The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-19
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
DUSINESS OF THE SPECIAL MEET
 ING HELD LAST NIGHT.

The Petition Concerning Street Railway
 Transfers Discussed but No Committee
 Report Yet Received-Corporation
 Counsel Instructed to Oppose the
 Passage of the Chamber of Commerce
 BiIl Concerning Reassessments'-in-
 yitations from Anthony Carroll.
 A special meeting of the board of al- dermen was held last night to take &C., tion on several minor matters which did not come up at the last meeting of the board before adjournment. The re- port of the board of compensation on the assessments for the change of grade on Fulton street and on other streets was adopted in concurrence with the board of councilmen. Several recom- mendations for extension of time for payment of sewer assessments were also adopted.
 At their last regular meeting the al- dermen gave unanimous consent TOT the consideration of resolution to instruct the corporation counsel to advocate la yorable action by the legislature on 1ne bill for three-cent fares for school chi.- dren on electric railways, and the resp tuition was adopted. The councilmen subsequently, however, voted to refer the matter to the committee Rn rail- roads and bridges. Last night the al- dermen reconsidered their former actiCn to concur with the councilmen. Tne aldermen concurred with the council men in dopting the resolution instruct ing the corporation counsel to appear before the legislature or any approprl- ate committee thereof the granting or any further privileges to any electric railway operating in the city of New Haven.
 A petition was received from the Winchester Repeating Arms company asking that Winchester avenue be paved with crushed stone, and it was referred to the street committee, as was also petition for the paving of State street, between Chapel street and Miil river, with vitrified brick.
 Alderman J. J. Walsh asked if the report of the committee on railroads and bridges on the matter Of general transfers on the electric railroads of the city was ready for presentation All derman Corcoran, chairman of the com mittee, said that he had secured rom the corporation counsel late yesterday afternoon an opinion on the power or the court of common council in rela- lion to ordering transfers and that the opinion was received so late that the committee had not time to prepare report before the meeting of the alder men. He said that the committee would have report ready to submit at 1he next regular meeting. He said that the committee had been a unit from first to last in trying to secure the concession from the street railway companies which was petitioned for.
 Alderman Atwater asked if the reason why the committee had not previously reported on the transfer matter WIS that the committee was waiting for an opinion from the corporation counsel. Alderman Corcoran said that the delsy was caused by the corporation counsel, to whom the request for an opinion was sent two or three weeks ago. He said that the committee had decided 'ot to report favorably on any petitions of the street railway companies of the city until general transfers were grantsa.
 The opinion of the corporation counsel in regard to transfers is to the tffect that the common council has TO power to compel the street railway companies to issue general transfers.
 Alderman J. J. Walsh asked MT. Cor coran why his committee had asked the corporation counsel for an opinion when the committee knew that the com- mon council had no power to order the issuance of transfers. He said that +ha R11siness Mems associati tion had not petttioned the common council to order transfers, but had petitioned that no further privileges be granted the street railway companies until transfers were given.
 Alderman w. F. Walsh, of the Twelfth ward, offered two resolutions, one instructing the corporation counsei to oppose the passage by the legislature 6f the bill drawn by s. c. Morehouse md providing for the exemption of new enterprises locating in New Haven rom taxation; the other resolution instruct ing the corporation counsel to oppose the passage by the legislature or the hill of the chamber of commerce to pro- vide for relief from alleged unjust as- easements.
 Aldermen wright and Weiss spoke against the adoption of the first reso- 1ution presented by Mir. Walsh. Alder man weiss thought that it was time that some inducement was offered to get manufacturers to locate here. This resolution was defeated. The resolution in regard to the chamber of commerce bill was passed.
 resolution was adopted providing that the common council committee and the board of health jointly advertise for hds for the erection of public bathhouse for which s10,000 was appro- priated. The appropriation was plac- cd to the account of the board of health. but the common council desires to have a voice in the matter. A reso- lution was also adopted providing that the committee on public wharf need not advertise for bids for the filling in needed to construct an approach to the new wharf, which Is to be built. The committee is of the opinion that the work can be done more cheaply if bids are not advertised for.
 The following communication was re- ceived from Anthony Carroll:
 To the members of the Honorable Court
 of Common Council of the City of t New Haven:
 You are hereby respectfully invited and requested, either collectively or in dividually, to attend meeting to be Cn