Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-17
THE COUNCIL.
The City Funds Will Stay
Where They Are.
vETOEs OF MAYOR HAZARD
Reports of officers and Committees
Adopted-Petitions Received
and Referred.

)
ing. President Frankenfield in the chair,
and Coupcilmen Wirsching, McLain,
Eummerland, Van Dusen, Hamilton,
Brown, Shafer and Bonsall present.
Mayor Hazard suggested that the City |
Hall be formally opened on Wednesday, |
and that the public be given reception
ON the afternoon and evening of that
day.
Mr.. Wirsching moved that the sug-
eestion be carried out, and that COM
mittee be appointed to receive the public.
Carried, and Messrs. McLain, Summer
land and Brown appointed.
An invitation to take part in the cele-
bration OF the anniversary OF Mexican
Independence was accepted, and it was
decided to adjourn at noon until this
morning at 10 o'clock.
Mayor Hazard presented the following
message:
ordinance entitled. IAN ordinance declaring
the expediency of and intention to regrade the
following streets: Court House street from the
east line Of Grand avenue to the east line of
Flower street; Bunker Hill avenue from the
north line of First street to point III feet
north Of the north line OF Court uouse street,
exclusive of the intersection of Court House
street; Hope street from the north line OF First
street to the south line of Court House street,
90 as to conform to the grade OF said streets as
now established, and to assess the cost OF re-
grading of said streets, together with all dam.
ages caused to private property by reason OF
such regarding and all costs and expenses OF
the same upon district to be benefited by
such improvem ment, and de fining that district"
1 don't believe that either the public interest
or convenience requires that this grading
should be done, am sure that the property
owners who will he required to pay for the
same do not want the work done and are out.
spoken in their objections thereto. Work OF
this kind that is purely local in its character
not in any manner effecting the general public
should not be undertaken except upon the
Petiti3n Of the property owners ,6 who ,sT are re-
ready been graded snd accepted and to order
them to be regarded at great expense against
the wishes OF the property owners at this par,
them which should be avoided.
Major Boneall said that the property
owners on the hill were about to come to
an agreement, and he moved that the
vote whereby the ordinance was adopted
be reconsidered, and that the matter be
referred back to- the Board of Public
Works. Carried.
Mayor Hazard also returned the "cow
limit" ordinance for amendment. The
vote whereby the ordinance was adopted
was reeonsidered, and the veto was sus-
tanned.
The report Of the City Attorney was
read and adopted.
An ordinance changing and establish
ing the grades of portions of Seventh
street, Alameda street, First street, Com
mercial street, Alvarado street, Water
street, New Jersey street, Farragut street,
Ellis avenue, Centennial avenue, Silver
street, Lopez street, Michigan avenue,
Orange street, Bridge street, Brooklyn
avenue, Eschandia street, Flower street,
nna Bellevue avenue, was read and
adopted.
An ordinance establishing the grades
of portions of Bixell street, Yale street,
Twelfth street, Water street, Sentous
street, lockwood street and Stanford
street, was read and adopted.
On ordinance of intention to open
Maple street to Ellis avenue was read and
adopted.
An ordinance changing the name of
parts of Diamond and Second streets
were read and adopted.
The report of the City Engineer as
published in the HERALD was read and
adopted.
The report of the commission on the
widening of Los Angeles street, between
First and Second streets, was read and
approved.
The report of the Board of Public
Works. as published in the HERALD, was
read and adopted.
An ordinance of intention to change
the grade of Calumet avenue was read
and adopted.
An ordinance of intention to establish
the grade Of part of Second street, was
read and referred to the Board of Public
Works.
Mr.. Wirsching moved that the Santa
Fe Railroad Company be instructed to
place f1sgman at the corner of Seventh
street. Carried.
Mr.. Summerland moved that the
Street Superintendent be ordered to pull
up the rails of the Electric railroad on
Los Angeles street. Carried.
Mr.. Shsfer moved that the Street Su-
perintendent furnish the Council with
list of the streets which should be &C.
copied by the city. Carried.
Mr.. Summerland moved that proceed.
ings be taken to widen Macy street.
Referred to the Board of Public Works.
Mr.. Summerland moved that the
Street Superintendent be instructed to
clear the distractions from Ash street.
Referred to the Board of Public Works.
The report of the Finance Committee,
as published in the HERALD, was read
and adopted.
The committees report on the city
funds was as follows:
In the matter of the bids received for receiy-
ing and disbursing the public moneys your
committee would respectfully report that they
have carefully considered the same and are of
the opinion that 1t would be decidedly against
public policy, and not IN the interest of tax
payers, for this Council to enter into contract
with any person or corporation to receive and
oisburse the public money! of the city at this
time, as by SO doing it might operate in causing z
stringency In the money market that the
Without going into detail, we take 1t for granted
that business men and the public generally un-
derstand where the public moneys of
the city are now held: to withdraw
rom two to three hundred thousand
dollars from circulation In this city
ana send It abroad (Which we have good
reason to believe would be the case) would in
our opinion be unwise, injurious and unwar-
ranted, and would prove far more disastrous
to the taxpayers and the people generally than
would be gained by the amount of interest
TO bederived therefrom. As to the legal duty
OF the Council to make such contract we
have no opinion to offer AS nore of our com
our opinion upon that point would not be of
sufficient value upon which the Council should |
base its action. We will say. however, that we |
have considered that question: consulted some |
OF the best legal talent in the city, and we our
selves arsconvinced that, as there is in the |