The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-08
TRANSFER OF POWER ASKED
RES0LUTION CONCERNING SELEC-
 TION OF POLLING PLACES.


 Night-Attempt to Vest the Power in Court of Common CounciI--Name of
 East Street Not Changed-Board of
 Finance Recommendation Held Up, To the democratic protest against the po''ce commissioners selection of a ! rolling place in the Seventh ward an- other chapter was added at the meet ing of the board of aldermen last night. Alderman Norris, chairman of the board, presented a resolution which, after stating that the police commis- sioners had made 1t inconvenient for the majority of electors in the Seventh ward to vote by the selection of an un- suitable place for polling place read as follows: Resolved, That the mem- 1 bers of the court of common council of l the city of New Haven denounce the re- cent action of the board of police com mlssloners in locating the election booth m an unsuitable place in the Seventh election district in opposition to the wishes expressed by representatives of the majority of said electors, and be it
 Resolved, That committee of two aldermen and three councilmen be ap- pointed to recommend to the court of common council a measure of legisla- ton whereby the powers conferred in said board of police commissioners re- garding the designation of polling places may be vested in the court of common council. On motion of Alder man Chillingworth this resolution was referred without debate to the commit tee on legislation.
 l Another resolution along the same lines presented by Alderman Norris ! provided that a committee of two al- dermen and three councilrnen be ap- pointed to consider the desirability of dividing any of the wards of the city 1 into voting precincts and to designates \ the exact points at which booths should be located. Aldermen Donovan 1 and Staub were appointed aIdernanic members of this committee after the resolution had been adopted, unani- nous consent having been given. Alderman Cooley, during the session, l referred to the recent death of ex-4 t A.. 1 and on his motion a committee of three aldermen were appointed to draw up. ] suitable resolutions on the death of Judge York The aldermen appointed on this committee were Messrs. Cooley. i Darlington and Williams.
 A recommendation from the board of finance that $1,200 be transferred from the account of filling excavations for the purpose of building crosswalls and for other purposes. This recomm enda- ton was adopted after unanimous con- sent had been given, but when later in the session seven reconlmendat tions from the board of finance for trans fers from various accounts were pre- scented they were not accorded so kind- ly reception. The transfers recom- mended were as follows: $129O in the department of charities and correc- tions to pay physician, $19S67 in the assessors account, $75 in the lamp de- partment, $1,000 to the account of printing and stationery, s7S from the contingent account to the harbor conn! mission $22966 from the sundry ac- count to pay the balance of Prosecut- ing Agent Niles bill in excess of the appropriation, and $462 from the ac- count of military enrolment to pay MT. Niles bill rendered for October
 I After these recommendations had been read, Alderman Hogan took the floor and opposed their adoption until more information concerning them had been received. Alderman Dow of the board of finance said that that board was satisfied that the transfers were needed. Alderman Cooley favored the adoption of the recommendations and Alderman Hogan then said: II have no particular objection to adopting these recommendations, but every year towards the close of the year when ap-i propriations are made for specific pur- poses and when the appropriations can- not be used for the purposes for which they are made, we are asked to trans fer amounts to other accounts so that the appropriations may all be used up, to make a place to spend every cent. believe that when money in any ac- count is not expended, we ought to let it go back into the city treasury at the end of the year. It is not necessary to spend it all in some way. The board of charities and corrections now say that it needs a transfer to pay for, labor. We don't know whether or not that labor is needed. Alderman Shepard said that he thought that the court of common council should be careful about transfers. On motion of Alder man Unger the recommendations were referred to special committee of two aldermen and three councilmen. AL dermen Hogan and Shepard were ap- pointed members of the committee AL derman Dove stated for the benefit of this committee, as he said. that one de- partment would turn into the city treasury at the close of the year about $2,00O
 The next matter taken up was a rec ommendation from the street committee that the name of East street be changed to Dewey street. Aldermen Petrie, Root, Pearce, Shepard and Chilling worth spoke against the change, the | reason advanced being that such a change would necessitate a great ex- pense upon the manufacturing concerns located on the street for changing bill- heads, er-heads, etc, and also that to change the name which the street has borne for 150 years would create a great confusion and expense in looking , up old deeds.
 Alderman Cooley was called to the
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