The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-22
CUT PLANS DlSAPPROVED.
ALDERMEN TOTE AGAINST RAIL-
 ROADS PROPOSITION

Ordinances to be Set Up and Copies
 Stricken on Before Final Action
 New Kimberly Avenue Bridge Or
 dered-Spirited Arguments on Speed
 way Proposition Aye and Nay Vote
 Ordered. -.
 For the purpose of considering the report of the committee on ordinances special meeting of the board of al- dermen was held last evening. A quorum of the board being on hand President Bracken called the meeting to order shortly after o'clock. Alder man spreyer, who is chairman of the committee on ordinances proposed that In order to save time the board dis pense with the reading of the ordin- ances for the present except that if any one had any special interest in any particular ordinance or desired to learn why or how any one had been altered, ] that the board approve the ordinances for printing So that they might be set up in type and then some copies could be struck off for the board of alder men, and that if there were any cor recttons to be made they could be made then, and the type of the altered sec tions reset before the copies for the general public were printed.
 After recess of five minutes the board passed vote that the report be accepted and that the controller order 200 copies to be printed before final ac- tion Is taken, These 200 copies are to appea; in book form
 The report of the special committee on the increase in compensation for cer- 1 tain members of the fire department was read. The committee was unani- nous in recommending the following increases from present salaries: Fire marshal, $5 per day; second assistant lchief, $411; and two linemen to s274. Unanimous consent for immediate ac- ton was granted and the report was adopted
 The reports of the committeaon rail- troads and bridges were next taken up. The first report considered recommend 1 ed that the plan submitted by the Con- solidated railroad for the improvement in the cut should be disapproved, that the corporation counsel should instruct the railroad commissioners of this ac- tion, and that every effort should be made to prevent the adoption of any plan providing for making the grades of Fair street, Wooster street, Chapel and Court streets and Grand avenue l greater than three per cent. This be- ling the first reading the report was tabled for printing, but later on the mo- I tion of Alderman Minor the matter was Ereconsidered because of the fact that the railroad commissioners are to meet ] to-day, and the recommendations ern- bodied in the report were passed unani- mousl;.
 1 The report of the same committee stating that the Chamber of Commerce lplan was so indefinite that it's disap- proval was recommended was tabled fo. printing.
 1 The order for the new permanent bridge on Kimberly avenue across the lnortheasterly branch of West river was passed, together with an order for the controller to sell city bridge bonds to meet the expense of it's construction.
 The report of the special committee on the speedway was taken up for the second reading and created the most animated discussion of the evening
 The committee unanimously recom- mended the following provisions: 1 i. That the director of public works be instructed to cause to be prepared
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