Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-23
HIGHWAY APPROPRIATIONS.
Judge Wheeler Acting as Ar-
 bitratop To-Day.

No Evidence Presented. Only a Plain
 Statement of the Case-Attorney
 Kellogg Appeared for the City and
 Attorney Carmody for the Town
 Jury in Evans-Horton Case Return
 Verdict for Defendant to Recover
 COstse
 The arguments n tne Evans Horton
 case were concluded at 80 o'clock and the jury was excused for dinner. After luncheon the jury returned, and at 3 o'clock were given the case. At o:33 they returned with a verdict for the defendant to recover costs. Ine court remained ill session, how ever, to hear the case of. the city against the town on the division of the tcwEs appropriation for highways. Tie city was represented by Nayor kilduH, City Attorney Kellogg and
 Alderman Blakeslee and the town by First Sclectman DOian and Town At torney Carmody. According to agree
 mentS between the respective counsel for tine contestants, no evidence was given, but the situation simply stated to the court. h his presentation of lilf> Sidc Al1tA -ittOIIcN lAellOSS tElSt tD cast aspcrSions upon former town gov erlEnent& and was warming up on this
 matter when the court warned him tc keep to the subject on hand. Well your nOnor.' said Nir EellCgg, we have a new Selcctman and probably he Will give us some reforms. at all events he has promised them. AIr Kellogg went over the whole situation. He dWelt particularly on the point that the city pays niEe-tenthS Of the taxes and the town the other 0ne-tenth At the last town meeting it was voted to appropriate for highways S:53.000. Of this sum the town would give the city SllO00. The city as represented by the mayor and Alderman Biakesipe fought for exactly half the approDria- ton on the grounds that the town had less road mileage to take care of now than ever before, excepting last year. The city paid in taxes the greater part of the $35. LOCO and therefore was crl- titled to at least one-half of it. Since the consolidation of the city and the center school district. over twenty-five miles of highway were added to the city and it was but fair that the town should pay to the city as much money as it formerly cost the town to main- tain that number of miles of highway Responding to this Town Attorney Carmody said that the appropriation for town roads seldom was less than S2O,OOO and it has been as high as $29,0OO. He ran over the various aD- proprations during the past ten years. He claimed that it was the city's idea to lower the city taxation and increase that of the town. This was unfair it may be true. he said. that the city pays Onetenth of the taxes, 1t was also true that the town has to provide for the city'S poor. maintain all bridges over the Naugatuck river, and eXpend money in many ways that the city has not. At this point the court remarked that he thought he would require evidence as to the actu- al facts of the situation. and then he stated that he would want the fol- lowing statistics The complete mile age of the city and town: the appropri- ations for highways made by the city and town during the past ten years also the actual expenditures of these departments since the consolidation of the city and the Center school district and prior thereto for number of years: the added mileage brought by consolidation; the taxes and eXpendi- lures of the town and city for the past ten years and any instance of eXtraol'- dinary character during that time in the respect named: the humber of bridges and their character: the aver age sum for maintenance of the roads outside the city for the past ten years: the experience of other towns and cities of the size of Waterbury: the d- vision of the appropriation since the ton of the school district and the city. and anything else which the contestants may think advisable for the court to see or hear. This will de nland consderab ble time to do and un- doubtedly will be very expensive. The of statistics involved in the above appears to be sufficient to make the contestants wish they had adjust | ed the matter between themselves and | not taken advantage of the charter l which says that in case of disagree | ment a judge of the sunerior court may |