The daily sentinel., 1899-10-11
CITY COUNCIL NOTES

The volume of business transacted
last night, at the regular monthly meet
ing OF the city council was considerable
Ali the members of council we're present
save Dickerson; Mayor Bla occupied the
chair.
The first and only petition Of the even
ing was one from William RAIDER and 15
others praying council to enforce the or
der for the laying Of a sidewalk in the
Mobley addition, which order had been
ignored by the parties owning the prop
erty. The order was made at nrst to @.
w. Shores, but same has been ignored.
The petition was referred to city attor-
ney for investigation.
The reports of the officers Of the city
for the month of September, were read
and referred in usual form to the finance
committee.
The special committee Of three, Alder
men Covey, Smith and Dickerson, ap-
pointed by the mayor, under authority
of motion, to recommend the hiring of
the services of competent engineer to
care for the interests Of the city, in the
building Of the water works plant and
the sewerage, submitted their report in
which they recommended that the ser.
vices Of Hiram Phillips and David r.
Crosby be secured their compensation to
be az follows: For superintending the
construction OF the water works, ~ per
cent Of the fund expended. For the su-
perintendence OF the construction OF the
sewerage system, 6 per cent of the money
expended. Included in this, that all in
srruments necessary to perform the work
and all labor required for the proper
survey and inspection Of the systems be
furnished by the aforesaid parties, On
motion the recommendation was referred
back again to the special committee.
Aldermen Broemser moved that the re-
port be laid on the table, but the motion
did not prevail.
w. F. McCue Of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company addressed the council op
the general terms of compensation which
engineers receive for the work of super
lntendence. The amount recommended
to be paid, In tho case OF water works
was lower than the average.
A letter was read from Samuel @. Nc
Mullin, district attorney in response to
the resolution. which council had ad-
dressed to him relative to the arrest and
prosecution of Aldermen Mckinney and
Starr on the charge of accepting bribe,
in their official capacity Of aldermen Of
the city. Mr.. McMullip's letter was
quite tart. He recites that 1t was COM
mon rumor on the streets, at the time OF
the spring elestion that money had been
paid aldermen for their votes upon the
license question. At the time he took
no official cognizanoe Of the matter, but
expected that council would attempt at
least TO purge itself, as body, OF the
charge, but when he was compelled to
recognize the charges when
sworn information was presented to him
Of the matter the council rushed forward
and urged him to proceed, The closing
words of the letter were as follows, "Un-
der such circumstances and In view Of
the absolute lack of interest hitherto
shown by the council In these matters,
1t becomes my duty 70 regard such reso-
luton, as you sent NE today with sus-
picion, and decline to act on your sug-
gestions, and have decided to enforce
the law as am best able with the means
at my command"
The bills, which now have become ia
nous, because Of their presentation 80
many times to the council and they be-
ing refused, were all allowed, after con-
siderable struggle, reference being made
TO the bills contracted for groceries and
supplies for the trip made to the noun
tains to investigate on the mountain wa
ter proposition. Tue bills were as fol-
lows:
n ~ huooIson. ......S w
Hiram Phillips ................. 100 90
FRED Mantey y................... 4 w
S J Soovil ..... ~ 10
w F White Hdw Go ......... 10 90