Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-04
CITY TRUSTEES.
MAYOR COMsTOCK STILL OPPOSED TO
EXTRA WATER CLERKS.
Monthly Reports of Municipal Oficers-
Shall the City Assist in I'M
proving Alleys?

Engineer of the Water Works reported
that 3l,665 900 gallons of water had been
pumped, the Holly engine being in opera
ton s91 hours and the Stevens III hours.
r. II. Singleton, Superintendent of the
City Cemetery. submitted his monthly re-
port as follows: Number of deaths, "a;
still born, 4; brought here fer interment,
IS; total number inferred, Sc. Interments
made as follows: City Cemetery, %; New
Helvetia, IA; 81. Joseph, /; New Masonic,
IA; sent to San Francisco, 2; to Oakland. i;
to Marysyille, /; total collections, 81 ,G37.
Poundmaster Phillip O'NeiH reported
having impounded horses, cows and 80
dogs. All of the cattle were redeemed, but
% of the dogs were killed Ee charged
SIC 80 for impounding the said animals.
Harbormaster N A. Kidder's report
showed that he collected $3.50 during the
past month
Trustee Mclaughlin remarked that Mr..
Kidder allowed the river front and levee
to be used too long as store place for the
lumber and wood taken off the barges, and
he thought the matter ought to be looked
into.
Henry Treichler appeared before the
Board and entered a vigorous protest
against the manner in which the street at
Twentieth aud II was being graded He
claimed that in winter the gravel would be
covered with water on account of the low
grade established and as he waxed warmer
in his argument, he referred to the Sur
veyors who set the grade as a disgrace to
the profession.
The Board paid no attention to his re-
marks and he left the room.
Bills for salaries of employees of the Art
Gallery and also bill to the amount of $48
for painting the front doors were allowed
after some discussion. Trustee McLaugh-
lin thought the Board ought 10 know some
thing about the institution and not blindly
pay the bills, which he claimed were grow
ing larger and larger every month.
Trustee Wolf suggested that the Superin-
tendent be ordered to report 10 the Board
monthly, as the Superintendent of the
Cemetery and others were compelled to do
Lately the Board were simply paying the
bills without knowing scarcely anything
about them.
The Mayor said he knew the manage
ment were running the Art Gallery as
economically as possible, and he believed
their bills were correct.
The long looked-for information which
Trustee Mclaughlin has been seeking for
the past few months arrived in the shape
of letter from Joseph D. Rsdding, in
forming the Board that the Directors OF the
Central Electric Company wereC. f. Fargo,
J. d. Redding, L. L. Baker, G. P. Adams
and @. II. Wilson.
Complaint was made that cattlemen
were in the habit of riding their horses on
the sidewalks in the vicinity of Fifteenth
and E streets. The Board agreed that they
ought to be prevented from so doing.
The time for improving and grading
street, from Fifteenth to Nineteenth, was
extended ten days.
The Mayor asked that the Board pass an
order requesting all saloons TO close on
election day, but Trustees Mclaughlin and
Wolf concluded that il was the duty OF the
Police Commissioners to look after that
matter.
Trustee Mclaughlin moved that, as the
Board had found out who were the Di-
rectors of the Central Electric Company,
that they be requested to refund S1.SS6 90,
alleged to have been overcharged the city
while the company had the contract for
the electric lights.
Trustee Wolf said he would not vote for
Mr.. McLaughlin's motion until he found
out that the claim could be collected, and
the Mayor expressed himself as undecided
what to do.
The matter was finally laid over for one
week.
1t was ordered that the First Artillery
Regiment be given permission to construct
a shooting range on north B street, near
Twelfth.
The Chief of Police submitted his re-
port, which showed that 100 arrests had
been made torty-nine dodgers accommo-
dated and LAG meals furnished. The bal
ance on hand to date was 81 so.
A protest was received against opening a
road through Slater's addition to the Ameri-
can river. The matter was referred to the
Street Commissioner.
While the Board was waiting for the
City Attorney to render an opinion as TO
whether or not certain avenues should be
considered as streets, Trustee McLaugh-
lin took occasion to say that he was going
to vote for the city's paying one fourth of
the expense of repairing all alleys in the
CITY, He believed the downtown people
paid the greater portion of the taxes, and
were entitled to some benefit. Two alleys,
between J and X streets, had been recently
improved by paving with granite blocks,
and he thought the city ought to bear one
fourth of the expense.
The Mayor said Mr. McLaughlins idea
was good one, but unfortunately in con-
flict with the provisions of the ordinance,
which plainly referred to streets, and not
alleys.
City Attorney Hart stated that in his
opinion the intention was, when the ordi-
nance was passed, that the city was not to
pay any share of the cost of improving
alleys In fact, Mr.. Mclaughlin stated at
the time that he did not think that the city
should pay for any of the alleys.
Trustee Mclaughlin admitted that he
ba inn ba
passed. He now saw that be had made g
mistake and proposed TO correct it. He
would hereafter vote to pay part of the
expense of grading alleys as well as streets.
Trustee Mclaughlin called up his ordi-
nance, providing for the appointment of
. two extra clerks in the Water Works,
which was passed one week ago by his vote
and that of Wolf.
The Mayor refused to change his vote,
and also said he would not sign the war
rants.
Trustee Mclaughlin argued that the
Mayor had no power 10 veto warrant
when the Board authorized the payment of
the bill. The Auditor alone had the veto
power.
Clerk Mckee said that if the Board were
going to leave the matter to him, he would
wait to get the advice of some good lawyer
before he made out the warrants for the
extra mems salaries.
Considerable more talk was INDUCED in
without any conclusion being reached, and
tha Roar1 adjourned