The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-11
THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING CO.
BOARD OF COUNoILMEN.
Mayor Says the Members May be Fined
 $500 Each.

 Mayor Says the Members May be Fined
 $500 Each.
 The councilmen at their meeting last night concurred with the aldermen in adopting the recommendation of the board of finance that $S,o00 be trans ferred from the paving account to the account of repair of streets with crush ed stone. The petition of Ninth ward citizens asking that steps be taken to regulate the rate of speed of trains passing over grade crossings to six miles per hour was referred to the com mittee on ordinances. A petition of Anthony Carroll for damages for per- sonal injuries, upon which the com mittee on claims reported unfavorably, recommending that the petitioner be given leave to withdraw, was referred back to the committee on motion of Councilman Spreyer.
 munication of Anthony Carroll de spe- cifications in city contracts. recomend- ed that the petitioner be given leave to withdraw. On motion of Councilman Spreyer the matter was referred to the committee on legislation. MT. Carroll asks that the specifications be changed so that instead of a certified check be- ing required to accompany bid a bond would be sufficient. The special com mittee appointed to consider the charge made by MT. Carroll that proper hear ing had not been given on his petition de stone crusher reported that it had attended to the business assigned and had found that proper hearing on the matter had not been given by the ordi- nance committee.
 Councilman O'Sullivan offered a res olution providing for the purchase by the city of the WaterWorkS under the terms of the contract now existing be- tween the city and the water company. The resolution was referred to the wa ter committee. A resolution was pre- scented by Councilman O'Sullivan pro- viding for the appointment of Joseph Calm as military enrolment officer. Mayor Farnsworth had just entered the chamber and after the reading of the resolution he took the floor and af- ter calling attention to the fact that only a small part of the military tax is paid each year and to the large increase in the amount paid the past year over that paid in previous years, he said that on account of the failure of large number of citizens liable to the military tax to pay it about one-third of mill tax is necessarily added to the taxes of those who do pay. The tax is $2 per year for each man liable to military duty and not exempted. New Haven's apportionment of the state military tax is about $24,000.> and this amount must be paid into the state treasury whether or not it is collected from individuals liable to the tax. Last year the amount of the tax paid to the state and the sal ary of the enrolling officer was about $20,000 in excess of the sum received from the tax.
 Mayor Farnsworth in speaking fur ther of the matter to the councilmen said that when the duty of arranging for the taking of the enrolment rested WllH LIe StlSClllGIl 0ttCil dlu every member of that board was liable to a fine of $500, under the statute, if the enrolment was not correctly made. He also said that it was now encumbent upon the mayor and city clerk to en- dorse the enrolment list as to it's cor- rectness, and gave notice that unless the work of enrolment was better and more thoroughly done this year than it was last he would refuse to endorse the list. He thought that now, since the responsibility rested upon the council men, each one of the members of that board was liable to a $500 fine if the en- rollment was not properly taken.
 The resolution for the appointment of Joseph Calm was then adopted but a few moments later the vote was re- considered on motion of Councilman O'Sullivan, who had found in the char ter a provision requiring that the vote on the appointment should be a viva voce vote. Such a vote was about to be taken when a motion that recess of five minutes be taken was offered and passed. The democratic members withdrew to the ante-room and after a caucus of about ten minutes returned to the chamber. A resolution was read by Assistant City Clerk Martin provid- ing for the appointment of Joseph Calm as enrolling officer at a salary of $500 per year, 'in endorsement of the action of the honorable board of selectmen." The resolution was laid on the table on motion of Councilman Maley, and it was said that the caucus had been una- ble to agree upon any candidate for en- rolling officer.