San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-31
INJUNCTION INCUsATIoNS.
The Council Called Together by his
Honor-He Will Fight the In
junction Suits to Death
His Motion per Lock
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| carry.
A special notice was served yester.
day by the mounted police on the
council members. 1t read as follows:
"You are hereby requested to at
tend a special meeting of the city
council to be held at $50 o'clock this
evening, at which | will submit to
your honorable body the several in
functions issued from the district
court of BeXar county and served
upon the city of San Antonio and my
self as it's mayor and such other busi-
ness as l may bring before you.
BRYAN CALLAGHAN. Mayor"
AT $50 the council members were
all in their seats. with the exception
of aldermen Fest and Guerguin.
AS soon as the council was called to
order the mayor laid before them his
special message, opening with these
ominous words-"Gentle men Events
OF the gravest character has trans
pired since your last meeting which I
think it my duty to inform you Of"
| Though not so vOluminous as the or
binary presiden tial message the doc
ument Is entirely too lengthy to justi-
fly reproduction here, particularly as
it contained little or nothing not pre-
viously known. tits, in short, a reci-
tai of the bond matter, from the time
| the election for their issue was ordered
until the injunction of Judge Moo
nan was obtained at the instance
of Alderman-at-large Bolton. From
this recital the Mayor shows that he
made The award of the 100000
bonds in such peculiar manner as in
his opinion would thwart an in june
ton which he had reason to fear
would be asked for. That he was not
successful in SO doing and that the in
junction was asked for and not
granted by the Judge of the district
court. Complaint is made that the
small sum OF 81, 900 is named as the
penalty in this suit in view of the
large sum enjoined and the opinion
expressed that this was because the
writ of injunction was prayed for by
an alderman-at-large of the city.
The message also recited the fact
that an injunction had issued against
the city, by the San Antonio Street
Railway Co., the plaintiff corporation
giving $1,000 bonds in which the city
is restrained from interfering with
the laying by said company of it's
tracks on the west side of Alamo |
plaza. Speaking of the first and sup
Elemental writs of injunction in the |
street railway case the message says: |
1.-The writ of injunction is an eXtraor-
binary one and ordinarily will not be
at law 1t then proceeds to |
H., No F,,lt hnN
been had by the street car company at
law, and that an injunction was not |
necessary. Also, that the city has |
had no chance to be heard and that |
all it can do is to go for the bond in
sight for whatever damages may &C
crue.
Having finished his reading an
awful silence fell upon the council,
broken finally by Alderman Kalteyer
calling for the record of the
bond issue. This read, Mr.. Kaltever
that the issue was not in &C
cOrdance with the charter nor of the
special ordinance governing their
issue. To this the mayor stated that
the city had suffered injury, but he
did not deny the soft impeachment.
kalteyer's statement remaining I'M
challenged he did not feel constrained
to say more and awaited develop
ments.
Alderman Lockwood then addressed
the council defending the mayors &C
ton in general and the bond issue in
particular with his right, at the same
time leading out with his left for the
fellows who obtained the Injunction.
He was followed by Alderman Boel-
hauwe with a carefully prepared man
Iscript in which he endeavOred to
show that the injunction would dam
age this city some St, 100000.
Alderman Bolton intimated that he
was not ready to answer the insinua-
tons of his colleagues but that on
future occasion he would pay his ad-
dresses to them.
Alderman Lockwood moved that
the mayors message be received aud
and that the mayor be au-
LhOriZed to employ counsel to assist
City Attorney Bergstrom in defending
the city's interests in the injunction
suits.
Alderman Bolton.-What's the use
IN doing that? What have we an at
.Orney for? Isn't he able to get along
assistance?
The MayOr-The city attorney,
though an able lawyer, has his hanus
so full of business that l know he will
need assistance In fighting the in
junction.
Alderman Bolton. Then, as / am
in the injunction suit, hav-
ing employed a lawyer to represent
me in that action, | shall decline to