Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-05
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AUGUSTA LOCALS.
DEADLOCK BROKEN.
Amendment c Accomplished
What Conference Couldn't Do.
The Changes Devote More Money to
Permanent Improvements.
Mayor Lane Will Return Appropriation Bill
Unsigned, Saturday.

lie VI tlit WY 6pNCi iiiiiNh
over the appropriation bill is broken as
far as the upper and lower boards are
concerned. But before it is finally
passed it will have to be signed by
Mayor Lane. and this he declares he
will never do in its present form.
1t was s o'clock before the meeting
was called to order and the first thing
taken up was the appropriation bill,
over which the upper and lower boards
locked hours, last Friday evening.
Then the upper board insisted on the
passage of the bill in it's original form,
while the lower board insisted that GER
tain amendments should be made.
When the bill was taken up, last
night, it was passed by the aldermen
in its original form. AS soon as 1t
reached the lower board and the en-
dorscment. that the upper board adj
hered to its original position. was read,
Councilman Fletcher moved that the
council adhere to its former action,
that the amendments be insisted on.
and Councilmen Fletcher, Haskell and
Webster were appointed a committee
Of conference. Mayor Lane appointed
| on the committee of conference Alder
men Sewall. Keene and Lee.
1t was o'clock when the committees
of conference were appointed. and. at
1915, Alderman Sewall announced that
the committee of conference had been
unable to agree and announced that
the vote stood four in favor and two
against an amendment.
II move we adjourn" said Alderman
I, 10, IL
be carried it was remembered that
there was an ordinance relating to the
board of health that must be passed at
that meeting.
AS soon as the report of the commit
tee was announced Mayor Lane said:
Il shall continue to call meetings Of the
city government because all work will
be stopped and no bills paid unless the
council makes the appropriations"
Soon after the committee of confer
ence had reported the councilmen held
| a session and began to talk over the
amendments. 1t was then voted to re-
consider the action at the last meeting
by which amendments a and Il were
adopted by the council, and in their
place was adopted amendment c. which
had been presented. This amendment
provides that from the unexpcnded
balance which the committee on fl
nance in the former report states is
$11 200. there is hereby appropriated
$500 for permanent improvements: $500
for general repairs on the Western dis
| trict and $1,000 for permanent repairs
on the Eastern district. the same to be
expended under the direction of the
committee on highways and sewers
and $500 on cemeteries, the total
amount being $500.
This amendment was accepted by a
vote Of to 3 in the lower board
Those who voted in favor of the pas
sage were: Councilmen Fletcher. Far
rinEton, Gay, Webser Chadwick
Haskell and Foster. Those opposed
were Councilman Harvey, Scribner and
Hewins.
In it's amended form the bill was
sent to the upper board. There it was
passed. all except Aldermen Lee and
Sewall voting in its favor. No sooner
| had the bill been passed than the
mayor announced that he should cal
| a special meeting Of the board for next
| Saturday evening, and then return the
Oil unsigned. Tie then lldlutI lHt vi
| over to City Clerk Burleigh with in
structions that it be returned as soon
as possible that he might have it.
In the meantime the revised ordi-
nance relating to the change in the
| board of health. which was given il
| full in the Journal, a short time ago
was given a passage and is now one OF
| the ordinances, having been given the
several readings and a final passage.
Two of the councilmen who were in
| favor Of the passage of amendment {
| when seen at the close of the meeting
said that they believed the money is
| needed for highways and streets and
that by the provisions of the amend
mcnt the money is simply taken from
| one department and devoted to an
other. BY so doing the debt is not in
| creased or the payment of the bonds
hindcrcd in any way. They believed
further that the best use that the
money could he put to is to devote 1t
| 10 the streets which, especially in the
| outlying districts, they say, are badly
in need of repairs and permanent inn
prOvcmcnts.