The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-12
Aldermen Will Send a Commit. tee to Board to Ask for Enrolment Officers
 Money.
DISCUSSION IS SPIRITED
Miller Introduces Petition for Inycs. tigation Regarding the Humph- rcy Street Extcn-
 sion.

The course of events in the Mccarthy
 military enrolment question which has
 been under agitation for over year,
 received new twist at the special
 meeting of the board of aldermen last
 night. The report of the special com-
 mittee, unanimous report calling for the passage by the board of recom- mendation for his payment, came up Tor second reading and final disposi- t'on' On the motion of Alderman Null vey the report was referred back to the committee, which was instructed
 to go before the board of finance and
 ask that body to take up a similar
 measure which is supposed to lie on
 the table of that board and ask that 1t appropriate sufficient money for the claim The change in procedure from passing the measure which had been
 expected was due to the fact that Al- derman Mulvey and eventually the rest of the democrats in the board held
 the idea that this would be a moro successful measure of dealing with the matter
 When the favorable report had been read for the second time Chairman Burke of the special committee which had submitted 1t, moved its passage.
 Alderman Townshend then arose and said T am perfectly certain now. as l was before, that 1t Is illegal for this board to pay this sum to Mccarthy It doesn't seem right to me that the board should take an illegal step this way. When I was In the board of finance We had an opinion from the corporation counsel holding that 1t was an Illegal claim. The mayor has laid down as his policy that he would give the city a business administration. But You are not upholding the mayors po- sition in giving business administra. ton by doing this. Of course you gen. hemen have the power to do what you Will You are In the majority and should take the responsibility but the city has no right to pay this"
 Alderman Mulvey then arose and pre- sented his amendment. He put it on the ground that 1t would be more ef- fectual than passing the motion then before the board. He said that if the recommendation was passed and the mayor felt obliged to veto 1t the mat ter would be settled forever and could not be taken up again. But if 1t went to the board of finance in the manner ne suggested there would be a possi- bility of doing some good for Mccarthy. He said he believed similar measure was already before the board of finance and so It would do no good to have another there anyway, while if the was instructed to appear be. fore the board of finance, not individ- ually nor as committee, but to rep resent the board some good might be accomplished. He did not agree with MT, Townshend that the claim was H. legal, he said. and he held that it should have been paid long ago but un. der the circumstances he thought diplomacy might accomplish more than other action.
 Attorney Jacobs thought this might prove a wise course to pursue He maintained that the claim was an H. legal one but admitted that the enroll- ment of Mccarthy was the better Q. the two taken and that if 1t was pos- sible he should be given something for It under the circumstances. Alderman Burke then supported the report of his committee, stating that the enrolment had been made in good faith, that tho city had accepted and still held tho enrolment which he had made and that had never been notified by