Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-26
NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS
City Council Commences the Selection Of
Appointive Officers for the Year
NAM.D A CLERK AND THIN STOPPED
N. c. Philips Gets the Plum-Application
for Other Places Filed for Reference
Mayor Announces Committees
for the Coming Year.

The city council met last evening with
Mayor Ceaver in the chair and Councilmen
Barstow, Brewick, Brown, Grahl, Green
shields, Rishton, Shubert and Spetman
present. Every seat outside the railing was
occupied and the aisles were filled with spec
tators
Mayor Cleaver announced that he had made
some changes in the committees announced at
the last meeting. They are now composed as
follows:
Finance-Spetman, Brewick and Barstow
Judiciary-Barst0w, Greenshields and Spet-
man.
Streets and Alleys-Brewick, Shubert and
Rishton.
Bridges and City Property-Grahl, Shubert
and Brown.
Claims and Prnting-Greenshields, Bar
Fire and Lights-Brown, Greenshields and
Rishton.
Police and Rehabilitation, Brown and
Grahl.
Waterworks-shubert, Spetman and Bre-
wick.
The election of city clerk was then taken
up. Alderman Greenshields nominated n. c.
Phillips and Spetman nominated l.. Eur
muehlen, jr. On the first ballot Phillips was
elected by vote of to 3.
| The qustion Of repairing the city jail was
| referred to the committee of the whole.
General L. f. Test presented communi-
| cation asking the council to make pro-
|
| highest bidder and requiring the bank having
| their custody to put up sufficient bond for
| their safety.
| Mrs. Peterson, living near the corner Of
| Sixth street and Twenty second avenue, put
| in claim for 81, 900 damages for injuries re-
| ceived in a fall on piece of defective side
walk at that corner. 1t was referred to the
| judiciary committee.
Ed Burke and Sam Dobson put in applica-
tion for the office of poundmaster, S. Woker
and Al nd for A
| treter for health inspector, and p. ID. Mottaz,
| N. p. Bethers, Fred Cline and G. +. Maxwell
for street commissioner. All were placed on
file until next Monday evening, when per-
haps some Of them will be elected.
A petition signed by l.. A. Casper and 1872
| others was presented, asking the council to
pass an ordinance forbidding any street rail-
way company to run its trains at greater
speed than six miles an hour. An ordinance
accompanied 1t. Mr.. Casper and Mr.. Runyan
made speeches, from which it appeared that
the cause for their complaint was not sc
much that the trains were being run toe
fast, as 1t was that the company had recently
given upper Broadway the cold shoulder and
commenced running all the Omaha trains
down Main street Casper said that another
petition had been circulated all over the
city by a brother Of the motor company's
electrician, but the young man wandered int
motor train one day to take signature:
and Superintendent Dmmock of the motor
company learned of it. He had compelled the
electrician to get the paper away from hi
brother, and so 1t was missing
After the meeting was over the animu
| of the move was made still more apparen
by Casper exclaiming: I'VE don't want th
trains run any different or at least we dom
want them so very bad; we're just using thi
/, | as a club"
The ordinance was referred to the judiciar.
, committee.
, Alderman Spetman called the attention o
the council to the fact that there were $4,000
!, of intersection paving bonds that could b
refunded at a lower rate Of interest tha
they were now drawing, and at his sugges
,(tion the finance committee were instructe
to begin correspondence with bond purchaser
for the purpose of making the desired change
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