The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-22

oughly understood it. If an alderman In this chamber votes for the adop- ton Of this charter without seriously considering it. he Is not doing his duty" he said. T am not opposed to a new charter. but do want the matter in question discussed and acted upon in- telligently."
 Alderman Macdonald again protested against any such railroading of so im- portant measure. ''I am not" said he. Opposed to the charter as a whole. but I do think some amendments are very necessary to the present proposed charter. As a sample of some of these I will simply say that the matter of appointing the several commissions are all wrong. for one favor the election of these officials by the people" He also said that 1t was a dangerous thing to confer too much power upon any one man. He further claimed that If as provided for by the proposed char ter, the mayor had the sole power to appoint and remove. for example, the corporation counsel, that official would, were a case to come up where the in- terests of the mayor and the city clashed, be very apt to try to please the man who had tn epower of re- moving him in his hands, even If In so doing the interests of the city were to suffer in consequence.
 After considerable further discussion Alderman Macdonald moved that the charter be taken up and considered sec ton by section.
 Alderman Skin said that he was thoroughly In favor of tariff reform. but he would never vote to railroad 1t through. Said he: "We have now before us the most important measure which has come before us in years. We have spent hours upon hours in discussing a question of the top dress ing of some street and now We are asked to rush this important matter through in a few minutes. I for one shall vote against any such action."
 At this point the question on Alder man MacDonald's motion to take up the consideration of the charter sec tion by section was called for and the motion adopted by a vote of II to g.
 The consideration of the charter was then taken up section by section and the first five sections unanimously ap- proved. When section 6, which pro- vides for the election of city officers, was reached Alderman Macdonald made an amendment providing for the election by the people of the members of the boards of public works, police and fire commissioners instead of by the board of aldermen, as at present. An aye and nay vote on its adoption was then taken, resulting in its defeat by a vote of Il to G. Those voting "aye" were Skiff, Sanborn, Macdonald, Reyes, Morgan and Wright. Those voting mo" were Hitler, Lowe, Blakeslee, Flynn, Moran, Doughan, Well, Gallag- her, Russell. Foley and Connor.
 All the other sections of the charter were approved up to section 9, but not until after several amendments had been offered and voted down. When the section giving the mayor power to remove from office any person ap- pointed by him or amy of his prede- cessors in the office of mayor was reached, Alderman Reyes moved that this section be amended by inserting the words flor neglect or insufficient discharge of duty or for other justifiable cause"
 At this point motion was made to adjourn and was carried by vote Of il to 5. When the mayor announced that the motion to adjourn had pre- vailed, he stated that he would call another special meeting of the board within a day or two. Final adjourn ment was taken at il 40 o'clock.