Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-02-19
Mayors veto Message.

and to appoint a board of three appraisers
to assess the value Of the property con-
demned.
Mayors Veto Message.
The mayors veto follows:
To the Honorable, the City Council of the
City of Omaha.-Gentlemen: l return here,
without my approval of document 3yI, passed
by your honorable body at your last regular
meeting. The matters involved in this pro-
and general public interest and l have given
them careful consideration before taking
final action in relation to them.
think it is pretty generally conceded
that the city ought to have market
house. The people differ quite. radically,
character and cost of the structure
The proposed ordinance is the preliminary
Interested property owners to erect a mar
ket house on that part of Capitol avenue
vacated by this ordinance such structure
until the revenues therefrom reimburse
| them for the money expended, or else to be
| itself to repay the money loaned by the
This scheme has several very serious
/ difficulties. In the first place, If the plan
| is to have the syndicate remain the owners
Of the building until the city purehiasesi
| authorities have the right to turn over to
private individuals, without compensation,
particularly streets which have been paved,
| curbed and severed at the expense OF
| abutting property owners, some OF Wnom
are adverse to such a plan. l doubt very
much whether such a scheme could be
| legally consummated.
AntagOnistic to Charter Powers.
In the second place, II the idea is to have
! the city own the market house, subject to
tagonisdc to the charter powers of the city,
which provide that the municipality can
only borrow money by means tha dnia of o4na ot a
special election.
proposed plans can be legally carried OUT.
| Another serious question to be considered
is the desirability of the proposed location.
Other things being equal the market house
the geographical center of the city and
to the center of population; l am adyised
Center Il about 4 Ssenty-eeventh- and Caii-
fornia streets, while the center of popula-
located at about Nineteenth and Farnam
streets. A glance at the map shows that
sirabie hg piSH place for permanent market
house. It is clear at the east side of the
city, neither business nor residence prop
moving further away from 1t to the south.
All indications point to further movement
southwark and westward.
Again, l am opposed to the erection or a
cheap makeshift market house. In the
building of market house we must take
we'll as the present. In the course OF hve
or ten years Omaha will double IN popula-
I
Suggests CreditabIe Market House.
I would suggest that proposition be
submitted to the people at the next Novem.
ber election to vote 100000 of twenty-yeaI
; Slk per cent bonds for the erection Of q
, will answer the needs of the city for years
to come. Under the plan now being urged
IS R5iys'e to be aSout SIS Co. @ and dit il Would take
vii With O interest L 1900 were paid yearly; n,
| s,fA af mi on "a
to but $1,000 per year. Surely. If the cheaT
, makeshift proposed on Capitol avenue vii
: no dificulty in doubling that amount witt
. a suitable building at desirable location
building 9ST1 Pe n5 afe tbe TO @aSe% noS
: paid for rental of one engine house could
A market house of the kind indicated
would be much more than self-supportinl
; from the start and the excess could bt
bonds bonds at their maturity. Thus, at the enc
of twenty years Omaha would nave an up
to-date market house and grounds; all pait
for and our citizens would not De purdene'
with taxes for the same.
"A large majority of our citizens are op
reasons 1 have given. Opposed as | an
| to the erection of cheap makeshift build
Ing under scheme tb Of fb pTaspects sg9st
our greater Omaha. l am compelled to vet
the proposed 9rdnanSe linz H6eSPeSesstuMlS 1Ss MSvor
|
t Hascall took the floor after the readin
s OF the veto and spoke in favbr OF the or
Q dinance. He said he thought the languag
: Of the mayors message was misleading
= 'rhe locality is the best that can be Sc
4 cured" said he, land will be the best 70
| many years to come. II is in the heart Q
/. the city's densest population. Those VIII
! live in the so-called residence districts 1
the suburbs would have to take a stree
l. car or carriage anyway TO come downtown
e SO Il would be no accommodation to theI
ss to have the house established few block
l. farther west"
Lobeck opposed the entire proposition {
! building a market house. and thought ths
Il 5000 900 had better be spent in buildin
Il underground conduits for electric wire
p which are now a menace to life and proI
IS erty. "But since we are to have a mark'
Al house." said he, 81 guess the Capitol ave
l. nue. location is as good as any"
s. Trostler made a speech in favor OF II
'e ordinance. 81 favor municipal ownership
said he, whether Of market houses or
electric light plants"
u When put to a vote the ordinance wa
carried over the mayors veto unanimousl
# the following voting to sustain it: Lobee
Hoye, Haseall, Trostler, Zimman, Burkl'
and Karr. Whitehorn and Mount were n
present.
al For RefundinE Bond Issue.
4 An ordinance proposing to bond the eli
IN in the sum OF $3.50, 900 to take up outstan
ut ing Indebtedness in the sum OF about STE
rs 600 in the form OF per cent warrants, wi
or introduced and placed on its first 'readin
be Lobeck moved that II be placed on Al
Hascall objected, and moved that, after Il
u second reading, It be referred to the jud
he ciary committee. He said: eve are a
Ms lowed under the city charter to pass
r ordinance bonding the city in any su