The herald., 1896-07-21

tiu fowls in the district bounded by SIX
tenth street. Central avenue, Washing
ton and San Pedro streets, and also In
the district bounded by Fourteenth
street, Maple avenue. Washington and
Main streets
These ordinances caused quite de-
bate. President Teed said he was op-
posed to this thing of taking out certain
sections of the city and multiplying
work. Finally, after more or less talk,
the ordinances were referred to d special
committee of three, consisting of Messrs
Stockwell. Kingery and Pessell, in con-
nection with the board of public works, to
get up a general ordinance. regulating
the keeping of chickens in the city
THAT SPECIAL OIL POLICEMAN
The city attorney also reported an or
dinance repeating part of ordinance No.
2S7, new series, as amended by ordinance
NO. 305S, new series, providing for the
employment of one additional police
man, and providing that the chief Of
police shall detail an officer for special
duties
This is the ordinance in regard to the
oil inspector. and Messrs. Snyder and
Munson promptly locked horns. Mr..
Munson moved that the ordinance be
hled as the whole matter had been ar
ranged. Mr.. Snyder could not see it in
that way, and thought that the ordi
nance should be adopted. There were
charges of schemes and counter schemes,
and at one time the situation became re-
ally exciting, and it looked as though
there might be a collision between the
honorable gentlemen. President Teed
reminded the officer in charge that when
he ordered members to take their seats
and they did not do 50, that he would
expect them to be led from the hall.
This order had a decidedly notifying
effect, and the language thereafter was
confined to what is called parliamenta-
ry. Mr. Snyder finally carried his point
and the ordinance was adopted under
a suspension of the rules, and the matter
disposed of.
SCHOOL PROPERTY
The city attorney reported the draft
of deed of the school property from the
city to the board of education. This
deed cOnveSs all of the school lots pur-
chased during the past year, with the
new buildings, to the board of educa
tion The deed was approved and the
mayor authorized to sign on behalf Of
the city.
SUNDAY CLOSING
In the matter of the Sunday closing
ordinance. the city attorney reported
as follows:
You have referred to me the report
of the committee on public morals with
reference to Sunday closing, and 1 re-
ported partially on the same one week
ago. A further examination Of the mat
ter has not determined it to my mind,
and the brief submitted to me by the
attorney for the petitioners does not
seem to cover the point suggested by me
in my partial report. The question is
so close as to make it uncertain as to
whether such ordinance would be sus-
tained by the courts or not. If, however,
you instruct me to prepare an ordinance
please specify the points you wish COW
cred and the exceptions you wish to
make, and l will prepare an ordinance
and will defend the same in the courts
to the best of my ability.
There were a number of advocates of
the ordinance as well as opponents in the
council chamber, and, as was to be eX-
pected, this section of the report caused
a general debate, number of those
present being invited TO give their views.
President Teed surrendered the chair to
Mr.. Pessell, and the ball was opened
by Councilman Kingery, who briefly re-
viewed the action so far taken. City
Attorney Dunn then stated his position,
saying that he was not satisfied as to
whether such an ordinance would be
legal or not He was not trying to dodge
any question. but as he did not have
settled opinion, he thought it would be
better to have the whole matter passed
upon by the courts. This could only be
done by adopting such an ordinance as
was desired, and then to have it passed
upon, which would probably be very
promptly
Will d. Gould on behalf Of the pet
itioners, reiterated the stereotyped ar
gumentS heretofore made by him. claim
ing that under the constitution the mu-
nicipality had right to pass such an or
dinance as was asked for. OF course
l,n hxr,x I, ;,I, I,:s,
be positively settled was by the passage
of such an ordinance as asked for, and
then to have the matter passed upon
by the courts. He then passed on to the
of saloons, and took advantage
of the occasion to get in some prohibi-
tion talk. He was called to order by
President Teed, who remarked that he
did not think it fair to allow Mr.. Gould.
who was known throughout the land
as a rank prohibitionist,' to ventilate
his peculiar ideas.
In answer to a question by Mr.. Kin
gerry as to whether or not, under the
law, when man conscientiously believed
that Saturday was the day of rest, in
place of Sunday, the law could
not be made to fix the case, and frankly
replied that he did not know, and no one
else knew, until the matter had been
passed upon by the courts.
Mr.. Gould was questioned at some
length by President Teed, but did not
have much success in segregating pub
lie from private pursuits.
The secretary of the Barber'S asso-
citation said that those craftsmen had
indorsed the Sunday closing movement
He said that they wanted the day for
recreation alone, and they were not ad-
vocating the matter from a religious
Mr.. Ryan, a butcher, who modesty an
nounced that he came from the city of
Wellington, New Zealand, also advocat-
ed Sunday closing He said that the
Sunday law had worked we'll in New
Zealand, and he wanted to see it in
operation here.
Rev. DR.. Mclean of Simpson Taber-
nacle. was about to speak, but preferred
% wait until the others had concluded !
he was followed by Mr.. Knox, a Sew |
enth-day Adventist, who made logical
argument against the proposed ordi- !,
nance, in which he went over the argu- /
nents heretofore advanced. He said |
hat canvass of the city on last Sun
lay showed that in place of 2000 clerks |
oeing deprived of their rest, 100 men i
were found employed. and most of these |
we're glad of chance to work on that !
lay. as it was probably their greatest |
means of income
Ed. Booth of the clerks associa ton |
spoke in favor of the proposed ordi- |
lance, saying that they wanted the day |
Us a day OF rest and to protect the clerks |
n their rights to this day.
Councilman kingery of the Fourth !
men made a band-stand play in favor
u the ordnance, and was rewarded |
Win mild outburst of applause. He |
vas SO encouraged that he continued |
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