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that they have incurred no expense to
the city.

the city.
ROOM FOR THE REPORTERS.
In the matter of providing suitable
quarters for the reporters of the daily
papers at the central police station, the
supply committee reported as follows
Your supply committee 'begs leave to
| report in the matter of the report of the
board of police commissioners asking
that the council furnish room in the
city central police station for the use of
| the reporters, we recommend that the
! chief of police be instructed to set aside
the search room for the use of the re-
porters on the daily papers, and that
said reporters be requested to confer
with the chief of police in reference TO
| furnishing the same.
The recommendation passed by a
unanimous vote, the cougcilmen all ex-
pressing themselves as being in favor
of providing suitable accommodations
as asked for.
THE UNION LABEL.
In the matter of the use of the union
label on all public printing, the supply
committee reported as follows:
In the matter of petitions No. 924, from
w. e. Keller ct al, 925 from the Los An
geles Typographical union, 923, from a.
L. Havermale, 922. from Benson Stead,
in reference to the use of the union label
upon city printing. your committee beg
leave to report that they have before
recommended the use of this label on all
city printing, and have no further rec
concentrations to make in the matter
and therefore report the said communi-
cations back to your honorable body
without recommendation for your ac-
tion.
There were delegations from the Typ
ographical union, as well as the non
union printers in the lobby, and on the
conclusion of the reading of the recon-
mendation, E. A. Meserve presented the
case of the petitioners at length, argu-
ing against the resolution ordering this
action. He claimed that he was not OPP
posed to the Typographical union. as he
believed in organized labor, but he did
not believe in discrimination. Besides.
the action of the council was illegal, and
for that reason it should be rescinded.
Councilman Snyder said that he had
no objection to Mr.. Meserve coming be-
fore the council and earning the wages
that he had been paid, but he could not
sit in his place and allow his remarks re-
flecting on the council to go without an
swer. There Svas no attempt on the part
of the supply committee and the coun-
Gil to rush the matter through. Ample
time had been given for any one taking
interest enough in the matter to appear
and present their case, and If Mr.. Mes
erve had been. paid attorney then,as he
is now, he would have doubtless found
time to do so. Further, the reason that
the matter was presented to the council
without recommendation was because
Mr.. Meserve himself had suggested that
this was the best way in which it should
come up.
j. r. Phillis, representing the Typo
graphical union, followed, answering
the arguments and statements made by
the attorney for the petitioners. He
showed by facts and figures that the
statement that there were more nom
union men in the job offices than union
was not correct; further that many of
the signers of the petition are not quail
fed voters, and but six of the number
are on the assessment roll, as against
eighty-five union men. Mr.. Phillis also
gave other facts to show that the union
men are largely in the majority, and
made the assertion that the non-union
offices of the city paid all the way from
10 to so per cent less than the union Of
fees
Stephen Bowers, editor of the Califor-
MIA Voice, asked what the object of the
union printers was in making the nght
on non-union printers.
Mr.. Phillis declined to answer the
question until the gentleman gave his
name, which he did.
At this point President Teed said that
he would be compelled to go, when Coun-
Gilman Kingery said that he thought the
matter could be settled with very little
talk. He was prepared to say that in
this matter, as in many others, they
had made confounded fools of them
selves" President Teed remarked, as
he left the room, that while he was not
prepared to go to the length of his col
league he would say that they had acted
very foolishly
There was some further talk, when
further hearing was continued to
Wednesday.
STREET SWEEPING CONTRACT.
The board of public works reported
recommending that the bid OF j. A. Dun
comb for sweeping the paved pubic
streets of the city at s5.9S per lineal mile
be accepted, and that the city attorney
be instructed to prepare the necessary
contract and bond. Adopted.
The matter Of the piping of the Arroyo
de los REYES, defeated at the morning
session, was again called up, and on mo-
ton of Councilman Ashman the actlon
of the council was reconsidered and fur
ther action was deferred to wednesday
next at o'clock.
Recess to Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
BRIDGE MATTERS.
The bridge committee presented the
following report, which was adopted:
In the matter Of the proposal to con-
struct a bridge over the Los Angeles
river on the Los Feliz road, we recon-
mend that. all bids be rejected and the
CITY clerk instructed to readvertise for
bids in accordance with plans and spec
ifications on file in the office of the city
engineer, and in addition that all DIG
ders be allowed to submit their own
plans and specifications.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to floor tne Macy
street bridge and cover the same with a
thin coating of asphaltum.
SAM ADAMS FOUND GUILTY.
In department two of the police courI
Yesterday morning Justice Rossiter oI
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