San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-01
NOT AS PER CHARTER.


the vision of the reader: bets are
offered that Alderman Reimann will
secure the contract to build the city
hail. In Saturdays issue of the
LIGHT was the list of bidders and of
these one $4,000 below Remnants
bid. In the report of the Express of
Sunday morning, the following APP
pears as Remnants remark: "Of
course I worked it close to get there.
I worked every thing close" The
LIGHT recalls these matters ana
these expressions to give emphasis to
the fact, so often noted, that the mem
bers of the city council are ever the
first to violate the provisions of the
charter; that no attention is paid to
that instrument by the council and
that It's transactions are perpetual
illustration of the utter disregard in
which said charter is held by the city
administration. That this charge is no
a random one appears from the follow
ing provision of the city charter
marked and indexed, Sec. 246, Char
ter and revised ordinances city of
San Antonio, May 1st, 1856.
Section 246. That no member of
the city council shall hold any city
office or employment under the city
government while he is a member OF
said city council, unless herein other
wise provided; and no member of the
city council or any other officer OF the
corporation shall be directly or inter
esteu in any work, business or con-
tract the expense, price or cOnsidera-
ton of which is paid from city treas
ury, or by an assessment levied by an
ordination, or a resolution of the city
council. nor be the security OF any
person having a contract, work or
business with said city, for the per
fOrmance of which security may be
required
Here then is a city charter, forming
the very warrant and authority for all
acts of the municipal council, and I'M
der its provisions no member OF the
city council can become party to a
COIl OllCJ Ill W MIN tllC ivy 10 iLiVNi
ested, and yet on the 18th day of July,
ISIS, the mayor of this city in his Off
cial capacity as head of the city adj
minis tratiOn, after Ostensibly purging
his skirts by remarking mo man who
will furnish any material will be ac-
cepted on a bond" proceeds to open
the bids for the building of the city
hall under contract for the city, by
the city, and receives without note or
comment bid by one of the city al
dermen. No more fragrant violation
of the charter could we'll be conceived,
and no more unblushing effrOntery
| than that with which the alderman,
thus bidding in direct violation of his
aIdermanic oath, eXclaims, "Of course,
| / worked it close to get there Not
! only is the ordinance violated by the
mayor who accepts the bid among
others, and by the alderman who
makes it in direct defiance of the
charter, but so certain are the Citi-
zens that no charter restrictions will
prevent an illegal bid that bets are
freely offered that this alderman's bid
will be accepted, Notwithstanding it is
| SO, 900 in excess Of another bid. All
this is of value as showing in what
contempt the charter is held by his
honor the mayor and council members,
and also how fully these violations
and this disregard of charter provis-
ion are understood in San Antonio.
This thing may go on forever, but the
LIGHT does not believe that il will.
WHAT Grover did on board the Sus-
quehanna, who came to see him, what
political conferences were held, and
what campaign racket started, far
more concerns the country to know
than Dan LamOnt's innocent declara-
ton that the president took all his
meals on board. Dan1 has no Objec-
tions to locating the lions den, but is
very reticent about the lions.
RUNNING negroes out of Crittenden
county, Arkansas, is regarded by
democratic journals of the milder sort
as game OF "seven up between the
niger and the white man. in which
there is no cause for governmental in
reference. This being the opinion OF
lukewarm democratic sheet, what
will be the opinion of a rabid, red-hOt,
anti-republican, damn the niger,
pattern of democracy? A fellow would
need visit hades to find out.
Complaints are being made of
lOOuaciOus VOUnU ladies who will talk