Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-26
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Substitute for City Engineer ROsewateTs
Original Franchise is introduced.
INCLUDES AMENDMENTS BY Mr.. HAscALL
One Provision Suggested by the First
ward Councilman, However, IL
MOI Incorporated in the
new Ordinance.

An otherwise dull and uninteresting
meeting Of the city council last evening
was enlivened by the temperance Of the
ordinance to grant Andrew Rosewater
rights in the streets and alleys Of the city
for the distribution Of electricity, and dis
cussion as to the temporary disposition Of
the ordinance.
The document submitted last evening is
the substitute for the original ordinance,
and into Il have been Incorporated all Of
the amendments suggested by Councilman
Hascall, except the one which Mr.. Rose
water has refused from the hrst TO ac-
cept, as was stated by him at the general
meeting Of Monday afternoon. The sub
stitute ordinance was given its first and
second reading in due form and the dis
cussion wac then opened by Councilman
Hascall's motion to refer It to the judiciary
committee, OF which he is chairman and
TO which other documents in this matter
had previously been referred.
Mr.. Zimman moved to amend Mr.. Has
calls motion In such manner as to lay
the ordinance over under the rules. The
members addressed themselves to the ques>
tion Of proper procedure, but d~iverged fire.
quently from that line of argument to
contemplate other phases Of the question,
Mr.. zimman contending that the ordinance
should not be tied up In the committee,
but should be before the council, where
Il could be taken up without prejudice for
discussion at the open meeting to be held
next Monday evening.
Mr.. Hascall received the remarks Of Mr..
Zimman and others who favored Mr.. zlm-
mans motion as implying that IL was his
purpose or the purpose Of the committee
to get possession Of the document for the
purpose Of delaying It and defeating it in
that way. He commended that IL the ordi-
nance were In committee 1t could be con-
sidered at any time. After considerable
argument Mr.. Zimman's motion to amend
was lost and Mr.. Hascall's motion to refer
TO the judiciary committee was passed by a
bare majority of one. Several Of the
member who voted for the reference to
the committee stated, however, that they
did so with the understanding that the
committee should report at the meeting
iof two weeks hence.
Among the communications presented
early in the evening was one stating that
the executive committee Of the Commercial
club had adopted a resolution setting forth
that It opposed the plan as set forth In the
ordinance above referred to-, Without COM
ment the communication was referred Ia
the judiciary committee and later in the
evening Mr.. Rcsewater, having been granted
the privilege of the floor, stated to the
council that the so-called resolution was
adopted at the request and under the In
nuence of the president of the electric
light company Of this city and that It did
not represent the Commercial club as a
body, or even the committee from which II
purported to come, as there were only a
select few Of the members of that commit.
tee present at the meeting referred to.
Public VIII He Heard.
BY motion II was provided that the sub.
Btitute ordinance presented last evening
and the amendment proposed by Council.
man Hascall shall be printed in the oficiaI
papers for the remainder of this week and
that the Commercial club, the business mel
of the city and the public generally are in.
vited to attend the meeting Of next Mon.
day evening in the council chamber and t.
discuss the ordinance and proposed amend.
ments.
The city clerk was instructed to publish
proper notices to property owners that tn,
city council will sit as a board Of e~qualiza.
tion on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
December .. 10 and IL, to adjust specia
taxes proposed to be levied to cover thu
cost Of improvements, as follows: Grading
the alley between Twenty-sixth and Tween,
ty-seventh streets from Poppleton avenue
to Woolworth avenue; grading Dewe!
avenue between Thirty-eighth and Thirty
ninth streets; grading William street from
Sixth street to the Omaha & Southwestern
railway right-of-way; constructing per
manent sidewalks; constructing sewers II
districts 26s. 272. 273, 275, 277. 27s; paving
and curbing Twenty-fourth street; pavinI
and curbing Cunning street; paving an
curbing Hawthorne avenue; paving an
curbing Seventeenth street.
The city comptroller submitted the fol
lowing department statement OF Novembe
Is, including appropriation ordinance No
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