The San Francisco call., 1898-02-08

s. Griffin, P. Beaudry and s. Lazard, un- der the contract in writing purported to have been made between the Mayor and Common Council of the city of Los An geleS, party of the first part, and said Griffin, Beaudry and LaZard, parties of the second part, bearing date of July 20 1868, and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the county of Los Angeles, State of California, in book ], of miscellaneous records, pages 42S ct seq, be and they are hereby requested to fur nish, as soon as practicable, to this Coun- cil, an itemized list or inventory with a particular description of all the water works purported to be leased to said Griffin, Beaudry and Lazard in and by said contracts and also of the improve ments made in, about and upon said wa ter works in pursuance of said contract, (the value of which improvements the municipal corporation, the city of Los Angeles, is, according to the terms of the said contract, obligated to pay said Grif- fin, Beaudry and Lazard or their assigns at the expiration of thirty years from the execution of said contracD, together with the name or names of the corpora ton or corporations, person or persons, entitled to receive payment of the value of each and every parcel of said improve ments under and by virtue of the terms of said contract.
 Resolved, further, That in case said successors in interests of said Griffin, Beaudry and Lazard fail or refuse to furnish, within a reasonable time, to this Council, such list or inventory, the city of Los Angeles will consider itself re- leased from any obligation of endeavor- ing to agree upon the value of said i'm provements with said successors, or of arbitrating with them concerning such value.
 Resolved. further, That the City Attor- ney be and he is hereby directed to trans init copy of these resolutions to the Los Angeles City Water Company and to the Crystal Springs Land and Water Com pany, and to demand from each of said companies compliance herewith. MT. Hutchison offered to amend so as to require an answer from the wa ter company within two weeks. Messrs. Nickell and Toll argued that the rec ommendation of the city's legal advis- CTS should be adopted literally and without change. MT. Grider supported the amendment and the roll was called. In explaining his motion Mir. Toll in- sisted that no matter what action might afterward be taken in regard to the matter by the Council, there was no question that the resolution should be adopted as offered. The amendment was lost and the motion for the adop- tion of the resolution carried.
 Later MT. Hutchison introduced the motion which unanimously carried l that two weeks be fixed as the time within which the water company shall | file its inventory.
 This is the first resolution that the present Council has adopted which has had about it anything to indicate that the city meant business in its dealings with the water company. It will be noted that the corporation is this time informed that the city will take de- fault in the event of it's failure to re- spond within two weeks. If this policy is continued and this corporation is given to understand that the Council is not to be trifed with, municipal con- trol will be an assured fact within six months, and the syndicated local press will have met with a complete rout. | The Council also adopted the follow ing resolution this afternoon:
 Resolved, That the Water Supply Com mittee be hereby instructed to reopen ne- gotiations with the Westside Water Com pany with reference to possible, pur- chase of that portion of their plant used in furnishing water to the inhabitants oi | the city.
 The Westside Water Company is a minor corporation and until an investi- gation is made no one knows what It
 has to sell to the city, if anything There will be strenuous objections made to unloading on the municipality a lot of valueless stuff in the shape o1 rusty water mains and inadequate wa ter rights, whether owned by the West side Water Company or any other cor poration.