The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-21
ABOUT The JOINT Session
COuncilS Nust Fix the Date on Which
Il Will Be Held.
MAYOR HAS no POWER TO DO 50
Opinion Is hacked Up by That of
the City solicitor Resolutions
Signed by the Mayor.

With reference to the joint session OF
councils for the election of board OF
revision and appeal. Mayor Conneli
stated yesterday that the act of as
sembly creating this bureau does not
contain any specification of power TO
entitle him to issue call for the
joint session.
The city solicitor Is of the same opin-
ion. although he has not been asked Of
ter.
There are so many. and especially
councilmen. who are under the impress
sion that the mayor Is the proper au-
thority to announce the date of cleo
tion of the board. that 1t will be sur
prise To them.
II any notion prevailed to any extent
that the councils would have to fix
the date by resolution. that resolution
would have been introduced long before
now.
a prominent member of the councils
was heard tn express the wish yeSter-
day that the mayor would not issue
the call for the joint session until after
he came back from trip of week
or so that he was about to start IN
just then.
The councilman. not the mayor. Is
the one who was going away. and who
wanted the date far enough ahead to
enable him to 81 away and he back in
time To vote in the election Of five men,
bers of the board,
ThOsc Ce,ncnt sidewalks.
There is a movement afoot in the
councils to kill the ordinance now
pending that provides for the prohibit
ing of laying cement sidewalks here
after The ordinance has been hang
L. 81, 60. int
duced In the upper branch of council
bv Mr. Chittenden and in due course of
time passed third and final reading.
Then il went over to the common
branch where II laid dormant un-
til Thursday night. when II was taken
out. busted and referred to the commit.
tee on pavement with Instructions to
report forthwith. In the order of bus-
ness treating Of ordinances on first and
second reading. the anti-cement side
walk measure went through sailing.
1t might have never been resurrect-
ed from the pigeon hole but for the
queries that have frequently heen made
as to what right Uncle Sam had to lay
granolithic sidewalk around the
Federal building. when an ordinance
prohibiting the use of cement has
passed The uuestioners were misln-
formed: the ordinance is not a law. and
from all accounts will be killed when
taken up for final consideration in COM
mon council 1t provides that the lay
ing of any sidewalk with a surface Of
hydraulic. cement is prohibited within
the city limits. and that the street COM
missioner Is instructed to refuse per-
mits for such sidewalks in future and
If any are laid without a permit It
shall be deemed misdemeanor and II
NOT removed after thirty days' notice
from the street commissioner he shall
cause II TO be torn up and collect the
expense from the property owner.
Resolutions Signed Nv Mnvor.
Mayor Connell yesterday signed the
following resolutions: Authorizing the
chief engineer Of the fire department to
attend the convention Of commission
ers and fire chiefs in Augusta Ga, on
Oct. Z. and that the expense Of the trip
be betrayed by the city, but the amount
must not exceed $50: for the erection
of a fire hydrant at the corner Of Whee-
Ter avenue and Mulberry street: for the
placing of street signs at all ntersec-
tions on Fellows and Luzerne streets
wherever there are none at present:
that the city solicitor and the judiciary
committee be requested to ascertain II
settlement satisfactory to the city
can be made with Jacob Pfeiffer for
damages awarded him for grading Ok
ford street: awarding the contract for
the building of the approaches to the
Linden street bridge to King e. Cleary.
Of Shenandoah. for the sum Of SIS. Oh. "a;
the awarding of the contract for re-
moving the Platt building from the
line of the bridge approach to Peter
Stipp for the material Of which the
building Is cOmpoSed