Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-30

| bitumen had been furnished him, as
agreed, and he therefore could not have
it analysed.
Judge Variel, on behalf of the con-
tractors, told the council that the street
superintendent's report that it was a
''smooth, nice clean job" was suffi-
cient answer. The judge saw no reason
why the contractors should not receive
their money.
f. J. Nettleton and William Wright
both protested against the paving being
paid for. Both complained that the
work was not satisfactory to them. Mr..
Wright thought, though, that If the
work was accepted it should be done by
ordinance. This point when brought
up created quite discussion and it was
finally decided that it was not german
to the question under discussion.
THEY WANT MUCH.
Councilman McGarry stated that the
Figueroa street residents were the salt
of the earth. Long ago they had had
the street rounded out and since then it
had been sprinkled daily. He did not
blame them for still asking something
extra at the hands of the council.
At this juncture there was a painful
the responsibility of making q motion
to accept the work and ordering it to be
paid for. And then Councilman Rees
stepped into the breach, and prefacing
it with a loDg-winded explanation as to
his motives, he made the motion to ac-
cept the work and deny the protests.
Councilman Rhodes seconded the mo-
ton and it carried. Messrs. Afford,
Innes, McGarry, Nickel. Tufts, Bonsall,
Rees and Rhodes voted aye. This
settled it.
THEY EXPLAIN THEIR VOTES.
Nearly every member explained his
vote. Mr.. McGarry wanted to be ex-
cused from voting, but the council de-
clined to excuse him. Mr.. Rhodes said
that from the first he had been opposed
to the kind of pavement that was being
put in on Figueroa street. He had
favored concrete instead of porphyry
foundation. But as the property owners
wanted porphyry and now they had it, he
would vote to pay for the work.
The motion to pay for the work was
then declared to be carried and the
agony was over.
The report of the city auditor was re-
celved and fled. He reported that the
moneys collected by city officials had
all been turned over to the city treas
urer.
THEY WANTED IT LATER.
The clerk then started to read mes
sage from the mayor, but there was
unanimous desire to talk about sewers
just then. So the reading was tempo
rarily postponed.
The matter OF the Seventh and
Eighth ward sewer district was taken
up. Councilman Rhodes moved that
proceedings be abandoned as regarded
the Alameda street intercepting sewer
and it's laterals from that street to
is 1891. After considerable discussion
and endless talk, the proceedings were
abandoned.
and the report of the finance committee
was taken up and adopted, and is pre-
sented below.
Then came the mayors message, as
follows:
BUT IT CAME.
To the Honorable Council of the City of Los
Angeles
feel it my duty to call the attention
of your honorable body to the fact that
the license ordinance of this city is be-
ing disregarded by the officials of this
city whose duty it is to enforce it; that
certain favored individuals are excused
from the payment of the license provid-
ed by the ordinance, and the only ex-
cuse which have been able to get for
this state of affairs is that this has been
the custom heretofore. This is no ex-
cuse, but it is such notification to us
of the probable existence of such a
state of affairs as demands at your
hands an investigation as to its truth !;
and if, upon investigation, it is found to
be true, steps should forthwith be taken
to secure the amount lost to the city
thereby from the officials whose conni-
vance thereat makes such a state of af-
fairs possible, or from their bondsmen.
The collection of tnis amount will be
a protection against continuance of
this practice in the future.
HENRY 7. HAZARD, Mayor.
Los Angeles, Aug. 20, 1892.
Councilman Rees with great dignity
said that the mayor was endeavoring to
throw upon the council the duties which
the city charter put upon him. Mr..
Rees read the section of the charter.
Councilman Innes moved that COM
mittee OF three be appointed to wait
upon the mayor and request his pres
ence. The motion prevailed, and Messrs.
Rees, Nickel and Tufts were appointed
as such committee.
THE MAYOR COMES.
When the mayor came in. the council
failed to receive him standing, as parlia-
mentary courtesy dictates. Neverthe-
less, he took his seat by the side of the
president of the council.
The message of the mayor was then
reread and Mr.. Rees restated his idea
that the mayor was endeavoring to
shirk his duty, and throw the RESPONSE
bility on the codncil.
THE MAYOR SPEAKS.
Mayor Hazard then came down from
the presidents chair, and taking the
floor, he opened up his batteries on Mr..
Rees. He said that he was very glad
that the mayor had been called before
the council, and he was also very glad to
be present when the gentleman from the
ninth ward was engaged instructing
the mayor as to the performance of his
duties. But what he wished to call to
the mind of the ninth ward statesman
was the fact that on prior occasion,
when w. @. Lockwood, city Justice,
was defaulter, he, the mayor, had
taken legal steps to REIN burse the city
in the amount of Lockwood's defalca-
ton. Then when the council was asked
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