The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-15
STREET CLEANING IN SIGHT
RESOLUTION TO BORROW MONEY
 AWAITS MAYORS SIGNATURE.


 Resolution Did Not Go Through So Easily-Claim That the Charter Has Been Violated.
 The aldermen last evening passed the two resolutions which went through the board of councilmen Monday night one resolution providing for the bor- rowing of $20,000 and the other crlering street hardening
 The borrowing resolution was passed without discussion, but the other was not adopted until number of dilatofy motions had been offered and other de- laying tactics had been resorted to. After the routinte business before the meeting had been disposed of a motion to adjourn was offered by AL derman Guernsey and seconded by AL derman Root. Alderman Chillingworth jumped up at this point and asked If there was not another resolution to come before the board. He asked why the street hardening resolution had not been read.
 
 he would rule that the resolution re- ferred to could not properly com. be- fore the meeting. He said that the res olution had been passed by the coun- cilmen in violation of section 132 Of rhe charter. He then read that paragraph of the section, which reads as folloWs No vote, resolution or measure shall be put upon its passage except by unan imous consent, until it shall have been referred to and reported by suitable committee after hearing"
 In support of his ruling president Lambert said that he did not think that the councilmen had referred the resolution to proper. committee or that proper hearing had been held
 The motion to adjourn was then put and lost
 Alderman Chillingworth appealed from the decision of the chair in regard to the street hardening resolution and the appeal was sustained by vote of + to ?. The aldermen voting against sustaining the chair were Nicoll Car rinston, Guernsey, Clarke, Brennan, Corcoran. Coolohan, Rourke Ryan, Forsyth, Unger, Chillingworth, Pickett, Stuart, Petrle, Toole and Compton. Only Aldermen Root and Whitaker voted to sustain the chair.
 Previous to this vote being taken AL derman Chilingworth called attention to the fact that the resolution for the borrowing of $20.000 had been passed without reference to a committee for hearing and said that he did not think that flesh should be made of one thing and fish of another"
 Alderman Rourke asked that before vote was taken on the appeal from the decision of the chair, the opposers of the ruling might be given an oppor- tunity to be heard.
 The request was granted and Alder man Chillingworth rose to explain his reasons for appealing He held that the rule laid down in section 132 of the new charter applied to bylaws and ordi- nances. He said: "The middle para graph of section 132 contains no men, tion of bylaws or ordinances. It re- fers specially to resolutions and does not definitely state the nature of the hearing to be held, nor does it specify any particular committee of reference There is no better committee than a committee of the whole, and if this resolution was referred to such com mittee by the councilmen, and members of the committee were heard hope the chair will not be sustained in this rul- ing"
 been taken and the appeal sustained Alderman Chillingworth moved that unanimous consent be given for consid- eratlon of the resolution.
 Themotion was lost, and MT. Chilling worth then moved that the board go into committee of the whole. This motion prevailed. and Alderman Car rington was called to the chair.
 Alderman Rourke asked why the res olution provided for hardening at diff ferent depths on different streets. He said: q see that Edgewood avenue is put down for six inches and Lloyd street for five inches. Lloyd street needs a thicker hardening that Edge wood avenue. There is heavy traffic on Lloyd street while milk wagons are the heaviest vehicles that pass through Edgewood avenue"
 Alderman CnllHHSWOTIH- | nave made study of road building and have found that roads on which are laid car tracks which conf1ne wagons to one side, require a deeper foundation that other roads. Lloyd street has a gravel and sand foundation and a five inch foundation there will fill the bill and can be laid for the appropriation ]"
 MT. Chillingworth then read letter from ex-City Engineer Hill, stating that in his opinion the hardening Of five to seven inches in depth, on the streets mentioned in the resolution, would be sufficient MT. Hill also stated in the letter that the depth of the hard ening needed depends upon the char acter of the underlying soil and that a four inch hardening on gravel was as good as seven inches on clay.
 MT. Chillingworth stated that he had talked with the Massachusetts state engineer and with the Connecticut state highway commissioner. and that these gentlemen coincided in the opinion giv- en by Mir. Hill. The committee then voted to rise and recommend to the board the passage of the resolution. President Lambert resumed the chair and Alderman Chillingworth moved the adoption of the committee recommen- dation.
 Alderman Pickett raised the point