The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-20
THE ESTIMATES CHANGED


councllmen.
large number of citizens were pres
ent last night during the entire session
and watched the proceedings with great
interest.
The charter, section as, provides that
IL the estimates submitted by the board
of finance are changed by the common
council they must be changed before
December 20. The tWo-thirds vote was
secured last night, five minutes before
the time within which the common
council could make the change expired
The meeting was called to order at
S:35 o'clock, and after the roll call coun-
Gilman Harkins moved that no other
business be considered until the esti-
mates were disposed of. This motion
prevailed. The roll call had shown
that there were thirty-two members
present, and after the adoption of Mr..
Harkin's motion a recess of five min
utes was taken. After the recess anoth-
that there were thirty-eight members
that there were thirty-eight membrs
present. Mr.. Harkins then, after the
majority report of the committee on es
Inmates had been read. moved that the
majority report be adopted. Chairman
Stoddard ruled that the minority report
must be heard before any vote could be
taken on adoption of either report.
A minority report signed by Council
men Hewitt and Wheeler was read. Mr.,
Harkins then raised the point that this
was not the same minority report pre-
scented at the meeting of the aldermen
Tuesday night. Mr.. Hewitt explained
that the aldermen had not acted upon
the minority report, and that it was
therefore still in the possession of the
board of aldermen. The report submit
ted was finally admitted as the minori-
ty reDo.t.
This matter having been disposed of
Councilman Hewitt moved that the ma
jority report be taken up by items. OBJ
lection was made to this, and Council
man Wheeler remarked that there
should be no gag rule in the board and
that the members should be allowed to
speak upon the various items of the re-
port. Chairman Stoddard ruled that
members could speak upon the items
and his ruling was appealed from, the
appeal being sustained by a vote of
"a to 13 on an aye and nay vote.
Chairman Dawson moved to postpone
for one week consideration of the esti-
mates, but his motion was defeated. A
vote was then taken on Mr.. Harkins'
motion to adopt the majority report,
the vote resulting in "a in favor of
adoption and 13 against, the members
voting as follows: Ayes-Messrs. Hayes,
Hofacker, Sullivan, Bohn, Parrott
Harris, Buchmuller, Flynn, Donnelly
Maley, Pauley, Cotton, Brown, McKier-
man, Maroney Barrows, Williams,
Holiday, Schollhorn, Davis, Wohlmach- !
err, Harkins, Skinner Goode-24.
Nayes-Messrs. Wheeler, Browning, |
Minor, Hill, Baldwin, Fulford, Hewitt,
Dawson, Hamilton, Keller Mansfield,
Bradley, Potter-13.
This was not a two-thirds vote in |
favor of adoption and after the vote
was announced Mr.. Harkins moved to-
reconsider, and the motion prevailed
1t was then voted on Mr.. Harkins' mo
ton to take a recess.
The board was called to order again
in about ten minutes and Councilman
Minor moved that the reconsideration
be postponed until the next meeting
Councilman Sullivan moved an amend
ment to postpone consideration for ten
ment OUT of order. Mr. Sullivan ap-
pealed from the chair, but a few mo-
ments later withdrew his amendment. +,
An aye and nay vote was then taken
on Mr.. Minors motion which was car
ried by vote of 35 to 2, only Council
men Fulford and Hamilton voting y
against it.
Mr.. Dawson then moved to adjourn,
and Mr.. Harkins moved to amend to ;
adjourn until 1890 that is, for about
twenty minutes. The amendment pre- '
vailed.
At 1920 the board was again called
to order and roll call was taken. This
showed that since the last meeting, I,
which adjourned a few minutes before
Councilman Yardley of the Thirteenth
ward had arrived.
Mr.. Harkins moved that the board {
proceed to take up the reconsideration I
of the estimates.
Mr. Minor called for reading of the
report of the vote already taken on the Z
and when it had been read Z
by Clerk Martin he asked if that vote [
had been sufficient to change the esti- a
mates. L
Mr.. Harkins said that the motion to I
adopt the amended estimates had been l.
carried but not by a tWo-thirds vote. /
Then the reconsideration was taken up, 1
and Mr.. Harkins moved to concur with r
the aldermen in adopting the majority
report and an aye and nay vote was il
called for.
Councilman Hewitt was given the c
privilege of the floor and in an argu- r
ment which lasted about ten minutes q
ne gave his reasons why the board of t.
nance estimates should not be chang is
ID. Several times while he was speak il
ng he was interrupted by points of or a
Ter from various parts Of the chamber, n
,ut was allowed to proceed until he had o
his statement *
Councilman Wheeler desired to speak "a
Ind the board voted to allow him to Ii
peak for five minutes Mr. Wheeler 81
poke against the adoption of the ma d
ority report, saying that it recommend IL
d for appropriation more money than CT
he city would receive in income during CT
he year.
At the conclusion of his remarks the a.
revious question was called for and Ia
n aye and nay vote was taken on the OF
notion to concur with the aldermen and II
dept the majority report. The vote re-
l1lted in "a ayes and 10 nays, the mem ST