The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-05-11
WORK OF THE COUNCIL.
Appointments Made and Con-
firmed.
The City Printing let TO the Even.
ing Telegram.
The RcfundinS Scheme Goes Over
For Another Week.

cecdings in the matter OF COndemnlng
property on Counor's Point to improve
Howard. Pocket are found to be Illegal
and all i dropped and all will have to
be done over again at an additional cX-
pense of several hundred dollars. VIII
our city fathers ever learn wisdom and
do things legally? Now the committee
oil harbors, docks and railroads, com
mittcc of five citizens and two members
81 the council will struggle with the
matter
The board OF public works which still
holds the fort, informed the council
that it had organized for the new year,
Mr. Olson, the street commissioner,
wee Mr. Black, who was retired, and
that Mr. Manner had been elected
president Also that the board had
hired Mr. H. : Oliver for clerk at a
salary OF $50 per month.
The board also informed the council
that it had appointed district foremen
as follows: First district NJ. Kennedy;
second, Dan Fredricks; third, Axel
IIiroth, fourth, John Lake; fifth, T. NJ.
Moran; sixth, Hans Larson; seventh,
c. \. Hanson.
The question of who has the legal
right or honor, or political pull in
the appointment of these very import
ant from a political standpointl sub
ordinates has long troubled the admin
istration, the councilmen and the board
Of public works, hence, as the names
were read Oft they were majesticallv
laid upon the table, after which, on mo-
ton Of Alderman Atkinson, the matter
was referred to the city attorney for a
legal decision to determine who had
the power to appoint these captains OF
the street force. ~
The mayor then intimated that be
bad something to offer, and permission
being gwen him to speak, he nominated
q. W. Luton, present incumbent, for
his chief OF police, and \. /. Thomas
for city engineer, to succeed himself,
and \. +. Olson member of the board
Of public works. vice +. 7. Black, whose
term had expired
Mr.. Luton was confirmed by a vote
of II to /, Messrs. Atkinson, Bertrand,
Green and Ross, three Democrats and
one Republican voting no.
Mr. Thomas was confirmed without
struggle, while Mr.. Olson found four
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trand, Johnston and Ross, as before,
three Democrats and one Republican
voting no.
At this point City Clerk Kelley re-
ported the result of the opening Of the
bids for the official city printing, that
of the Telegram Printing Company be-
ing Is cents per folio for the first in
sertion and no charge at all for subse
qucnt Insertions The Leader bid
l. - and cents per folio for first and
subsequent insertions respectively.
The job was then duly assigned to
the Telegram. From the Leaders pub
that the bids put in by the weekly
papers were examined at all or given
any recognition whatever. If the
council has q right to do this, it has
also the right TO place the printing
where it will and pay the legal rates
for doing the same. Is the council too
cowardly to DO this?
TIE REAL rJN BEGINS.
Al this point the real fun of the even
ing began. 1t was introduced by Clerk
reading 4 communication from Messrs.
jpham 4 Stephenson, divulginE propo-
stions for making speculation out of
the city through the retunding scheme
1t was reitteration of their PROPOSE
ton Of last winter but in making some
comments upon the matter their com
munication seemed to bear down on
some alderman for tampcring with bids
last winter to their disadvantage. Aid.
Rogers having had that particular mat
ter in hand, took the floor and scored
Messrs. Ipham x Stephenson right
smartIy'' about as follows:
ANY man, DO not care who he is,
who saws that between the time that
communication came into my hands,
that any alteration was made by me or
faisahn6J J. ,;.ln. : ~; a., ''D To- nJ
a fal.itier with whom ali the devils in
he'll cannot compete This charge can
n"I rest on on either .I Aldermen Agen or
INTO nv hand. H p' ,;ilhnrt wv" "aIo p na
his bid and il went into nv safe also
tpham I Stephenson were the only
mn really whom | went bevond my
tha;, III =. ~ q ,l III a ~ En,e rje
asked me To allow them to chance the
language a little which allowed
Now as TO the allegation that every
m,'oN Na5 Ioi gwen lalr chance, II
shouIJ lie over Iuriur the W " ,ily,.'r
administration at least.