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streets. Disease is certainly more rapidly
spread from the vile doors of broken sew
ers than BY poorly paved streets. The re-
resolution Is a matter of life and death
70 many. Tax payer have asked that
they be fixed that they may rent their
becoming destroyed. We VIII meet with
more commentator by repairing our
d~eathdealing sewers than by spending
Children are dying Because of the fearful
condition of these sewers n TO me it
seems our plain duty TO repair them. The
much talked of Passaic water will. Give
Us repaired sewers and for a time stop
The expenditure Of money for the laying Of
COMMISSIONS Kaiser had previously Sc
cured the adoption of q resolution to lay
considerable asphalt in Lafayette partic-
TO C-omrnunipaw avenue, and he stuck to
his argument that there would not be
to repair the. sewers HIS motion to
table the resolution prevailed by a strict
party vote of 3 TO 2.
Commissioner Heintze's second resoiu-
ton caused a livelier fraeus than the
first one 1t read as follows:
whereas, An award of contract for
made BY this Board e the East Jersey
Water Company and
Whereas. Said company was unable
at the time specified In said contract to
comply with its terms n have since
been making variable daily deliveries of
water. without an agreement as to the
price to be paid therefor; and
Whereas, Owing TO the variable char
acter of said daily delivery 1t Is impos-
sible for this Board to safely dispense
with the force of employees at Belleville
thereof:
Resolved. THAI said company be re-
quested to Immediately notify this Board
in writing as to what amount Of water
SAID company can guarantee m daliU6fi
daily, with the price expected to be
charged therefor, and further state what
OF said daily guarantee might amount to,
and at what price said excess would be
furnished should the city desige to pur-
Clerk Bouton had only finished reading
the resolution when President Brown
suggested that 1t be referred SO tina they
sthe Republican membersJ could read It
intelligentiy.
II would move.' said Commissioner
Kaiser, that the resolution be referred
to the Committee on Pumping and Reser-
voiTs. OF which you, Mr.. President, are
That's So said the President. getting
warm around the collar; that resolution
quently with my business. iii do what
/ like and when / like. he continued. II
will furnish this Information when / see
TT, and | will ask for It when / see fit,
and I want you te understand it. You
can't force me to do anything, and 1
don't want you or any other member
of this Board to interfere with my bust
ness
Tn not interfering with your bust
ness retorted Mr.. Heintze. This is IN
formation the taxpayers should have. It
IS Information We should have, and I
don't care whose committee it is that is
supposed to have charge of such mat
ters."
-wellI. while / hold this gavel I win
said Mr.. Brown This is a matter T
should have been consulted about. This
whole thing is buncombe, n I won't
stand III nonsense,
Are You to nave gag Iaw?'' asked Mr..
sIf you want it. yes.s answered the
angry presiding officer. 81 want you
in the minority you can bet gag law
would prevail. I'VE tried to treat YOU
both fairly and well. but you won't let
more aa nonse am This L ins wlll sfand w aRg
other mems business for questionable
reasons to get cheap notoriety and to be
paraded before the public does not go
block 1t. I'm growing very tired OF this
nonsense and If It keeps UP | will be
strict and give you, who are in the MI
nority, a chance to find fault. You make
trouble for yourselves and everybody
else and won't act fairly. These resolu-
tons you have mad for a week: bu they
were not shown to us, and conmon
courtesy demanded that much"
The President was getting too mad to
talk much more. and he called for the
vote on the motion to refer the resolu-
ton to his committee. The motion of
reference was pronounced carried almost
before Messrs. Heintze and Boltwood had
voted against it.
Without further wrangling the stormi-
est session of the Board was declared adj
iourned, with Mr.. Heintze's resolutions
laid away in places where the will prob
ably rest comfortably for a few years to