The herald., 1897-09-19
Election Recommended by
Finance Committee
CULvERTs UNDER CAR TRACKS
THE CITY INTERVIEWS IN THE
Sc. INJUNCTION CASE
Occidental College Wants a Street
Administrative Specifications
for Street Sprinkling

II the city council approves the rec
ommendation decided upon yesterday
by its finance committee, the proposed
election to ascertain the wishes Of the
people in the matter Of issuing $4,000
in school bonds will soon be held. The
recommendation will simply state that
the committee deems an election for the
purpose mentioned desirable and will
not comment upon the matter This de-
cision was arrived at after perusal by
the committee of the several letters
which have been received in response to
the inquiries recently sent out to learn If
the proposed bonds could be advantage
ously disposed of These letters all
stated that the bonds would command
considerable premium.
Owing to the additional request Of the
board Of education for $4,000 for use on
the Custer street school, it was neces-
sary for the committee to again review
its former action. and their approval of
this request will accompany the other
recommendation. If favorable action
Is taken by the council in the matter the
city attorney will be instructed to draft
an ordinance of intention to call such
an election. The preliminaries will con-
sumo fully six weeks and the election
will probably not take place until some
time in November.
SALOON REBATES
In the matter of the application of
Mesrs. Kern, Hitch, Maxwell and Po-
laski for a rebate on their saloon IL
censes which had been paid during a
time that they were not really engaged
in the saloon business but were waitir g
for the completion of their places cf
business, the board first refused to grant
the petition and then reconsidered the
matter and deferred action for another
week. The petitioners were represented
by Attorney J. w. Mitchell, who urged
that as the present courcil had already
granted one such demand they should
grant these, as the requests were in ev-
cry way similar to that which had been
| granted. MI Toll was not in favor
of granting the petition as it would
establish a dangerous precedent, and he
further maintained that the action
would not be right as the license was
worth what the petitioners had paid
for 1t. Mr.. Grider took an opposite view
of the matter and stated that If the men
were such as were simply compelled to
wait until some small shack was re-
paired for them he would not favor the
petitions, but he pointed to the fact that
some of them had erected large blocks
and paid their licenses pending the COM
| pletion of the buildings. Chairman
Mathuss sided with Mr. Toll, and Mr..
Grider threatened to bring in minority
report in which he would point to the
| fact that the police commissione ers had
| recommended the favorable action Of
the committee on the matter. After the
vote had been taken Mr.. Mitchell asked
that the matter be passed for one week,
and to accommodate him the matter was
reconsidered and final action was post
| poned.
POLICE STATION MATTERS
Chief Of Police Glass presented the
matter Of the proper heating Of the po-
lice station to the committee. He stated
that the appliances there could not be
used for heating one room singly, but If
used the whole building would be heat
ed. He was asked to prepare state
ment of just what was wanted and pre-
sent it to the council.
Mrs. L. N. Gray presented claim of
$24 which she had paid into the police
pension fund without knowing that she
could not be benefited by that fund. Her
request for the return of the money was
referred to the board Of police commits
sioners.
| The proposed changes at the Jail,
where arrangements are to be made for
the keeping of the patrol wagon horses
| in the basement, were approved.