Year: 1871

to be done, and everything they said was
against some other ordinance which was not
before the Council. Now, it is fact Ca
pable of demonstration, that even If there
are four members of this Council in favor
of this other ordinance, we could not pass
it over your veto, Mr.. Mayor, if You were
sustained by the three gentlemen who have
pledged you and the Citizens Association
their support


The Mayor called the gentleman to order.
He did not think he had the right to assume
that any member of the Council had
pledged himself to support the Citizens.
Association, or any other outside associa-
ton.


Mr.. Remick said he would take that back.


The Mayor also denied that there were
any members of the Council under pledge to
him.


Mr. Remick: l was about to say that if
there is any force in your argument, it can
be construed against you. You are afraid
of yeur own virtue.


The Mayor: am little.


Mr. Remick: Or else you are extremely
anxious to handle the two millions and
half of bonds.


The Mayor: Not the hundred thousand
dollars.


Mr.. Remick: 1 have seen this kind of
thing before. have refused bribes myself,
and when I refused bribe of fifty thou
sand dollars-althoughn not a member of the
Legislature-to carry through the Legisla-
ture that which involved the city in
million additional debt, the only thing that
was said of me by the press was that was
not smart; that I was a fool; but when it
comes to the Administrator of Finance, why
it is ''the virtuous John S. Walton at once
refused"


Mr.. Bonzano: 1 have never refused.


Mr.. Remick: don't vaunt my honesty,
but want it understood that there is no
monopoly of this commodity. / say the ar
guments you have advanced, Mr.. Mayor,
are not tenable. You say, and consider it
an insult to the. members of this Council,
that every member has been approached
with certificates of stock, | believe you
said, but may be mistaken. l am willing
to take oath that I have never been ap-
preached, and the Administrator of Ae-
counts says he has never been approached;
vet you bring in mere hearsay to criminate
US. have never had any conversation with
any of the persons connected with this COM
| pany till after last Tuesday. l then heard
| from one of them that never had there been
| any proposition to the Administrator of FL
| nance in regard to carte blanche or an inde-
| pendent fortune. He said he was willing
| to stake his reputation that no authorized
party had ever made any such proposal.
| And now the Administrator of Finance gets
up and for the sake of being put in the
papers as an honest man, makes big
parade about resisting a large fortune
| offered him to put through measure which
it is impossible to get through, unless he or
his friends support it. am not in favor OF
the other ordinance. presume / should
vote for this if it came fairly and squarely
before the Council, but if there are three
who have got it in such a shape, that by
| parliamentary usage is must remain where
it is, l want to show l am untrammelled
| The Administrator who gave notice
| of reconsideration was exceedingly fail
the other day, and 1 gave him credit
| for a great deal of honesty of pur
pose. He said he gave notice of a
motion to reconsider, and it was not proper
| for the Administrator of Finance to move
| to lay a motion ON the table which had moi
been made, and he said that at the next
meeting of the Council he would carry out
his original intention, and make the motion
| to reconsider. The gentleman did not know
then that the Administrator of Assessments
would be here. He thought that, with the
Mayor sustaining him, he could put il
| through in the same way, and so the hon
esty of purpose 1 gave him credit for van
| ished into thin air with the Administrator
| of Assessments return.


| Mr.. Lewis desired to correct the gentle
man who had last spoken. What he said
was that he did not desire to take snaI
judgment in the absence of Mr.. Bonzano
nor did he desire to do it to-day. If the
| gentlemen had any amendments to bring
up, he would move reconsideration, but Il
reconsider for the sole purpose of defeating
the ordinance, was what he would not con
sent to. This ordinance had been before
| the Council ever since he had been elected
to that body. 1t was before the Council


when General West was member of it, anG
| the Administrator of Accounts who opposed
this ordinance to-day, was the. very mai
who said there was no additional Legislation
needed by the city to retain control of hel
| Waterworks. that the Governor was opposed
| to the leasing or selling of the Waterworks,
| and that there were seven Administrator
appointed who were fully competent to con
duct the affairs of the city. The mex
thing we saw continued Mr.. Lewis
was the Crescent City Waterworks bill
introduced into the Legislature. We saw
that the bill passed, and then the question


came back to the Council: "What shall WI
| do to save the Waterworks ?" The Admins
| traitor of Accounts, himself, believe, de
vised the principal part of that ordinance
which was passed last Tuesday. 1 have
been present in consultation over this ordi
nance, when he has suggested many amend
ments to it, which, believe, were adopted


1t is the same fight we had on the protection
levee question. followed the Administrator
of Public Accounts, and believed he was sc
rious. He prepared an ordinance, setting
forth that we were to contest this protection
levee, just as the city contested other meas


ures passed by the Legislature, and, be


lieve, out Of three we have gained two. Blu
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