El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-03
COUNCIL PRETTY WE'LL MUDDLED.
A Case of Which Will You do or go
AfiSHinS?

A case OI WHICH VIII L Ou uC VI 20
Afishing?
The FL Paso city council met last
night with a full hoa"d present. The
mate of the Gee sioo of the fourth
court of appeals, of course, cems up,
and the more the honorable members
talked, the darker the situation be-
came, until they finally con 'luded to
take to tn wood, adjourned.
The meetiog was IN rked by Judge
Co'dwell's camping hard on MI. Pat
tersoa's trail, aud max ng charges tn IN t
finally b ought out indignant protests
from Aldermen Wnitmors and Cliff
10 d The st ssicn orened, however,
with fuuereal cslmuess Chief of Police
Lock hart reported that he had $ ~ ed
n, ic.- ss require ed on both the Camp
bell Resi- Etite company and the wo-
man. Arnie Gibson. who wa7 occ"py-
ing part OF the public street to vaca; e
thu me.
The clerk reported the N2vem Der
city pay roll amounting to Sl976.oS
which was allowed.
TIE ordinance + lative to the
plumbers was Brought up City Al
torre y Kemp 81 id there vas no spec al
nc ssity Of having any more Or
dioaaces on thi- subject. Howevs r.
ns hGd drafted an ordinance in &C.
cordance with the late law, and put as
lit tie in It as possible Judge Coldweli
ssid he had in mind an ordinance based
on the vr sviOusly Introduced resOlut on,
and did not sac as there WAS any nee
essity of an ordi nance drawn up with a
view to any legislative enactment.
Mr.. Clifford for the committee on
| finance reported fagorabiy on these
bills which ~ere allowed:
! G. w. FaSSett. Observation-Disclosures IS
Sewer commissio 1ess' weekly
! Street commissioners weekly
pay roll, 70
| The Fassett bill was for the sewer
pipe.
MIR Springer appeared with a verbal
complaint to make. But Judge G. nd
well and others OF the council advised
! Mr.. Springer that complaints should
be made in writing. and ihit verbal
complaints could not be received. Mr..
S oriuger thoughtful mat er over and
evide ntly concluded not to make any,
for he withdrew.
The clerk pathetically announced an
accumulation of bills on his hands dur
ing the month. He was at loss Us to
what to do with ten. They were or
dered referred to the finance commit
tie
Mr. Whitmore announced that he
had bargatned Off the art sian well
pip: the inch at 25 cents, and the 4
inch at Is cents. The transaction was
approved.
Judge oldwsH for the commit ee on
ordinances. reported an ordinance
changing the color of tt e police force
Ii iforms from blue to gray. Approvei
The clerk reported a requisition
from the fire department for $40 as
the Novembe pay roll: also, SO with
which to pay Mr.. Hempel for the Tina
he WAS laid up with his isjur;e7. APP
proved.
The appointment of Sheridan
Faulkner as engineer OF the ire
st amer was approved.
Then the special business of the ses-
sion was brought up. and the honor
able members masticated the linen IN
the mos approved style for half an
hour. The fun began by the mayors
haviog Mr.. Burton read the following
little rOmanZa:
Whereas. The recent decision of
the court of appeals at San Antonio in
the case of 7. II Conkiin VS.. The City
of FL Pa-O has created some doubt as
to this ity having been properly or
gained into sn Independent school
district: there fore it is deemed mex
pedieut at this time TO issue bends for
the purpose of building school house
in the Second ward and to improve the
Mesa school house in the Third ward.
Be it therefore ordained that the Or
dinarce passed on the 18th day OF Oc-
tober, 1897, authoriz pg the issuance of
the coupon bonds OF the city for the
purpose of borrowing money to erect
school house il Second ward and TO
improve the Mesa school house in the
Third ward be and the same is he-e-
by re pe ais d; and in view of the ap-
pro .cning election 10 be held to deter
N M among others the issuance Of said
bonds, the mayor is requested to give
notice of their repeal.
His honor had a proclamation all
primed to ring on the public for with
drawing the school bonds from peXs
Tuesdays e ection; bit it was not read.
S mellow, the mayors little scheme
did no. assimil ate well with the hOuOr-
able members of the council: IN fact
the scheme seemed to fall ''With a
dull an1 eickening thad." Mr.. Whit
more thought thst the schoo' bonds
| were the most important of al, and
Mr.. Clifford held tia. it would be
better to call off all the bonds rather
than to tate the step advised by his
honor tie mayo. Judge Coldwell also
| advised against such proceeding and
told the mayor he was misiu formed on
the situation. The Judge said the
bonds would be defeated anyway: but
the ma yor replied that was ID matter of
Opt ion. He wonld lay the question
before the people ard see what they
would do about it. Judge Co'dwell
said be was opposed to this matter all
through, but it would do no harm to
vote on he school bonds with the
others. If the supreme court reverse d
the decision of the court of appeals,
the bends could be Issued without de-
lay: and if the decision of the court of
appeals was affirmed, why the bonds
need not be issued. The Judge ex-
planned that in holding the election
for school bonds now, there need not
| be any extra expense whatever Judge
Coldwell called the attention how long
ago he Rad warned the council of what
was impending, and had endeavored to
avert TIE ter, but no attic ntion had
been paid to him: in fact he had been
kicked into the opposition. The school
system had been hit bard enough, and
| by its friends. However, it is au open
que st on yet as to where we are. The
Judge denied that the results Of this
particular case OF Conkln's would be
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