In the council Coun-
 cilman Kellogg offered an amendment
 to the ordinance as presented by the law
 committee, inserting the words ''in keeping or managing such office" after the word office: the amendmnnt was car ried. The council then voted to take an
 aye and nay vote on the passage of the
 ordinance.
 Councilman King arose and said
 ''There are a good many sides to this story and 1 do not see why the commit tee did not include other games as well
 as policy. If it is aimed at one person it
 is rather a small piece of business, but if
 aimed for the best intentions of the city
 1 look at it in another light. l never
 purchased policy or lottery ticket in
 my life but I'd be apt to do so if 1 had
 dollars to spare. In Massachusetts it is not criminal offense nor do the higher courts of this state convict. l move
 that the matter be laid on the table"
 Councilman Williams quickly second
 ed MT Kings motion, but the council
 men looked at the matter in a better
 way and the motion was lost. The aye and
 nay vote resulted as follows :Ayes-Coun. cilmen Blair, Barnes, Engler, Kellogg,
 Goodwin, Cross, Watrous, Manville
 Chambers, Cunningham, Driggs, ,Halpln, l hllGy, TlUZJdlIlSh oIlu 11oS,dI"lo, ld . l-Councilmen King, Williams and Drury , 8: absent, Councilmen Stocking and Hellmann.
 The ordinance as passed by the councilmen was passed by the aldermen and referred to the city clerk for en. r grossment for final passage. It was then returned to the councilmen who also re, } ferred it to the city clerk. The water board sent report to the | zc ~ ID } Lawrence and others for 8 four inch
 water main on South Leonard street, tc
 cost $500. The council ordered the l work done.
 , Sidewalks were ordered for Martin 5 street and the old Waterville road. r The petition of S. P. Williams ct al , asking for the laying out of new street l 25O feet north of and parallel with H1l l street was referred to the road board.
 In the aldermen's board two ballots were taken for fire commissioner. re , sulting as follows each time: Mahoney . 3, Roberts 3, Manville 3.
 s Councilman Drury moved that the resolution making the chief engineer office one for life be taken from the . table. Councilman Williams said thai 2 the chief did not endorse the resolution f so the board took no action upon tht
 matter.
 The law committee reported on tn, ! ! following matter "In the matter of tn, U city assessing the property on Nortl :, Elm street specially benefited by tn, ' covering over of Great brook, this ccm
 mittee respectfully recommend tha :, an assessment on the property so bene t tited be made, and that the board O , compensation for that purpose mak, l such an assessment" The recommen . dation was adopted and referred to tn board of compensation.
 After transacting other matters o
 ken to the next regular meeting.