Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-31

VT. \ dSSle anu INC NdJ'A bHcIi Hdu .
i.,le discussion among themselves, in
" which the petition business and Gordon's
at the time it was presented
were thoroughly aired.
MIR. Cassie then aroseand proceed"'
TO give the Mayor call Town, making
some decided hits. He allied the May
n the "silver tougued gntleman' and
gave some laughable ilIutrations Of hi>
method Of twisting the Ciy Council and
every body else around lis finger by
talk. lie spoke of the Myors slurrins
he stone cutters and hiking he could
twist them around any Wy he wanted
to.
lie said that as near as he could
earn Kings Windsor wacompos'd OF
calcne plaster, dark eennt, light CO.
men,, sand, and glue. a these mate
rial are.t present storcdln the base
nent of tie building. I is simply a
rick to fool he people y mixing ii
here instead of at til factory. He
hou- hit it was time to s,eMr. Gordon's
arecr as the one man ru,ing the city
government. Mr.. Brue then arose
md answered some othe Mayors
harges giving some sip rersonali-
ies. ..
After Mr. Cassie's, eech Is. w.
LOCKER moved to adjon.. The vot,
was SO close on This .rtion that the
char could not decide,hich way he
should decide, aud spp'4ed DR.. Camp,
b. W. Hooker, and IA Mudgett as
'elers TO count the votp The meeting
was in a huDbub at QUO As soon MS
ne could make hinise heard MIR.
llooker withdrew his mon.
Mayor Gordon then are to reply to
Mr.. Cassie, stating :imonpther things
that the bond for the cons,ction of the
building was properly gned. Mr..
''assie then read a copy othc resolu
ions AS 10 the power Of til council in
building the city hall. he mayor
picked him up on some pos and de-
''idedly got the best OF Al. j. p.
Narr then stood up and ask the diff
'crence in cost of usinga naic cell
ing for the opera house. ,ordon in
reply sa,d he thought the NAL would
not cost mNrh more ltah frcoed plas-
,er, and would be much liter. Mr..
Bruce then asked tic Mar several
questions which he hid no itfculty in
answering. .
Harvey Hersey ten spoke for some
few minutes. Thoght thatput of all
the disorder some pod night come.
lie was in favor of te resolutions. If
the people would oy thiri them over
ne thought the final 1sultSould be the
reduction OF our tayatc. The people
would never know y real cost of the
building, which be humed would be
as high rs $4,000. - High School
Quilting vas to cost slnna. I'D .s
near as could b, made a by the books
It cost nearly $4,000 Ni,h one hand
MIR. Gordon pointsio e"pay as you
go' policy and withr other rolls up
an enormous debt. G thought thai
expression had cof to mean "pay
higher taxes as you ;"
After MIR. llelsehad finished DR.
Nichols read the reNlions again and
called for a vote asa their adoption,
deciding that the i" )" predoninated
MIR. Cassie raised uestion and they
proceeded to ball MIR. Mudgeti
refused to serve d MIR. Dillon was
appointed in his pla& After the count
Dir. Nichols announl the result as fo,-
lows. Whole numl of votes 90, Nee
essary for choice, 4yeas SS, nays oo'
and the adoption ofe resolutions was
refused. thus defeag the efforts of
certain party of vus, and sustaining
the city government a motion to ad-
iourn was carrie, aud another of
Barre's famous city eetlngs was at an
end. 1t is to be bed that we shall
not have another c:ed for some time.
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