The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-22
THE CHARTER CONSIDERED.
MANY AMENDMENTS PR0P0sED HUT
 NONE WERE ADOPTED.

Republican Aldermen Object to Railroad. ing -Hiliur Elected to Board of comprn-
 sation-Report of special Committee on
 Auditing. |.
 Twenty members of the board of al-
 dermen responded 10 their names at
 the special meeting of that body last
 evening. After the meeting had been
 called to order Alderman Skiff stated
 that one of the special reasons for
 which the meeting had Seen called was
 the selection of a member of the board | of compensation to i'll the vacancy
 caused by the death of the late Michael Fitzpatrick. He then placed In nomina-
 ton for the office Alderman Allen Max
 cy Hitler of the First ward.
 No other nomination was made and
 ballot taken, resulting in Mir. Hitler
 receiving the vote of every one of the twenty aldermen present. The an-
 nouncement of the vote was received
 with great applause. After this had
 subsided Mir. Hitler made an appro- priate speech thanking the aldermen
 for the honor they had conferred upon | him.
 A communication was read from Fire
 Marshal Hubbard to the effect that the bell tower at No 5s engine house on East Pearl street Is in dangerous con- dition and liable to fall at any time. l The matter was referred to the board | of fire commissioners with power to act.
 This means that the bell tower will be
 removed immediately.
 The report of the special committee appointed to decide whether the city | was indebted to the town or vice versa
 was read and unanimously approved.
 The report showed that the town is indebted to the city in the sum of $5,- 433. .C6 and recommends that that amount be paid by the town to the city. The | report is signed by Alderman Galla- gher and ex-Selectman Pohlman. Thus teen years standing between the city and town governments as to the amount of indebtedness due to the city by the
 town.
 The following Is the report of the special committee appointed to super
 wise the work of auditing the tax col | lectors books and accounts: The actual
 work of auditing has been done by Richard F. Lyon. and two assistants. The work was commenced September IS, 1894. Abstracts have been made of all town, city and school records re- lating to abatements and all other rec- | ords bearing. upon the case. The work is yet unfinished, but the expense has been already $950, of which the city has paid 571A per cent, or. s546.25, the town 27 per cent, or $25650, and the school district l51s per cent, or $147.25. The report also recommends that the court of common council appoint other mem- bers to serve on the committee to fill the places of Aldermen Hitler and Gal lagher and Councilmen Klenke and Parish, whose terms expire January l.
 1895. The report of the committee was accepted and the recommendations unanimously adopted.
 The report of the tax commission rec ommending the abatement of taxes against Mrs. Mary F. Merriman of 66 Greene street, Mrs. Maria Taylor of 114 Adeline street, John T. Pickett of 209 Davenport avenue, R. G. Carleton of Townsend avenue and number of oth CTS were read and the recommendations unanimously adopted.
 The report of the committee on char ter revision concerning a proposed new charter for the city of New Haven was taken up and extensively discussed. As the seveal amendments were read by City Clerk Martin, Alderman Gal lagher, chairman of the committee. ex- plained at length the meaning of the proposed changes, substantially as has already been been printed in the col umns of the Journal and Courier"
 After the several amendments had been read and explained Alderman Gallagher strongly favored the adop- tion of the report of tn ecommittee and moved that the board of aldermen concur with the board of councilmen in unanimously accepting the report of the committee and adopting its recom- mendations. This motion was seconded by Alderman Hitler, not, as he said, because he approved of it, but simply in order to bring the matter before the board for discussion.
 Alderman Macdonald opposed con- curing with the board of councilmen. He said that he was not in favor of railroading any new charter through. He claimed that although formerly he thought the present hcarter of the city was 8 very poor instrument, he had been converted into believing that the present4 charter was a pretty good one after all. He also claimed that under the provisions of the new charter it was possible for nine aldermen and the mayor to sit down and say "You can't do anything unless we allow you to-" He also claimed that the new charter gave the mayor entirely too much power and because it did, he was opposed to 1t. He also advocated the consideration of the charter by sec- tions. '5at S'je5,.i,s .F 4-.-f -'a "a.
 Alderman Gallagher in reply claimed that teh arguments advanced by Alder man Macdonald were not born out by facts. He also claimed that under no circumstances could the mayor and nine aldermen block the wheels of legis- lation. He said that the citizens could be depended upon to select a man to conduct their municipal duties and that even if the charter were considered section by section that it would not even then secure the approval of the opponents of charter revision.