The age-herald., 1900-02-08

committee, s,~- H1f Hs
 ready to be reported anu tl,s.. have been reported sometime ago but for
 the adoption of a resolution requiring all
 ordinances for street improvements to be withheld until the bonds could be fioated. The chairman of the committee on street lights reported for his committee recom- mending that bids for 200 arc lights of 2OOO candle power for five years, to burn all night, be advertised for; also, that the committee and the mayor be authorized to go to Jacksonville, Fla, ito inspect the electric plant owned by that city.
 All persons or companies submitting DidS
 to furnish lights for the streets under this recommendation will be required to deposit $S.O0O with the commtltee, and the city to reserve the right to reject any or all bids. The report was adopted.
 Mayor Drennen stated that on account of Bhe numerous compl aints made against une l telephone system he would cause the com mtttee on lights to hereafter report on l telephones.
 Chairman Williams of the police and sanfta tfon commastee, submitted minori- | ty report, recommending that Police Ofh- cer Mcknight who lost his plssol while trying to arrest negro a few weeks ago, he allowed remuneration for same The majority report recommended against hnis. The minority report was adopted. On motion of Alderman Jones the pounu Mmits were extended so as to dnciude uhat portion of the city bounded by Tenth ana Eleventh avenues, south, and extending to
 the city limits.
 School Appropriation
 On motion of Alderman Gray 5000 was appropriated to the city schools for the purpose of paying the salaries of teachers for February and other expenses.
 On motion of Alderman Williams the mayor was aEthorzed to divide up his rec concentrations, contained in his annual patfar tn rnr committees, and to appoint special commit tees when he deemed it necessary.
 Alderman Harrington offered resolution authorizing the mayor to employ an in spector of lights to work in conjunction with the inspector employed by the elec- trio company, both inspectors to be clothed
 with police powers. The resolution was re- ferred to the committee on lights.
 On motion of Alderman McAnally the city attorney was instructed to appeal the case of William M. Land vs. the board of mayor and aldermen to the supreme court. 1nlS is the case recenty decided in the chan cery court wherein the court held that the city must not permit its sewage to flow on to the land of the complainant, who has riparian interest along Valley creek. A resolution requiring the railroad com l panies to keep a guard at the Ninth ave- l nue and Nineteenth street crossing was re- | ferred to the street railroad committee. | resolution to prevent a dance hal be- l ing opened up in Second avenue between l Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, was referred to the alderman from the Fifth ward.
 Executive Session
 On motion the board went into executive session to consider reports from the police and sanitation committees with reference to Warden Gourley, who was recently sus- pended by the mayor pending an invesM- gation of charges filed against him; also, to hear reports on the smallpox situation.
 Definite statements of the business trans- acted in the executive session <were not given out after the adjournment but May or Drennen stated to an Age-Herald re- porter that Gourley would not go to work for the city again for att least thirty days. When asked if Gourley had been suspend ed for thirty days the mayor replied that that was about what 1t meant
 The reports on the smallpox situation