Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-18
THE BLUFFS COUNCIL.
Routine Business EnliVelGi BY Some
HI Words,
The Reorganization of the Police
Force Again Postponed.
Council Bluffs Correspondence.

AT the meeting of the council last
evening all the aldermen were present
except Alderman Shugsrt,
Tho city marshal was sent out after
tho city engineer, to get him to report
concerning the proposed new grade Of
North Second street. The marshal
soon reported that ne had found the
city engineer on the street going home,
saying that his report was not completed,
and he was feeling sick n must GO
home,
A number of the property owners were
present wasting for some action
in the matter anG seeming
quite indignant, and one of them claim
ing that the engineer a ~purposely alb.
sent to cause delsy, the motion was made
by Alderman Sledentopf that the marshal
20 after him and bring him in, "desd or
alive" While the marshal was gone the
mill kept grinding OUT business of minor
Importance.
A petition of citizens Yves presented
asking that peddlers and ~loafers be not
allowed to stand at the corner of Main
and Broadway, half of the council being
s'gners of the petition. No action was
taken.
The city engineer being brought In
alive, reported on the Second street
grade, said grade to be sixteen feet In o
numbered, from Grant street to Fletcher
avenue. The c~ttlzsns petitioned for no
more than fourteen feet In a hundred.
Mr.. Grassland, Mr.. Foster, Mr.. Keller,
MI. Wies and others OF the petitioners ex-
pressed their viewe.
Aid. Sledentopf moved that the city
engineer prepare a grade as requested by
the petitioners.
Property-owners on Benton and Har-
rison streets were requested to meet the
engineer at 10 o'clock this morning, at
the city building, to consult concerning
the grade.
The city attorney declined to offer any
report on the common carriers ordinance
as 1t had been prepared by private
counsel engaged by the petitioners.
Alderman MUNSTER as presiding officer
gave City Attorney Holmes a sharp
lecture, telling him that he did not
und his duties.
The city attorney then gave the pre-.
siding officer an equally sharp rejoinder
and was called to order.
The dispute got hot snd Alderman
MUNSTER checked himself by saying be
would not say things In the chair which
he might say out of 1t.
The city attorney told him to go rlghi
ahead.
Alderman MUNSTER then paid that he
heard that the city attorney had said that
he knew more than Christ.
The city attorney said he snever said
any such thing, but that Vaughan and
MUNSTER thought they knew more.
The stormy squabble ended without
blood, the council ipstructing the city at
torney to prepare an ordinance in regard
to common carriers.
The clerk was instructed to advertise
for bids for paving and sidewalk on wes
SIDE of Oakland avenue, from Ross stree
to Washington avenue.
Capt. Halfway reported In favor of the
removal of Special Police Jackson, serv
Ing without pay, In the southwestern par
of the city, the cause stated being con
duct unbecoming an office Referred.
Judge Keatley, who Is compiling thu
ordinances, asked for instructions In re-
gard to putting into the new book th'
saloon lie ense ordinances. He though
they should be left out except the PEG
ple's ''pop ordinance"
On motion, he was instructed to omit
all such ordinances.
Supervisor Ross was instructed to pre-,
para approaches to both sides OF thu
Sixth street bridge and the temporary
bridge there removed, as being unsafe.
Aid. S~iedentopf moved that the street
car company be required to extend 1T
tracks up Broadway to Rabbits place
and failure 10 do 30 within thirty Gay
would Cause a forfeiture of the charter
so far as 1t covered that part of the street
Carried.
1t was statsd that another compan!
desired 70 got q charter and make this
part of their line, If the old company did
not do 30.
A brick sidewalk was ordered Oh tn,
west side of Sixth Street, from Broadwa.
to the creek.
The ordinance In regard to police wa
presented. 1t provided for not NOR
thnn q chief and captain, eight patrol
men, aud twenty specIslS, the latter to b
paid only when called on to act, the coun
Gil to pay the police by salary, or by fee
as seemed best.
The ordinance wac passed to secon,
reading, ana was referred, to be reporte'
on next Monday evening.
After considering come sidewalk MAJ
tiers, az adjournment vas taken until tina
time.