The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20
THEY TALK LICENSES.
City Council Decides Who Shall
Not Be Exempt From Pay
ing License.
viii BE Appointed The Lighting
Proposition. Adjourned Meet
ing Df the Council.

Tuesday uigbf's meeting Of the city
cOnneil found all the aldermen occupy.
ing their seats. 1t was agreed between
the aldermen, just before being called
TO order by tbe mayor, that they would
hurry up with what little business
seemed TO BIO IN sight and adjourn. ~
another meeting wODld have 10 be held
Thursday uigbL They got TO work,
but IL seemed that everyone bad some.
thing t0 say, with the exception Oi
Witbam, and " was nearly 1870 when
they did adjourn
City Clerk Herf0rd WAS absent from
the city, and Mr., Irwin was selected ta
take the minutes of the session,
The report Of City Treasurer Rix0n
for March, which had been CHECKED w
by tbs finance committees, was accepted,
Berky reported on the matter pertain
ipg 10 licenses aud read . List OF per-
sons who were not paying Licenses "a
carry on their business, soue Of the
aldemen were In favor Of not collecting
license from those women, who are
widows and are keeping r00mers or
boprders 10 earn q likelihood, while 9th
ers thought that where tbey were tax
ing IN traDsjents they should pay the
licelse the same ~ hotels and other
lodging hogses, A recess was then
taken and tho aldermen went into com-
mitfee Of the whole 10 decide the mat
tel On reHonyening HeEky reported
that The committee bud decided on
those persons who wers entitled t0 pay
license, and he read list OF the same
W. ], Bennett, whose place OF business
was closed abopt three months during
the winter on accoppt OF smallpox quar-
antine, was granted q ggarter's license,
Another mailer which oacasi0ped
considerable discussion was tho report
from Hzitnick, chairman 0f the sewer
committee, pertaining 10 A saRitary
commissioner, The committee decided
that tho CITY needed 4 man yt0 look after
the sewer, parks and thp Streets Mt the
same time, bnt they hAd 'At decided ~
10 the salary, Nearly all the aldermen
spoke 0n the nlattef, " GnRlly being set'
tled f0Ia y time When Rerky moved chat
the aitA attorney bn instructed IN draw
m M lrdiAanoe for n sewer and street
o0mMisAiafer, aud report ~ the next
meeting, Az previous meeting the
COMMITTEES had been given power 10
repoplnend some person for this posi-
tinn, bnt Spear, Clement and Iippky
favored letlinR the mayer appnint some
one, npa this probably u what VIII ba
done,
The special sewer aoIpmittee asked
further time 10 report pn the sewer OK
tension f0r the south side,
RennighaR brought M tho eleptrip
light proposition of hfty street lights
fnr the city and sAid that since p0l ",
W, R0Wley, Secretary and manager pf
tho electric liaht company WINS present,
tho council would Ike " .Aear from
him Colonel Rowley tllkfd Informal
R, reviewing M tlp>1nlnFyipws that
had been l|ad on tk6 sphieof, and stat
ina TINT khp gpflpnpy wps disposed ~
do tho riakL films " nllnwpd- 70 do W
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