The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-12
C0UNCILMEN TAKE ACTION.
UNANIIIO USLY IN FAVOR OF BET
 TER PIYEMENTS.

Brief Discussion Owe Report of the Com
 mittee on Sreets-Portion of Mayors
 Message Referred to Street Committee | Concurrent Action on All Business.
 Thirty-four of the 36 members oi the board of councilmen were present al the March meeting of that body last evening, the absentees being Council men Burns of the Third ward and Adj of the Eighth ward. The majority of the business transacted was simply Of concurrent order with the action talk en by the board of aldermen at it's meet ing last Monday, and hence the ses- sion was unusually dull and uninterest- ing.
 The report of the committee on streets recommending the bonding of the city for the purposes of permanent street pavements and the diversion of the street railroad tax from the state treas ury to the treasuries of the city and town was the first to provoke any dis cussion. After the report had been read Councilman Pickett argued at length in favor of the establishment of a sinking fund with which the bonds could be paid, and incurred why some such re lcommendation had not been made in the re- ort
 In reply Councilman Chillingworth, who .s the councilmanc chairman of the street committee, stated that the committee in it's deliberations had de- cded that the manner of Spaying the | 1,a hAa rI nf finance. and not to the committee on streets. Councilman Ullman, another member of the committee, also stated that the several financiers of the city who had appeared before the commit tee al the public hearings had almost unanimously expressed themselves as opposed 70 the plan of a sinking fund and favorlng the payment of the bonds by taxation.
 Finally, after brief discussion, Coun- cilman Dewell introduced a resolution to the effect that the mayor and cor poration counsel represent the city of New Haven at Hartford and arrange for the bonding of the city for the new pavements, but the resolution was oyer whelmingly defeated. The members of the board then decided to concur with the board of aldermen and table the en- re matter for printing.
 on motion oe Councilman Chilling worth all that portion of Mayor Hen drlek's message which referred to the condition of the sidewalks of the city was referred for action to the joint committee on streets, unanimous con sent having been granted.
 The board of public works was in structed to return to the court of com mon council all orders now in the pos session of the road department for the top dressing of certain streets of the city and referred to the joint committee on streets.
 A petition, signed by F. M. Brown and a number of Chapel street mer- chants, asking that the public urinal or Chapel street be removed on the ground that it is a public nuisance was read and referred to the committee on streets.
 The councilmen also voted to concur with the action taken by the board of aldermen inlreference to the reports of the committee on ordinances regulating the speed and equipment of electric cars. etc.
 The list of twenty-six applicants for a appointm ments as special constables of he city of New Haven, who were recom- by the committee on nomina- tions, was next read and the entire elected.