The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-16
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 report.
 MT. O'Meara said that the board O finance had sat twenty-five nights ant
 considered the estimates. They though
 that no more inspectors were needed in the department of public works ant that they had no power In making ap priapriations for permanent pavement' to discriminate as to the streets or which the money should be expended. Councilman Alling was glad that the board of finance had conceded that there was some power which it didn't have. If the committee on estimates saw fit to name streets for the paving of which the appropriation should be expended it had power to do so. In ! the common council was the very place where specific appropriations could be made. He moved that the items for street paving recommended by the com mittee be adopted.
 On motion of F. J. Rice the commit 1 tee then rose and the board of council men was called to order.
 Then beginning anew, MT. Rice moved | that the entire minority report be adopted.
 | MT. Muldoon amended to concur with the board of aldermen. After threshing over old straw for about an hour the | report of the board of finance was talk en up item by item.
 The estimates for the department of public works as recommended by the board of finance were adopted by a vote of "A to 10, not, however, until after due display of oratory concerning parlia- mentary rules.
 The estimates for the fire department were next taken up, and MT Conlin, seconded by MT. Gallagher moved that the estimate committees report for this department be adopted. F. J. Rice amended to adopt the minority report. The chair ruled that the members from the outlying wards could not vote on the estimates of the fire or police de- partments MT. Keane appealed from the decision of the chair and the chair was sustained by vote of IA to T. Be- fore this incident was closed President Miller called MT. Keane to order and threatened to have the city sheriff to eject him from the room if he did not keep order.
 The amendment was then voted upon and lost by vote of 16 to 14, the voting being as follows:
 Nays-Messrs Mead, Knollmeyer, Gallagher Magoohan, Cartier, Maroney. Maley, Conlin, Brown, Miller, Howland, Cronan, Greenfield, Rowe, Casey, Null doon--16.
 Ayes--Messrs. Hllman, Beecher F. J. Rice, Bohn, O'Meara, Keane, Burton, Tyner, Gerner, M. Rice, filling, Walsh, Holiday, Dawson-14.
 A vote on the adoption of the com nlittee report was then taken and re- suited in 16 for and 12 against, this not being the required two-thirds vote to change the finance boards recommend ation.
 MT Conln then moved to adopt the estimate committees recommendation to increase the appropriation for the police department.
 F, J. Rice amended to adopt the mil nority report This amendment was lost by a vote of 23 to 6, the members voting as follows:
 Nays Messrs. Knollmeyer. Gallagher, Bnhn, O'Meara. Magoohan, Cartier, Ma roney, Maley, Burton Conlin. Brown, Miller Tyner, Rowland M Rice, AL ling, Walsh, Holiday. Cronan, Green field, Rowe of the Twelfth, Muldoon, Casey--2S.
 Ayes-Messrs. Beecher, Rice, Keane, Mead, Gerner, Dawson-6.
 Councilman Hillman did not vote. The majority report of the conn ittee on police estimates was then adopted by a vote of 27 to 2.
 Urba ittno rapnrt op fhe acfirpntpu of the lamp department was adopted by vote of 21 to 9.
 Councilman Burton moved to recon- slider the action taken on the fire de- pertinent estimates, he having evident ly voted for the minority report in cr- der that he might later move reconsid- eraton.
 MT. Keane moved to adjourn and the motion was seconded, but the chair re- fused to entertain the motion until after the estimates were disposed MT. Keane appealed from the decision of the chair, but the chair was sustained by a vote of IS to 14.
 On motion of MT. Tyner the reconsid- eration of the fire department estimates was postponed until the next meeting. When the estimates of the department of charities and correction were reached President Miller took the floor and call ed to the chair Councilman Chasa, who had just entered the chamber. MT. Mill Ter moved to amend the finance boards report of estimates for the charities de- partment by increasing from $15,O0O to SIG, 900 the item for care of insane and by increasing from $3,0OO to $5,O00 the hospital account. The amendment was accepted and the report as amended was adopted.
 MT. Miller moved to amend the est- | mates for sundries account in the con- | troller's department, as recommended ] by the finance board, by striking cut | the item of 6,029.09 for payment of | city notes falling due and inserting in lieu thereof $34,929.O9 and by increasing from $4,041.16 to $5,041.16 the item for interest on town notes. This amend ment was to provide for the changes which the councilmen had already voted [ to make In the estimates of the board | 1f finance. The amendment was, how sver, lost by a vote of IA to 8, and then )n motion of MT. Tyner the minority 'eport on the estimates for sundries &C., count was adopted.
 MT. Tyner then moved that the esti- mates as recommended by the board of