Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-01
HARMONY and HAPPINESS.
Session of the Council Characterised by
General Good Feeling,
SEVERAL VEToES WERE SUSTAINED,
Moreartys Eight Hour Ordinance
Dies and Comes Back-Madsen
Must show Cause-Other
Of1iCial Actions.

There were sixteen members at the session
of the city council last night, and, contrary
to the usual custom. harmony was tho prin-
cipal feature, though it will not always be So
Councilman Specht succeeded in getting
through resolution compelling Councilman
Madscn to attend at the next regular meeting
and report upon the Ballou electric light
ordinance that has slumbered in his pocket
for months.
The mayor vetoed the ordinance granting
the Union Pacific railroad permission to lay
tracks on Jones street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth. The veto was sustained, after
Which protest against laying the tracks was
presented and filed.
When the veto on the eight-hour ordinance
came up for consideration the mayor was sus-
tanned by vote of 10 to-
The mayor also vetoed the milk ordinance,
giving for his reasons, that a number of i'm
portant clauses had been omitted. This veto
was also sustained and the ordinance re-
ferred back to the committee to make the
corrections, after which it was read first
and second tune.
Edward Katz's contract for grading South
Tenth street was presented and approved.
The work will be done under the three
ifths clause, and it is understood that the
county will pay the city's share of the cost
Comptroller Goodrich filed a cOmmunica-
tion, suggeAing that the 5000 available for
building cross walks should be expended at
this season of the year. when croSs-Walks
are most needed The communication was
referred to The board of public works, with
power to act
Davis 81 Cowgirl were given permission to
manufacture the dog tags to be used by the
city at $23 per | 200.
The committee appointed to apprase and
report on the damages resulting from the
change of grade of St Mary's avenue and
Howard street from Sixteenth to Twentieth
street reported damages ting to $42,
| OIL.
A petition requesting the removal of the
express and hack stand at Fourteenth and
| Douglas streets was referred to the commit
| tee on fire and police with power to act.
The board of health reported siXty-eight
| deaths and 1873 births within the city during
| the month of February.
Officers of the Western street lighting
| company were before the council with kick.
| They had erected street lamp in the council
chamber and during the day. they claimed,
| some person had tampered with the lamp in
| a manner that prevented Its working salts
factorily. Permission was granted to remove
| the lamp.
f.. S. Root, president of the Metropolitan
| street railway, filed communication stating
| that under the provisions of the ordinance
| granting the charter, it will be impossible
| for his company to go on with the work Of
constructing the proposed lines.
| On account of proposed change of grade,
| the chairman of the board of public works
was instructed to withhold the paving of
| Commercial street until further notice.
BY resolution introduced by Elsasser, the
| Union Pacific railroad was instructed to
bridge the roadbed over Fourteenth street
| and remove the old piling that has become a
nuisance. The same action was taken with
reference tu the Burlington, where its tracks
cross Fourteenth and Twentieth streets.
| G. L, Squres was instructed to at once
commence sweeping streets, under the 1890
| schedule. '.
The councilmen from ench ward were ap-
| pointed u committee to redistrict the city into
voting districts preparatory to carrying out
| the provisions of the Australian ballot sys-
tenn. Attorney Poppleton was called upon
for an opinion. He regarded the new law an
expensive one, as it will necesstate the crea-
tion of at least ninety voting precincts. He
thought the precincts should be kept as near
the maximum population as possible. The
committee will report at the next meeting OF
the council it being the intention that nc
district shall have less than 200 and moi
| more than 275 voters.
The fire and police commissioners were in
| structed to buy buggy and harness for the
chief of the fire department. at cost of NOT
to exceed Sl15.
The ordinance regulating the number OF
clerks in the comptrollers Office was passed
| This ordinance provides for: one deputy a,
salary of 81 500 per annun; one bookkeepel
at salary of 81, 800; one assistant bookkeepei
at a salary of 81 200: one tax clerk at sal
ary of 81 600, and one register clerk at sal
airy Of $500.
The contract for printing the complied or
dinances was awarded to the Pokrok Papadr
at SS cents per page.
In the matter of paving North Thirtieth
street. from a mes avenue TO the city limits
the city attorney rendered an opinion, stat
ing that he did not think the city can legally
let j. B. Smith go on with the work. Slnitf
secured this contract last year, but did not
execute the same until January of this year
The opinion of the attorney was accepted.
The following ordinances We're introduced
read a first and second time: Granting the
Belt line railway the right-of-way to lay
tracks on Fifteenth street. from lizard tt
Cunning; regulating the hours of labor in the
street commissioners department. This wa:
Moreartys ordinance, and Is similar to the
one vetoed by the mayor, with the exception
that the title aud the body of the ordinanc,
are in harmony.
Tonight another meeting will be held al
which the monthly appropriation ordinance
will come up for passage.
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