The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-09

port provided for the reference to q
 special committee of the question as t
 the nced of supervisors. The motion to
 reconsider was then carried by a vote
 of IS to 9, and on motion of Councilman
 Maley it was voted to return the Dew ell resolution to the board of aldermen with request that the phraseology of the address be corrected so that 1t might be properly acted upon by the councilmen.
 In the minority report, which was
 substituted for the majority report and
 adopted, 1t was held that the matter of
 supervisors could not be properly con-
 sidered as a collateral matter with the
 question Of the transfer asked for by
 the board of education, but should be
 considered separately. Consequently
 the recommendation for reference to
 a special committee was made, em
 bodying in substance in this respect
 the result that would have been ob-
 tained had the board not reconsidered
 it's action on the Dewell resolution.
 A recommendation from the board of
 finance that $1,00O be transferred from
 the sundry account to the account for
 the corpora ton counsals of1ice ard res- | olution instructirg g the board of finance
 to pay the expenses of the special com
 mittee on legislation, which went to Hartford to appear before legislative
 committee in the ctys interests, were passed. A resolution for the appoint
 ment of a committee to arrange for a | banquet of the members of the board was also passed and Councilmen Har-
 ris, Hall and Hahn were appointed
 members of the committee. The report of the railroad comm ssioners on their decision in regard to the petition for the placing of fiagmen at Ninth ward crossings was received and placed on file.
 A protest from Anthony Carroll against the approval of the contract with the New Haven Electric company was tabled. Another communication from MT. Carroll, relative to the reap pointmelt of the superintendent of schools for a term of five years, was re- ferred on motion of Councilman Wal lace to a special committee of two aI- dermen and three councilmen. The communication called attention to sec- tion 46 of the city charter which pro- vides that no department shall incur liability by contract or otherwise in excess of appropriations. MT. Carroll held, in view of the provision of this section of the charter that reappoint- ment for five years was clearly illegal.
 A petition was received from MT. Car roll asking for the creation of another office under the city government. Coun- cilman Hall moved to refer the petition to the committee on sewers, but the motion of Councilman Rice to consign it to the waste basket prevailed. The pe- tition was as follows:
 10 the Honorable Court of Common
 Council of New Haven:
 Your petitioner begs leave to call the attention of your honorable body, and thereby emphasize the point brought out by Alderman Harvey G. Shepard, at the last meeting of the board of al dermen, to the fact that our public schools are being run by men who have not whiskers nor children, and by wo- men who are unquestionably and unde- l niably old maids.
 Your petitioner agrees with Alderman | Shepard that this is a very undesirable l condition of affairs, and one that is like | ly to injure the future generation of l our ancient and historic city.
 Your petitioner would suggest that | your honorable body appoint commit | tee to investigate the men who without l whiskers and children dare attempt to run our schools and children, and the | old maids who dare to presume. being old maids, to have the mental and 1! moral qualifications to instruct young 
 Your petitioner would further suggest that it might be advisable inasmuch as the public is so heartily in favor of | having heavy set of supervisors in our public schools, that your honorable body create an office to be known as a super visor of whiskers and old maids
 Your petitioner would further sug- sest that inasmuch as Alderman Har- ,ey c. Shepard has taken such an in- crest in this matter. that the superin- ,endent of schools, Calvin N Kendall, )e requested to appoint him supervisor )f wfiskers and old maids.
 Your petitioner would also suggest, that it is for the best interest If New Haven for the superintendent of chools to have the power to discharge aithful and competent teachers when- yer they do not suit him, that the same bower be given the superintendent over he supervisor of whiskers and old maids.
 Your petitioner does not fully agree, l nasmuch as America is supposed to be
 land of liberty, that one should not 'e given the right of appeal to the board f education from the doings of the su-  Your petitioner would, therefore, sug- est, knowing full we'll that Alderman Shepard, if he should succeed in being ppointed to this proposed office that e might disagree with the superintend- mt of schools as to what were proper { and who were old maids. Your petitioner would therefore recom- t nend that if this office is created, that l he supervisor be given the right of ap- cal to the superior court on all minor l matters such as at what age a woman ecomesi an old maid, and whether a lan's whskers are such that they vould impress the public, that he is oth a married and an intellectual man ; the question should arise as to wheth- r a man could be intellectual and mar ed. Your petitioner would suggest that >