The record-union., 1899-07-18
CITY TO HAVE The LIGHTS.
MAYORS VETO OF THE CON-
- TRACT OvERRIDDEN.
Surveyor Mullenny's Plans for a
Temporary Sewer
Stump.


ments had been filed, but Trustee Kent
reported that Mrs Henrietta Nichols,
VINO lives near Fourth and M streets,
thought her property was assessed too
nigh. AS no written application had
been filed, however no action was
taken. and as equalizers, the board ad-
journed, reassembling Immediately as
Board of Trustees.
AT request of Trustee Devine and on
motion of Trustee Dolan, the former
was allowed to have his vote recorded
in the negative on the vote taken on
July 10th to pay Bishop & Wheeler,
the attorneys retained on bond suits,
500 for their services. Devine Was
out of the hall when the vote was
taken.
Messages were received from the
Mayor as follows:
Returning with his approval ord1-
nance No. 516.
Also, transmitting the receipts of
Bishop & Wheeler and Holl & Dunn
for the sum of 5000 in full of all claims
in the matter of Bates VS.. Frost and
Kendall VS. Frost, and releasing the
Board of Trustees and city from all
claims under their contract.
special police officer for the district
bounded by the alley between I and J
and the alley between ] and K streets,
and from Fifth to Tenth streets, vice
self, term expired.
The appointment of J. M. Wallace
as special officer took the usual course,
going over one week.
The message transmitting the re-
ceipts of Bishop & Wheeler and Holl
& Dunn, attorneys, was filed. Devine
spoke to the bond question.
STREET LIGHTING CONTRACT.
The matter of the Mayors veto of
the street lighting contract, because it
was proposed to put in fifteen addi-
tional lights, was taken up, and the
committee that had charge of the mat
ter reported that at least fifteen extra
lights We're needed, and that only one
now in place could be removed by
consent of the people interested.
Trusted Dolan said if the contract
was not awarded over the Mayors
veto bids for lighting would again have
to be advertised for.
Trustee Devine thought the city
would lose nothing if bids were adver-
tised several times. He thought the
proposed contract price was too high.
and he did not believe in putting in
extra lights.
Attorney L. T. Hatfield, representing
the Sacramento Electric, Gas and
Railway Company, said that as matters
now stand the company he represented
had nothing to say in the matter,
everything being in the hands of the
board. The proposed contract, he said,
provides for 800 lights and as many
more as the city desired. He pointed
out that if the Mayors veto was to
stand. the city would be without
lighting contract and that none could
be entered into until bids had again
been advertised for. He said that $40
per pole was as cheap as any COM
pany could contract to light the city
without loss.
Trustee Paine, Chairman of the
Street Committee, said he had exam
ined into the matter and found that
the people in the eastern part of the
city were in earnest when they asked
for more lamps. They have no police
protection and little water. and nothing
would please them so we'll as to give
them necessary lighting facilities. He
tract over the Mayors veto.
Trustee Kent said the Mayor stood
ready and willing to sign the contract,
provided the number of lights did not
exceed 300 He thought the board
ought to fix that as the number of
lights and allow the Mayor to withdraw
his veto He moved as a substitute
that the Mayor be allowed to withdraw
his veto, and that the board subse-
quently limit the number of lights to
800
Trustees Brown and Dolan said it
was not a fight against the Mayor, but
a fight by the people of the Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth, Wards to secure
adequate lighting facilities. The east
ern section of the city, they held. was
growing, and persons living there, tax
payers all, only demanded a little pro-
lection given by proper lighting.
Devine agreed that the people needed
more light in order to protect them
selves from the encroachments of cor
porations.
Kent said that while he did not think
the Mayor had good reasons for Veto
ing the contract, he intended to suS-
tain his action.
The roll was called on Kent's motion
to allow the Mayor to withdraw his
veto. and was lost by the following
vote:
Ayes-Devine and Kent.
Noes--Brown, Dolan, Douglas, Paine,
and Tebbets.
Not Voting-McKay.
The question being on Paine's mo-
ton that the contract be let over the
Mayors veto, it was carried by the
following vote: Brown, Dolan, Doug
las, Paine, Tebbets and McKay-6.
Devine and Kent voted no.
OTHER MATTERS.
A report of Water Assessor H. NJ
Ribble on the supply of water in the
vicinity of Suffer Terrace showed that
few persons residing in that section
have an ample supply and some Of
them none at all.
A motion was made that the matter
be re-referred to the Water Assessor
to report on the advisability of reduc-
ing water rents in that section of the
city.
Tebbets doubted the advisablity of
any reductions, and said he was afraid
If such step were taken many COM
plications would arise, inasmuch as