The Tucson citizen., 1902-08-05
CITY FATHERS
Hold Regular Monthly Session
and Do a Fair Amount OF
Public Work
Proposal 10 Increase Saloon ljC-
enSes 10 5000 a Year viii Be
Considered al Another
Meeting

The C4;y fathers held a regular
monthly session at the city hail last
night. All oi the members were pres
ent. despite the disaEreeable weather,
The lophy also. was we'll represent /.
The session was certainly one of the
most interesting ever held in Tucson,
There vas something doing from the
lap OF the gayel To the motion for al =
journment The meeting furnished
enough surprises for several sessions,
and the excitement accordingly ran
high The mayor sprung little
surprise Of his own in the appointment
Of rev police officer Then Shand
revived the mooted electric light fran
chise and Buehman wound up with
new liuuor license bill The champion
Of each move endeayored to rush II,
but the measures were all sidetraCked
for further consideration.
The meeting was opened with the
regular routine business The water
committee reported favorably on he
proposition 70 give the Consumers lee
company the use OF city water The
agreement calls for S75 per III, bh for
period of one year and the com
pany consumption is limited 10 15,b'N
gallons daily The land committee re-
ported that a S. 600 insurance policy
had been arranged on The building ami
implements about the sewer farm.
Tie report was approved
The mayor recalled the visit of CO.
error Brodie and suggested Ia The
council that il Was about time 10 tai"
some action on the proposition for
federal building and ar Irritation
scheme A committee. Composed ~
Russell Reid and Bnehman. was az
cord ngly appointed to gather data m
the subjects
The MAYOR then sprung the FIRST sur
prise Of tht evening by appointing
Charley Odell to FIJI the vacancy in the
police force occasioned by the death of
VIM r. Katzenstein Russell asked
the mayor to defer action in the mat
teY and If possible 10 recognize the fire
depart ment in the appointment The
mayor declared that he had looked long
and far enough for a good man and
he thought that he had found one in
Charley Odell He refused TO With
draw the name The council laid ne
matter over until the extra session
In the meantime. MIR. Odell will I'LL the
position.
At the conclusion OF this discussion
Shand TOOK the floor i'o
recalled the fact that a certain electric
franchise had been laid on the table AZ
the last meeting of the council. and
poss hly with some injustice TO Messrs
Pusch Bernard and Zeliweger. he
thought that IL would be to the best
interests OF all concerned to reopen
the question He said that the gen
.tentn merely desired to erect an elee-
rlc light plant, and had now decided
q abandon the idea of gas plan
They have good and sufficient bond
n readiness to put up as a guarantE
Shand then moved 10 take the old
franchise from the table and refer the
subject to a committee of three.
Russell was on his feet in a minute.
He declared that his scheme for mu-
nicipal ownership had not yet been
given a trial. He called upon tho
council to disregard the motion of
ch9rd until it could be investigate.
He reiterated that the moment two
companies entered, municipal owner
hip would be out of the question.
The motion was finally put to vote.
Anderson, Barkley and Russell voted |
no" Reid and Shand voted AYE.
Euehman sat on the fence for somo
time, but finally sided with the ayes
The mayor decided the question by
voting yes" and the proposed electric !
franchise of Messrs. Pusch. Bernard .
and Zellweger again took life. The
matter was referred to committee !
consisting of Reid, Buehman and I
Barkley.
Councilman Buehman had been wait
nG patiently for his number OF the
When the franchise was