The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-17
SPECIAL MEETING IN VAIN
ADJOURNED BEFORE
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF VETOES.

Councilman White Said Because Not
 Enough Were Present to Pass Kssolu-
 Adjourned After Ten Minute Session.
 Another Special Meeting Will be Called. evening, and contrary to expectations, a quorum was present. The members present were Messrs. Fullerton, Greu- ner, Stein, Cronan, Smith, Burgess, Cullinan, White, Klinkerfuss, Loveland, Flanagan, Dove, McKenna, Kinstry, Burton, Isbell, Stewart, Burton, Brown and Maher.
 After unimportant petitions and other matters had been disposed of the clerk read the petition of Anthony Car roll. The councilmen concurred with the aldermen In receiving the petition and placing 1t on file.
 The resolution of Alderman Chilling worth providing for the transfer Of $29- 900 from the sinking fund to the city treasury was next brought up. The resolution passed the aldermen but the councilmen did not seem to know what they had done in regard to the matter. Councilman Stein moved that the pa per be placed on file in order that new paper might be submitted by the aldermen with a more lucid explanation of the action of their board The mo- tion prevailed.
 ai JSrifh aldermen in giving the park commits sioner power to secure land for pubic parks by gifts or otherwise, without exceeding their appropriation. Coun- cilman Burgess thought that the matter was fully covered by the new charter, and the matter was tabled until the next meeting.
 On motion of Councilman White the board then adjourned. At the close of the meeting and before the meeting of the board of aldermen was called to order Councilman White, when asked why he moved to adjourn before the mayors veto of the two res olutions one providing for street hard ening and the other for the transfer of
 money from the $29,000 of the sinking fund now in the city treasury said: T | put that motion because we did not have twenty-four councilmen present to pass the resolution over the mayors veto. I believe with the mayor that the l money for street cleaning and the other items included in the resolution should come from the money appropriated for | street hardening, but 1t is well known l that the court of common council will not consent to taking the money requir- 1 ed for these purposes from the street | hardening money, and so in view of the | fact that the money is urgently needed I think we should take it at once from
 source to which taking there will be
 so much opposition. I am in this fight
 to stay, and I don't propose to be beat en at the outset by allowing the vetoes
 to be announced and the message from
 the mayor read at a meeting at which not enough are present to pass the res- | olutions over his veto"
 The aldermen were called together
 soon after the adjournment of the | councilmen.
 President Lambert announced the ap- pointment of the following aldermanic
 members of the conference committee
 on the White street sewer matter: AL dermen Compton and Corcoran. MT. Lambert then announced that as there
 was no further business to come be- fore the meeting d motion to adjourn
 was in order.
 Alderman Brennan offered such a
 motion, and Alderman Chilingworth offered a suggestion that the adjourn
 ment be until the next regular meeting,
 but the simple motion to adjourn was finally carried.
 Mayor Farnsworth was asked at the
 close of the aldermen's meeting if he would call another special session of
 the common council this evening. He
 replied that he would not, and could
 not say when he would call one, all
 though it would probably be called
 soon. He said that City Sheriff Bunce
 had told him that 1t was impossible to get good attendance at meeting un-
 less several days notice was given be- l fore the meeting.