Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-18
OF CITY COUNCIL AP-
POINTED TO ARRANGE FOR
PRESIDENTS STAY HERE.
CONTRACT FOR PUBLISHING
AWARDED INTER MOUNTAIN
Bids for Street Sweepers and Sprink-
lers All Rejected-Considerab
Routine Business Transacted.

tatiOn to President Mckinley to visit
Butte and if possible to get the presi-
Dental party to extend their visit in
the city.
The subject was preached by Mayor
Mccarthy, who stated that he had been
waited upon by committee from the
Business Mems association, who request
ed the council to take some action rel
alive to the invitation to the president.
Alderman Macarthur moved that it be
the sense of the council that an invi-
tation be sent at once and that the mayor
be instructed to telegraph to Senator
Carter to see if the presidents stay in
Butte could not be prolonged.
He said that he understood that the
president would only be here few hours
| and this fact alone went to show lGa+
he could not understand that he was
coming to the greatest mining camp in
the world.
Alderman McArthur's motion was
adopted and it was decided to have a
committee of three act in conjunction
with the Business Mems association The
mayor named Aldermen Mayo. Macarthur
| and Evans as members of this commit
| tee.
The judiciary committee reported as
| follows:
l. we nave naU unuef COnSi1erHtl ton
| council resolution No 344, a resolution
| declaring the intention of the city coun-
! Gil to construct sanitary sewer on Ga
lena street and recommend that said
resolution do pass
2. In reference to*the protest of the
Allied Printing Trades Council against
the awarding of the printing contract
! to White & Davis, we would recommend,
| inasmuch as they are now by proof sub
| mitted entitled to use the trades la bel -
! that said protest be received and placed
on file.
| ). We recommend that council bill No.
! %, establishing street grades do pass.
4. We recommend that the petition of
James Welsh for permission to erect a
| private telephone line be laid on the
table.
S. We recommend that council bill No.
IL be referred to the city engineer, plumb
ing inspector. building inspector and city
attorney. for the purpose Of reporting
the necessary amendments and changes
! in the plumbing ordinances now in force
5. We recommend that council bills
/ Nos 20 and q. ordinances taking private
property for opening Broadway alley and
Platinum streets do pass.
8. That we have had under consider
! alton the communication of the city at
torney respecting the condemnation suits
for the opening of Gold, Washington,
Placer and Aluminium streets, and rec
ommend that the city attorney be d.
rected by the city council to dismiss
said proceedings.
Z. That we have had under considera-
ton the complaint of j. H. I.eyson
against health officer and sanitary po-
| liceman and, after investigation of the
matters therein contained. we, recon-
mend that said officials be exonerated
from the charges therein contained; and
in this connection we desire to suggest
that one of the most serious obstacles
in the matter of giving efficient protec-
ton to the health of the citizens of Butte
is occasioned by the negligence and laxity
of the physicians of our city in perform
ing their duty in failing to comply with
| the ordinances of the city and the sta
tutes of the state.
s. In the matter of the petition of
the Transfers union, No. Is, in reference
to the number of hours constituting a
| days work, would report that we be-
| lieve this subject is covered by crdin-
ance No. 1S, and would therefore recon-
mend that this petition be received and
| placed on file.
9. In the following matters we ask for
| further time in which to report: Claims
of Otto Stern and John Clancy, offer of
compromise of James Guest and w H.
| Winters. communication of Mrs. Boomer,
council bill No %. extending Idaho
street, and the petition OF Mrs. Fitz-
patrick.
| 10. That in reference to council bill
No. Is. an ordinance fixing the number
of hours constituting a days work of
laborers in the employ of the city, we
would ask for further time In which
| to report.
| In reference to the communication of
the city clerk, relative to warrant
series c. No. S,737, dated February 4,
1899, in the amount of $1.147.22, payable
! to N. S. LedfOrd. would recommend that
the said warrant be cancelled in accord
ance with the recommendation of the
city clerk.
The report was adopted.
Bids for the city publishing were OPEN
ed and those of the Inter Mountain and
| Miner We're the same. They offered to
do the advertising at the rate of s1.5O
per folio for the first insertion and 50
cents for all subsequent insertions.
Alderman Elderkin moved that the bid
of the Inter Mountain be accepted and
Alderman Congdon moved as an amend
ment that the bids be rejected.
| City Attorney Lamb informed the
| council that there was no requirement
in the city ordinances that the adver-
Using had to be done in a daily paper
He suggested that the city clerk read
vertise for bids and let the weeklies
| know that their bids would be cOnsid-
cred. He said that the council might
get favorable bids from the dailies il
! this We're known.
Alderman Elderkin commended that the
price asked by the dailies were the reg
ular prices. The other papers knew that
they had a right to hid and if they did
not. ignorance Of the law was no excuse
for them. The amendment of Alderman
COngdon was put and lost by a vote OF