The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-04
SLOT MACHINES WIN OUT.
THEY WILL RESUME THEIR
NICKEL-EATING.
Prohibitory Ordinance Repealed
Renewal Of Contract for
Lighting the City.

A48ACA0& the O4Iys
AT the regular meeting of the CITY
trustees last night the first business
taken up was the messages from the
Mayor, as follows:
Messages were received from the
Mayor as follows:
hereby notify your Honorable Board
that this day counted the cash plac-
ed before me by the City Treasurer,
and found in his possession: Gold,
$loo, 12O; silver, 81 cents. Total, Sloo,-
12O.37. The above amount agrees WITH
the books of the City Auditor and City
Treasurer
Also. notifying the board that he
had received and accepted the feslg-
nation Of W. H Katzenstein as hose
man of Engine Company No. z, anc
had appointed G. w. Buchanan to MI
the vacancy.
Also, returning to the board, with
his approval, the ordinance entitled An
ordinance to amend section two o.
ordinance number three hundred anu
forty-six, entitled Regulating the use
of sidewalks in the city OF Sacramen-
to, passed June Is, 1894, the amend
ment giving permission to persons to
place and maintain bicycle racks on
the sidewalks of said city"
Also: Il respectfully report to your
Honorable Board that the committee
appointed to wait. on me and request
the appointment Of fifteen citizens to
examine into the various propositions
offered the city for clear water, met
with me this afternoon, and we select
ed the following citizens to act as such
committee: Herman Grau, T. B. Hall,
P. c. Drescher, J. H. Arnold, Darcy
Power, L. Tozer, r. I. Bentley, D. A.
Lindley, F. E. Smith, Steve Uren, Thos.
Fox, A. M. Henderson, F. B. Adams,
Howard Stillman and D. Mckay"
With respect to the message appoint
ing a committee of citizens to investi-
gate and report upon the proposition
of securing an adequate supply of pure
water, Trustee Tebbets, Chairman of
the committee to wait on the Mayor
and advise concerning the appoint
ments, said the committee had been
carefully selected, and would, he be-
lieved, thoroughly investigate every
proposition placed before it. Provided
it submitted an unreasonable PROPOSE
had no apologies to make in placing
on the committee the chairman of the
board What the people want. he SAID,
is pure, clear, good water. He moved
that the committee as named by the
Mayor be approved by the board
Trustee Devine said he formerly be-
lieved that the newspapers and news
paper representatives attempted TO
place the proceedings of public meet
ings before the people as they occur
red; but he had found that the propo-
stion he had presented had not been
correctly reported. One of the papers,
he said had recited that "Devine said
his proposition would save SfO.OOO to
the city," but did not say whether it
would save that sum in day, "a year
or a hundred years. He did not pro-
pose to vote for approving a single
committeeman named by the Mayor
He said that hardly day passed that
the newspapers did not take fling at
the water supply, and he contended
that if the present supply is made
quate, the newspapers and some cit-
zens are responsible for it. He said
he would never cast vote to place
Dr. Henderson on the committee, the
latter having misrepresented certain
matter some time ago with regard to
the water supply of an Eastern city
Tebbets said the Trustees were the
final actors in the premises. He knew,
as did other people, that Devine was
greatly prejudiced in the matter of
water. He said that the committee had
appointed people to investigate the
hn act
for the benefit of all. Devine, he said,
was a capitalist who lived off of his
rentals, and who did not work, and
as a consequence had time to theorize
while he (the speaker) worked for ev-
cry dollar he got. The committee, he
thought, had acted wisely in selecting
from it's body it's chairman, who was
not warped by prejudices.
Tebbets said what was wanted was
the best and the most economic water
supply obtainable. and once that was
secured Sacramento would go forward
Trustee Dolan said the committee had
explained to the Mayor that men who
were divided on the water PROPOSE
tions should be appointed. and that he
had agreed with them. Because Dr.
Henderson was on. the committee
should not cut much figure with De-
vine, inasmuch as there were fourteen
other men on the committee. No ac-
ton of the committee. he said, would
be binding upon the board.
Kent said if committee were ap-
pointed to investigate the water ques-
ton, it should consist of college grad
yates or water experts. He said the
conditions confronting the board We're
similar to those confronting a man
trying to buy horse-everybody had
something just a little better than any
thing else offered. He objected to APP
proving the appointment of commit
tee who knew no more about water
than the members of the board. He
felt the members were as competent
to judge pure water as Mr.. Tom Fox
or Mr.. Uren or Mr.. Drescher or 9TH
ers Some of the citizens on the pro-
posed committee, he said, were good
Judges of whisky, some of gin and some
of beer, but they were not water ex-
perts He did not believe in delegat-
ing power to people who knew nothing
about water, and said if the people
wanted water experts they could get
in" at the next election and elect some
The motion was carried approving
of the appointment of the committee.
ALL-NIGHT SCHEDULE.
The matter of lighting the city streets
for the ensuing year was taken up, and