Wichita eagle., 1889-09-03
Coffin added section s.No. II. which EN-.

Coffin offered an amendment to forbid
| track on Waco, Lawrence, Emporia and
Water. 1t was stated that the streets and
avenues he mentioned were exempt, made
SO by the ordinance under consideration.
The spot announced to show such exemp-
ton was ordered read, which seemed to
show the exemption as claimed.
While looking after certain features
Schnitzler yawned ''slow business. slow
business" Coffin replied, 1--WE ought TO
be slow" The mayor added, This lasts
for years.
Coffin offered an amendment that when
the company fail to operate a line it forfeit
franchise. The amendment carried, but
no time selected for penalty to be i'm
posed
Downing-Will the chairman of the
committee explain why the paving left
out of the new ordinance.
Carson said it was covered in former
ordinances not repealed. He afterwards,
however. changed saying the company
could not afford to pave but could throw
in gravel"
Under discussion of ordinance of the
whole Coffin said the new ordinance would
have an effect on the paving question.
| This was greeted with cheers from the
lobby. The Street Car company, he said,
would get out as cheap as possible and
would want to put in gravel" The two
tracks would take sixteen feet, and a
gravel sixteen feet with paving on each
| side would not show the city off very welt
This raised howl and most enthusiastic
cheers. He insisted that he was opposed
| to the ordinance. The announcement was
received with cheers again. He thought
! some agreement should be made so
that the streets could be paved and
have no canal of gravel up the middle OF
the street." His speech at the close was
most enthusiastically cheered.
The mayor inquired if the city railway
could pay for paving on the same terms as
the property owners.
Coffin said Colonel Campbell was pres
ent and could explain.
| Mr.. Campbell said he had talked and ex-
planned the franchise and believed the old
ordinance would compel the company to
pave. He admitted that the old ordinance
contract was little rickety" on the pay
| ing question.
Healy said the remarks Of Coffin were
| not clear.
Coffin said he had not had the expo
| rience of Healy in debate and could not be
expected to be.as clear. as he was not as old
but if Healy said the Old ordinance COM
pany to pave and Campbell said they were
compelled to pave why hitch on paving
on paving clause to the new
ordinance. The lobby again re-
sponded with cheers when Col Camp
bell replied that the paving clause would
| injure the bonds in the market.
| Glaze asked the city attorney about the
paving, when Mr.. Wilson replied: 1T
leaves it to the companyto pave macadam
or gravel at the option Of the COM
pany."
The mayor said he did not want to hurry
matters. 1t was not time to vote on the
ordinance as a whole. The vote on roll
call was as follows: Administrators,
| Carson, Healy, johnson, Mercer, Schniz-
ler Wight, Williams.
Negative-Cofin, Glaze, Herrig, Down
| ing.
twas requested by four leading property
owners last night that the vote be given on
! the ordinance and no mistake as they
waited it to refer 20 for future use. The
names are given according to the order of
| the roll.
The mayor announced tina 1.-THE ordi-
nance carried and a painful silence
prevailed. 1t will be observed
that the ordinace supporter
come out with eight votes which would
| in the event of no influence to break the
support be just enough to pass the
! ordinance over a franchise. There was
considerable talk after the council adj
+ Hob 10
| action of the mayor. Some made one pre-
diction and some ventured another. lt
was suggested that property owners would
| try to break down the solid eight but
prospects for 'bust" as in all other cases
would depend on centrifugal and centripetal
forces. In other words it depended on in
ward pressure and outward pressure
which being translated in modern munich
pal parlance it is said to mean $50 and so. j"
The fire limit ordinance was passed and
| the work on it seemed decidedly tame as
| compared with the previous effort.
There was some discussion about how
permits for moving buildings had been
| issued and who did SO. 1t seemed to be an
open hand effort.
The mayor stated that there seemed to
be some criticism about paying 81. 900 for
i
street when lot offered down in the city
for $780, It was said down" town was
not a proper location, and no one sug-
gested that lot could be purchased On
Thirteenth street for less than 81, 600.
| Stienmetz & Sullivan. sewer contractors,
were allowed S6,126.10, it being estimate
! No. u
Miscellaneous bills were allowed to the
limit of funds, S225
! 4 resolution was offered to enforce ordi-
nance providing penalty for defacing
! trees.
| Steinmetz & Sullivan submitted COM
munication about the 60, 800 lumber bill.
| A brief review was made by them of the
reasons why they thought they should be
paid.
| The mayor asked what should be done
| with the communication, when Healy said
/ he scarcely knew what TO do. The veto
! had been dumped on the table. While in
Omaha Rosewater, the engineer, said the
bill should DO allowed. He moved the
veto be taken from the table.
The mayor was under the impression
that sc5ion should be taken Immediately
| on the veto when received by the council
and perusal of the question was COM
| menced.
After investigation the mayor said he
would entertain the motion and Mercer
| promptly" proved a second
| Coffin said the motion was ont of order
1 and il was so decided and it was moved TO
I place the ordinance on its passage, which
prevailed and the CLERK commenced TO
| look for the ordinance. The mayor said