The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
THE CITY COUNCIL
Tho City Fathers Held Z Lively and Interesting
Session Last Nfght.-The School Board
and Commissioners Present

present and had seated themselves on the
ffont row of the lobby SO as to be present
at the proper time to assert their rights.
! as they stated, in the city building matter
| Hon. J. p Allen occupied seat to the
| right of the mayor and Commissioners
ones and Jacobs occupied seats inside of
| the railing which have been assigned to
| the board of police commissioners.
AT shortly after 8 o'clock the mayor
| called the meeting to order and the roll
| was called. Ten councilmen were present.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
then read After some corrections in the
| same they were adopted.
Mr.. Mossbacher presented a bill OF
Mr.. Voltz for s29Z9e, and asked that the
city attorney draw up ordinance for SO to
pay that amount TO Mr.. Voltz immediately
as the contractor needed the money to
pay his help.
Mr. Caswell moved that Mr.. johnson be
allowed to make repairs at 6l0 East
Douglas.
Mr.. Martin presented a report of Judi
ciary, which was adopted.
Mr.. Tucker reported that the committee
on assigning rooms to the school board
had assigned the board certain rooms on
the first floor and submitted his report.
Mr.. Caswell moved that the report be
laid on the table.
Mr.. Tucker said that the committee had
been empowered to act, and that the coun-
Gil could not lay the report on the table, as
the committee had been given power to
act and had done so.
The motion prevailed that the report be
laid on the table
Mr. Tucker here asked how they now
stood upon the question.
To this the mayor answered that it now
stood as before any action whatever had
been taken in the matter.
Mr. Buckeridge stated that a special
meeting of the council had been held for
the purpose of hearing the report and at
that meeting the report was not accepted.
II the committee had power to act, why
was there special meeting called TO take
action on the reporti
\ cross fire of allegations and denials
here ensued, in which nearly every coun-
Gilman participated.
Mr. Carey announced that that the mat
ter had been voted down, and that set
tied it.
The decision of the chair was appealed
decision, Mr. Mosbacher. who took the ap-
peal, voting aye. This placed the entire
matter as it was at first.
The clerk read lot of bills, which were
referred to the proper committees.
A petition was read which prayed for
continuation of the chicken ordinance from
August to April. The petition was laid on
the table, the council considering that to
continue the same would serve hardship
to those people having chickens, and that
to confne chickens from April to August
was sufficient.
A petition was presented which prayed
for cinder sidewalk for the west side of
Fourteenth street, from Park place to
Lawrence avenue. The petition was
granted.
a petition for a sidewalk on the west
side of North Main street was read and re-
ferred TO the councilmen of the Second
ward.
a petition for a walk on the west side of
Martinson avenue from Mccormick to
Maple street; for a cinder walk in lieu of
board walk, rs was previously petitioned
for. The petition was received as a sub
stitute for the one that was with the clerk,
and the prayer of the petitioners was
granted, giving the said petitioners thirty
days to complete the work.
\ petition asking for permission to
make repairs was granted.
The petition asking for the opening of
Zimmery street was not complied with
upon recommendation of the committee
to whom it was referred.
4 communication from j. NJ. Murdoch |
& Co.. from Nebraska, was referred to the |
building committee
The estimate on walks, from Mr. Null |
Tey, the city engineer, was placed on file. |
at this juncture the school board who |
had been present up to this time, filed out |
of the council room.
Bond of G. w. Bunnell, for excavating, |
of 200 was read and accepted.
An ordinance providing that all property |
owners be compelled to cut all weeds on |
their lots or possessions in the city was |
read. The ordinance was voted to be laid |
on the table, which motion was lost. The |
ordinance was placed on its passage Mr.. |
Martin thought the ordinance should not
be passed, as there was already enough |
ordinances that could not be enforced.
Another reason was that it was not ex-
pliCit as to when the weeds be cut That |
as most of the places where weeds stood /
the owners of the same were not in town,
and as none could be fined who were not
brought into police court, he thought it
would act partial and be unjust to our
own people
Mosbacher thought that it ought not to
be passed.
Mr.. Caswell stated that the ordinance
was good one, as in places where the
street commissioner had cut the roads on
the outside of the walk that the weeds
were so thick on the inside that one could
hardly pass on a narrow sidewalk
Messrs Buckeridge and Goode favored
the ordinance. Mr.. Leveridge suggested
that as foreign property owners
could not be compelled 70 obey
the ordinance, that it would be
poor policy to legislate against cur peo-
pie who would be compelled to comply
with the provisions OF the ordinance. No
ton 10 suspend rules was lost.
Sections and II OF ordinance No. 769
were amended by an ordinance which was
passed after the suspension OF the rules.
An appropriation ordinance for 1854 TO
Proudfoot & Bird, was passed
Mr.. Martin moved that when the coun-
ell adjourn it be until Wednesday evening
st o'clock, after which motion 10 ad-
lourn passed.
Y. W. c \. RECEPTION.
A very pleasant event was the reception
rendered by the young ladies Of this city