The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-17
BY Vote Of City COuncil'in a
Special Meeting
ON PETITIONERS PROTEST
Those Who Favor Mecadam for North
Main Street viii be Given Chance
to Put in a Word as Well
as Granite Advocates.

BY vote Of the city council in special
meeting last night the work Of maead-
amizing North Main street will be sus-
pended until Monday night when an
other special meeting Of the council
win be held to permit the advocates of
maeadam to present their case BY PEI,
titioa Or otherwise to counteract the Pc
tition presented BY 4s men and business
firms last night against The use Of ma
cadam and in favor Of granite. Last
nights meeting held excellent possitfli-
ties for acrimonious debate among ths
members and between the members and
citizens who appeared; but everybody
put the lid on themselves before tha
heated stage was really reached.
There was considerable plain talk
nevertheless, with Chairman Thurston
Of the street committee and Aldbrmax
Alexander contributing the most Of it.
Alderman Thnston defended the acs
tions Of the street committee in pros
eeeding with The work Of macadamiz.
ing the street, while Alderman Alex
ander intimated that they must have
had great deal Of self-assurance TO 60
ahead when 1t was evident that the
council stood now against macadam
to two in favor, the two being Alder-
man Thurston and Campbell.
Alderman Alexander stated that tho
motion 10 macadamize the street was
carried 4 to 3 and since that time Al
dermen Hoyt and Even, who had voted
for the resolution, had made efforts ID
have tho motion reconsidered, only to
hare their wishes blocked BY Alderman
Thurston who had stated their motions
were out Of order. that the vote could
not be reeonsidered. After this latter
remark, Alderman Thurston stated
that he would Do the same thing il the
opportunity came again.
His position for this, he said, lay III
the fact that rules which the council
adopted for their guidance had nothing
To say about reconsideration but did
say that where other exigeneies arose
they were To Be guided 81 Cushina's
manual, Now Cushng's manual. ex-
planned Alderman Thurston. stated that
where the rules do not explicitly state
what majority shall be able to demand
q reconsideration a general consent" ID
required Ii was evident that Alderman
1hurston's part Of the general con-
sent had not been secured
Ex-Alderman RI s, Currier, who
spoke later in the evening, declared il
nonsense for 3 man To sav that d body
Of this sort couldn't reconsider ia vote.
Gnshing's manual 81 no Cushing's man-
ual He took the occasion to point out
two other methods Of procedure bv
which the resolution to macadamize the
street might be killed, either by adopt-
ing another resolution Getting an iIIus-
trafi0n Of several years ag01 0F bY plov-
ing ID amend the rules governing the
city council.
Mr.. Gurrier furthermore said II was
not right TO 60 ahead with maeadamiz-
ing the street unless the street commit
tee was prepared to state To the pea-
ple exactly what they proposed To do.
He mentioned d Tat OF details of road-
mixing which ought To he settled, and
be sNked If the street committee had
ATTENDED To them. Alderman Thurstan
thought this sort of reflected on the
street committee and He ret0rted thab
they had done IL well as they could
for men who were not expecting to draw
$500 d year salary
But To get back to the first part of
the story; Alderman Thurston had mov-
ed that q chance be given the support
ers of maeadam 10 put i'll their word
along with the others and he moved
that the pro. granite petition be receive
ed and placed on ale, adding that he
considered motion passed bg the city
council tn suspend work would be-
powerful enough, for he didn't think the
street committee was bigger than the
city council
Alderman Alexander thought there
wouldn3 Be any need for hearing II,
having held the hearing, the council
couldn't reconsider its former resolve
to macadanliza He thought also that
the pro-maeadam people might have
been present last night The motion To
receive the petition 81 the pr0-granite
people and place IT on fle until the
others could take some similar action
was finally carried, after which Alder
man Campbell moved that the work on
the street be suspended until Monday
night Also carried.
As The council i now lined up on Tie
question, Mayor Robins and Aldermen
Even. Alexander, Hoyt and Ross are
in favor Of granite blocks, while they
are opposed BY Aldermen Thurston aud