CITY COUNCIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4269, 1 November 1876, Page 4

CITY COUNCIL.

After we went to pres? yesterday, Or. moved that the motion of which he hafli given notice in the Council on FebV 18 ? 4, ahd ’May 9 and 16, 1876, re athe TowßTHall be acted, upon at once, tome disetflniion, in which Crs. Fish •bowed a disposition to talk , the motion, was withdrawn, witn the nhj ection j of reintroduoing it at .: A SOSNI. • . .the course !of. the discussion on Cr. motion that the when pro -

se&V ihoild fete Urn dttir^*oßaajtter meetings, ** Cr. Fxut eeid he regarded the reselution m an invidous one, as it left it open to the Mayor to aot as chairman of one committee exclusively. There was no necessity for the motion, inasmuch as the chairman of the several committees would resign the chair to the Mayor should he be present at any of such meetings. The Mayor considered that there were reasons why the Mayor should be chairman of the committees, tie then referred to the recent action of the Gas Committee in passing a vote of censure on him, and pointed out the inconvenience and clashing which might result from such a course being pursued. One of the duties of the Mayor was to see that the wishes of the committee should be carried out. At the second meeting of the Gas Committee he was in the room and waited, expecting to be asked to take the chair.

Cr. Fish hoped that the Mayor would confine himself to the truth. Such remarks were most indecorous.

The Mayor : Take your seat. Cr. Fish : If you make statements, I claim the right to expose them. There was not a quorum present in the room when you were there.

The Mayor : There is no right in the matter. I said nothing about a quorum being present. I have myself, when in my room,,heard a Councillor speak in a loud tone of voice to the officers of the Gas Department, which is not at all proper, and 1 cannot allow it. Cr. Fish : What C uncillor was it ? The Mayor : It was Councillor Fish. Or. Fish ; I say it is a deliberate 1 say you are telling a deliberate untruth. Cr. Brown would leave the room if such a discussion were to be continued. It was not creditable to listen to such a discussion.

The Mayor : I was going.to remark that, had any other Councillor used such language, I would regret it much, but, coming from Or.; Fish, it is quite appropriate. Cr. Grant moved that the Mayor should act ‘as Chairman of Finance, Watery Gas, and Works Committees.

Cr. Fisa, in seconding, said that during the eight or nine years which he bad been in the Council he had never been subjected to such a deliberate, nngentlemaoly, and uncalled for attack as that made upon him by the Mayor that day. His past career in the Council was his (Cr. Fish's) best answer to the Mayor’s remarks. If the Mayor were appointed chairman, his duty would be to retire from the committees with which he was connected.

Cr. Walter regarded the motion as a reflection on the chairman and members of the committees.

Or. Woodland opposed it as uncalled for. Both the motion and amendment were ultimately withdrawn, Cr. Gibson saying that had he been aware that the Mayor was ex officio chairman of the different eomnrtteea he would not have proposed the motion.