The herald., 1893-12-27

hnOSnBr eleCtlOn. Inlo was carried, anC
Davidson, Bayer and Pettler were elect
ed by votes each. The ordinance. with
their names incorporated into il as COM
missioners for the opening OF the street,
was then passed bv full vote.
THE SUPPLY COMMITTEE
then reported at length on the various
matters required for the fire and police
departments aud other incidentale, all
of which were then approved except one
for $1,000 for repairs to fire engine. A
motion was then made to refer this por
tion of the requisition back to the fire
department, which wac adopted.
THE REJECTED DEMANDS.
Mr.. Pesssll moved the vote by which
the demands were rejected at the morn
ing session be reconaidered and the
salary demands passed. Other demands
for supplies and services were adopted.
MR.. BAssELL's BILL.
Mr.. Muneon said he had understood
that at the morning session there had
been demand for 5000 which should
not be there. He was ready to vote for
any bill that was fair and right, but if
there was an illegal demand the council
should be informed of it. He had
heard that Mr.. Bassell had q bill in
there for $500, which WAS a legal charge
upon the treasury.
Mr.. Teed said he had consulted the
city attorney with regard to the matter.
That officer had said Mr. Bassell had
been in the employ of the city engineers
Office, and while in such employ had
acquired the information on which he
had testified as au expert.
Engineer Dockweier was called upon
and said that if Mr.. Bassell had not
been valuable witness he would not
have countersigned this demand with
0. X. He believed the testimony OF
Mr.. Bassell was more important to the
city than that OF several gentlemen
who had received $500 for their services
as experts on the water supply. Mr.
Bassell said he would go into court and
testify to isaues of fact free of charge,
but il called in as an expert witness he
should expect to be paid as other ex-
perts are paid in such cases.
After long argument the demand Of
Mr.. Bassell was referred back to the
finance committee and the city at
torney.
REPORT OF THE WATER COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Muneon, chairman of the water
committee, submits the following:
At a meeting of your honorable body
held on October %, 1898, "your commit
tee was instructed to report to the council
auch a price for the purchase of the
City Water company's plant as they
deemed proper price for the purchase
of said plant"
At meeting held on November 10Th
your honorable body added the city en-
gineer to this committee.
In compiling the list of the proper ties
owned and controlled by the Los Angeles
City Water company ard allied corpora
tions the following data were used: A
schedule prepared by the representa-
tives of the above companies, which
failed to give any statement of quantity,
quality, size and condition Of the dis
tribution system in use in this city {.
(This is the document included in
Messrs. Pierce & Shafer's communica-
and city council. wherein the proper
ties therein listed are offered to the city
for the cum of $4,000, 900, which com
munication is appended to the report OF
the water supply committee to city
council, October 9th, 1889
Maps showing water pipes and exca.
vations OF streets in various parts OF the
city.
In order to be perfectly fair to all con
cerned, we have tried to secure the Co.
A operation OF the representatives o. the
Z water companies in compiling this re-
port, and to that effect we sent the fol-
z lowing letter:
+ Los ANGELES, CAL, Dec. 10. 1898.
8. H. Mott ESQ.,, Secretary of the City Water
company. northwest corner Alameda aud
I'll" MaFa hnQ QrIlf ell
DEAR SIR: Members of the city coun-
Gil, in connection with the city engineer,
have made list OF the number of miles
of the different sized water pipe in the
city; also list Of other property be-
longing to your company, and the same
in regard to the Crystal Springs corn.
pany, for the purpose of estimating a
price which we would be willing to offer
for said property.
We ask that you or your representa-
tives meet with us at 10 o'clock q. m.
December 81, 1898, at the board OF pub
lie works room in the city hall, for the
purpose OF checking over eaid list, and
giving US such information as you may
desire. Yours respectfully,
E. S. MUNsoN,
Chairman OF Water Committee.
To this the following replies were re-
ceived:
Los ANGELES. CAL. Dec. 81, 1898.
Hon. T. s. Munson, Chairman Water Commit.
tee, city:
DEAR SIR: l beg leave to acknowl-
edge receipt of your favor of the 10th
inst, with reference to the Los Angeles
City Water company and the Crystal
Springs Land and Water company, veri-
Tying your list of the properties, pipes
/ now owned by these companies. These
companies have made no proposition to
the city of Los Angeles or any ybody else
for the sale of their properties, and
have been in no negotiations with the
city.
We had supposed that you under
stood that other parties had an option
to purchase the stock of the present
stockholders in both companies, and
any negotiations for the purchase of the
properties would have to be conducted
( with them, or ct least through them,
and we can see no good that could be
accomplished by accepting your invita-
tion to go over these lists which you
have prepared. First, because we could
, negotiate no sale ii we desired: and.
second, in view Of the position which
, the city at present takes respecting a
large portion of the properties claimed
by these companies, we do not think ii
possible that we could agree upon what
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