Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-22
THE CITY COUNCIL.
The Street-Lighting Contract
Still Hangs Fire.
THE NEW CHARTER DISCUSSED.
The City Attorney to Draw an
Ordinance Closing the Saloons
at Midnight.


dent Kuhrts in the chair, and Messrs.
Cohn, Hanley, Bosbyshell, Shafer, Earl,
Bryant, Ford, Threlkeld, McNally. Mo-
riarty, Humphreys, Barrett, Wilson and
Sinsabaugh present.
Captain Barret introduced resolution
authorizing the employment of two
attorneys, one from each party, to 60 to
Sacramento to look over the new Char
ter in conjunction with the Judiciary
Committee of the Legislature and if
found constitutional to urge its approval.
He suggested the names OF Judges Hut
ton and Brunson as such representatives.
DR.. Bryant introduced a resolution
authorizing the sending of larger COM
mittee to Sacramento.
Mr.. Cohn thought the sending of COM
mittees was useless and liable to delay
the adoption of the Charter. He thought
that a resolution should be introduced
at the mass meeting asking the Judiciary
Committee of the Legislature to report
Immediately. If deficit should be found
in it, the Council could call another
election of Freeholders and remedy the
defect without delay. He thought that
there was q section of the Charter that
was in opposition to general law of the
State, and this applied to the raising of
money. He was in favor of the approval
of the Charter, and he thought that the
least said about it the more likely it was
to be favorably considered.
A letter from Hon. S. M. White stat
ing that he would urge the approval of
the Charter at as early date as possible,
was read. He sent to the Council copy
of the bill, which be asked to have COM
pared with the original Charter on file.
Following is a copy of the letter ad-
dressed to President Kuhrts:
DEAR SIR-I Introduced resolution adopting
the Los Angeles Charter; In ihe ,Py copy used a;dy BY
since 1t was printed, that there is clerical
error in omittfng the, Mayors, signature. but
this will of course be remedied before the
%it.eS another to the Mayor and
to various other parties. les " Wish you
one of these printed copies which forward
with the original record, plsinly mark any
errors. and return the same to me without de.
lay will have the comparison made here, but
of course have not the original to look to.
will PRESS the charter through tne Senate as rap
idly as possible, but I desire at this time. in
view of my opinion as to the result of the ado
tion of the charter, to say that am only aiding
IN its passage because l consider IT my duty &c
do so. fear that its adoption will not be fol
lowed with the satisfactory results which are
anticipated. believe that 1t will be exceed
ingly difficult 20 issue saleab'e bonds under it:
provisions. Nevertheless, as l have alread )
stated, l will put it through my end of the build
ing as rapidly as circumstances will permit.
expect to have it made special order for ths
early part OF next week. srSagrY n095 1rleRq' M 'w
Messrs. Sinsabaugh and Cohn were ap
pointed as committee to compare the
bill with the original Charter.
Captain Barrett thought that his reso
luton should be adopted, because, in his
opinion, the Charter should be amended
30 that the city could work under it. He
said that,as it was, it was in opposition tc
the constitution of the State and the gen.
eral laws, and if approved and sent back
it would be imperative. He thought it
would be better to correct the defects be-
fore it was finally adopted than to have
an unconstitutional Charter.
Mr.. Humphreys thought that the poll
ticians were the ones who were trying to
knife the Charter. The people wanted
it, approved and good lawyers had told
him that bonds could be issued under its
provisions.
Mr.. Sinsabaugh said that the opposi-
tion to the Charter emanated from the
lowest element of the city. The good
people of the city wanted the Charter
approved. He thought that the will OF
the people should be considered and the
Legislature should give it to the city.
The matter was laid over until 2
O'Clock, when the committee would
report.
The Bridge Committee asked further
time on the matter of the Aurora street
bridge. Granted.
Mr. Cohn offered resolution provid-
ing for the redemption of $4,000 worth
of the city bonds. Adopted.
The City Attorney rendered an opin-
ion to the effect that the Tax Collector
could not collect taxes on a mortgage
which was larger than the assessed
value of the property on which it was
given. Referred to the Tax Collector.
The matter of the plans for the bridges
came up and Mr.. Lambie said that there
had been no specification for the Ninth
street bridge, which had been moved
from First street to it's present position.
There were no plans, either, for the Sew
enth-street bridge for the reason that it
was 10 Dc DullJ dltoT tuc Plauo OA ehC
Kuhrts-street bridge.
City Surveyor Dockweiler produced
the contract which said that the Ninth
street bridge should be moved and recon-
structed after plans on file in the City
Surveyors office. No such plans were
on file and he could not certify that the
work had been done according to the
plans.
Mr.. Cohn said that there were no plans
necessary for the moving of the First
street bridge to Ninth street. 1t was not
possible that the bridge had been
changed in it's passage over that distance.
Captain Barrett thought that there was
too much time spent over such q trivial
matter. The plans and specifications for
the First street and Downey avenue
bridges were on file.
Mr.. Burrell, on behalf of the Bridge
Company, said that the only plans nec-
essary for Ninth street were for the
wooden foundations, which we're on file
in the City Surveyors Office.
The matter was referred to the Bridge
Committee.
A recess was taken at this point until
half-past O'Clock.
Afternoon Session.
The Board of Health recommended
that an ordinance be drawn defining the
limits wherein no more than two cows
can be kept, as described in Saturdays
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