The herald., 1897-09-21
Must Sweep Cleaner Than
the Old One
THE COUNCILS HEAVY DAY
4 WARM REPORT FROM THE IN
vEST1oATING COMMITTEE
President Silver and Councilman Toll
Lock Horns-Drummond Sue
ceeds Mcclellan

"There'll be a hot time in this old
town." was the tune which some Of the
members of the city council were hum
ming when they entered the city hall to
attend the regular weekly meeting Of
that body yesterday morning. The pre-
dictfon that the session would be lively
and interesting one was fully borne out
by the proceedings of the day, and after
It was all over the members asked each
other If they didn't stir up things with
vengeance. There were a number Of
very important matters to be acted upon
and the members came to the city hall
to make day of it. There were inpu-
merable wrangles but they all passed off
without any serious explosion.
AZ result of the wrangling, or in
spite Of 1t, there was much business
transacted. The most important matter
was the opinion OF the city attorney on
the matter of the validity Of the water
contract. This is reported in detail in
smother column. The street sweeping
investigation was, next to the water
question, the most important matter,
and there was for time deadlock on
the adoption of the special committees
report which promised to defeat it, ami
there was also in this same connection
a parliamentary ruling which compli-
Gated matters Impassioned speeches
were made on the subject, in which
there were some broad hints that all was
not as it should be, and for nearly an
hour there was nothing to indicate just
where the matter would end. Then
things took sudden turn for the better.
The parliamentary cloud was removed
and on third vote the deadlock was
broken. AS result there will be new
inspector of street sprinkling in office as
soon as he can. qualify. Former In
spector Mcclellan was dismissed from
the service Of the city for insubordina-
tion, and r. E. Drummond was elected
to I'LL the vacancy created by his re-
moval. Health Officer Powers came in
for a reprimand. 1t was decided that
there was a necessity for the proper in
spection of the vegetable and fruit sold
in this city at the public market, and the
board of health was instructed to look
into the matter. AS to the sale of sew
age by the city for irrigation. purposes
an ordinance will be presented at the
next meeting by the sewer committed,
and there Is little doubt that the city
will cease the business of selling sew
age for irrigation purposes The matter
of diseased and putrid meats being sold
did not come up, as the committee OF The
board of health was not ready to make
report.
The recommendation of the finance
committee that a special election. be
called to ascertain the wishes of the peo-
pie in regard to proposed bond issue to
the amount of 1899. coo was concurred in
without debate.
In adCaition to the matters mentioned
there was an unusual amount of regu-
tar work of Importance to the tax pay
ers.
THE MORNING SESSION
Anticipating session of unusual in
terest quite a crowd collected in the
lobby of the council chamber before the
morning session was called to order
Those of them who are tax payers found
much of interest in the proceedings, but
those who went there expecting the SEN
sational were disappointed. 1t was not
until the afternoon that the real fun
began The morning session, while very
important to the city, was devoid of
features Of very unusual character.
CITY AUDITORS REPORT
The city auditor filed his report of the
collections made for the month Of Aug
ust In the several departments of the
city, which was published in The Herald
Sunday. He also reported the correct