Kansas City daily journal., 1895-02-26
FOR HONEST ELECTIONS.
LOWER HOUSE PUTs ITSELF On REC
ORD FOR rURE BALLOTS.
1t Adopts Resolution Requesting the
Mayor to Appoint a Non-rartisan
Committee to Go to Jefferson
City-Tbe Election Meas
ure Ia Referred.

The lower house adopted the following
resolution introduced by Speaker stoner:
BE 1t resolved by the lower house of
the common council of Kansas City.
Mo-:
Section THAT the mayor be re-
quested to appoint at once committee
of four of whom not more than two
shall be of the same political party, to
attend the state capital and personally
urge the passage of an election law or
such amendments to existing statutes
as will secure honest elections.
Section 2--That honest elections In
this city can be secured by such laws
only as secure, first, honest registration
of the lawful voters, and, second honest
counts of the votes after they are cast
that this cannot be accomplished while
the office is created and administered
by uni-partisans."
Ordinances were passed TO pave Ninth
from Washington to Penn; Ninth from
Penn to jefferson and Ninth from JEFF
ferson to Summit and Seventh from
Broadway to Penn.
The amended sidewalk ordinances were
referred to the sidewalk committee. As
stated previously in the Journal, they
provide for uniformity in the materials
of which first-class sidewalks are con-
structed; one provides that when a
first-class walk is to be constructed
when no ordinance has been passed de-
claring the work necessary, u petition
of property owners specifying some ma
terial must be presented to the board of
public works and n permit secured from
the city engineer; unless the property
owners who have not signed the petition
select another material within ten days,
the material selected by the first petit
ton shall be established as the material
of which all first-class sidewalks on the
side of the street affected in any one
block shall be in the future constructed
The other ordinance provides for uni
formity of material when an ordinance
has declared the work necessary.
The garbage ordinance providing for
dstricting the city according to the
quantity of garbage collected, and not
by wards. and for the letting of the gar
bage contracts by separate districts and
not to one contractor, was referred to
the sanitary committee.
Election Measure Referred.
The upper house last night practically
killed the lower house ordinance for a
special election in the Seventh ward, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resgna-
tion of Mr.. Jamison. to be held on
March 2S. When the ordinance was
taken up President Tiernan took the
IlOOT anu Tldue II vigorous SpeeCil III oD-
position to 1t, claiming that precedent
had established the right of the mayor
to call such special elections when he
saw fit and that in this case there was
no special need for hurrying. After
some discussion the ordinance was re-
ferred to the finance committee, COM
posed of Aldermen Huttig, Morgan and
Eyssell the members of which commit
tee are said to be In favor of allowing
the mayor to call the election in his own
good time. 1t is the belief that the ordi-
nance will be allowed to slumber in the
committee box.
An ordinance was passed authorizing
the city assessor to employ drauShts-
man to revise certain plats.
Benton s9S for services as an extra
clerk in the office of the city treasurer
during the month of September. The
house has been opposed to the payment
of extra clerks which have not been
authorized by ordinance and Alderman
Morgan, of the finance committee, stated
that this was the last ordinance of the
kind he would approve
The revised ordinances of the city |
were so amended as to permit meat
shops within 1900 feet of the city mar
llet instead of 1000 feet, as formerly |
The house cleaned up the budget, |
passing a number of paving, grading |
and sidewalk ordinances before ad-
iourning