The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-16
COUNCIL MATTERS.
Committee Reports and List of Other
Routine Business.

Committee Reports and a List of Other
Routine Business.
Great Falls, May 15.-The new coun-
cll met the new mayor for a second
time this evening. Grills and Dunn
We're the absentees. The Municipal
League of the United States presented
Dill for $40 annual dues and on mo-
ton of Alderman Wadsworth the claim
was allowed. The mayor thereupon an
pointed the following standing commit
tees: Ways and means Wadsworth,
Mcdonnell, Elliott; public improvement,
Elliott, Woods, Schmidt; judiciary,
Grills, Wadsworth. Auerbach; police,
Mcdonnell, Grills, Dunn; fire, Dunn, Ell
lott, Woods: auditing accounts, Woods,
Schmidt, Wadsworth; printing, Schmidt,
Auerbach, Mcdonnell; salaries, Auer-
bach, Grils, Dunn
Among numerous petitions, most of
which were for sidewalks. was one by
j. t. Miller asking permission to erect
a one-story brick building, Is by 20 feet,
at 4l2 First avenue south; also petitions
asking for extensions of water mains
and third asking for the boulevarding
of Fifth avenue north. On the recon-
mendation of the ways and means COM
mittee the council employed George
Raban to audit all accounts of the city
at a compensation of IS per day. All
ing committees were transferred to
those just appointed The special COM
mittee appointed at the last meeting
reported adversely on the petition of
M. H. Luther for a change of grade on
Second street south
Some discussion ensued as to whether
the grade on which the building was
based was given the owner by the city
engineer The report was adopted. A
hal Of al n,1 al
lowed. City Attorney Ewing suggested
that a committee on rules and order of
business be appointed and also that the
fire ordinance be revised and amended.
The mayor appointed as members of
the committee WadsWorth, Elliott and
Woods.
George H. Stanton asked the council
to meet informally c. H. Dennison of
Little Chicago for discussion of an
important matter. The council stated
they would remain after the close of the
meeting.
The matter Of sprinking the streets
was considered. Alderman Wadsworth
suggested that the general public should
pay rs per cent. of the cost. The sub
ject was referred to the ways and
means committee.
Alderman Wadsworth said he had
been requested by Professor Setzpe-
chickens, which had broken into his
yard and scratched all of his plants to
pieces. This and a nuisance on the west
side were referred to the dog catcher
The chief of the fire department made
a recommendation asking for the addi-
ton of another man to the department.
He asks for new furniture in the Sleep
ing room Of the fire hall. This is the
first indication of republican retrench
otf Hy1n N11n nj nv Or
neer asked the council to establish office
hours for the custodian of the city
dump and provide the place with locked
gates. The council then adjourned for
one week and the mayor has not made
any appointments yet.
Although the after session was con-
Quoted behind closed doors, it is under
stood that it consisted of a discussion
Of the feasibility of annexing Little Chi
cago, settlement at the north end of
the Fifteenth street bridge, to the city
nrODer.