The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-07
CHARTER IN EMBRYO.
Closing Days of the Commits
sion Of Freeholders.
PROPORTIONS TO COME UP.
An Amendment to the oncial Organ
Clause-Remodeled Section ON the
Subject Of Taxation.

The charter commission will meet this
morning and will probably have q pro-
loneed session, as there is large
amount of work to be done. and
"Wednesday is the last day OF the thirty
within which the charter must be COM
pieted.
The following propositions have yet to be
finally passed upon before being incorpor-
afed in the charter, and every article has
yet to be put on final passage:
Reported by the legislative committee as
4 substitute for the second subdivision OF
section q of the legislative article:
ApPoRrIoNxENr OF TAXES.
seccnd-To provide for the assessment, levy
ing and collecting taxes on real and personal
property for the corporate uses and purposes OF
the city, and to provide for the payment of the
debts and EXPENSES of the corporation, bat no
tax for general municipal purposes shall exceed
4-10 OF per centum per annum: no tax to
provide fire engines and other IRE apparatus
and supply OF water TO queneh FIRE or any of
said purposes shall exceed $40 Of
per centum per annum; no tax
10 provide for purchase and condemna-
tton of land for public uses aud Improvement
and ornamentation thereof, and erection Of
structures thereon or TO provide for any of said
objects, shall exceed 2l0 Of / per centum per
annum; no tax to provide for furnishing gas,
electricity and lights and for construction OF
works necessary or convenient therefor or
for any Of said purposes shall exceed
2-1o Of l per centum per annum:
no tax for street and alley Improvement and re-
pair. exclusive of assessments mentioned in
sub-divisions and 10 of this section. and con-
otruction and repair Of sewers and conduits,
other than water pipe, or for any of said pur-
poses, shah exceed 4-l0 OF per centum
per annum; no tax for construction and repair
Of watef.works and sppurtenances. or any OF the
same, shall exceed / per centum per annum;
and no tax for the maintenance and operation
OF water-works and for paying rent for water
works or water, or for any OF said purposes,
shall exceed bio of / per centum per an
mum; and all taxes, exclusive OF assessments for
improvements mentioned in said subdivisions
7. 8 and 10. shall not, in any year. exceed per
ccntum Of the property assessed: and all taxes
Tor special purposes other than water-works and
water supply, and exclusive of assessments for
Improvements mentioned in said subdivisions
Z, 8 and 10, shall not in any year exceed lilo
per centHm OF the property assessed.
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS.
The following Isl proposed substitute for
section 80 OF the legislature article:
Zee. 50. Two daily newspapers OF general cir
cuiation, and published in the city, 70 be styled
City VhlClHi ncWbpbpcfb, eudA VIC tts1kuhlcl lu
the following manner: The city clerk shall,
within thirty days next after this charter be-
comes operative, and ON each first Monday of
November after 1890, cause to DO published, for
ten consecutive days Excluding Sundays in
como Newspaper of general circulation in the
city call to the owners and managers OF news
papers for sealed proposals to do the city print
ing until the close of the then next ensuing
fiscal year, each OF which proposals shall be
accompanied by . bond with not less than two
aurstics, In the sum Of 5000, approved by the
aomptr0ller and corporation counsel, condi-
toned that II the proposal be accepted the party
proposing viii, during the period mentioned in
~ proposal, WELL seasonably and faithfully
cause 10 be accurately printed and published,
according to law, in a certain daily newspaper
u1aming III OF general circulation in the city,
al and singular the matters and things
required BY law to be published in the
city ohicfal newspapers OF tEe city of
Seattle. or either of them, and shall with such
bond be delivered into the city clerks Office.
sealed up In an envelope Endorsed SEALED pro-
possls and bond for city printing" on or before
the twentieth day next after the first publica-
ton of such call, and shall be indofsed by the
city clerk At the time Of such delivery with the
date Of his reception thereof, and shall be first
opened BY the board of aldermen, as early as
may be In its next monthly session thereafter.
and thereupon said board shall by resolution
announce the names OF all parties whose pro-
posals have been offered, and the terms of their
proposals respectively, and designate as city off,
cial newspaper that newspaper whose manager
or owners have offered the lowest and best pro-
posals, with duly approved bond and such
newspaper shall forthwith, or II not designated
until after 1890, then at the end of the then cur
rent fiscal year, be such city official newspaper
and the other city Official newspaper shall be
whatever other newspaper having general cir
Culation and published In the city, and ri wing
like bond and agreeing to do the city printing at
rates which in the Judgment of the board are
substantially equivalent, shall be designated by
resolution of the board: provided, that prefer.
ence In designating the second newspaper shall
be given TO newspaper OF different political
proc@ivity from the first. and, provided further.
that whenever from any cause whatever either
city official newspaper shall be lacking the
mayor shall designate and employ q like news
paper TO serve as such until designation and
qualification is made and had az above directed.
under like bond and for reasonable compenss.
ton to be audited by the comptroller Bonds
accompanying unsuccessful proposals shall be
returned to the proposers, and all other bonds
shall be filed with the city clerk and securely
kept By him. All ordinances resolutions. no.
uces. tax and assessment sales, and all other
proceedings, statements, matters and things of
the mayor, city council or any department or
board or other officer or functionary of the CITY.
which by this charter are or shall be required 10
be published. except the statement prescribed
In the Goth section of this article shall be pub.
hshed in the city official newspapers
WAGE COMMON FUND.
Judge Greene, who has fathered several
propositions quite novel on this Coast. sub.
mits the following:
Sec ~ There is hereby constituted In tha
city treasury fund. which is hereby named
the s.wage Common Fund" and which shall he
applied exclusively 10 tho payment OF wage.
laborers employed directly by the CITY, and
shall never consist of less than 5000 nor less
than - dollars for every 10000 inhabitants
OF the city, according to the last preceding
census ANY such laborer or his lawful assignee
shall be entitled ON presentation to the treas.
urer of lawful order or warrant for such wages
on the treasury or on any fund therein. to nav
ment OF such order or warrant ont of .the
wage common fund" Accounts shall be kent
between the wage common fund" and every
other fund OF the treasury, and no application
or payment shall be made OF any money In any
other fund until such other fund has fully first
paid and satisfied its Indebtedness TO "tbe wage
common fund" Any deficit below the min.
imum in sthe wage common fund" shall in
stantly be supplied In the manner and order
following: Firstly payment into athe wage
common fund" out Of every specisl fund in.
debted TO IL the amount OF such Indebtedness or
so much thereof as there is money enough in
any special fund to pay. Secondly psymen,
into 1.-THE wage common fund" out of the gen
eral municipal fund so much money as shall he
necessary TO satisfy the remaining deficit
Nothing shall be paid out OF the general mum.
cipsl fund except into THE wage common fund.-
% long as there is any deficit below minimum
In the latter fund.
CITIZENS AS CITY LAsoRggs.
Mr.. George Donworth has submitted a
minority report upon the memorial of the
Knights of Labor. The question is likely to