The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-06

ommendation Regarding City Advertise
 ing Adopted-Amendment Voted Down
 Much Business Transacted at Last
 Nights Session.
 By vote of 17-3 the board of alder men passed over the mayors veto the order for street hardening which was voted favorably upon by the aldermen on October 1. There is now some spec ulation as to whether or not the coun- cilmen at their meeting Monday night next will concur with the aldermen in defying his honor, the mayor. The general opinion among the aldermen last night was that there was consid- erable doubt about the councilmanic board passing the order over the veto, with the chances in favor of its not doing so.
 The communication from the mayor explaining the reasons for his veto was before the aldermen at their meeting last Monday night, but was not read
  communication was published in the Courier Tuesday morning. The order as passed over the veto is as follows:
 Ordered, That the director of public works cause plans and specifications to be prepared for the repair of said streets, and for the hardening by plac- ing upon them broken stone of not more than two inches in diameter in any direction to the depths named be- low:
 Humphrey street, inches; Edwards street, 5 inches; Arch street, inches; Derby avenue, 6 inches; EdgeWood ave- nue, inches; Dixweu avenue, ' inches; Cain street, inches; Winthrop avenue, 5 inches; Lloyd street, 5 inches; Blatch- ley avenue, inches.
 Ordered, That the director of public works advertise for bids and award contract for the repair of the above named streets to the extent of the ap- propriation on or before the first day of November, 1897, and that said work be completed on or before the first day of May, 1S9S
 Ordered, That all action of the court of common council heretofore taken that conflicts with or is inconsistent with the foregoing orders be, and the same is hereby rescinded. After the reading of the veto messa ge by the clerk, last night, Alderman Chillingworth moved to lay it on the | table and that a resolution which he | would offer be adopted. The resolu- | tion was sent to the clerk and provided for adherence to the previous action of hrn vI !, standing the mayors veto.
 Alderman Dewell did not at first un- l derstand the matter, he having been in | Europe when the order was passed on | October 4. He at first objected to pass l ing over the veto as he understood that it was intended to place the city in 1 debt in order to carry out the order, | but when he was informed that the l money to pay for the hardening had al-
 ready been appropriated and that the | carrying out of the order would entail no debt on the city he withdrew his ob- | jection.
 1 Alderman Clark then remarked: q I have heard so many veto messag ges | from the mayor that I am tired of
 them. I hope this matter will go over
 the veto"
 | A vote on the adoption of MT. Chil- | lingworth's resolution was then taken and resulted in the passage of the reso- | lution by vote of 17-3, only Alder
 men Nicoll, Whitaker and Root voting
 against it. A two-thirds vote of all the members of the board Is necessary to
 pass over the mayors veto. As two-
 thirds vote is sixteen it will be seen
 that the resolution received one vote
 more than enough necessary to pass it. | The aldermen also passed without amendment the order concerning city | advertising, recommended by the
 board of finance The order was as follows:
 | Ordered, That the city clerk be and he hereby is directed to secure bids fo1 newspaper advertising, such bids tc | state price per inch for all advertising required by the city, except annual es- | inmates, between December l. 1S97 and | January 1, 1899, and that contracts for
 such advertising be awarded to one morning and one evening newspaper
 printed in English. Also that bids be
 secured and contracts awarded for ad-
 vertising annual estimates as especially
 provided by the charter"
 This order was considered to some
 extent by the aldermen last Monday
 night and was amended by Alderman Guernsey by inserting the following:
 That the contracts be awarded tc
 the two papers printed in the Englist 1 language which present the lowest bids
 and wose managers have filed a sworu
 statement that said papers have eacf
 a daily circulation of at least 3.0Ot copies''
 Alderman Brennan amended by in
 serting after the words two papers
 the words lone morning and one even ing paper which are not under the sam
 management"
 When the matter was taken from tn table last night Alderman Dewell tool the floor and said: q am still of tn opinion that this matter may be bes
 regulated by sending it back to tn
 board of finance. I don't think tha
 either amendment fills the bill exactly One requires that papers receiving tn contract must have a circulation of a
 least 5000 copies. Now, many paper
 have circulations of 5000 copies daily but the circulations are not paid for the copies are given away. Ina amendment doesn't amount to any thing"
 Alderman Rourke-"There Is no ques tion at all but what if this resolution as amended was sent back to the boar I I ,El