The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-31
MORE TAXES NEEDED.
Many Hundred Dollars Wan
tonly Voted Away.
The Besra % Aldsrnen Csne1nuase
The .sTelsgrsph" Deal ssA Raise
ssPpsss- Times'' Prices g Safa

The taxpayers viii have their burden in
creased next rear by o good maay hun
dred dollars in order that the Democratic
organ may be rewarded The Telecrupk
was last night designated the offcial new 3
paper beyond further question. and as
John Collins 10 said TO have purchased the
Press- Tsnsss in order to secure Q monopoly
of the Official pap. that paper was
awarded the second place, the Posr-
ISrKLLrsKscER to the last refusing to Be .
party 10 the scheme TO give the printing to
the highest bidder.
The board of aldermen met pursuant to
call by the mayor for the special pur-
pose OF settling the city printing matter.
All the members were present except J.
+. Brewer, Who 10 In Walla WallA City
Clerk Stoneman read the call, and the
resolution. ~ previously prepared, desig-
mating the Posr-IxrELLreKscKn, the Sec
ond official newspaper, was placed on
third reading.
Alderman Ingram moved to amend By
substituting the hess- Times.
President Miller said that under the
rules Q resolution could not be amended on
third reading.
The resolution was then put and mega
lived by the votes of Cram. Daulton,
Ingram, Jordan and Stocks Miller, Carrie
and Sweeney voted in favor of 1t.
By resolution the clerk Was then in
structed to prepare . new resolution
naming the Pres Times, the declaration
printing at the same rate IS the Telegraph.
This raises its price from Is cents and
cents to "a cents aud Is cents, the same as
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provisions Of the charter. The resolution
was then carried by the same vote.
When Alderman Sweeney's name was
called he arose and made last protest.
Only two months ago, he said, the board
had by resolution condemned the Teie-
graph and Press Times tor its methods of
doing city business. He warned the
board that the people would resent its &C
tion whenever Democrat came up for
election. The vote had been cast by the
same men who voted to turn him down
as acting mayor, and for reasons with
which the public Is familiar. he regarded
this vote - . vaiedictory. When men
subvert public interests to serve . clique,
when they use public funds to reward
party organs. they 30 outside Of Demo-
cratic principles. He had been warned
that he would be read out Of the party for
his action IN protesting against the action
Of the board, but he could tell
them that he had always been
. supporter Of true Democratic principles,
and he would be Democrat when some of
his traducers were seeking new fields. He
knew his protest was in vain, and all the
members could do now was to append
their signatures to . document which
would be handed down to posterity. In
conclusion he recited the following lines
which, he said. with slight paraphrase.
he had read in lady's album:
task not for the need Of fame,
The wreath above my head to tWinoe
Enough for me TO leave my name
Within this haliowed shrine;
To think that DER these lines thine 80
May wander in some future year,
And memory breathe . passing sigh
For the party" who has placed us hera
The last line was a manifest parody and
provoked laughter and counter cheers
from tho large lobby.
He voted no." a. did earle and Miller.
Sweeney then sarcasticaliy moved that tho
clerk be instructed to notify the mayor
that the deed he wished done had been
done.
At the close of the proceedings the re-
mark was made that now il Was in order
to elect Daulton TO the presidency Of the
board. The election of a successor to
Miller takes place next week.
The board adjourned until Tuesday next.