, 1889-03-06
A LIVELY SESSION.
A Very Interesting Meeting of the
City Council.
Alderman Altman Objects to the In
crease of Officers.
He Resigns the Craftsmanship of the
Park Committee.
A Pair of Aldermen Exchange C M
pliments.
Goop ATTENDANCE.

the only members of the city council who
failed to respond to roll call at last even
ing's meeting of the body. Both are out
of town. Messrs. Altman, Hunt, Nc
Gregor, Roberts, Robins, jerks and Mer-
rill were present.
MORE OFFICERS.
An incident of last evenings session
was the stand taken by Alderman Roberts.
chairman of the water committee. on the
ordinance creating the offices of water
commissioner, street and alley commits
%.sioner, park guardian and pump house
engineer. The new law CONCENTRATES
giving the mayor and council power to en-
gage and discharge the water commits
sioner. MIR. Roberts presented an amend
ment delegating this power to the water
and sewerage committee This was in
corporated into the ordinance.
When the ayes and nays were called on
the ordinance Mr.. Altman arose to c
plain his negative vote. He thought the
ordinance had been introduced for a pur-
pose. If placed on the books it would be
a dead letter. He did not believe that
more offices should be created, indicating
that it would increase The political ma
chiuery.
Mr.. Robins explained his negative vote
by saying hat when a laboring employe
was made an officer he would feel the i'm
portance of his position and come to dis
like work.
The ordinance was heartily endorsed by
Mr.. Hunt, who thought that the talk
about more officers was a bugbear.
Mr.. Altman took the floor again. He
talked from the shoulder this time. 1t
was evident, he said, that it had been dis.
covered that the number of offices at the
disposal of the mayor was insufficient to
accommodate the persons who had been
promised places. Under the new ordi-
nance those appointees VIGOROUSLY Incom-
petent were to be simply pensioned for
campaign work. The city paid its en-
ployes well and was entitled to good ser
vice. Touching Mr.. Hunts complaint
mat lhc aiuerLncn Wtrc uuuerpdlu' nlT.
Altman said the councilmen we're we'll
aware of the conditions of the salary
clause when accepting nominations.
As chairman of the park committee
Mr.. Altman would not assume the respon-
sibility of accounting for money expended
by an officer selected by the council-one
who would stand about and watch men
work instead of putting his own shoulder
to the wheel.
The mayors jaw fell not a little before
Mr.. Altman concluded.
No action was taken on Mr.. Altman's
resignation from the Craftsmanship of the
park committee.
COMPLIMENTS EXCHANGED.
Mr.. Altman moved that the ordinance
providing for the written consent of
property holders within a block of a pro-
posed saloon be laid on the table. After
a discussion on the subject action was
postponed until the next meeting.
MIR. McGregor wished it adopted at
once for the reason hat there was talk of
establishing a saloon near his place on
Eddy street. Mr.. Altman said he had
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''wbiskv bus;ness would Of oo,rso
oppose any ordinance of that character,
Whereupon Mr.. Altman remarked that
his ,ntapopis, w,ula perhans ike 10 oct
into the ..wbiskv hns;nass hat conld
mt and was not sit f,r il " Then tho
MAYOR rannod far order
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