The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-13
THE MAYOR WILL VETO IT
WILL NOT SANCTION TRANSFER OF Se6,0OO FROM SINKING FUND.
Special Session of Aldermen and Council men Called for This Evening-Street Hardening Resolution vetoed-Council- man Whites Resolution Meets the Same Fate-Other Matters to be Considered.

Hardening Resolution vetoed-CounoiI-
 man Whites Resolution Meets the Same
 Fate-Other Matters to be Considered.
 Mayor Farnsworth will to-day call a special joint meeting of the boards of aldermen and councilmen to be held this evening. The mayor will send to the meeting without his signature three important resolutions which were pass ed by both the aldermen and the coun- cilmen at their last meeting. One of these resolutions which will be returned unsigned by the mayor is that intro- duced by Alderman Chillingworth in the board of aldermen some time ago, providing for the transfer from the sinking fund to the city treasury of $29,000 remaining from the money re- ceived from the sale of the Derby rail- road bonds. This resolution when first presented in the board of aldermen was superseded by a substitute resolution offered by Alderman Dewell, which provided that instead of being simply transferred to the city treasury the S29,0O0 should be transferred to the city treasury to be appropriated there from to the various city departments needing money. Alderman Dewelrs substitute resolution was passed.
 The councilmen, however, passed AL dernan Chillingworth's resolution and at their last meeting the aldermen re- scinded their former action in adopting Alderman DewelPs resolution and adopted Alderman Chillingworth's res- olution, thereby concurring with the councilmen.
 All of the members of the board of finance excepting Commissioner For sylth and including Mayor Farnsworth have opposed strongly the transfer of any money from the sinking fund to the city treasury. The gentlemen thus opposing have contended since first the transfer was proposed that it was not good policy to take for current ex- penses money which has been laid aside to meet a debt falling due in 1901, to pay which no provision beyond the $29,000 above mentioned had been made.
 These gentlemen have argued that street cleaning was more necessary than street hardening and that the lat ter could be deferred until the finances of the city were in such condition as to warrant 1t.
 Mayor Farnsworth stated last eve- ming that he would return the resolu- tion unsigned at to-night's meeting He said that he could not consistently with his previously formed and ex- pressed views in regard to the matter sign the resolution.
 Another resolution which will be re- turned to to-night's special Joint ses- sion will be that offered by Council man White and passed at the last meeting of the board of councilmen providing that the $26,692.50 to pay for street sprinkling, street cleaning, etc., which the board of finance had recom- mended to be transferred from the appropriation for street hardening be taken from the $29,000 which the coun- cilmen had voted to transfer from the sinking fund. The items included in this s26,652.50 were as follows: Street sprinkling and inspector, $2,81905; street cleaning and repairing. $11.000; repairing pavements, $5,000; stone crusher and road roller 300; walks and curbs, $1 1,000; contingent fund and sun- dry account, $6,533. .45.
 In offering this resolution MT. White stated that he did so only in view of the fact that the court of common council had voted against making these transfers from the money appropriated for street hardening. As the need of money for street cleaning and the other purposes mentioned in the recommen- dation was urgent he deemed it better to take the amounts from the $29,000 than to allow the streets to remain un- cleaned.
 third resolution to be returned un- signed is that passed by both the alder men and councilmen ordering that the streets be hardened so far as the ap- propriations for that purpose will go. It had been urged as a reason why the street hardening should not be done now that the amounts appropriat- ed to harden the various streets were insufficient to complete the work and that using the amounts to harden portion of each street would be in fact exceeding the appropriation and hence violation of the charter. This argu- ment was incorporated in an opinion submitted to the board of finance by Corporation Counsel Ely.
 In speaking last evening of his re- fusal to sign this resolution for street hardening Mayor Farnsworth said that his main reason for so doing was that there is an ordinance which requires that portion of the cost of street paw ing shall be assessed upon the owners of abutting property He stated that street hardening had in recent years come to mean practically street paving and that consequently any hardening of streets without assessing property owners would be violation of the ordi- nance.
 Another resolution which will be re-. turned unsigned is that offered by Councilman White and passed by both branches of the common council, pro- viding that from unappropriated money in the city treasury sufficient amounts be appropriated to make up any deficiency in the appropriation for street hardening.
 The mayor calls the special meeting for tonight in the hope that the com- mon council will agree to the taking of money from street hardening appro- priationS to meet current expenses, which must be met at once.
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