The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-22
They Do Not Concur in All OF the Select.
mems Ideas.
HOT SHOT FOR THE ATTORNEYS
Both the City Solicitor and the Special
Attorney Came in for Criticism and
Something That Probably Deserves
n Harsher Name..A ssJOlly'' for the
Firemen..Much Routine Business
Transacted Despite the Wind.

council uiu concur III TWO Oi tES
resolutions, the one for condemning
venting of the company's workmen
making repairs: but the third. which
provides that the city solicitor shall
take charge of the fight and that $. u.
Price, the special attorney in the case,
be dismissed, was not agreed to.
There was Il warm debate on the
last two measures and particularly the
one referring to the dismissal of Mr..
Price Mr. Sweeney moved to refer
the resolution to it's proper committee.
Captain Moir spoke against this. ad-
Vising immediate concurrence. He
couldn't see the wisdom Of hiring ex-
ira legal functionaries. Mr.. Torrey
had assured him that he was free to
act for the city in the turnpike case
now and has been for eighteen months
since his connection with the Turnpike
company as attorney ceased.
Mr.. Sweeney advised keeping Mr..
Price in the city's employ until the
case had come to a final conclusion,
if it was only to find out whether or
not the clty's special attorney has
been an obstacle to the adjustment
of the difficulty. Mr.. Flanaghan also
thought ii would be wrong to discharge
Mr.. Price at this juncture.. He be-
lieved he should at least be associated
THAT DETECTIVE BILL
Mr.. Nealis. in speaking for Mr..
Prices retention, took occasion to ring
in his oldtime hobby. the famous de-
tective bill, insinuating that the city
solicitor had not made as energetic Il
fight against 1t as he should have
made. For this reason he doubted
whether or not it would be wholly In
advisable to associate somebody with
the city solicitor in a fight against
corporation, with which the city So
lictor was at one time connected.
This descent to innuendo led Captain
Moir, who was espousing the city So
licitor's cause. to take to personalities
and as may be believed by those who
know the captains plain spoken man.
ner. he did not mince words in dealing
with his subject. He severely criti-
cised Mr.. Price for appealing the
award of the lower court, and said ''if
he had taken the advice Of the ju-
dietary committee, which knew more
about the case and law bearing on 1t
than he did, he would not have made
fool of us before the Supreme court
He was bound to make that appeal and
promised to overturn all the rulings Of
the lower count. He lost every point"
While favoring the dismissal of the
special attorney, Mr.. Noone took ex-
ceptions to Captain Moir's judgment
and said he believed Mr.. Price won a
victory. He also believed in standing
by that victory and not allowing the
| Turnpike company or any other cor
poraton to bulldoze the city. This
brought a very extended smile to the
countenancc of President II. f. Paine
and Attorney w. w. Watson. of the
Turnpike company who Were interest
ed spectators.
Mr.. Flanaghan made a final protest
against the dismissal OF the special at
torney arguing that inasmuch as Mr.
, Torrey had but rece-tly served the
| Turnpike company 1t was better to al
low Mr.. Price to continue to look after
the city's side Of the case.
MIR. SEAMAN'S MOTION.
Mr.. Seamans made an amendment to
Mr.. Sweeney's motion, that the select
council resolution dismiSSing Mr. Price
be concurred in. Mr.. Keller. in sec
onding the amendment, said there was
nothing now to prevent Mr.. Torrey
from serving and consequently did not
believe in having an extra attorney
He also took occasion to say q word in
! favor of the condemnation of the both
ersome road and its purchase by the
city and county acting in conjunction
This he thought would be far better
| than throwing money away in further
litigation. He did not want to be
understood, he said as intimating that
it was throwing away money to ap-
peal at cause. Had the appeal not
been taken councils would never have
/ been satisfied.
After some more discussion, in which
all these points were rehashed several
/ times vote was taken on the amend
ment to concur in the resolution dis
| missing Mr.. Price. 1t was lost by q
! vote of 12 to 6:
Ayes-Simon Thomas, r. T.. Thomas,
Moir, Philip Wirth. Seamans Keller-6.
| Nays-Loftus, Gordon. Regan. Flan-
! aghan.Sweeney, Nealis. Zeidler, Noone-
George Wirth, McGrail, Norton, Grier
--12.
The motion to refer to committee
then passed without opposition.
The resolution to arrest all but city
employees found working on West
Market street next came up as a target
for the Bryanic batteries of the pros
and cons.
motion to concur. Mr. Keller followed
with motion to refer to committee.
Mr.. Sweeney moved to lay the amend
ment on the table. The Sweeney mo-
tion prevailed. and while Captain Moir
and Mr.. Keller We're causing an up-
| roar in an effort to convince anybody
and everybody that the tabling of an
amendment tabled the original motion.
the original motion passed.
Captain Moir insisted that he was
right and the chair was wrong, and
| both he and Mr.. Keller were not n
little wroth that the chair had de-
cided that their contention was wrong.
REFERRED TO THE PAST.
Messrs. Noone and Nealis were un-
kind enough to call to the captains g
mind the recent pavement fight, when
the chair and majority. of which the
| captain was component part did GER
tain acts. the regularity of which, ac-
cording to parliamentary rules, had
been questioned in court. They also
| taupted the captain with references
to his oft quoted saying 'law-give me
eleven votes" The captain looked and
acted the admission that the shoe was
on the other foot but was very good
| natured withal
After the fighting had come to an end
all hands got together for little grand
stand work. 1t had been bruited about
the city that common council was an
tagonistic to the firemen's convention
coming here in 1897 or at least was
not heart and soul in the movement
to bring 1t here. To disabuse the world
of this idea, Mr.. Nealis presented a
resolution directing the clerk to adver-
tise the firemen's entertainment and
ball at Music hall tomorrow night in
all the daily papers. and charge the
expense thereof to the appropriation for
printing.
Captain Moir was glad that his
friend. Mr.. Nealis, had introduced such
a resolution. 1t was one thing they
could agree upon. The firemen were
striving might and main to secure the
convention and common council should
assist and encourage them I'm every