Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-11-11
CITY MEETING.
RETURN TO CONTRACT sYs.
TEN FOR CARE OF POOR.
.,yoa vEToEs ACTION OF BOARD IN
ACCEPTING BID OF FRANK R. MO-
GOWN FOR SUPERINTENDENT.

recess meeting OF the mayor and
.,ssrmen was held Monday evening for
,rrtber action in regard to the care Of the
-, As was expected, Mayor Hagerthy
Ir..asented veto message on the action OF
r. hoard In accepting the bid OF Frank r.
M.f,owu for superintendent OF the poor.
rhs hoard has now abandoned the plan OF
hiring superintendent, and returned to
the contract system.
The full board was present at the meet
inc CITY Clerk Cunningham read Mayor
usgerthy's veto message as follows:
r.r,ss RomorabIe;Board Of. Aldermen Of the
civ Of Bll"eorthi
whereas, on November ., 1914, by the action
:, ,he board Of aldermen OF the city OF Ellis
,.or.h IL was voted by divided vote &c ac-
.so. the bid OF r. r. McGown for the care of
~ moor Of the city Of Ellsworth, under prop
o.i,ion No. .. so-called, In your vote. and
whereas, This sction Of the said board 10
No. auproved by me, AL mayor, ! hereby re-
,nrp the same to you with my objections.
wtich are that such action In not for the best
interest Of the city Of Ellsworth, nor is 1t con-
auciye to the welfare Of the dependent poor.
ehsrgeable to the city Of Ellsworth. and 1t
sopearsug to me that such action Ia not de-
.,rshlo. either from the standpoint OF the
city or from that Of the poor, am con-
strained to object, and veto the action OF the
hoard as above referred to, and ask that these
objections be entered on the Journal, rs re-
auired by law.
Yours respectfully,
A. O. HAGsRruy Mayor
On a motion to sustain the veto, Aid.
Jones, Stuart and Maddocks voted no,
Aid. Treworgy and Moor yes. The vote
was therefore sustained, four votes being
necessary.
Mayor Hagerthy, in further explaining
his opposition to the vote vetoed, said he
believed proposition No. as submitted to
the bidders Was better than proposition
No. Q, under which Mr.. McGown's bid
was accepted, but he believed that the
contrsc, system, IL the price could be
made less, wac better than either.
The matter was discussed at some
length by all the aldermen, and it APP
peared that majority favored proposition
No. 2 TO Ne. 1.
Motion OF Aid. Msddocks to recon
slider the vote whereby Frank r. Nc
Gowns bid for superintendent of the
poor was accepted, was carried; also Aid.
Jones' motion that all bids be rejected.
On motion OF Aid. Stuart, 1t was
potsd, That committee of three, consist
ing Of Aldermen Jones. Maddocks and Stuart.
be empowered for the city to make q contract
for the support OF the city poor with some
suitable citizen, under similar terms and
conditions as the Jones and Drummey con-
tracts, except the sum to be paid under the
new contract not to exceed s2,Tso per annum.
Before this motion was put, Aid. Moor
expressed his objections, that the minority
party in the board Of aldermen was not
represented on the committee. He did
not wish to be on the committee himself,
but he thought it no more than right that
one republican should be included. On
this ground he doubted the vote, and the
roll was called, with the same party di-
vision as before. ~ -.
The meeting then adjourned.