The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-28

propose to sanction any such meGnoo q
this and shall vote against this Grans =,
being made. I believe chat wha1 9ne
mayor has done in caring for the s0la alV !.
to be just right and approve OF az 4 tna.
has been done in this line Due ., us
have been some other things done 'h"'
don't approve of. i"
Mr.. Chase thought that this contingent
fund was dangerous thing. Twenty-ass
hundred dollars had been appro prlaVel
for July fourth celebration. DuG tne oo -
mitree had spent nearly So. OOO: he "ans valley
| TO know how this money had been speff a,
Mr.. Brown said he thought the tfans,o :
should BIZ made for specific puIp pnt vote
to pay specific bills but he wouIS hou w US
to transfer $2,S5O in q lump sum 10 NC
spent for any and all purposes. -,
President Gerrish then called Councli,
man Lefavor to the chair and proceeaiee,l
to speak in favor of the passage OF bne
order. He said that the bills had peen
contracted by the city and must De paA11'
He thought that the committees genera
ly Ciisregarded the rules in spending more
than $3.50 without being authorized Dy tne
city council and 1t was time tnat bnls
was stopped but he didn't know now II
could be done. !.
Councilman Mclaughlin wanted to
know why committees didn't ask Ior
more money when their appropriations
were exhausted instead OF spending ''i 10
money and asking the city council 1or IL
afterwards. ..
Mr. Brown wanted to know how TINS
practice of exceeding appropriations was
going to be stopped Committees now
could spend as much as they wanted 10
and ask to have the money appropriated
afterwards. 349 :,
After some further discussion pro and an !
con the matter was put to VOTE. Inc
order failed Of passage by vote of yeas
8, nays z. AS 1t requires two.th1r as
vote to pass an order appropriating or
transferring money appropriated, the
order had failed of a passags.
The vote on this matter was as follows:
Yeas-Gerrish, Huston. Rosen berg,
ken and Waldron. Nays-Lefavor, Nc
Laughlin, Chase, Brown, Sloman, Thom-
rs and Pierce.
The aldermen sent down an order de.
manding that the committee on lights
inform the city council why they had
made a contract of $500 for lighting
plant on Peaks island without the au
| thority of the city council.
Objection was made to the passage OF
this order on the ground that 1t was not
mentioned in the call for the special
meeting and the matter was laid on the
| table Shortly after this the council adj
journed, having notified the aldermen
that 1t was about Co DO 50.
| Meantime in the board Of Aldermen
| Messrs. Mannix and Rounds got into q
wrangle over sewer on Franklin street
| which amounted to very little beyond q
good deal Of talk.
An order introduced by Alderman Man.
nix called for the appointment of com.
Eittee on the part of the board OF alder
men to investigate and report back to the
board what committees had made CON
tracts for more than $780, or spent more
| than $500 at one time Without authoriZ-
alton of the city council. The order was
passed.
Aldermen Sprague, Dow and Merrill
were absent and the four other aldermen
conducted all Of the business, Aldermen
Rounds and Mannix doing all OF the talk
| ing. Alderman ManniA explained how
the committee on unimproved real estate
| had happened to order the lot on Chest
| nut street to be graded before the order
| authorizing it had passed the council. He
said that all the members OF the commit
tee had signed the con ract for this work
| with one exception and that member OF
the committee approved of the work being
done and had not signed the contract
because he was absent from the meeting
when 1t was signed Ivy the others. Mr.
Mannix said that some of the counciluen
had told him they approved of tho work
being done and had afterwards voted
against the passage of the order in the
council He intimeted that there were
men in the council who were not g emile
men and who did not conduct the city 6
business in q gentlemanly mann er. he
accused the lower board OF discourtesy
| because it Gid not remain in session until
authorized to adjourn by the aldermen.
The aldermen then adjourned.