The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-26
TO ANNEX OUTLYING WARDS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIS-
 CUSsES THE SUBJECT.

Many Prominent Speak srs- RcsoIution
 for Thorough investigation of situa-
 tion Adopted-Judge Hsrrison's Reso-
 iution on National Arbitration
 Uaantmously Adopted.
 An important meeting of the Chamber os Commerce was held in it's hall on Chapel street last night.
 R. Leroy Couch was elected to mem bership.
 The harbor committee submitted a recommendation that harbor of refuge be made at Horton's Point, because there is none between Plum Gut and Port Jefferson, a distance of fifty miles. The recommendation was received and placed on file f,r future action,
 Ex-Judge Lynde Harrison submitted the report of the committee on arbitra- ton, and after 1t had been read by the secretary it was unanimously adopted.
 The report first stated what had been adopted at the national arbitration con- ference in Washington held the 18th of this month.
 It then embodied a resolution to the effect that the action taken at that time was most heartily inidorsed by the Chamber of Commerce of this city, and that copies of the resolutions to that ef- feet should be sent to the president of the United States and to number of other national officials
 A matter of vital interest to the whole town Of New Haven then came up for consideration. This was the conjunc- ton of the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards with the city proper and vesting them with the same mu- nicipal and legal rights as the other twelve are at the present time enjoying, Attorney Watrous took the floor and stated that it was not his intenion to try and force a conjunction, and that he did not wish to be so construed. He also said that some of the residents of those wards might think that the prop osition was an attack on their rights and privileges, but that it was not. Continuing. he said that he hoped the residents of those wards would accept the resolution which he was about to offer in the same spirit in which it was offered Attorney Watrous then intro duced resolutin0n which was amended by ex-Judge Harrison with the consent of MT. Watrous. The amendment was made because it was thought by some of the members that the people in those wards might think that the original proposed motion was 8 little too forci- ble.
 The amended resolution, which was unanimously adopted, was as follows:
 Resolved, That a special committee of municipal affairs be instructed to obtain such information as possible bearing upon the desirability of consolidation. and report the same at some future meeting of the chamber, with the com mittees recommendation as to the best course of procedure to be followed in bringing it about.
 A consolidation of either the Thir- teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards or any portion of them with the city of New Haven, under the provisions of the existing charter.
 President Lee announced that he
  would appoint this committee later. and that most of them would be resi- dents of the. wards in question.
 Mr. Watrous referred to the sections in the city charter which states the only way the three wards in question can be taken into the city proper. He also spoke about the people residing in these wards having the privileges of the public library, and also the water, which is used for public purposes with out paying anything for them.
 Said the speaker: "The aldermen rep resenting these wards only have the right to vote on questions which direct ly interest their constituents, but through the good fellowship of the other members they are very seldom stopped from voting upon any question. These wards only pay to this city about one one-hundredth os the amount which the other twelve wards do. It would un- doubtedly be an excellent thing for them if they had the same fire and po-
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