Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-06
EVERAL ORDINANCES PASSED.
Eleven Councilmen Meet and Trans.
act Considerable Business

Eleven sharp-shod counclmcn Slid to the
council chamber last night and transacted
considerable business. A majority OF the
gentlemen were in frisky and humorous
mood, and the delegation in the vicinity of
Lees, Ford's and Lowry's side of the house
were so ridiculously funny that Councilman
Alexander threatened to leave the room
This involved the gentleman and Mr.. Lee IN
an exchange of hot words, which President
Bechel had some difficulty in sQuclching.
The committee on special appropriation
ordinances reported in favor of the folowing
Is. r. Baker, three months salary as super
intendent of city hall, $500; curbng Leaven-
worth street from Seventh, S5i6.02; grading
California street from Twenty-seventh street.
s. 40; John G. Gown and George w. Am
brose, $3.50 each for legal services in the quo
warranto cas- ;payment of liabilities amount
ing to So, ,34491, incurred during the month
Of December, 1887, and prior thereto.
A resolution to the effect that the city coun-
Gil meet as a board of equalization for the
equalzing of property in various sections of
the city to stand the expense of paving and
curbing, on Friday and Saturday, January l3
and IA, was adopted.
An ordinance to regulate smoky chimneys
and smoke from locomotives caused consider
able debate. Mr.. Burnham said that he had
been requested to draw up the ordinance by
respectable and law-abding citizens, and he
disliked to hear Lee, Ford and others treat
ing it with riucue
BY vote of n,ne to three the ordinance
was defeated
for third reading: Licensing employment
agents, rejected; creating office of license in
spector, at salary of 81, 200 per year, passed !;
providing for the issuance of $500 city bonds
for paving and curbing district l24; on
Cass street, adopted; establishing
grade of Twenty-eighth street from
Dodge to Farnam street, adopted; partially
grading Pierce street, from Twenty second to
Twentyfourth street, and appointing ap-
praisers, referred to city attorney; changing
the grade of Twenty second street from ST.
Mary's avenue TO Leavenworth street,
adopted; establishing grade of Dodge street
from Thrtieth street to Twenty seventh
avenue adopted; levying special tax on
property to construct sewer in special sewer
district No. IS, adopted; levying special tax
on paving district No 6S to cover cost of paw
ing Sixteenth street from Pierce to Vinton
street, adopted. Several ordinances relating
to the paving of streets between the tracks
of the street car companies werr referred to
the committee of the whole to be considered
at their meeting next Saturday night; levying
special tax and assessment on lots in paving
district No. So to cover the part cost of paw
ing Sixteenth street, adopted; constructing
a sewer in sewer district No. 60, adopted ,
curbing Fifteenth street from Davenport to
Webster street, adopted; constructing a
sewer in sewer district No 80, adopted; con-
structing a sewer in sewer district No. A.
adopted; constructing sewer in sewer dis
trict No. 6l, adopted; constructing q sewer
in sewer district No. 62, adopted; construct
ing sewer in sewer district No. 49, adopted; ;
constructing sewer in sewer district
No. As, adopted; paving California street.
from Sixteenth to Tweuty-fOurth streets
adopted paving Twenty fifth avenue, from
Farnam to Dodge streets, adopted; paving
alley from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets
adopted; curbing Sixteenth street, from
Howard to Leavenworth streets, adopted ;
paving Davenport street, from Ninth to
Fourteenth streets adopted; construction of
sidewalks, adopted; construction of sewer in
sewer district No. Al, adopted.
On motion of Ford previous action on the
ordinance regulating employment agencies
was rescinded and the same was referred to
the committee on Judiciary 10 have the name
of the president included as one of the license
board.
The council then adjourned