The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-10
DEERING.

Last Meeting of the Present City Govern
ment-A Parliamentary Tangle - In
auguration Monday Evening.
The last meeting of the present city
government of Deering was hela last
evening Mayor Sawyer presiding ana
Aldermen Jacobs, Redlon, Nevens, Aver |
True and Leighton being present. /
The contract for the Oak anu George
street sewer which has been awarded to |
Messrs. Worster and Wilson, was pre-
sented by Alderman Nevens. Inc length
of the sewer is to be 5000 feet. work Is
to begin within sixty days, and be COM
pleted on or before August lst OF this
year. Twenty per cent Of the contract
price is to be reserved until the whole
work is satisfactorily completed. TIE
prices for the work are to be, for laying
the pipe, whether the eight inch or the
ten Cloth of which are to be used
cents a linear foot; for dirt cut
ting under six feet. twenty cents per
linear foot, including back filling; for
dirt cutting over six feet ana unoer
eight, thirty nine cents, over eight ana
under ten, forty-two cents, over ten ana
under twelve, fifty-five cents, back NIL
ings in each case being lnciuaeu. for
rock trench one foot deep, 40 cents per
linear foot. back filing included. Man
holes all completed are S2S each; and
fush holes SIS each. Messrs. WorsJer and
Wilson deposit $500 in lieu of a bond for
the faithful performance OF the work.
This contract was approved by the city
council.
Alderman Nevens stated that this con-
tract was more favorable to the city
| than the Flanagan CONTRACT.
Salaries.
| An ordinance was presented liking
salaries for the ensuing year as follows:
| mayor, 5000; clerk, collector, ETC., $500;
city solicitor 5000; city physician, $3.50;
| ianitor $3.50; auditor $780, assessors ~
day Tor the time employed; overseers of
moor So day for time employed; ballot
| clerks, wardens. So a day for time EN-.
ployed; chief of fire department sluO;
mem hers of the board of health sou each.
| The pay of the street commissioner was
| proposed at $500, the commissioner to
| furnish team. This is the present pay,
| Mayor Sawyer moved that this be
| made $1,000. which he did not think too
| high. Alderman Jacobs was not in
favor of that Already there were nine
candidates after the office at the present
| nav. Upon thes...vote Aldermen True,
| T,eiohton and RedIon voted for the $1,000
| salary: and Alderman Aver, Nevens and
| Jacobs against.
| This being tie debate was resumed.
| Mr.. Neyens said that it would be time
enough to pay $1,000 when they mad
| thousand dollar man in the place.
| Mayor Sawyer thought that capanie
man could not be got by offerelng
| him 5000.
Alderman True recalled. that the salary
| was $1,000. but had been cut down.. A
| thousand dollars was none too much to
| pay. and if the proper man could not pc
found in Deering, it would be we'll to
| look elsewhere.
| here he had never seen man on the
| streets who was worth thousand dol
| lars.
At this point Mayor Sawyer announced
I that he should cast the deciding vote III
| favor of increasing to 81, 600; but Alder
man Jacobs protested that an affirmative
| vote of the majority of the council was
| necessary to raise money, according to
| the charter The vote was tie, and
majority of the council had not voted
in the affirmative.
| Mayor Sawyer protested that this was
only an amendment to an ordinance
| which had had it's first reading; and also
UQdG Inc CudIuC AhoNS ol'~ AANJ ~ =" r.
of the council.
alderman Jacobs did not not agree to
this. and City Solicitor Hopkins was
called on for an opinion.
Mr.. Hopkins said that the ordinance
could be amended at this time by casting
the vote of the mayor; and he was OF the
opinion that the ordinance when.
amended could pass its second reading
only by a majority of the whole city
council, which consisted Of the mayor
and aldermen. AS the mayor and all the
aldermen number eight five would be
required to pass the ordinance; and II
coud not be passed by vote OF tnree te
three, with the mayor castlng oecldlne
| vote.
This left the matter in an upward
position if Aver, Jacobs and Nevens
shoucld oppose the amended ordinance
The charter requires that the salaries fol
the new city government shall be ixee
by the old before it goes out. The ordl
nance must be passed. but five votes
could not be obtained if Messrs
| Nevens, Ayerand Jacobs helt
a. disposition to hold out; ant
Mayor Sawyer became much Disguised
at the city solicitors ruling, and at thu
tangIe into which the matter had come
| Alderman True wanted to adjourn tx
| this evening, but MIR. Nevens and Mr.
Jacobs protested Mr.. Jacobs though
| the matter was not worthy the powwow'
| and that the amendment should be with
drawn. Mayor Sawyer said he though
the four were entitled to al
much weight as the three; and Mr.. True
| changed his motion so as to adjourn tx
this evening at o'clock, which woult
accommodate Mr.. Nevens.
On this motion Messrs. True, Leighton
and Nevens voted yes, and Aver, Redlor
and Jacobs no. Mayor Sawyer cast thu
deciding vote in favor of adjournment
and the council departed to dream abou
the tangle.
Inaug uration Evening.
The Inauguration of the new cit.
, government will take place at Deerins
City hall on Monday evening at
O'Clock.
We congratulate the High school upol
the appointment of Alice E. Jones
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward c.
Jones of Deering Centre, as valedictorian
and of Carl Vose Woodbury.. son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Woodbury. of Woodfords a
salutatorian of the class of '94.