The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-15
EACH PAPER TO GET S6OO
GORGEOUS ADTERTISING BILLS TO
 BE SETTLED ON FRAT BISIs,

BE SETTLED ON THAT BASIS,
 So Voted by Board of Finance Last Night
 Papers Have Agreed to Accept That
 Amount-PIan s Submitted by MT. Troup--
 Future Meetings of Board of Finance to
 be Executive Sessions.
 that the papers which printed the street sprinllling assessment advertising will be paid $500 each in settlement Of their claims.
 The board of finance in executive ses- sion last night heard the report of the committee of three appointed at last Mondays special session to confer with the three papers. The committee, con- sisting of Henry c. White, Alderman Forsyth and Controller Brown, report ed that it had met with Attorney c. s. Morehouse, representing the three pa pers. It will be remembered that at the meeting of the board of finance last Monday MT. Morehouse was reported to have stated that the papers would settle for s750 each and that the board of finance offered to settle with the three papers by paying $500 to each. The committee reported last night that Mir. Warehouse, after consultation. had | hot tI,n sntt fnt $500 each, and after hearing this re- port the board passed the following vote:
 Whereas, The Evening Leader the Morning News, and the Connecticut Republikaner have agreed to accept $500 each as legal claims against the city as soon as there is sufficient ap- propriation to pay the same" As there is not at present enough money in the advertising account of the city to pay the three bills of $500 each vertising that will be necessary during the remainder of this year, the board voted to recommend the transfer from other accounts to the advertising ac- count $S5O which sum, together with the amount now remaining in the ad- vertising account, will be sufficient to pay the three big bills and the expense l of the other city advertising during the remainder of the year. The vote rec ommending the transfer was as fol- lows:
 Voted, That this board respectfully recommends the court of common coun- tr t,Cyfa tn t1n ,IN nJ.fi iciy n. count from the carriage hire account $1Oo; from the contingent account, $500 1 from the account for in3ury to persons and damage to property. other thar land, $250 Total, s850"
 1 Last Monday the board voted, be cause under the charter it has no juris- l diction to act thereon, to return tt l the court of common council the re ports relating to the advertisement ol street sprinkling assessments. Las' night, however, the following substi- i ute vote was passed:
 Voted, That because under the char
 ter it has no Jurisdiction to act there
 on the board instruct the clerk tt place on file the advertisements and al
 of the papers transmitted therewitf and that it act only on the bills for Sait | advertising"
 The earlier part of last nights meet
 ing was devoted to the signing of pay rolls and hills. This business havins been completed, Alexander Troup ant Frederick M. Ryder, who had beer
 waiting in the controllers office, were | invited to appear before the board. MT
 Troup, in behalf of several newspapers proposed plan of giving out and pay l ing for city advertising. He proposed
 that the present plan of giving the ad | vertising to certain papers in certail months be adhered to, but proposed | that each of the three morning ant three evening papers should receive al equal share of the money appropriated
 for the city advertising, for example If s6,O00 were appropriated for ont
 year, that each paper would receive Sl,
 900 without regard as to whether or no one paper received in it's month t'
 publish advertising more advertisin. matter than the other papers did i, | their months The plan amounts, il
 fact to this, that each paper shall prin
 it's share of the city advertising as re 1 gardS time, not amount ol space llieu
 and that each shall receive an equa
 share of the money spent for city ad vertislns.
 It was stated at the close of tn
 meeting that MT. Ryder informed tn
 board that he would be satisfied witt
 the plan proposed by MT. Troup ant that he explained why he had not beel
 present at the conference of the pa
 pars in which the plan was promul
 gated.
 The plan proposed by MT. Troup wa
 not discussed by the board last even
 ing, but the matter was tabled fo
 consideration at some future meeting. | Mayor FarnsWorth announced las
 night that the meetings of the board o
 finance ill the future would be eXecu | tive until further notice. The excns given for holding executive sessions l that matters relating to the estimate
 of the various departments will be con
 sidered at the next few meetings an it is thought that the members wi discuss financial matters more freel in executive session.