Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-01
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Mayor k'OrSs INDUCES His Vsts Habit II
Marked Degrees.
BILLS PASS DESPITE HIS DlsAPPRoVAL
Among Ordinances Passed over
Mayors veto H. One for OPEN
ina Tbirty-aftb street from
FRrnam 10 Harvey.

Mayor Moores' veto habit was shown to
a marked degree in the proceedings OF the
council last evening, there being no less
than six returned without his
official signature. In every instance but
one. however, the measure was re-enacted
Notwithstanding the veto Of the mayor, and
in nearly all cases II was by a unanimous
vote OF eight members, Mr.. Trostler alone
being absent.
In Withholding his signature from the
resolution to grant to C. N. Dietz the use
OF a portion OF Thirty eighth street and
a portion Of Dewey avenue. the mayor ex-
| pressed his views on the subject in the fol-
lowing language:
There is nothing that does more to spoil
the appearance of city streets than to have
Irregular sidewalks and curb lines and lr-
regular fences In front OF properties. The
streets of the city should be most sacredly
for the purposes for which they were dedi-
Gated. Dewey avenue and Thirty-eighth
streets will undoubtedly be paved at an
early date and 1t would be most unwise to
make any disposition which would inter-
fere with. the continuity of curbs, side
walks OF, fence lines along these thorough
fares. This part of the city will undoubt-
eddy be built up with fine residences within
a few years and this fact must Be taken
into consideration in this matter. In ed-
ditiOn to this, I would say that the other
property owners along these streets in the
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tested against the giving of such a lease
and have urged the same reasons as l have
given here.
BY unanimous vote the resolution was
made operative in spite Of the veto,
ThiFty-FIfth Street Opening.
Among the other documents which the
mayor refused to approve we're the ordi-
nance repeating the former ordinance pro-
viding for a twenty-foot alley in, ~continu-
alton OF Thirty-hfth street from Farnam to
Harvey street, and the ordinance provid-
ing for the opening OF a hfty-foot street at
that point instead. The mayors communi-
cation relating to this question said:
1 veto this ordinance for the reason that
street o%pening) can be assessed to ada
cent property and because deem 1t unwise
and undesirable. The OF n
probably amount to from 5000 &c. 5000.
Now, who is TO pay this amount? The
charter says you cannot assess property
Tor damages In! the opening Of streets or
alleys, except from property benefited by
the same. You cannot assess the property
owners on the north side of Farnam street,
as they derive no benefit from the making
Of this street. Neither are the property
Thirty-fourth and Thlrty-slxth street, bene.
fitted by the opening of Thirty-ffth street
from Farnam TO Harvey. The only parties
as l see II, who are benefited are the resi-
dents living on the south side Of Harvey
street. between Thirty-fourth and Thirty.
sixth street. 1t would, of course, be con-
venient for them to have a street. an av,
enue, or even an alley, whereby they could
reach the Farnam street car line al
or addition, without having to go west &c
Thirty-sixth street or east to Thirty-fourtf
street. and l am Informed that these resi-.
dents south of Harvey are willing to pay
for the opening Of an alley to the amount
of 5000 between Thlrty-third and Thirty
sixth street. IL such alley can be made. II
the 6ftV-fOOt street is made II StODg al
Harvey street, where there is a jog OF
a hundred feet or more before it reaches
Thirty-ffth street south Of Harvey. Agair
Thirty-ffth street, north of Farnam, Is q
sixty-foot street, which Is ten feet wider
than the street proposed by this ordinance
which makes another jog and you are en-.
BY passing this ordinance you VIII involv,
block 10, and also in the block north o.
Farnam, will fight any assessment, they
claiming that no benefits come to them b.
the opening of this street.
These two ordinances also were passed
by a unanimous vote notwithstanding thu
veto.
As to Fire Department Fund.
In a long communication the mayor an.
nounced that he had refused to sign any o.
the items in the last appropriation ordi
nance which would come out OF the FIR,
department fund, for the reason
ludI Tue Iuuu was III u uepleISu con
dition, and after paying the salaries OF tn,
department for September, October, Novem
Der and December, and the pension roll 70
the same months, there would be a de
felt in the fund of 81, ole. 50. This, as h
looked at It, meant that all bills for ex
pense. which the comptroller estimates
would amount to. $1,000; the fire depart
ment proportion of the alarm system, 1884
the fire department proportion Of the Fir
land Police commission, $3.50: must b
laid over to be met out of the apportion
ment for next year.
Councilman Hascall suggested that it ha,
not been customary for the council to in
%terfere with the Fire and Police board &
the management of its fund and he though
inasmuch As the bills had been approve