The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-31

Slder unfinished business another lno- ton to adjourn was put and lost. MT. Isbell again moved that the ma jority report of the Investigating com
 mittee be taken from the table. Councilman Graves raised point or order that the street sprinkling matter had been disposed of by the adoption or the minority report and so the majority report could not yet be brought before the house. He based his point Of order on section IT, page 8, of the rules of the board of councilmen, which provides that matter once disposed of may be reconsidered. He, therefore held that before the report could be brought before the house a motion for reconsid- eration must be put and carried The point of order was not sustained by the chair and MT. Graves appealed from the decision of the chair He said: We had these reports before us once to dispose of and we disposed of them by adopting the minority report. This matter is, therefore, not now be- fore the board"
 The chair overruled the point of or der ana Mr. Graves appealed from the decision. The question on sustaining
 the chair was put, and 1t was voted to sustain, IA to 13.
 Councilman Mailer was evidently
 anxious to make motion, and made a substitute motion to reconsider the
 previous action of the board in regard to the two reports.
 councilman Brown raised the point
 of order that both reports were not be- fore the house, as one of them had been tabled and had not yet been taken from the table Mr Nadler's substitute
 motion was ruled out of order, the chair sustaining MT. Browns point of order.
 MT. Graves moved that the resolution offered by Mir. Isbell to take the major- ity report from the table be tabled Mir. Graves motion was lost by vote of 12
 to 15. MT. Graves then moved to ad- journ. An aye and nay vote was call ed for by Councilman Fuller. and the | motion to adjourn was lost 15 to 12. Councilmen Fullerton, Fuller, Carleton, Gruener, Wrinn, McKenna, Mailer, White, Klinkerfuss, Riggs, Loveland, Isbell, Stewart, Thorpe and Burton voted may, and Councilmen Liefeld, Cooney, Stein, Cronan, Flanagan, Dove, l Clifford, Kinstrey, Fisher, Graves, Shep- ard and Brown voting aye.
 1 MT. IsbelIs motion to take from the l table was then voted upon by an aye and nay vote, and was carried by a vote of 16 to il, the vote resulting as l follows: Ayes, Fullerton, Fuller Lie | field, Carleton, Greuner Wrinn, Mc- 1 Kenna, Mailer, White, Klinkerfuss,
 Riggs, ,Loveland, ,Isbell, Stewart, Thorpe, and Burton. Nays, Cooney, Stein, Cro- l nan, Flanagan, Dowe Clifford, Kinstrey, Fisher, Graves, Shepard and Brown. Councilman Nadler then moved to re-
 consider the former action of the board in adopting the minority report and to Iconcur with the board of aldermen As 1 the latter part of the motion was de-
 clared by the chair to be out of order, I the motion was withdrawn. At this point another motion to adjourn was made by MT. Stein, but was voted down.
 1 MT. Mailer now finally made a motion
 which was in order He simply moved | to reconsider, the motion being second
 ed by Mir. Isbell
 | The frequent motions to adjourn had evidently angered some of the gentle
 men and on MT. Graves rising, to make
 a motion, MT. Isbell jumped to his | feet and said: "Mr. Chairman, we have | had enough of this obstruction It Is | in your power to notice or ignore the motions made by the gentlemen from | the Third and Eighth wards (Messrs, Stein and Graves.) They clearly make | their motions to obstruct I ask the
 chair to ignore them"
 l MT. Stein-"The president of the l board of councilmen does not, think, I need instructions from the gentleman 1 from the Tenth"
 Mr. Brown-'fWe want an aye and
 nay vote on this motion to reconsider. l We want to put these men who are soS
 anxious to reconsider on record. One
 hundred thousand people are looking at
 them and I want these people to see what they do."
 At this point confusion arose and
 nearly every member In the room was on his feet seeking recognition from | the chair Personal remarks were fly ing thick and fast, and for a few min utes 1t seemed extremely probable that the meeting would break up in a free
 for-all fight Several disgusted mem bers left the room and were only pre-
 vented from leaving the building by the city sheriff, who was ordered by
 the chair to allow no member to leave. OFueF was lHdlly partially restored
 and Councilman Shepard moved that
 the whole matter under consideration
 be laid on the table five minutes to al-
 low the gentlemen to regain their com posture. He said that he had more im- portant business to bring up in the
 meantime. The motion was put and lost
 Councilman Cronan, one of the mem bers who had left the room a few min
 utes before, returned just as this vote
 had been taken and demanded to know
 from the chair what action had been taken during his absence.
 This was sufficient to raise pandemo-
 nium a second time, and the members
 at once began to shout their approval
 or disapproval of the request Mir Shepard raised his voice sufficiently
 to be heard above the din and shouted,
 Are we in the court of common coun- ell or in an insane asylum"
 Councilman Graves who, during the
 tumult, had been the most composed man on the floor, added to the amuse- | ment of the spectators occasioned by
 MT. Shepard's question by remarking
 in an innocent tone: There seems to
 be considerable confusion here. I sug- gest that we endeavor to do a little business Let us have an aye and nay I fhis +a