Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-29
INJUNCTION WAS NOT ALLOWED.
City Council Sustained In Awarding
City Printing Contract.

City Council Sustained In Awarding
City Printing Contract.
The hearing on the application for a tenn
porary injunction restraining the city Off
GERS from executing a contract with the
World Herald for the city printing came
up before Judge Evans yesterday afternoon
Af1idavits were presented In support of
the application, that Of N. p. Fell being
the most important. 1t showed that the
city printing last year amounted to 1851
squares. Computing the cost of this on
the basis of the bids of The Bee and World
Herald the difference was SITS in favor of
The Bee. Taking into consideration the fact
that the columns of The Bee were twenty
seven ems in width, while the columns of
the World-Herald, were only twenty-sx ems
wide, the same amount Of matter would
make 9,191 squares in the World-Herald and
would thereby increase the cost $51, making
the total difference in favor of The Bee
1926. The tabulation of the comptroller,
based on the amount of printing done last
year and showing The Bee to be the lowest
bidder, was attached to the affidavit.
Aflidavits Of r. J. Burkley. chairman of
of F. B. Kennard, member of the same
committee, were also introduced showing
that they had made careful investigation
Of the bids and had found The Bee to be
the lowest bidder. An affidavit of II. A.
Haskell was introduced, substantiatng the
statements about the width of the columns
Of The Bee and Word-Herald
City Clerk Highly, Comptroller Westberg,
Councilmen Saunders and Taylor were ex-
amined on the part of the city and it was
sought to show that there was a combination
among the counclmen and city officials to
stop all public improvements and reduce
the expense Of advertising to the lowest
limit. The court refused to admit any tes-
timony as to what the city council would
do, allowing members of that body to testify
only to what they, Individually, intended
to do, the court holding that the council
men had no business to pass on matters
in advance.
The claim was emade by City Attorney
Connell that the awarding Of the contract
was a matter entirely within the discretion
Of the mayer and council.
At the conclusion ,of the introduction of
testimony the court announced that argu-
ments were unnecessary and Immediately
denied the application for a temporary in
junction, ruling that the awarding of the
contract was matter within the discretion
of the mayor and cunpcll, who had right
to be guided by what they would probably
do during the coming year in the matter
which would requires advertising.
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