The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-04
ANOTHER A.P. A. EDICT
Pete Hsle's Big HOstelry Must Get
Out of the Third.
AGREEMENT OF COUNCILS
Instead of Making One Ward Out
of the Two Ii Is Proposed to
Enlarge the First Enough to
Take In the House.
AGREEMENT OF COUNCILS

The edict has gone forth from the A
z. AS that the Hale house must be
moved from the Third ward into the
First ward. The matter mas been pend
ing FOR two or three weeks before the
A. +. A. lodges, and considerable oppo-
sition was manifested TO the PROPOSE
ton. II was argued by number OF
the members of the order that an act
so transparently unfair would do more
to injure the A. p. AS than anything
else that could be done.
There are only three councils of the
A. p. A left now, known respectively
as Councils Nos. l, and Z. The ether
four are not in active service at pres
emit Councils Nos. l and meet in Odd
Fellows hall, and No. meets in Good
Templar's hall. The proposition TO
move the Hale house passed Nos. 1 and
3, but was defeated in No. I. Having
passed two lodges out of three it be-
comes the edict of the order.
1t now remains to be seen whether
the aldermen will obey the mandate of
the order Up TO last night a majority
had not been obtained to vote for the
measure. While most of the aldermen
are members of the A. p. A., some of
them declare that they viii not, under
any consideration, vote for such
measure as the one proposed. Two of
the aldermen only are rabidly in favor
of the Hale house removal, while some
of the others say that they Will vote for
the measure inasmuch as the A. p. A.
has instructed them so to do, but they
declare that they do not approve of the
measure and think 1T will be productive
OF harm. The measure viii not be intro
duced, however, until a majority OF the
council IS absolutely pledged to vote for
it, but that majority has not yet been
obtained although an the strength and
influence of the a. p. A. leaders Is be-
ing exerted TO whip the reluctant alder
men into line 1t had been hoped. when
the measure passed two of the three
councils, that there would be no furth-
er delay and that the Ordina nee would
be introduced next Wednesday night.
The refusal of so many Of the aldermen
to vote for rhe measure, however, is
likely TO cause a further delay, and 1t is
doubtful II a ma jority favorable to the
plan can be obtained.
The original plan has been changed
somewhat. According to the first plan,
the whole Third ward was to be con-
solidated with the First ward. This
plan has been changed. and the present
plan rs to make a jog in the Third
ward just big enough to annex the Hale
house to the First ward and leave the
| balance OF the Third ward just as 1t is
! at present. The bounds of the First
| ward will be extended south on Arizo-
ma street to the alley which runs east
| from Arizona, between Broadway and
| Park, directly behind the Hale house
| and then north again on the alley east
| Of the Hale house to the First ward line
| on Granite street. This will make a jog
| which will include the Hale house and
| very little else. The first scheme sbso-
| utely failed OF receiving support
| enough to insure it's passage, but this
new scheme has received the endorse
| ment OF two of the three lodges of the
! A. p. A., and If The aldermen will obey
| orders The measure will become a law