Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-04

| The report of the board of Dnblic works ill reference to the grade and layout of Howard street was read and referred back to the board. with in- structions to designate such land as. is to be taken for said purpose --... ? The report Of the city attorney re- garding the petition of John G. Lunny. for abatement of city taxes amounting to about S12I on list of 1897 and on ;t similar petition from Mrs Hannah Cass for abatement of about $50 school tax es was substantially as follows: That Ar Lunny's taxes had been legally lev jed and ought to Be paid and that in aSmuch as Mir CasS has but q life in terest in the property which is heavily mortgaged. lie did not think that there was enough there to pay the costs of suit. The report was accepted and Mir Lunny given leave to withdraw and the petition of Mir CasS granted The | report of the board Of finance in ref i crence tC the building of a retaining wall on Mill street along the edge of the Mad river. was laid on the table until after tEe estimates have been acted upon.
 A communicable was received from Mayor kilduff asking to be excused from acting on the consolidation com mittee. The request was granted and John O'Neill appointed to fill the va cancy.
 Alderman Cross wanted to know what the consolidation commit tee was doing. He Had heard, he said. that the committee thought it would De time enough to report back about March l. But" he continued. this committee should remember that the bill is not going to Hartford out of , their hands. If we don't get that bill in time to show it to the people before sending it to the legislature it | wont pass. for the people on the out side will fight it tooth and nail. don't know, but I heard it nosed around that the town money can be used tc oppose the measure. My idea is to get the draft of the bill from the committee and show it to these people and see if We can come to an understanding with them about it.
 This nettled Attorney Kellogg. who iS a member Of the committee. and he emerged from the ante-roCm in fight ing attitude. He wanted to say a few words. lin view of what had been said" and he did it in q manner that brought forth a graceful apology from Nir Cross. He said that while no for nal meeting had been held. consider able work had been done on the draft. and that 1t would be ready and pre- scented to the board in time to give them ample opportunity to discuss it and make such changes as they saw fit He emphasized the statement that there was no intention on the part of the committee to ignore the aldermen by sending the bill to Hartford with out their knowledge. He also re
 minded the board that this is a busy time for the lawyers and that no at, torney could afford to neglect his of
 fee practice and give the matter his
 whole attention. NIr Kellogg said that
 if given show. the committee would
 do it's work and that if the aldermen
 did not have confidence in the commit
 tee it was their duty to discharge then and appoint a new one.
 Mir Cross said that perhaps his re
 marks were a little too sharp. but thai
 after listening to Mr Kellogg's re
 marks he was satisfied that the com
 mittee was doing all right.
 The clerk was instructed to publish q notice regarding proposed state leg
 iSlation for Waterbury at the next ses
 sion of the general assembly.
 Alderman GOss started in to make
 a big fuss about the failure to repor of q committee appointed some time ago to prepare a draft of an ordinance
 relating to abatements and was waXin. hot at it when he learned that the com mittee was composed of himself ant
 the city attorney He took the iok, all right. and after all had indulget
 in laugh. Mr GOss said that if ht got spuelched on that that there wa another matter he wanted to call at l. tention to. He moved that the boart
 of public works be requested to repOr d new name for the Plank road. Tn motion was carried.
 The estimates for 1901. as preparet by the board of finance, were rea' : and ordered. printed.
 The board adjourned for one week.