The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-05
Butte Department.


while not offending 1t was considered
by Mr.. Dugan proper that he should be
paid. AS the Sazerac was blamable
for the trouble he refused to pay them
1t would have been well for you, Mr..
Mayor. to have ascertained these
things and taken the advice of the
council instead of acting solely on your
own responsibility. This is a very
strange thing to me, and probably
stranger yet to the public, because we
have got rather used to these things
and the public has not. We are used
to your strange rulings, proceedings,
etc."
There may be stranger rulings be-
fore I get through" said the mayor.
'tMr. Dugan never told me any reasons
why he did not sign that warrant"
ut was your place to inquire" said
Byrne.
IT did inquire Of the city attorney"
said Thompson.
ut was your place." continued
Byrne. "to ask such questions OF the
city attorney in this council chamber
and before the members of the coun-
Gil. There was no occasion for all this
secrecy"
Alderman Vivion took a hand next
and asked the mayor:
do you consider that this warrant
was the business of the old council or
of the newY
"Of the DID," replied the mayor.
Have you not several times refused
to bring up matters of the old council
in this, because. as you say, they were
none of our business?"
81 have"
Then why did you take up this mat
ter of the old councils? Who author
lied you to fulfill orders which the old
council gave to the old mayor
THE council ordered the claim paid,
said Mr.. Thompson and as Mr.. Dugan
had refused to pay 1t. I saw that 1t was
paid"
Alderman Pascoe chimed in next and
consider that the council has never
passed this bill over Mr.. Dugan's We
tor?
ct don't consider that that was a
Veto" said the mayor.
His refusal to sign the warrant was
a veto" declared Pascoe "and the war
rant was never passed over his veto.
You had no more right to sign that
warrant as the presiding officer of this
body after 1t had been vetoed than 1
had"
That's right" agreed vivion.
81 am responsible for 1t II I done
wrong" said the mayor. Il claim that
/ am right"
why was the matter brought up
here?" inquired Vivion.
Merely to ventilate IT, so all the
facts can come out said the mayor.
Did you want a vote of confidence
by the aldermen, or an Endorsement. or
a test to see whether you are sustained
or not?" asked Vivion.
81 am not particular about that,
said the mayor. ANY alderman can
make such a motion II he chooses, or
any other motion If he wants to-"
No alderman, apparently, wanted to
make any motion of endorsement.
did / understand you to say" que
ried Byrne, that a mayor has no right
to refuse warrant ordered by the
council?"
"He has no right unless he can give
good reasons for It," said the mayor.
what right-well, you are a wrong
man to ask about right, because you
don't know anything about such
things" said Byrne. IF you read the
Incorporation act you will see that the
mayor has a right 10 refuse to sign any
bill or act of the council. No one Will
deny but that the old council under
stood Mr.. Dlfgan's action to be veto,
and II was accepted as veto at the
time"
Nothing further was said about hav-
ing a veto or endorsement, and as the
mayor did not seem to care for test
vote, the matter was dropped. The I'm
ancial committee reported in favor OF
using the sinking fund as far as avail
able for the payment of the matured
bonds. On motion of Pascoe the judi
ciary committee was instructed to in
troduce a resolution in regard to taxi
ing up the matured bonds with the
money in the sinking fund. An ordin-
ance changing the sidewalk grades in
certain blocks was read and referred
to the judiciary committee.
The report of the judiciary committee
was as follows:
I'm the matter of the petition of Mrs.
NJ E. James, asking for a reduction of
the tax assessed upon her property, in
the matter of the petition of Mrs. Hilda
Renks, asking the remission of the taxes
assessed against her property, and in the
matter of the account of the
washoe Copper company against the
| city, asking rebate Of S.25,
money alleged TO have been paid by said
washoe Copper company upon property
| owned by the city, we report that under
section 4S66 of the political code of Mon
| tana, II is necessary for the petitioners
to file an affidavit with the city clerk set
ting forth the facts upon which his petit
| ton is based before action can be taken
upon such petition by the council.
Relative to all other mattres hereto
| fore referred to us and not reported on,
we ask for further time"
The report OF the judiciary commit
| tee was adopted.
City Engineer Blackford presented the
| following report:
| II beg to inform your honorable body
that / ann now prepared 20 make the spe-
cial assessments to defray the cost OF
4 property purchased for the opening OF
| streets and for sewers and grading work
| done during the present year.
| Following is a list of the assessments
| TO be made:
Sanitary sewers on Broadway....$ $50 81
| Sidewalks in various places-total
cost ........ ................. ........ 7ss o.
| Grading of Nevada avenue........ So. 9,
| Grading of Emmett and Excelsior
avenues and Caledonia street. in
the Volunteer addition. ........ 2.525. 81
Cost of land ana removal OF house
on Copper street. between Ex-
celsior avenue and Alabama ST.. $50. 0l
Cost of land in Colorado St. near
| lrOn ......... .......... ............ 5O0.U
Il would recommend that the sewer as