The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-04
PETER HALE'S FATE
The City Council Will Pronounce SEN
tence Tonight.
LARGE AUDIENCE ASSURED
These Fortnishtiy Comedies Are
the Popular Thing These Days
A Little Speech for cam
bers and Vivlon.

This will be a busy day around the
city hall. There will be plenty OF COM
mittee meetings during the day ending
with the grand finale of a council
meeting in the evening The present
administration is deserving OF great
credit in bringing its council meetings
from weekly affairs down to fortnight
ly entertainments. No matter how live
ly or interesting council meetings may
be, too frequent shows Of any kind
pail on the taste of the public. BY
holding the meetings once in two
weeks only, the public Is not surfeited
with farce comedy and manages to get
up a good appetite for every fresh
council meeting.
This is the vital day on which hangs
the fate of the Hale house. The or
dinance providing for the transfer of
that house from the Third ward to the
First ward was at the last meeting re-
ferred TO the judiciary committee
which will meet this afternoon. Since
the ordinance was introduced Pete
Hale has had the wheels and body Of
his delivery wagon painted orange.
and SOME Of the aldermen have in con-
sequence favored pigeon-holing the or
dinance, but this will not be allowed.
1t is understood, however, that the jul
dietary committee will refer the ordi-
nance back without recommendation
and let the council fight IT out. This
will add zest to to-nights council
meeting. Aldermen Vivion and Cam
bers have been hauled up before the
chiefs Of the A. p. A. and censured for
keeping so quiet when Alderman Har-
rington challenged them. IL they had
manhood enough, TO state for what
reason they had introduced the ordi-
nance. J. ID. Caldwell, grand chief OF
the A. =. A., has prepared a speech
for the aldermen TO deliver Jointly at
to-nights meeting in support OF the
measure. Mr.. Caldwell prepared this
speech with great care, and before
leaving for the state A. p. A. conven-
ton in Anaconda he had the two al
dermen rehearse the speech before him
and drilled them carefully I'm gestures
and infection. Mr.. Caldwell says the
speech Is a burner and IL Aldermen
Vfvion and Gamblers deliver Il the way
he wrote II and had them learn II. II
will be the greatest speech ever deliv-
cred before a city council In Butte AL
dermen Vivion and Gamblers intro
duced the ordinance Jointly, IL being
the first ordinance in Butte's history
which any one man was ashamed to
introduce. The ordinance having been
introduced jointly. the speech will
doubtless be recited jointly also. but
whether the entire speech will be de-
llvered by the two aldermen In concert
or whether one alderman will deliver
the first half of the speech and the
other the second half of the speech,
has not been announced. IL seems like
ly that the meeting will be worth at
tending
aAThe, finance committee <vin meet at .
O'Clock this morning to audit bills and
approve the pay roll for the month Of
February.
The special committee to investigate
the street railroad accident will meet
at j O'Clock this afternoon.
The committee on streets and alleys
will meet at ocloc this afternoon.
The committee on plats and addi-
tions, which was to have met yester-
day afternoon to consider the matter
of annexing the territory northwest of
the city, did not get together. but will
probably meg before the council meet
ing tonight