The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-16
ESTIMATES ARE UNCHANGED.
COUNCILMEN ADOPT THE FIN4NCE
 BOARDS RECOMMENDATIONs.

An Amusing Spectacle in City Hall Last
 Night-After Voting to Change Police
 Estimates the Board Adopts the Nrt-
 sion of fParIiamentary Rules . Feature | of the Session ] Another chapter of comedies was
 last night added to the history of legls-
 lation in New Haven. The actors were
 the councilmen and the chapter Is
 long one. For nearly four hours per-
 formance was enacted which, if 1t had
 taken place on the stage, would have
 probably been applauded as a farce and
 stamped the actors as good all-around
 comedians. Councilmanic oratory of
 the most gaseous quality was allowed
 to soar and expand and exploding gum
 powder has not more expansive force.
 Some citizens who occupied the benches cf the spectators watched the proceed
 ings in amazement and at the close of
 the session pronounced t the most dis couraging spectacle they had ever wit
 messed in public meeting.
 The members were irrepressibIe and for any chairman to preserve order would have been an inpossibility. Chairman Miller endeavored for some time to prevent more than one member from speaking at once, but finding that he was unable to do SO finally allowed the members to go as they pleased with rn ot on< +oo otv,{,, ,,.,t~
 The meeting was held to consider the report of the committee on estimates and after once adopting that commit tees recommendation for the police de- partment and the lamp department, and making some changes in the ap- propriations for the department of char tiles and correction, the board voted to adopt the minority report, which recommended the adoption of the esti- mates as recommended by the board of finance. If, as some of those who att tended the meeting professed to believe. the actions of the councilmen and the result of their session were part of carefully laid plan to secure the adop- tion of the board of finance recom- mendations, then the plan was most successfully carried out, for finally af- ter the members had become thorough ly confused and tired by the unceasing fire of filibustering motions and amend- ments they were ready to vote for any, thing.
 As soon as the meeting was called to order the majority and minority re- ports of the committee on estimates were read and Councilman Frank T.ss Rice moved that the minority report recommending the adoption of the es1 inmates reported by the board Of # finance be adopted Councilman Mul- with the board of aldermen in adopting the majority report of the committee.
 After a few minutes irrelevant dis cussion, in which a large proportion of the members took part, it was voted to 20 into committee of the whole in or- der that there might be freer dis ,ussion Councilman Rowe of the Twelfth ward was called to the chair to preside over the committee.
 Councilman Conlin moved that the minority report be laid on the table, Councilman Walsh amended to adopt he minority report Councilman Keane started to talk and the chair ruled that he motion to table was not debatable. The motion to table the minority report vas lost by a vote of 21-14. Council nan F. T. Rice moved to accept the report and adopt the estimates by the board of finance. Gallagher asked that each apartments estimates be taken up separately. Councilman Keane of the Fourth ward rose to point of order, lnd Councilan Doohan rose to another ,oint of order, saying that his point v4s that there was no sense in what he gentleman from the Fourth ward s vas saying. Councilman Miller amend d the motion of Councilman Rice. moving that the councilmen concur with the aldermen. He called attention o the needs of the fire and police de- artments and In referring to the mi- ority report made by Alderman Dove aid that in his opinion Alderman )owe, member of the board of nance, should not have acted as q lember of the committee on estimates.
 Councilman Tyner asked that the es- mates for each department be taken D and acted upon separately. Coun- ilman Keane called upon Councilman ,'Meara, the councilmanic member of he board of finance, to state whether T not the finance board had heard tho eeds of the various departments and ,hetheE or not the finance board mad appropriated enough to meet thoss eeds.
 Councilman Rowland wanted to get own to business and get through. The lotion to concur with the aldermen as then voted upon and was lost OH viva voce vote.
 The motion to adopt the minority re- ort being then before the committed, ouncilman Miller spoke against it's loption and repeated the request al- ,ady made by two members that the ,port be taken up item by item. Councilpan Tyner moved to adopt le estimate for the department of pub , works as recommended by the board finance. s.5sssss.ss.ass.Is Mr. Keane held that this question ad been once decided and asked the 'ivilege of the floor to make some re- arks. MT. Miller moved that the 'ivilege be not allowed. Several mem ,r were on their feet at this time while hers retaining their seats were en- ,avoring to make themselves heard in e pandimonium which reigned. At is juncture Chairman Rowe, with