The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-11

important amendments to the funda-
 dunn vote of the electorate, and
 Whereas, at the present time the
 city has no power to submit sue
 questions to a referendum vote, and
 cannot do so until such power is
 granted to the city, Ey amendment
 to the city charter, and
 Whereas, the time is rapidly draw
 ing near when another General As
 sembly will convene, and as all i'm
 portant amendments to the city chart
 CT should be carefully considered be-
 fore they are submitted to the Gen
 CT al Assembly for their consideration, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That we, the members
 inc Socia1istic Party, sincere and con-
 slstent believers in the principle Of the referendum, call upon your hCn-
 orable body to take immediate step
 to have the charter of the city amended that the voters of our city snail have the right to place their seal of approval or disapproval on : matters affecting the fundamental law of our city.
 Signed, sealed by the socislistic Party of Bridgeport, in session Feb ] ruary 12, 1910.
 BENJ. J. LEGERE. Chairman. TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, 1 Secretary.
 That they have approved the lam guage and tenets of the communica- i tion as being in line with advanced ! good government and therefore re 1 fcommended for adoption the follow l ing resolution:
 1 munication be received with the ap 1 proVal of this body, and the reco1n- l meadations contained therein be | adopted.
 Adopted.
 Special Committee on de O'Connen | resolution reported relative to the O'Conneu. That John M. O'Connell, P. H. Brady and Garry Paddock be and they hereby are appointed 1 Special Committee to confer with the Connecticut relative to construction of q city wharf on land belonging to the City and lying adjacent to prop lerty of the said The Bridgeport Brass Company, and located near Housa- l tonic avenue, and report and recon l nendatton make to this body. Your Committee having been ap- pointed to consider this matter beg leave to report that they recomnne end l ed for adoption the following Sreso- l Resolved. That the above reso1u- tion, be adopted with the exception, 1 that the matter of the naming of the 1 of the mayor.
 Adopted.
 In connection with this report the ! mayor appointed Aldermen Brady, Paddock and O'Connen as such com mittee.
 At this time a. remonstrance signed by W. c. Bryant, ct al, protesting Council taken at meeting held Feb. 21. 1910, wherein the resolution of AL derman Clampett granting permission building from the south west corner of Warren street and Gregory street to Atlantic street west side of Park ave- nue as follows:
 We, the undersigned. respectfully
 state that in our judgment the action of the Common Council was void in that it illegally delegated it's power to you and that said action, petition and reference for action was taken without any Knowledge on our part of the same and without any opportunity for that the granting of said permission would be an irreparable injury to us and our property rights in the prem ises. and 1t we respectfully request 1 that no further action be taken in the matter and that said petition be not granted until we shall have a proper of the same. and protect our rights in the premises by injunction or other 1 legal action a due protection of our rights makes necessary and as in duty l Alderman Mahoney moved that the action taken by this Common Council 1 at 8, meeting held Feb 21, 1910 in re- l ferring to the Director of Public Works I with power to act the resolution grant | ing A. Schliusl<y permission to move l frame buildings be fescinded. 1 Alderman McMurray moved that the
 renonstrance be referred to the Com
 nittee on Streest and Sidewalks. l Alderman Gould moved @ amend
 nent that the remonstrance be referred 1 to the City Attorney for an opinion
 as to the validity of this Common 1 Director of Public Works, with power to act seconded by Alderman BulIard. Amendment lost.
 The original motion as presented by l o6 1 At this time Alderman D. E. OsNel l mov.td that the report of the ordin- i of Tree Warden laid on the table at
 a IT eeting held, Feb. 21, 1910 be taken l froE the table.
 l Sc .onded by Alderman Walker. i Mytion lost-by a rising vote of 13 to | Al this time the following comnuni-
 cati,tn was received from Alderman D.. l F. O'Neil-
 To His Honor. the Mayor and Board l of Aldermen.
 Gentlenen:-
 1 I herewith present my resignation
 as President of the Board of Aldermen the same to take effect immediately. i Upon motion of Alderman Walker the, resignation was accepted with re- gret-
 Alderman Walker moved that re- 1 cess of 10 minutes be taken prior t.
 voting for President of the Board. Upon reconveping. the Mayor an l rounced that nominations were now
 in order for the election of a Presi-
 dent of the Board to succeed Alder
 man D. E. O'Nein, resigned. Alder
 man Lavery placed i'll nomination the
 name of John H. McMurray.
 ! Seconded by Alderman Walker. 1 there being no further nominations the mayor declared the nomination | closed. The mayor appointed as tell 1 CTS Aldermen Lavery and Jackson The vote resulted as follows: Whole l number of votes cast 24, of whic- ] Alderman McMurray received IT. AL A A ~