Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-01
BAD! VERY BAD!
Mr.. Rees Writes the Worst
Poetry on Record.
He Comes up for Another Round
With the Mayor.
Proceedings at Yesterdays Meeting
of the City Council.
The Report from the City Officers
Mr. Rees and His Speech and
His Poetry-Routine
Matters.

The piece de resistance Of the feast of
reason in the council-chamber yester-
day was another eloquent address by
Mr.. Rees against Mayor Hazard and in
reply to the latter's message read and
filed last Friday at the adjourned meet
ing. When Major Bonsall raped with
his gavel yesterday morning, all mem
bers were present and looked forward
with anticipation to the Demosthenic
philippe about to be sprung upon them.
The usual dry and uninteresting routine
had, however, to be gone through with
before the more pleasant duty of listen
ing to fine production of exquisite sar-
casm could be indulged.
TAXES COLLECTED.
The city tax and license collector re-
ported amount of taxes collected to and
including Wednesday, November 2Sth,
1855, ,487.54. =
CITx ATTORNEYS REPORT.
"I have prepared and present here
with the lease of G. Bagagolupi for Res
ervoir site No. Z, as directed by you"
Adopted.
I'm the matter of the petition of Mat
tie l.. Wilson asking for quit-claim
deed to a piece OF land in front of
lot 5, block A., OF the Morris Vine
yard tract, / find that this piece
of land was formerly a part
of Ogier lane, now Winston street, but
that the lines of said street were
changed in such manner as to leave
the strip OF ground between the front
line OF said lot and the new south line
OF the street. | do not believe that a
quit-claini deed to petitioner is neces-
sary, but see no objection to issuing the
same as prayed for in the petition"
Report approved.
I'm the matter of using zanja water
for power / know of no reason why the
city should not derive revenue there
from. l know of no legal reason why
party having a house in the firemen's
cemetery should not pay ground rent for
the same" Referred to zania and land
committees.
II have prepared sprinkling contract
according to instructions, but | under
stand from members of the council that
there are some additional clauses which
will be required, and therefore advise
that the matter be referred to special
committee, in connection with the CITY
attorney, to draft contract. Referred
to board of public works and the city
attorney, with instructions to report if
possible in the afternoon.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
'We recommend that the auditors
report on the statement of the water
oyaroaar ~ tba cola of uyotar liz, ,r;,o a.
tpber, be filed, and also the statement of
t le auditor showing the condition of the
funds for the week ending November
IA, 1891" Report adopted.
''We recommend that petition No. 674
from r. M. Thomson & Co., and petit
tion No. 672 from w. j. Brodrick, refer
ring to insurance of the city hall, be
fled" Report adopted.
"We recommend that demand of
Charles Lantz on the cash fund for
$l3,25 be referred to the city attorney
and street superintendent" Report
adopted.
ave recommend that in place of the
following new policies be accepted, to
wit: In the Home Mutual of California,
$2,500; in Madgeburg Fire Insurance
company of Madgeburg, $2500; in the
Boylston Insurance company of Boston,
$2500 in the Fire Association of Phila-
delphia, $2500." Report adopted.
MIR. REEs's GRAFTON.
Mr.. Rees now rose to question OF
personal privilege, and broke away in
the following words:
The mayors reply to my criticism Of
his message, stripped OF its redundant
verbiage of self-laudation, may be stated
thus: He was not member of the
park commission, September. 1890, and
did not approve the Chase demand. He
had the right to draw $25 from the
emergency fund because the expense of
himself and wife to Sacramento and
back amounted to $133. 1t must have
been an emergency within the meaning
of the law because no objection was
raised by the city clerk and treasurer.
The claim of O'Melveny & Henning
should have been paid, Notwithstanding
he had not been authorized to engage
them at the city's expense. He had
deemed it wise to hire them and that
should be sufficient. 1t was right for
him to draw $54 out of the emergency
fund, although violation of the law,
because he could not be expected to
humble himself sufficiently to ask the
council to advance sum to cover this
expense, which he was daily expecting.
think l have laid the mayor under
great obligation to me for affording him
an opportunity to rehearse, like an In
dian brave, hia deeds OF valor and acts
of charity. admit that I enormously
charged him with being member of
the park commission in September,
1890. But he comedies that the Chase
contract was begun while he was
member of the board, and claims that
Chase was notified that only $500 worth
of work was ordered by that contract.
The contract was only verbal and no
requisition was passed, so if the mayors
statement is true it proves that in this
matter he was guilty of more fagrant
breach OF the law than this council.
Why did not the board pay Mr.. Chase
$500 when that amount Of work
was done? The mayor says that was
the understanding. Evidently because