The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-05

NAN~NN ter of charges against Daniel s. Gil | huly, member of the board of police commissioners, to arrange for mode | of procedure in the coming hearing.
 This resolution was unanimously | adopted and Aldermen Macdonald and
 Connor appointed the members of the committee.
 | It was then unanimously voted that
 the board shall hold another meeting
 on March 19 at o'clock, and at that
 time will hear and act upon the charges | against Commissioner Gilhuly. The
 clerk of the board was also instructed
 to make a true copy of said charges,
 and also of the resolutions, and cause
 them to be served on Commissioner
 Gilhuly on or before the 8th day of March.
 A lengthy communication from w. l..
 Folsom of 62 Wooster street asking that
 the court of common council appropri-
 ate $100000 to be used for public inn
 provements and in this manner work
 afforded to the many unemployed resi-
 dents of the city, especially in the Sixth
 ward and the Italians was read and
 ordered tabled for printing.
 A petition from the board of health
 asking for the establishment of hos
 pital for contagious diseases in this city
 was read and was, on motion of Alder
 men Reyes, referred to the committee
 on retrenchment and reform.
 When the report of the committee on
 streets favoring the change of the name
 of Reynolds street to Maple street was
 reached Alderman Connor moved that
 the report be indefinitely postponed.
 He said that the street had been named
 for ex-Town Agent Reynolds and that
 he could see no good reason for the pro- posed change of name. Alderman Mac
 donald claimed that all the residents of
 the street desired the name of the street changed and therefore their requests should be acceded to. After brief dis cussion the report of the committee was almost unanimously accepted, Alderman Connor and one other only voting in the negative
 The following were unanimously elec- ted special constables of the city of New Haven
 sherman Warren, VincenZo Durazzo, George E. Scranton. A. H. Hurlburt, Miles Lamb, Albert c. Monson, William F. Clark, Loren L. Scranton, Michele Federico William LaFontaine, Charles H. Lahr Joseph Huffman, J. w. F, Neefe, Andrew A Goodman, Charles P, BlakesIee, Frederick Hasse, William Mcclure, William Sullivan, Charles .Clarkson, Peter J. McNerney, Meyer Kadesky, Lyman H. Johnson, A. w, Judd, Rudolph Seaburg, William F. c. Falby, Charles W. Prindle. August Well
 When the action of the board of coun- cilmen instructiag the corporation coun- sel to oppose in1the general assembly the proposed new charter for the city of New Haven came up for concurrent ac- ton Alderman Bromley arose and in a brief speech opposed the action taken by the councilmen. He strongly favor ed the new charter and said that he hoped it would be adopted, as the pres ent charter was a bungling document without plan or system.
 Alderman Macdonald in opposing the new charter said that al- though on account of his political posi- tion he disliked to discuss the charter he would discuss 1t as a sworn public citizen and taxpayer. The | city has had a charter for 258 years, and vet there has been practically no misappropriation of funds. He also l claimed that even under the present | charter which has been denounced as a | bungling document, etc., with 100000 | there was no city the size | of New Haven any better than New | Haven He said also that there was a | mouse in the flour barrel, and that the | charter was the work of five | Abrahams and one other fellow. The | government, he said, was as near perfect as 1t could be. He object ,d to the new charter on account of the | one man power. There is no more econ- omically managed government in the Why, look at the new charter Or a moment It practically gives one | nan all the power and also S40O0OO worth of patronage, and no check upon lim.
 The new charter gives the mayor and ,ne member of the board of aldermen | he power to swear out warrant for my man who owes the city one cent or taxes or assessments. It also gives he police charge of election matters, thing at once illegal and ludicrous, The mayor also has the distribution if S400,0O0 worth of patronage. The nan to whom such powers could safely 1 ,e intrusted must be a man above pe- uniary interest, and consequently not pen to temptation, man without ann ,ition so as not to sacrifice anything to atisfy his ambition, and a man without friends who could come to him and ask r demand favors.
 Tn closing he said that even though e knew that the republican party would keep the control of the govern 1ent for the next ten years he would till oppose the new charter on the same rinciples as he did at present. for ear that al man might possibly be lected to the office of mayor under it's revision, who would build up such owereul machine that 1t would be al- lost impossible to break it down. He ! , lso said that the proposed charter was ne child of democratic mother suck d at the breast of democratic press nd rocked in the cradle of a demo- ratio legislature. Do you think the ew charter would abolish deals? tell ou it can't be done. Deals have ex- ted from the time Adam sold his vir- le for an apple; Esau his birthright ,r a mess of potage, Samson his locks | :,