The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-29

had voted at it's first meeting held last June that the president of the board should appoint all standing and special committees.
 Councilman Bracken moved to re- scind that vote, On an aye ana nay vote this motion prevailed, the mem bers voting as follows:
 Aye-Messrs. Hausman, FredellcK' Werweiss, Farrell, McGrail, 'Cunning- ham, Dwyer Brophy Logan, Wells, Manning, Elliott. Booth, Jacobs Brack- en, French, Hine, Bristol, kelly, , Thompson, Brown, Hughes, LubenoW- 2S. Councilman LubenoW hrst Voteo "No" but later after the vote had been taken changed his vote to Aye. Nay--Messrs. Browning. Mason, in- gersoll, Parrott. Habersan8, Feustel' Kehoe, Ryan, Carlin. Huber, Gussmah' Hosley, Davis, Coyle, Wohlmaker' Rus- sell, Boyer-17
 Councilman Elliott then renewed ms
 motion for a special committee, the councilmanic and aldermanic members to be elected by their respective boards' and it was carried.
 The board then proceeded to elect
  committee. For first member Council man Wells nominated Councilman Frederick; Councilman Cunningham nominated Councilman Bracken; Coun- cilman Frederick nominated council man Elliott; Councilman DWyer nonh- mated Councilman Cunningham, and Councilman Kehoe nominated Council- man Mason. MT. Cunningham with drew his name and then vote was taken. Councilman Mason was elected, receiving twenty-four votes, those members voting for him being Messrs. Browning, Ingersoll Hausman, Parrott, McGrail, Feustel, Kehoe, Ryan, Carlln, Huber, Gussman, Hosley, Elliott, Booth, Davis, Coyle, Wohlmaker, French, Hine, Bristol Thompson, Brown, Russell, Boyer
 Councilman Bracken received twelve, the members voting for him being Messrs Frederick, Werwelss, Farrell, Cunningham, Dwyer, Brophy, Logan, Lubenow, Wells, Jacobs, Kelly and Hughes. Councilman Elliott received two votes, those of MT. Frederick and I'M. Bracken.
 For second member Councilmen El- liott, Bracken, Logan Frederick and Carlin were nominated, but MT. Carlin withdrew his name. On the first ballot there was no choice, Councilman Logan receiving 13, Frederick l2, Bracken Il, Carln 2, Elliott ?. Then all the candi- dates except MT. Logan and MT. Fred erick withdrew, MT. Bracken withdraw ing his name in favor of MT Frederick The vote resulted as follows; Freder- ick 25, Logan 16, the former being elect ed
 For third member of the committee MT. Elliott was elected receiving 3l votes, while MT. Bracken, the other candidate. received 10.
 The aldermen will hold a special meeting tonight to consider the water contract and last night there was much speculation as to what that board would do in reltion to the contract. The consensus of opinion among those heard discussing the matter was that the al- dermen would concur with the council men in reference to q special commit tee although there was some conjecture to the effect that there would be non- concurrent action in regard to the man. ner of selection of members of the con1- mittee The apprehension was ex- pressed by many that since this action of the councilmen if conourred in by the aldermen would practically amount to starting anew on the contract matter and since the present contract with the Water company expires February 20, the present contract would expire be- fore 0 new contract Is made and the city would be obliged to pay regular water rates for water used for public purposes. There was also some talk last night to the effect that the Water company might refuse to enter into special contract with the city if the re- newal was delayed until after the pres i ent contract expires,
 After action on the water contract last night a petition from the Wnches- ter Repeating Arms company for per mission to erect q foot bridge across Winchester avenue to connect branch shops on opposite sides of the avenue was referred to the street committee. A communication from Anthony Car roll asking for more hearings on the water contract was referred to the spe- cial committee and a communication from MT, Carroll asking that all docu- ments in relation to the contract be printed in the journal was referred to
 special committee to be appointed by the president. Messrs. Kehoe, Elliott and Frederick were appointed members of the committee