The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-15


Mayor Winter appeared and took the
chair.
The following official and other bonds
were read, and on motion Of Alderman
Lancaster, were approved.
Bond Of John II. Gossman, city mar
shal, with Isaac walder and John
McNulty as securities.
Bond OF Henry Sargent. police consta.
bic, with VIM. l.. Bristol and John r.
Rennie as securities.
Bond of Martin O'Maley, police con.
stable. with +. Fitzgerald aud Newton
Rice as securities.
Bond Of William Brown ms
health officer with power of DO
lice constable, with VIM. II. Morris
and Leo kleb as securities.
Bond of James Carroll, city jaier, with
p. Fitzgerald, John II. Beecher and
John Tanner "a securities.
Auctioneer's bond Of w. r. Axley Il
Co., with a. J. earle as security.
Alderman Rittenhouse offered the fol.
lowing resolution:
Resoired, That the board Of health be
| authorized to employ a suitable person or
| persons, at "a salary not to exceed two
dollars per day, tn assist them in cleans.
ing the city, thereby the better to protect
the health of same.
| The chair asked privilege OF reading a
communication Of the mayor to the
council before action was taken on the
resolution, which was granted.
Said communication was then read as
follows
CAIRO, Ills, June 18th, 1876.
To the City Council of the City OF Cairo;
1 GENTLEMEN II did, on the 18th day
OF June, 1916, at 6 O'Clock p.m remoy.
William Brown, health officer. The or.
dinaace, No. 70, Section 2, creating this
| office provides that he shall 'hold hi s
| ONCE during the pleasure of the May or. ~
and whenever the Mayor chooses to dis
pense with the services OF the health OIL
Ger that is the end OF his term.
lie Is not permanent officer and the
| ordinance did not intend he should DO;
and when dismissed by the Mayor he
cannot be reinstated by tie council. the
| Office being a temporary one subject TO
the pleasure OF the Mayor.
The Mayor by this ordinance is made
the Judge Of the necessity Of health
officer. The city was never healthier
than at present. We have no contagious
disease, and in my judgment there is no
necessity for a health officer. Whenever
an emergency arises for health officer |
will appoint one under the ordinance,
ms city cannot afford to pay I'M
necessary officers. We must economic
at every point, and l still insist that the
money paid tor unnecessary officers had
much better be expended in cleansing
our streets and improving the drainage
OF the city. which, when done, will add
permanently TO the health Of the city.
The ordinance defining the duties OF
the city marshal. makes it his duty to
| attend to all the duties that it would be
| possible for health officer now to per
| form, and which he Is now diligently
performing. and to the satisfaction Of a
majority Of the citizens. Furthermore,
upon conversation with the ply icians
OF the city. they all express the opinion
that the city was never In healthier. on |
more cleanlier condition thN thu Of prc-
present time. Owners --'ouns g. o. the
will testify to tn" ~ ~. ."ea s. ANU !. 20 be
q. sI?rt tie kest interests of this city to dis
pense with the services OF the health
officer. Yours respectfully,
HENRY WINTER, Mayor.
Alderman Halliday moved 10 refer
the Mayors communication to the
| Board OF Health with Instructions
to report at an adjourned meeting one
wtak from tonight. Alderman Halli-
day spoke at length In support
OF iSs motion. combating the
ground taken by the Mayor in his
communication, quoting from The
mayors bill and the revised ordinances
of the city, as sustaining his position
that the Mayor cannot discharge an APP
pointed officer Of the city without the
consent of the Council, and that the
Council has the right and power to rein
state any appointed officer discharged by
the Mayor, il, in its judgment, his rea-
sons for discharging such officer are in
sufficient. or the interests Of the city re.
| quire his retention in office.
The chair replied to Alderman Halli.
days remarks, reaflirming the Mayors
right to remove the health officer at his
pleasure, under authority OF Ordinance
| No. 70. He also claimed that the revised
ordinances We're not yet In effect and did
not govern his conduct. That he had
upon "A former occasion been requested
by the Council to remove the health
officer, at a time when he the Mayor
considered his services necessary, and
that he had declined to remove him
That his only motive now in removing
Mr.. Brown was IA desire to ecOnomize, al
he had no charges to make against him
and that he should continue to discharge
him as often as he was reinstated by the
Council.
The question being called upon Aid
erman Hallidsy's motion, 1t was car
ried by the following vote:
Ayes-Halliday Lancaster, McGauley
Parker. Patier. Rittenhouse, Thistlewood
ami Yocum.-s.
Nays-NOne.
Alderman Rittenhouse asked that his
resolution be again read and moved its
adoption.
The chair ruled the resolution ont OF
order.
Alderman Rittenhouse appealed FROM
! the decision OF the chair.
| Tho nuastinn shall the llecision al