Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-04
|, SOUTH OMAHA NEWS.


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At the regular monthly meeting OF the
city council last night the matter Of the in
creased assessment OF the corporations WAS
brought up by Kelly, who offered
motion directing the city attorney to com
mence mandamus proceedings to compel the
city clerk to place the increased assessments
on the tax books as ordered by the council.
The resolution also provided for the employ
ment OF an attorney to assist the city at
torney In connection with this resolution
Mayor Ensor took occasion to say that the
stand taken by the clerk was not warranted
and set a bad precedent. He held that as
lons as the clerk did not lay himself liable
on his bond by following the instructions of
the council it was his duty to do So In
his opinion the clerk had no right to take
the matter into his own hands as he had
done When put to vote the resolution
was defeated. Messrs. Bennett, Clingen
Mort and Trainor voting against It. AS
Fanferlk was absent only three votes those
of Barrett. Kelly and Wear, were recorded
in favor of 1t.
The question of making some repairs to a
curbstone on Q street brought out an ex-
preston from the mayor regarding the con-
dition of the street repair fund His honor
asserted that it would be necessary to go
slowly with expenditures and he thought
that the repairs suggested could be post
poned for a time.
The suggestion was made that a poll tax
be levied in order to bring into the street
repair fund a sum sufficient to keep the
streets and alleys in good condition. 1t was
stated that the city charter allows the levy
ing of such tax and one member stated
that figured on the basis of 5000 voters
the sum of $4,000 would be turned into the
treasury annually from this source. City
Attorney Montgomery and the committee on
viaducts, streets and alleys will take this
matter under consideration.
Another viaduct repair ordinance was
passed under suspension of the rules. The
ordinance which was introduced at the last
meeting was withdrawn and a substitute
offered. 1t is understood that the railroads
interested had nothing to do with the draw
ing of the new ordinance. An ordinance
creating a sewer district from A to d
streets between Twenty fourth and Twenty
fifth streets was passed under the suspension
OF the rules and the city clerk was directed
to advertise for bids. The sewer will be
ten inches in diameter and will have lot con-
necttons with every twenty feet.
Trainor offered a motion directing the city
attorney to draft an ordinance for permanent
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Twenty fourth to Twenty street. This
brought up the matter of permanent side
walks and Mayor Ensor wanted to know
what had become of the two permanent
sidewalk ordinances which had been intro
duced some time ago. One of these ordi-
nances created permanent district along
Twenty-fourth from to l. streets, while the
other was for walks on both sides of @
street from the west end of the viaduct to
Thirty-third street. Barrett objected to
Trainor's motion, saying that permanent
walks were not needed at the present time.
After some discussion Barrett amended
Trainor's motion creating permanent side
walk district along both sides of @ street
from Twenty-fourth to Thirty-six street.
The amendment as well as the original mo-
tion were lost when put to vote.
| The ordinance creating the Office OF plumb
| ing inspector St1d authorizing the mayor to
| make the appointment was passed.
| Inspector Howard reported having con-
demned four head of cattle and sixty-fiye
| hogs during the month of September
John Fallon's application for liquor Ii
| cense at. 1922 @ street was referred to the
| license committees. - s..t. t.
! Alexander, J. Bell filed a claim for So, 900
| damages. 1t is alleged by Bell, who was
| employed at Armour's, that he fell on the
walk on the @ street vaduct on the evening
! of September IS and sustained severe in
| juries. The document was placed on file.
| b. Luckey offered the city $25 year fer a
| term of five years for the small piece OF
ground owned by the city at the east end of
| the street viaduct This offer went to the
streets and alleys committee for consid-
erat on. .. -.
The sum Of $1,000 was transferred from
| the special license fund to the general
fund. In view Of the fact that possibly the
Union Pacific and Stock Yards companies
may desire to take some action on the
viaduct repair ordinance the council de-
cided to meet again Wednesday night. Last
months bills and salaries were ordered
paid.