Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-08

mediately go out and purchase war
rants at discount, and return TO the
treasurer's Office aud have them paid
When a warrant was presented, 1t
was paid, II there was money to- pay
IL; II there was not, the holder was so
Informed. The motion was then put
and carried.
City Attorney Howard said he had
request TO make. He asked that his
report to the council on the bond and
sewer question, made some time ago,
be published. He had been criticised
for several alleged faiings, and he
thought that an injustice had been
done him, by the editor Of the World,
Ia an article appearing in that paper.
The article referred to had been writ
ten under mistaken conception, and
the report would give a great deal of
information on the subject, hitherto
unpublished. He had been unjustly
criticised, and the criticism was based
on misinfOrmatiOn, and he felt that
he ought TO be placed in right posi-
tiOn in this matter.
Mayor Wilson said that IL was not
the disposition Of the council TO with
hold any information, of which they
might be possessed, from the public.
IL was sometimes, however, a matter
OF public policy, under certain cirCum-
stances, TO withhold reports pending
the settlement OF questions in which
the city's interests were at stake.
These interests sometimes might
suffer materially from the publication
OF such reports, and he believed the
present instance was one I'm which the
report had been withheld in the inter
ests OF the city. A great Injustice had
been done the city attorney by the
structures published concerning his
official acts in this matter. That
official had acted in the best interests
of the city, as would be shown, and
since the matter had come up, Mayor
Wilson thonght that the report had
better be published.
"The substance of the matter" " said
he, sis this: The statutes permitted a
municipality TO vote per cent. of the
total valuation of property for munic-
ipal purposes; the council could also
incur an Indebtedness OF per cent.
on the taxable valuation for the con
structiOn Of sewers; they, therefore,
did not wish TO debar a succeeding
city council from borrowing an addi-
tiOnal 3 per cent, which might have
been the result"
After some further discussion, pro
and con, as TO the adyisability OF pub
fishing the report at this time, City
Attorney Howard withdrew his re-
quest for It's publication, and the re-
port will not be published until the
money received for the sale OF bonds
is received.
An ordinance yacating a part Of
South Fairhaycn was placed on final
passage and adopted, and another re-
pealing sections and 3 Of Ordnlncc
No. 80, and enaCting other sections in
lieu thereof, was read first time and
referred to the Judiciary committee.
On motion OF Councilman Christie
pher the time Of payment Of street
grade taxes for the improvement of
Washington avenue was extended to
2.
A general discussion Of the proposed
Donovan avenue extension 30 Lake
Padden was engaged in by the COun-
ell, and Messrs. Ware, Gabel and
Others were consulted relative TO aC-
quiring right-Of-way through their
property for the purpose of such
avenue.
The city engineer submitted a map
showing route differing from the one
formerly proposed. The new line will
give not to exceed an Il8 per cent.
grade, thus making IL possible for "A
street car line 10 be built TO Lake Pad
den.
The city attorney was instructed 10
secure right-Of-way over the revised
route, as soon as possible, and also to
ascertain, whether the county road
through Eldridgc's addition was ever
vacated or not The city attorney was
also instructed, il he found that the
most complications existed in sccur-
ing a right-Of-way east Of DE Fries
avenue, 10 secure right-Of-way
west Of that avenue, 50 that con
tract for that portion may be let at
once. The council then adjourned.