The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-17
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
A Committee to Take Up the Subject
Street Names.

A Committee to Take Up the Subject OF
Street Names.
The house of delegates met last night
with full attendance. After the trans
action of some routine business Delegate
Drew called attention to the claim of
Wiley, Scott IL Bostwick for $1,000 for
legal services, and asked that Mr.. Wiley
be heard.
Mr.. Wiley explained that in 1890 the old
council attempted to bond 100000 street
grade warrants. Mayor White vetoed the
bill. but the council, acting on the ad-
vice of the corporation counsel, passed
the bill over his veto. The mayor
refused to sign the bonds. believing them
to be void, and w. 7. Chalk obtained q
writ Of mandamus to compel the mayor to
sign them. The corporation counsel re-
fused to appear in court on behalf of the
mayor, as he had advised the council that
the mayor was wrong. He appointed Mr..
Wiley, however, to appear for the mayor,
and after trial and appeal the supreme
court decided that the mayor was right,
and sustained his action. Mr.. Wiley asked
who, in that case, was the actual repre-
sentative of the city--the mayor, whose
action was declared to be right, or the
decided, gone beyond the scope Of its au-
thority2 The decision showed that it was
the mayor who was acting legally and the
council acting illegally, therefore the
mayor was the city SO far as the action was
concerned. The ordinance has been re-
pealed and the council has, therefore,
given the city the benefit of the labors of
the speakers firm.
Mr.. Calligan moved that the report be
adopted, and Mr.. Drew amended that the
report be laid upon the table; but the re-
port was adopted and the bill accordingly
rejected.
Delegate Crichton reported in favor of
appointing a committee, consisting of ID.
7. Denny, William Collier, of North Seat
tie, c. Espiin, jr., c. I. Conover and
Reginald ii. Thompson to consider the
whole subject of street names. Delegate
Calligan announced that they were willing
TO serve without pay and the house ac-
cepted the service.
An ordinance was passed appropriating
So, 3G6Si tor the payment OF the Holly
pump and $S66.6l interest at per cent.
There were also appropriated rs follows:
Willard and Harvard streets, 81, 37S. 80; final
estimate for crossings, $3.50 Also the
general appropriation ordinance for July:
Harbors and wharves, S790.33; water fund,
SIS. $50 50; fire, Si,243.6o; street, si.156O7;
sewer, $I.o5li2; police, s327l6; general
fund. si.Is7.95: public health, S96l.93
street lighting, SS,069.52.
The following ordinances were read:
Establishing the grade of Moltke street;
establishing grade of Howard street, from
Depot 10 Sixth street; passed. Establish
ing grade of Lincoln street from Depot
and Grange; passed.
For the purchase Of $50, 900 yitrified brick
from Denny CLAW Company, for lining the
sewer tunnel: referred to sewer committee
For sewer on Twelfth, from Spring to
Harrison; passed.
The following petitions and communica-
.ions were read:
~. Shepard. for pay for work on the
Dow pump: referred.
Mayor Ronald, in reference to the Ant
werp saloon; license committee.
J. +. Mcknight. for sewer on Sixth
street. referred.
II. E. Kelsey, for damages; judiciary
committee.
For electric lights on Marion street;
favorable report.