The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-23
SPRINKLING STILL TIED UP
CARTS IND CARS AGAIN ENGAGE
 COUNCILMEN,S ATTENTION.

Has Been Appointcd-RuIcs of the Common Council to be Revtsed-Other
 Business Before tho .aidermen' and tho Councilmen Last Night.
 Street sprinkling and predilections for
 car sprinklers and cart sprinklers again furnished material for a wrangle in the
 meeting of the councilmen last night.
 Bids were opened for the sprinkling
 some time ago, two bids having been
 received one from Forbes & Mortell for
 sprinkling streets in which there are
 car tracks, with carts, for $1,75o less
 than the other bidder bid for doing the
 work by means of the car sprinlslers,
 These bids were referred to the court of common council, which in return re- ferred them to a special committee. This committee sent in two reports, a majority report recommending that the contract be let to the lowest bidder and the other minority report recommend ing that the bids be referred back to the director of public works to adver- tise for new bids for having the work done by car sprinklers only. Then It was pointed out that if this action was taken there could be only one bidder, since one company controlled the use of car sprinklers in New Haven. The councilmen adopted the majority re- port and the aldermen adopted the mi nority report, adhered to that action at .t..x T committee of conference.
 The matter was not brought up again at last nights meeting of the aldermen, but in the board of councilmen the reading of the two reports was called for, and after they had been read Coun- cilman Potter, of the Fifteenth ward, moved that the councilmen adhere to their previous action in adopting the majority report Councilman Dawson, of the Tenth ward, moved an amend ment to recede from former action, and Councilman Minor moved an amend ment to concur with t he aldermen. | President Stoddard declared the amend ments out of order, since they were di- | rectly contrary to the original motion; that the board must recede before it l
  tion to adhere took precedence.
 Councilman Wheeler, of the First | ward, spoke in favor of receding. He | said that a month had passed since the | time when the sprinkling should have | begun and from which the work bid for was to begin. He therefore thought | that it would not be right to award the contract for the price named in the bid, since one month of the time bid for had l passed. He thought that new bids ought to be called for. The matter should be hastened, since the dust car- ries typhoid germs and is injurious to | the public health. The interests of the ,ity ought to be looked out for, whoever gets the contract
 Councilman Harkins raised the point | that under the rules of the board the only thing to do was to adhere and ap- point a committee of conference. He said that by giving the contract to Forbes & Mortell the city would save apout S3,OOO, as their bid was Sl,15O over than the other bids, and if the work was done by the cars it would cost the city S1,5O0 to sprinkle the streets beyond the space covered by the sprinkling arm of the cars.
 Shortly after MT. Harkins finished speaking Alderman Miller stepped up Q MT. Harkins and began talking to jim. President Stoddard, seeing this, aid: MT. Miller, please behave your elf"
 To this Mr. Miller responded: T am lot a member of this board and you lave no right to address me-" He step-
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