The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-08
VETOED THE ORDINANCE.
Watering Of Street Car Tracks Must
Continue.

Mayor McDonough Kills the Haines'
Repeating Measure a Few Moments
After Its Passage-The Votes of the
Aldermen 8 TO 4-The Southeastern
Eiaster Company 20 Get Portion
Of the Water Works Tract-Four
Aldermen Oppose the Sale.
Alderman Haines' ordinance repeating
the street car track watering ordinance
met a sudden and surprising death after
having been passed by a majority of the
board at yesterday afternoons council
meeting.
When the ordinance came up for it's
second reading no one seemed inclined to
discuss it, and Mayor McDonough called
for a vote Aldermen Myers, Mcmillan,
Haines, Screven and Wells voted in the
affirmative. and Aldermen Cam, Folliard,
O'Brien and Dixon recorded their votes
in the negative.
The railroad men who had attended as
spectators to see the result left at once
feeling jubilant over their victory, but if
they had waited for few minutes their
jubilatiOn would have changed into dis
appointment.
KNOCKED OUT WITH VETO.
"The ordinance is adopted, " said Mayor
McDonough, and at the same time he
picked up his pen and began writing on
the back of the document. When he fin
ishcd the mayor handed the ordinance
to Clerk Rebarer and told him to read it.
Here was what surprised the sOlons
around table: Il do not consider it to the
interest of the city that the ordinance re-
quiring the watering of the tracks of
street railways should be repealed l
therefore veto the ordinance Just passed
- The aldermen who had voted for it
looked surprised at such a veto, probably
the quickest on record, and those who
voted mo- laughed and guyed their fell
low members. The ordinance cannot be-
come law now unless passed over the
mayors veto by a two-thirds vote, aud
this cannot be secured.
A MODIFICATION MIGHT HAVE PASSED.
The veto means that the street car
companies will have to keep on water
ing their tracks daily or suffer the penalty
of paying $50 fine for every violation
1t is understood that Mayor McDonough
was agreeable to a modification of the eK-
listing ordinance, but bitterly opposed to
its repeal.
The only thing which evoked any dis
cussion at the meeting was the resolution
from the water and finance committees
allowing the sale of 345 acres of the old
water works tract to the Southeastern
Plaster Company for 81 800 per acre. The
resolution was laid over from the previ-
Gus meeting at the request of
Alderman Wells in order that
he might have time to consider the mat
ter fully. Yesterday the alderman was
as bitterly opposed to the sale as before,
and made speech against disposing Of
any part of the property. The city, he
said, might need it for her own use at
some future time, and there was no neces-
sity to part with 1t.
AN ADVANTAGEOUS SALE.
Alderman Cam and Myers favored the
sale. They held that this tract was the
least valuable of the whole to the city,
and as no rights to its uses for water
purposes were to be disposed of the sale
would be advantageous.
The resolution passed by the following
vote:
Yeas-Aldermen Cam, Haines, Screven,
Myers and O'Brien.
Nays-Aldermen Wells, Bohan, Dixon
and Folllard.
Consideration of the application Of the
Seaboard Company for an extension of
time for complying with the conditions
of the grant of Hutchinson's Island to the
Middle Georgia and Atlantic Railway
Company was postponed until the next
meeting ON account of the absence from
the city of Col. William Garrard, attor-
ney for the railway company.