Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-06
IF CONSOLIDATION FIGHT
From Now on Will Be Very
 Interesting.

City Clerk Ryan Publishes Notice and Sheriff Mcdonald Notifies the Town Oficials-The Contemplated Changes Are Now the Topic of Dis cussion on All Sides.
 i To-day Sheriff Mcdonald served no- tlce on the town officials to appear at the proper time in Hart lord to be heard relative to the pro- posed consolidation of the tow: and city governments, and in accordance ] with a vote passed at the last meeting or the aldermen, City Clerk Ryan has ptfplished a warning ill reference to the subject, so that 1t might be said ttlat the consolidation fight will soon 1 De on and all hands have gone into training for the impending conflict. \ Last night Attorneys Kellogg and ! ItEssell and r. R. Rice, members Of l the committee appointed by the alder men to prepare a draft of bill to be submitted to the aldermen embracing the main features of such a consolida- ton bill as the people might desire he1d meeting and discussed the sub iJect-Hl~an informal Way. and after look ing at the matter they agreed that they had bia~job ahead Of them and would 1 haye@to hustle in order to be able to send 2 report to the aldermen by the first of January. Judge Burpee and John O'Neill were not present. and to-day it was learned that they do not intend to serve.
 Colonel Rurpee has rendered his res llgnStlOn :. If f tee to the chairman. City Attorney kel- logg. The colonel says the work is too arduOus and demands more time than he could give it. neither is it duty in which virtue is it's own reward. He has been on three such committees and thinks his reward was net what it ought to have been.
 Mir ONeill informed reporter of this paper that he had not been off cially notified of his appointment as a member of the committee until this morning and that he intended to noti- fy the chairman right off that he can not serve. I'm q poor man." said Mir O'Neill. putting on sad face, and don't feel as though 1 could afford to work all winter for nothing. Thercll be enough there without me and 1 have 10 hesitation in stating that in my opinion they'll turn out a good bill, too.''
 The three last words Of MT O Nelr $ remarks were uttered in d rather sus- piciOuS tone. at least the reporter thought so, and he asked him to ex- plain further, but that was all he could get out of him, the aStutc limb of the law dismisSing the scribe with the remark, Good day. sir" and then re- I nI !, ,iS -ny.l- 1Nrin inf Nh irh hp was dictating to his typewriter.
 It is thought that considerable oppo- stion is being worked up against con- solidaton by the townspeople and that it will result in one of the big gest battles ever fought between the town and city governments. the people on the outskirts having decided to ul- pose the scheme tooth and nail. The ESchool question and the matter of tax ation are the things that concern them most of all for, in the opinion of some of the committeeman of tho school districts. it amounts to the same thing as kicking the constitution of the Unit cd States into q three cooked hat and calling upon corfrress to depose the president and elect a king. as it does to do anything that would deprive them of the power they wield in the affairs of their several districts. The office of alderman is g small thing compared with that of committeeman so that when both forces meet it will be case of Greek vs Greek. and the whole state will stop to witness the tussle It would be folly to say at this time what the outcome will be. but people who do not care to take sides on the subject, and who are aware ol the staying powers of the men iron the rural districts will not be sur
 prised to hear that the outsiders made things interesting for the city chaps
 who are clamorins for union Of the town and city governments.