The age-herald., 1901-01-24
THE CONFERENCE
 TOOK NO ACTION Question of Amendment to the
 City Charter AS 10 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT Board of Aldermen in Special sesison Join Forces With Citizens Meet ing and Finally Adjourn With
 out Reaching Decision. 
AS 10 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT

The proposed amendment to the public | improvement clause of the city charter | over which the legislative committee oi
 the city council, as we'll as the aldermen
 have spent many hours, still remains unset
 tied, notwithstanding the fact that the citi-
 zens' committee, which was appointed b, the Mayor to confer with the board was l called into consultation last night. l Pursuant to the announced plans the coun- l cil met nspecial session at 7:30 o'clock in
 the temporary headquarters to hear the re- 1 port of the legislative committee, which was made through Alderman Altman. Previous to the special business reso- l luton asking the city to vaeate a certair strip of land in Prospect avenue in consid l eration of another strip for street and parl | purposes, all located in what is known as 1 Banfield addition, was adopted Alderman Kerr requested that a petition l from the Southern Detective agency to be l allowed to put a night patrol system, be referred to the police and sanitation committee.
 On motion Mayor Drennen, the chairman of the finance and judiciary committees and the city attorney were empowered to take
 up and settle the claim of J. W. Davidson
 for damages, it being understood that he
 was willing to settle for $2O0.
 The Report.
 The legislative committee then submit ted it's report embodied in proposed char
 ter amendment bill which with the excep- tion of one or two clauses had been pre-
 vicusly adopted.
 Alderman Gray offered an amendment to section 59 which provided for the invest ment of the money from street improvement in United States and state bonds striking out county bonds and other improvement bonds that were stipulated in the original draft. MT. Gray explained that his amend ment was for the purpose of so investing the funds that they would be convertable at any time, but opposition was made and after a heated discussion the clause was referred back to the committee and the meeting adjourned.
 The Mayor announced that the citizens committee was in waiting in the Commer-
 cial Club rooms upstairs, and the members of the board went up in a body to attend the conference.
 The Conference.
 -ayor Drennen announced the purpose of the meeting and on motion of Alderman | Graham was made chairman. l.. w. Fried | man was elected secretary, and the ques- ton of the proposed amendments was talk | en up. Alderman Kerr explained the work l ings of the law under the committee's s 1 recommendations, and also the objections oyer which the Councli nad dlsagreeu, ana 1 the question which resolved itself into the | best method to invest the funds so as to | save the city from loss and at the same | time work the least hardship on the peo- pie, was thoroughly discussed. Several plans were suggested, but after spending an hour and a half without arriving at any solution the conference adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman, who called the
 two bodies to meet again tomorrow night.
 Just before adjournment a resolution off,
 fered by W. H. Kettig, concurring in the
 recommendation to give the Mayor the veto power and to empower the Council to enact it's own presiding officer was adopted.