Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-24
TWO FRIENDS IN SELECT,

The Rest of the Members Vote Against the
Mayor-Keating Criticises His Honor's
Message-TiIt Between Warmcastle and
Eobertson-Bigelow's Explanation I'm
satisfactory.
1t was 4:30 o'clock when Common Coun-
ellis got through with the veto, and thee the
Select branch took "a whirl at it. They
knocked it out by a vote of 80 to 2, the only
members voting to sustain the Mayor being
Dr. {. Evans and S. D. Warmcastie. The dis
cuSsion was livel:, but was confined to Messrs.
keatipE, Evans. Lambie and Warm. <.sstle.
President Ford read tn Mayors message
and announced the action of Commof Council.
DIR. Evans cot the floor and deplored the
haste with which the appropriation ordinance
was passed, and asked that Mr.. Heating, the
chairman of tho Finance Committee, explain
what grounds ther. were for passing the ord-
nance over the Mayors veto. MIR. Iambie Sec
onded this request.
Mir. Heating took the Mayors message, and
reading il, commented on it as he went along
He said the Mayors statement that he did not
expect his objections TO meet with any consid-
Grafton was an insult to every member of Coun-
ellis. Mr.. Heating also took exceptions to the
adjectives used by the Mayor.
Keating Accused of Being Personal.
Mr. Warmcastle objected to Mr.. Keatine's
remarks saying that the latter was personal
and that the Mayors character was not under
discussion.
NO" replied Mr.. Keating, "but his intellI-
gence is. will not allow him to place me in a
false position before the public, for why know
not. He may be better man than l. but
don't think so."
Mr.. Heating insisted that the Mayors
premises were false and his logic unsound He
insisted that If the city expended no more than
its assets, no matter whether they had not all
been collected as in the case of delinquent taxes
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that curative legislation would stand the test
of the courts. and that the park purchases were
merely options
DR.. Evans suggested that any taxpayer could
go into court and prevent the payment of this
money. but Mr.. keating did not believe that
anyone would do so.
Mr.. Heating offered to stake his reputation
that the deficit would not be as large that
of last year. and doubted if there would be any
at all.
DR.. Evans objected to collecting money to
buy parks when there was no law to authorize
it, and said: The Chief of the Department of
Public Works made pretty lame answer be-
fore Common Council this afternoon when he
said he knew nothing about the law but init
mated that he would go ahead ANYWAY.
think it was humiliating confession for him
to make"
WarmcastIe Sustalns the Mayor.
MIR. Warmcastle said the Mayor was JUST.
fed in his remarks, and Mr.. Robertson raised
a point of order. He wanted to economize
time.
Warmcastle-My friend is always anxious to
economic time and expend money. He did
not want the appropriation ordinance discussed
item by item. He didn't want the lid taken OF.
Robertson-The lid was off.
Mr.. Warmcastle was not opposed to parks or
liberal estimates, but objected to a deficit at
the end of the year. 81 am opposed" be said.
'tn tho policy of keeping in debt. Let us have
fair estimate, and then if tits necessary let
us have 10 or IL mill tax"
MIR. Lambie thought there was no danger of
deficit as Councils could prevent it by refus-
ing to approve ordinances providing for work
for which estimates had been made.
DIR. Evans suggested that an act of Assem-
bly, be obtained providing for the publication
in the newspapers on March each year of the
appropriation ordinance no action to be taken
until five days later.
A vote was then taken on passing the ordl-
nance over the Mayors veto. which resulted:
Knocked Out the Veto.
Ayes-Messrs. Anderson, Benz. Bender. Bro
phy, Collins, Doyle. ID. z. Evans Foster Frauen-
King, Lambie, Matthew's, Miller, Murphy, Mc,
Cord. McCreery, Mckinley, Paul Perry, Robert
son, Rohrkaste Treusch, Warren, Williams, Will
Nays-Messrs. Warmcastle and C. Evans.
Mr.. Magee's resolution authorizing the City
Treasurer to extend the time for receiving
taxes with discount for ten days longer than
the 3Ist of March was adopted.
Mr.. Robertson presented ordinance pro-
viding for the letting and awarding of con-
tracts for public work and supplies in the diff
ferent departments of the city, The ordinance
was referred to the Finance Committee
This ordinance authorizes the chief of each
department to let the contracts in public in the
Common Council chamber to the lowest and
best bidders a record to be kent of ali such
contracts and no contract will be binding until
it has been approved by both branches of
Councils. The other requirements of the ordi-
nance are the same as those now governing the
Department of Awards,