The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-04
FAVORED CONSOLIDATION
JUDGE SIMEON E. BALDWIN'S RE-
 MARKS APPLAUDED.

Town Meeting well Attenued-3 l-E Mihs
 Tax Laid-Appropriation for New Haven
 Dispensary Increased-Ezekiei G. stod-
 dard Elected to Take the Place of Card
 Der Morse, Deceased.
 When Town Agent Robert F. Bald win called to order the adjourned meet ing of the electors of the town of New Haven yesterday afternoon at o'clock Warner hall contained 0 larger number of voters than has been seen for sever- al years at similar gathering Rep- resentative men of all classes of busi- ness were present. Among them were Mayor HendriclS, Mayor-elect Farms worth, General E. E. Bradley Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, Maier Zunder, James P. Pigott, A. Maxcy Hitler, Town Counsel Jacob P. Goodhart, Isaac Wolfe, eX-Selectman and Senator-elect William S, Beecher, eX-Selectman Ros- well B. Farren, Isaac M. Ullman, E. G, Buckland, Dwight w. Blakeslee, D. A. Blakeslee, and Selectman Joseph B. Cunningham.
 The meeting occupied about forty five minutes. The business was done with dispatch and in perfect harmony The only applause during the entire proceedings was when Judge Simeon E. Baldwin sounded the keynote Of consolidation in his opposition to the appropriation asked for by the free public library, so that the residents Of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Eff teenth wards might not be debarred from the use of the same.
 James Bishop acted as moderator of the meeting. The report of the town agent was accepted on motion of Isaac Wolfe, after which the call of the meet ing was read by Town Clerk Breth- auer.
 Town Agent Baldwin moved that a tax of 31s mills be laid upon the grand list of the town. He said4that the se- lectmen had carefully considered the matter, and in the opinion of that body it would be necessary to levy this amount of tax to meet the expenses of the town.
 Maier Zunder moved to amend by in- serting the figures 21a in the place of 31s MT. Zunder spoke in favor of his amendment, saying that in short time it was proposed by the school dis trict to lay a tax of 11a mills for the purpose of building school houses. He thought that if the town would lay 21s mills and the school district mill the burden would not be so much for the taxpayers to bear.
 The motion was put on the amend ment. but the moderator was in doubt as to the result. A rising vote was called for The moderator appointed Town Counsel Goodhart and Isaac Wolfe tellers The amendment was lost by vote of Il for to S4 against The original motion, which was then put, prevailed and the resolution was adopted, with 31a mills as the rate. The salary of the town agent was fixed at $2,300, the same as last year. The same course was adopted in the matter of salaries of the town clerk and town treasurer. the former being | $1 800 and that of the treasurer $500. When the resolution appropriating money for the New Haven dispensary | was reached Isaac M. Ullman said that he hoped the meeting would in it's wis | dom vote to increase the amount given last year ($1.00O) to $1 BOO MT. Ullman said he had received information from reputable physicians that many of the | town poor had received considerable l aid from the dispensary, and the man | agers had also said the same thing. | Continuing, MT. Ullman said that he was authorized by the Associated | Charities to say that the $1.000 intend- l ed as an appropriation for that insti- | tution was not necessary, as other methods of raising the amount of mon- ey contemplated by the resolution had been employed. The vote was adopted, with $1,500 as the sum appropriated.
 The resolution appropriating s1,00O to the Associated Charities was tabled at the request of the institution by MT. l Ullman.
 St Francis and New Haven orphan asylums were voted $2.000 each for the care of the poor children.
 l The proposition to appropriate $1,00C | to the free public library brought out l an objection from Judge Simeon D. Baldwin. He asked if any gentleman | present could explain why it was of- 1 fered.
 | A. Maxcy Hitler, president of the l board of directors of the free public | library, said that the residents of the | Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth l wards were debarred of the privileges | of the library. Many of these were | taxpayers in the city. The corporation l counsel had ruled that the law admit ted of no construction whereby the res idents of these wards could be allow ed the privileges of the library except | under the act that gave the towns | wards or boroughs the power to ap. propriate a sum of money to library near their centerS
 Judge Baldwin said that he hoped
 the resolution would be defeated. 'Wt | want these outlying wards to come 1T | with us,' he said but we should not place hindrance in the way of this by
 making appropriations
 If we pass this appropriation the city
 wards will probably have to pay $90t to $1 900 of the appropriation.
 Charles Fleischner said that if the Ii. brary had received fair treatment a the hands of the city financial depart. | ment there would be no need of tht proposed appropriation from the town
 "Why should not the town of Wes Haven come into this meeting and asl us to tax ourselves to make appropria | tions for their library privileges?"
 A motion was made to lay the mat
 ter on the table for one year. This wal