Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-07-11

J H Rhodes, trips to St. Pau1.."....... 6 81
N V Wetzel, mdse city................... IA 50
Montbriand, reelinR hose-...-........ 80
Tomelty, mdse poor........ ...--...... 80
F E Cawley, trips to st. Paul.. 10 IS
J Mcdonald, assessment for 1Ss9..... go 90
The Electric & Water company's
bill Of $208.00 for use Of arc lamps
was rejected and the bill from the
same company for 286.67 for hyd-
rant rental was allowed $3.50 per
hydrant provided the company
would accept that amount.
Acting City Attorney F. w. Lyon
had but one correction to make in
Justice Shaw's report. And that
was an item in connection with the
case Of Frank Bourassa. Shaw had
entered an item of $l1.5O which
Lyon claimed should be $40. They
chewed the rag over the $3.50 differ
ence for a while and then cooled off.
The report has yet to be approved.
When Clerk Hall asked the council
If they were ready to take up vetoed
matters which had previously been
laid over, Aid. Martin made q mo-
ton that they be left until Saturday.
The motion was carried. By doing
this the market question is as yet
undecided for Vasaly's veto on that
resolution passed by the council has
not been acted upon.
The committee on municipal az
fairs, composed OF Martin, Hill and
Peterson, gave their first report
Saturday evening. In this report
they pulled Mayor Vasaly and Clerk
Hall over the Goals.
THE REPORT.
To the President and Council of the
City of Little Falls, MINI.
The undersigned, your committee
on municipal affairs, do hereby re-
port. that funds, which were ex-
pected could be used in necessary
street works and improvements and
which funds would be available by
reason of reductions in police force
and salaries, are likely to be used
for other than said street work and
in fact are believed to have been al
ready diverted to other uses. That,
without authority or right, the
present mayor and city clerk of the
city, have issued and delivered GER
tain purported city orders for the
payment of so-called police officers
for the months of April, May and
June Of this year, amounting to
$65l.3l. That, without authority
OF law and contrary to section is
title 2 of the city charter, which pro-
vides: "The city clerk shall draw and
sign all orders on the city treasurer
in pursuance of an order or resolu
ton of the city council and keep a
full and accurate account thereof
etc. orders have. been issued to the
police, so-called, since the LIST ofMay,
1899, to the am ount of $651.31, and
contrary to section 127 of title of
the city charter. which reads: "No
money shall be paid out of the city
treasury, except for principal and
interest Of city bonds, unless such
payment shall be authorized by a
vote of the city council = and
the further section 81 title 6 of said
city charter, (which reads "No ap-
preparation shall be made without a
vote of a majority Of all the members
of the common council in it's favor,
which shall be takens by ayes and
nays, and entered among the pro-
ceedings Of the council" and your
committee also believes and is in
formed said orders were issued con-
trary to order the OF Judge Searle filed
July 6, 1899, in the case of Trebby VS..
vasaly, Hall and others, and we are
informed by Mr.. Hall, city clerk, that
said orders were issued by and I'M
der the. advice Of the Electric &
Water company's attorneys, the
city's attorneys not having been at
any time consulted in regard to is
suance of said orders. 49,.
We further find that order has