The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-16
BOTH COUNCILS
WERE In SESSION
Contractors and the City Involved In
g., Some Disputed Accounts.
THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1898
Reported and Referred TO the City
Clerk for Printing--Knotty Point
Raised BY President snnderson on
the Contract Street Cleaning Ordi-
nance.- Many Measures Passed
Third Reading in Lower Branch.
To Meet Again Tuesday Night

Both branches of council met in ad-
journed sessions last night.
A half hour or more of the session
of the select branch was consumed in
reading and approving eighteen pages
of minutes of previous meetings.
Attorney Il. A. Zimmerman, repre-
senting Peter Stipp, contractor, was
permitted to make a statement in ref
erence to some complicated claims and
accounts among his client, =. Il. Multi
gan, the Hunt & Connell company and
the city in connection with Mulligan's
Columbia avenue sewer contract The
Hunt & Connell company. it appears,
has on file with the city controller bills
against the contractor amounting to
$3,157 for money and materials furn-
ished on the contract. Stipp's claim Is
$136 for brick. The assertion is made
by the Stipp people that while the Hunt
Connell bills exceed the amount due
Mulligan from the city, the bills are
incorrect and excessive to the amount
of several hundred dollars, and if cor
rected would leave a sufficient balance
in the hands of the controller to pay
Stipp.
Two resolutions in connection with
the controversy had been introduced.
One provided for the payment of S136
to Stipp, the other permitted the
parties to contest their claims before
the city solicitor, his verdict to guide
councils in the matter.
Mr.. Roche offered a motion refer
ring the dispute to the city controller,
the city solicitor and all the parties
interested for an agreement if possible.
The resolution was adopted after Mr..
Lansing, of the judiciary committee,
had reported the views of the control
Ter and solicitor on the matter.
RECEIVED WITHOUT DEBATE.
The 1898 appropriation ordinance was
reported by the joint estimates COM
mittee through Mr.. Chittenden. 1t
was received without debate or COM
ment and ordered printed.
Mr.. Finn introduced q resolution
which was adopted and hurried into
the lower branch for concurrence di-
recting the city clerk to advertise the
petition and names of the petitioners
for a pavement on Providence road,
and North Main avenue from Court
street to the city line. This is one of
the legal steps necessary in the final
provisions for the extensive improve
ment.
knotty point was raised by Presi-
dent Sanderson when on second reading
was called the common council ordi-
nance amended in select council provid-
ing for the cleaning Of paved streets
by contract. President Sanderson rele-
gated the chair to Mr.. Chitten6en and
suggested an amendment for the pro-
lection Of property owners on Jefferson
and North Washington avenues who
pay the street department a stipulated
share of the expense of keeping sweep
ers permanently on certain paved sec
tions of those thoroughfares. If pave
ments were to he cleaned by contract
President Sanderson thought it might
be impossible to continue the private
system unless some provision in the
premises was Incorporated in the ordi-
nance under discussion.
Mr.. Manley sought to outline the
value of the measure by citing that S11,-
900 for street cleaning was appropriate
ed in 1897, $4,000 was asked for 1895
and contractors were ready to guara 4 +
tee the work for about the same as the
cost to the city in 1897 and with more
blocks to clean.
President Sanderson contended that
he had not objected to the principle of
the ordinance.