Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
CITY COUNCIL.
SOME IMPORTANT ORDINANCES
PASSED LAST NIGHT.

The City Treasurer's Bond in $50, 900 Flied
and Accepted-Over Sixteen Hundred
Names ON the Poll Tax List-Resoiutiol
to Bond the city for $50, 900 introduced
Ordinances Defining Certain Ofaoers
Duties Passed.
At the meeting OF the City Council last
evening there were present Aldermen Pettes,
Pinkham, Calkins. Montaath, MulYille
Levy. Lynch, Olson and Wynne. The
minutes OF the previous meeting were read
and approved after correcting a clerical
error in q resolution OF Alderman Monteath
in reference to the street railway.
PETITIONS.
The petition Of John G. Morse, Superin.
tendent Of the Anaconda Electric Service,
for right of way to lay a telephone line oyea
certain streets of the city from the Ana
conda mine was referred to the COMMITTEES
on Streets and Alleys with power to act.
One rem 8. G.. Graney and others asking
the Council to grade Woolman street and
build q bridge on East Woolinan street at
a certain place was also referred to the
same committee. The bond OF City
Treasurer Cannon in the sum of fifty
Thousand dollars with w. "a. Clark. s.. II.
Larabie, O.P. Blaine and Lee Mantle as
securities, after being pronounced all right
by the City Attorney was approved and
filed with the City Clerk with instructions
to the Clerk to make an Endorsement OF
this approval on the bond. The City Clerk
then presented a list of persons resident in
the city liable to poll lax. There were
1872 names On it which, at 81 apiece,
amounted in the aggregate to Sc, 44S. The
reading OF the list was dispensed with, and
was adopted and referred to the City
Treasurer with instructions to proceed at
once with the collection of the same.
WAY AND MEANS REPORT.
When the committees were called for re-
ports the report ofthe Committee on Ways
and Means was read by it's Chairman,
Alderman Pettes, as follows:
Mr.. PREs1DENT-Your committee OF
Ways and Means having thoroughly can
vassed, in previous reports. the reasons
why Butte should contract a bonded in
d~ebtedness, respectfully ask the council
that a call for an election should be made
in legal form, and ask of the electors OF the
city of Butte, that in the interest of mu-
progress, and for the advancement
OF the welfare OF every individual, the priv
ilege OF issuing coupon bonds to the
amount of $50, 900 for the following spe-
cifc purposes he granted:
For building sewers in conformity
to the plans of the city engineer,
and under the direction of the
street and alley committees; the
whole TO be governed by the voice
OF the city council................$15,O0 900
For hI1ildin0 crnSa.mal RS md nor
fecting street grades in such man
ner as shall be determined by the
city couneil......-..-.-..-.........1 Is, 900
For the purchase of fire apparatus
in order to protect the depart
ment and place same under the
sole control OF the city Of Butte... 5000
making alterations in the city
hall building, to secure better Of
flee facilities, and to provide
quarters for city police and dor
mItory Tor 5000
Mr.. President, as the law reciprocally
that each purpose for which bonds |
'ately, / would suggest the propriety of a |
eparate call for al election on each OF the
questions, and that ach call shall
cad for the same day, and that separate
shall be prepared for each PROPOSE
for such election. This will, / think,
ompls with the provisions OF the law, and
the city the expense incident to sepa
elections.
Your committee has laid the proposed
,sue OF bonds before Messrs. Hoge, Brown
ee q Co., the First National Bank, and
dessrs. Clark & Larabie, and they have
ubmitted the facts to their Eastern CORE
p~ondents. Therefore, We would recon-
nend that the call for an election be de-
until your committee receives from
hese gentlemen some definite proposition
oncerning disposition of bonds, that in
ny action taken our ground may be fully
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM e. PETTEs,
Chairman w. and NJ. Com.
BUTTE CRY, June 20, 1888.
A few remark were added by Alderman
'ettes relative to the offensive odors en-
from the only fragment of a sewer
the city possesses and it's pestilential
ontiguity and urging that SO far as bond
~ the city for this purpose was concerned
here should only be one mind in the coun-
il. Alderman Monteath introduced the
resolution in connection with the
eport:
Resolved, That the City Clerk is hereby
Instructed to issue a call for an election to
ecide the question of an issue of city
to the extent OF $4,000, moneys
btained from the sole of such bonds to be
pplied to the following specific purposes
For building sewers in conformity to
lans of the City Engineer, and under direc-
ion of Street and Alley Committee, the
hole to be governed by the voice of the
Council, the sum of $4,000.
For building cross-walks and perfecting
grades in such manne as shall be
by the City Council, $4,000.
~ liz s. Gaa ~-n M Rrrn ~ /
rider to perfect the department and place
be same under the sole control of the City |
{ Butte, $4,000.
For making alterations in the City Hall
uilding, to secure better Office facilities,
nd to provide quarters for city horses and
ormitory for men, $4,000.
And, be it further resolved that such call
hail be is .ued under the direction OF the
ity Attorney in such n as shall con-
,rm to the law and involve the least ex-
ense to the City OF Butte in the conduct of
UGH election.
And, be it further resolved that the issue
{ such call shall be deferred untiIthe Ways
nd Means Committee shall have reported
svorably to the sale OF city bonds, provid-
lg they shall be issued; and thatuponsuch
eport being made to the Council, such call
hall be Immediately made by the City
Jerk.
The resolution was put ON it's passage.
Pettes made IA Statements that
hat was particularly desired at present
as to have the matter in such shape that
hen competent opinion had been consult
4 as to the marketable quality of the city
onds, the call for an election could issue
t once. He did not intend for his part to
ut himself on record as advocating the
onds until he had good grounds for be.
bonds OF the City were marketable ,
he City Att orney thought it would require
be passage of an ordinance calling for an
on the issuing OF the bouds. Ac-
ording to the advice given the Helena au.
horities on a similar subject by an emf
emit firm of attorneys, the method pro-
osed to be adopted would be illegal, and
be Council should avoid falling into the
error as their Helena brethren. Al
Pettes disclaimed any desire to
roceed otherwise than according to law, !.
nd would defer in every particular as to
he call TO the City Attorney when the
ime came. The resolution was then unani-
1ously passed.
STREETS AND ALLEY REPORT.
The report of the Committee on Streets
nd Alleys was read as follows:
To the President and Council OF the City