The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-12
SENT TO SELECT COUNCIL BY
RECORDER coNNELL.
Did Not Approve of Councils Action
in Directing DR.. Allen to Return
to City Treasurer the Fund for
Burrying Dead Animals and
Thought the Deficiency Resolution
Should Have Been an Ordinance.
Lively Debate Over Lackawanna
Avenue Sewer-Other Business.

eacn instance the veto was directed
against a resolution.
Councils passed a resolution direct
ing DR.. w. f. Allen. the superintend-
ent of the bureau of health, to pay back
into the city treasurer the sum of $40.
which was drawn for the purpose Of
having on hand a fund for the paying
for the burial of dead animals.
This resolution did not find favor
with the recorder. lie said that while
he thoroughly appreciated ana COM
mended the attitude of councils in
| seeking to check any action which
might al some future time be taken as
| "A precedent, justifying the practice of
| making advance payments out of the
city treasury, he believed that in this
particular instance an examination
would convince them of the justice and
| necessity of this fund. He then went
on to say that heretofore it has been
| necessary for various city officials to
advance the money necessary to bury
| these animals. and he thought this was
not just. He explained that the money
was properly safeguarded.
Councilmen Vaughan and Merriman
thought the resolution should pass,
Notwithstanding the veto, for the rea-
gerous precedent and that a all events
the city treasurer was the only person
| authorized to disburse money for the
city. They conceded the convenience OF
the arrangement to the bureau of
health. but believed the results that
| would eventually follow would he bad.
CounCilmen Cosgrove and Melvin
thought the arrangement was very
| NNEta 4
| council ought to support the recorder
in the attitude he took. a rol-call
| showed that the veto was sustained by
the following vote:
Yeas Regan, Maloncy, Mcrriman Oliver,
Vaughan. Chittenden--6.
Nayo-RosS, Finn, Costello, Evans, Morgan.
Melvin, Schneider, Shea CosGrove, Schroeder,
Clemons O'Boyle, oMdcy, McAndrew-4.
THE OTHER VETO.
The other veto was of the resolu-
ton directing that all deficiencies for
the last fiscal year be charged against
| the corresponding items for the pres
ent fiscal year. In his veto, the re-
corder takes the position that changes
cannot be made in the appropriation
ordinance save by ordinance and sug-
gests that an ordinance be passed au-
thorizing the city controller to trans
| fer from the balances shown to exist
| by his statement, such amounts as
may be necessary to wipe out these
| deficiencies. He considered that
| more business-like method of dispos-
| ing of the matter than to wipe out de-
| fiCiencies in items of last year at the
| imminent risk of creatingnew deficien-
| cles in the same appropriations for
| this year. The passage of the sug-
gestet ordinance would also operate
without embarrassing the departments
which have made arrangements for
the expenditure of the moneys pro-
vided for in the present appropria-
tion ordinance.
| Accompanying tho veto was the fol-
lowing statement from the city con-
troller:
| Balances in city account ...............si6I2 80
| Balances in special city account ....... 2O3a %
lotaI ..,...................S66i 6ij 30
Total deficiencies carried over from last
year .'.'...,,....,.... ...,.,.,.......S910 104 So
Total deficiencies paid 10 date ......... 32l6 81
-
pdIdH'c '''''''''' ''.'''.'......,...,,Gb,0IS OS
These deficiencies do not include
preparation ordinance, The Recorders
veto was sustained without a dissent
| ing vote.
There was quite a spirited fight over
the passage on third reading of the
| ordinance for the reconstruction of the
First district main sewer in I.acka-
wanna avenue from the "Y" to the
river.
| MIR. CHlTTENDEN'S SUGGESTION.
Chairman Chittenden relinquished
| the chair and said that by connect
| ing the basins of the Lackawanna av-
| enue with the Tenth district main
sewer which runs close to them the
water of the district above the inter-
section of Lackawanna and jefferson
| avenue which now flows into the Lack
| awanna avenue sewer would be divert
cd into the Tenth district which can
| easily care for it, the Lackawanna av-
| enue sever would he greatly relieved
and the proposed reconstruction would
| be unnecessary. The change suggested
| by Mr. Chittenden would cost less than
$500 he said The reconstruction pro-
| posed will cost $4,000.
| Mr.. Merriman endorsed Mr.. Chitten-
den's plan and Mr.. Melvin argued Wig
orously against it, Chairman Chitten-
den had called Mr.. Clemons to the
chair during the argument and though
the latter ruled that it would he i'm
proper to pass ii for the reason that
| the plans were not attached to IL
| council passed the ordinance by the
following vote:
Neas-Ross, Merrman, Cosgroye, Oliver, Glenn
ons, Vaughan, Chittenden-7.
| Nays-Fnn. Costello, Evans, Morgan, Regsn,
Maloncy, Melvin, Schneider Shea, Schroeder
| oBoylc, OrMalley, McAndrew-lS.
Other ordinances that passed on
third reading were:
Providing for the construction of a
sewer system, section ID" in the
Seventeenth district in the Nineteenth
| ward: providing for the assessment Of
the costs and expenses of said sewers
regulating the manner of collecting
assessments and appropriating funds
| to pay for same.
ment of the sinking fund commission
ers of the city of Scranton and the
duty of the city treasurer in con-
| nection herewith.
Providing for lateral sewer on
Prospect avenue from Alder to Will
low streets.
The exoneration lists of the follow
ing delinquent tax collectors were ap-
proved: Thomas Gilgallon, Ninth
ward. 1898, $35S45; r.. w. Davis
Twenty-hrst ward, 1897, sl4i,S9.
ORDINANCES INTRODUCED.
The following ordinances were intro
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