The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-14

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 as they are to-day.
 Alderman Minor speaking of the mat ter of a filtration plant said that Tit was still under consideration by the
 company" and that a director when i asked what had become of the plans for filtration said that he did not know. He thought it doubtful about any filtration
 plant being installed
 In reply to Alderman Beecher Alder
 man Wright said that the Water com
 pany would not accept the continuing
 contract if any change was made In It
 as to the time when the city might
 purchase. Alderman Beecher said that
 if that was the case he would rather 1 have a ten year contract.
 Alderman Minor presented com
 munication to show what had been done in other cities regarding filtration Of water and asked that it be read. Ob-
 jection to.receiving the communication
 was offered by Aldermen J. J. Walsh
 and w. F. Walsh, the latter saying that
 the committee had fully looked into the filtration matter and that the commit
 tee had been informed that an expert
 had condemned Lake Whitney water
 and said that it's filtration was abso- lutely necessary. If the water was bad any ten people could petition the board of health and secure through the board
 filtration or purification of the supply. If the city went to the courts he would
 wager that the city would be beaten by
 the Water company the same as it was beaten by Yale college.
 | Alderman Wallace moved that the
 communication be read In reply to AL derman Miller the city clerk thought it
 would require fifteen minutes to read
 the communication. The motion to have it read was then passed.
 After the reading had proceeded i few minutes it was moved to recede from former action in ordering the
 reading of the communication and It
 was so voted.
 An ave and nay vote was then called for on the amendment to substitute the
 minority report for the majority re- i port.
 Alderman Corcoran said that the peo- ple whom he had heard express opin- ions had declared themselves at the public meetings for lower rates to con-
 sumers and free water to the city, and
 this was what the continuous contract provided,
 A vote on the amendment was then taken and the amendment was lost by vote of 19 to 9, the members voting
 as follows:
 1 Ayes-Messrs. Minor, McGill, O'Keefe,
 Miner Fertman, Wallace, Conway,
 Dickerman, Barnes-9
 In coran, Savers, Hosley, Erff, Maley
 Beecher, Miller, Baldwin, filling, J. J. Walsh, Dawson, w. F. Walsh, Alcoln'
 Foote, More Hilton, Wright-l9 Alderman Wallace moved that the majority report be taken up by sec tions. Alderman Wright objected on the ground that unless the contract was
 adopted they might as we'll adjourn and that taking it up by sections would be
 waste of time. The amendment was
 lost by a vote of 19 to g.
 An aye and nay vote on the adop-
 ton of the majority report was then called for Alderman Beecher moved
 to amend to provide that the city be
 permitted to purchase the water Works
 at any time instead of at the end of twenty-five years, as provided in the ma aiority recommendation. MT. Beech
 er later withdrew the amendment, and the vote on the majority report was taken, and the report was adopted by q. vote of 20 to s, members voting as fol-
 lows:
 Aves-Messrs. Wright, Adams, Bron- son. Corcoran, Savers, Hosley ETH,
 Maley. Beecher Miller Baldwin, Alling. ] Walsh Dawson, J. J. Walsh, Alcorn, Barnes, Foote, Morse, Hilton-2O | Nays-Messrs. Minor, McGill, O'Keefe, Gerner, Fertman, Wallace, Conway, Dickerman-S.
 | Alderman w. F. Walsh offered a mo- tion that if the councilmen are in ses- sion after 12 o'clock they be provided
 with a hot lunch at the expense of the
 citv A. motion to adjourn was lost,
 and the motion for lunch was adopt l ed and the board adjourned at 1O:5o. 1 THE COUNCILMEN'S MEETING.
 The councilmen were called to order
 at 10.58, as soon as the aldermen ad- 1 iourned. As soon as the roll was call- 1 ed showing 42 of the 45 members being | present the absent members belng
 Messrs. Hausman. Barnes and French' | Councilman Elliott moved, since 1t was
 SD late, that the board adjourn to meet
 again tonight at o'clock. An aye and
 nav vote was called for and the vote was at once taken. The motion to ad- | iourn was lost by vote or 10 to 70,
 the members voting as follows: Ayes-Messrs. Flames, Frederick, Gun
 ningham. Dwyer Brophy, Logan, Guss-
 man. Lukenow, Wells, Elliott Booth,
 Jacobs, Bracken, Hine, Kelly--15. | Nays-Messrs. Browning, Mason, h. eersolI, Parrott, Werweiss Farrell,
 McGrail, Habersang, Feustal, Kehoe,
 Ryan, Pauly, Conlin, Huber, Hosley
 Manning, Harper, Davis, Coyle, Wohl-
 maker, Bristol, Thompson, Brown, Rus sell. Boyer, Hughes-26
 | Councilman Ingersoll moved then, af- 1 ter the reading of the committee re-
 ports was begun, that the board at once
 proceed to action and that the majority report be adopted
 1 Councilman Frederick moved that the minority report be substituted Tor the
 majority report.
 | Councilman Elliott took the floor. He said that the contract should not be entered into without the members un- derstanding it's full import. He was willing that the reading of the reports | should be dispensed with. He then
 proceeded to an analysis of the minor- | ;+,r ,,oport Of which hn was one of the