The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-18

Final Reading.
Both councils met last night, the
select in regular and the common in
adjourned session. The upper branch
| had a visit from a large delegation of
| West Siders who came to make protest
against laying street car tracks on
Lafayette street and lively discus
sion of the question was the result.
Some further fun ensued from Mayor
Bailey's failure to designate which A.
B. Dunning he would have as street
commissioner, but this was finally
| Strengthened out by telephone and
Dunning, jr., was duly confirmed for
the Office. Common council passed the
telephone ordinance on third reading
with probably no opposition and be-
sides transacted a good deal of rou-
tine business.
| When the ordinance granting the
Traction company privileges to extend
its lines on the West Side and along
West Market street came from the
railway committee and Mr.. Thomas
saw that no mention was made of the
amendment he had proposed by which
Rebecca avenue was to be substituted
|
to Lafayette he proceeded to make a
| big howl and demanded of the COM
mittee to know why it had sidetracked
his amendment.
Messrs. McAndrew, Williams and
| Manley all protested that no such
amendment had been passed; that it
had been proposed but voted down and
that compromise had been effected
| uhn nhx ha ooti ION, oh
have the privilege of using Bromley
avenue, the objection that 1t topped
the narrow portion of Lafayette street
having been removed by the company
agreeing to pave from curb to curb
as much of Lafayette street as it in
| tended to occupy.
Mr.. Thomas denied with much We
hemence the intimation that he had
been a party to such a compromise.
He had simply said nothing at all
when he saw that the committee was
unanimously against him, but he by no
means .acquiesed. He was opposed
to it then, still was opposed to it and
would continue to oppose it as long
as 1t was not acceptable to his con-
stituents They are here" Mr.. Thorn
as said pointing to the rear Of the
chamber, "to speak for themselves and
l move that they be given the privilege
of the floor"
WHAT MIR. MORSE SAID.
This being granted A. M. Morse,
representing the West Side board of
trade, took the floor. The Traction COM
pany, he said, had agreed at his con-
| ference with the board of trade last
summer, to keep off the narrow portion
| of Lafayette street and move its tracks
to one side of Swetland street. 1t had
failed in the agreement in the latter re-
spect and proposed to now violate the
| agreement as to Lafayette street, all of
which he considered as faithlessness
and a great injustice to the property
holders.
Councilman Thomas in a red hot
speech opposed the policy of giving the
street car company the exclusive use of
a street, as was done on SHETLAND
street and is now proposed on Lafay-
ette, and wound up with a caustic ar
raignment of the councils saying they
should be public servants and not the
tools of a corporation. He had al VS.
been a free agent himself and he pro-
posed to continue to be such. Applause
from Mr.. Thomas constituents was
only squelched after President Sander
son had sDlintered the gavel rappng
for order.
Mr.. Williams belittled the cause OF
war, saying that only twenty-five feet
of the narrow portion of the street was
to be occupied and If the matter was
put to a vote of the residents of the
thoroughfare it would be favored by a
large majority.
THAT is not So" declared Mr..
Thomas. There is more of the street
than that to be occupied and the people
are not in favor of the tracks, as their
presence here testifies."
A motion TO refer to committee was
killed by an almost unanimous vote.
AMENDMENT KILLED.
Mr.. Fellows suggested an amendment
that Sumner avenue, which laps the
wide portion of Lafayette street, be
substituted for Bromley, but when Mr.
Manley explained that the committee
had considered this plan and voted II
down because the tracks would pass on
both sides of No. Is school, council
killed the amendment.
The. amendments recommended by
the committee were then passed, to-
gether with one by Mr.. Lansing, speci-
flying a concrete base for the pavement
on Lafayette street. The ordinance
then passed on second reading.
The fag end of the Kinsley term as
street commissioner, which Mr.. Dun
ming was serving out expired yester-
day. In re-nominating Mr.. Dunnine
for the office, Mayor Bailey simply sdes.
ignated "A. b. Dunning" as his nom
inee. Council proceeded to consider
the nomination forthwith but Mr.
Roche called a halt by inquiring II
council knew which A. b. Dunning was
meant. The "old gentleman" he ex.
, planned, was a resident of the Thir-
teenth ward, and is "a. b. Dunning.'
The son is A. B. Dunning, jr. Council
had no right to presume, he contended
that the mayor wished to appoint any.
body but "A. b. Dunning," as his com.
munication indicated, and unless II
was desired to confirm the father, the
matter should go over for investiga.
ton.
President Sanderson ruled the point
we'll taken, and the nomination went
to the streets and bridges committee
Mr.. Crittenton, chairman of the com.
mittee, called up the mayor by tele
phone and explaining the situation OF
affairs received authority for Assistant
City Clerk Morris to add "jr." after the
name, and towards the latter part OF
the meeting the rectified nomination
was submitted and duly confirmed.
A resolution directing the stree
commissioner to make a trip TO ST
Louis to inspect that city's plant anC
plans for repairing asphalt pavements