Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-20
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Mayor Moores Vstoss Resolution Providing
for General Fund Expenditures
OPPOSES MARKET HOUSE APPROPRIATION
City Executive Promises to veto
Every Genera Fund Expense Item
Until Market House ResO-
luton is Rescinded.

over the veto Of the mayor the city
council last night by an unanimous vote
of the six members present re-enaeted its
resolution authorizing the city engineer
and Councilman Hascall and zimman to
attend the sixth annual convention Of the
League of American Municipalities, to be
held at Grand Rapids, Mich, next week,
and allowing each of the oficlals named
the sum of $50 from the general fund to
pay the expenses of the trip.
When the roll was called the members
present we're Councilmen Burnley, Has
call. Hoye, Lobeck, Trostler, Whitehorn
and Zimman, and by vote Councilman
Burnley was called to the chair.
The mayors veto message on the meas
ure referred to was as follows:
l return herewith without my approval
document No. 1896, passed by your honor
ape 9ody az your last regular meeting.
Ihis document Is a resolution authorizing
the city engineer and Councilmen Hascaii
and Zimman to attend the sixth annual
convention of the League of American
municipalities, to be held in Grand Rapids.
Mich, the present month, and allowing
each the sum OF $50 for necessary expenses,
to be paid from the general fund.
l veto this resolution because II provides
Tor the payment of this $3.50 out of the gem
eral fund. l have received from the city
comptroller a statement of the general
fund balance up to date, and taking the
fixed charges and the different items set
aside by your honorable body. the general
tund Is now overdrawn Sc. S96.5l. Among
the items set aside 1 find the following:
Two thousand dollars for the treasurer's
department $1,000 for the tax department,
5000 for street signs. $3.50 for Funston
total of S21, $50.
Your honorable body must call a halt.
general fund is inevitable. Should YOU
rescind the resolution setting aside SIS, 900
general fund in a condition to meet the
necessary and actual expenses that are
bound to accrue during the remainder Of
be hereafter collected. If not a large over
lap stares you in the face. Until some such
arrangement is made I shall be compelled
from the general fund.
other vetOes Sustained.
Several other resolutions adopted by the
council at its last previous meeting were
returned without the signature of the
mayor and in each case the veto was sus-
tanned. The mayors refusal to sign the
resolution appropriating $40 to reimburse
T.. B.. Barnes for damages claimed, which
was one Of this number, was upon the
grounds that the resolution was defective
In falling to describe the nature Of the
damages alleged to have been sustained
by Mr.. Barnes and that It failed to state
the fund from which 1t was proposed to
pay the money. another vi these resoiu-
tions was that appropriating $S2.65 from
the general fun to reimburse Samuel
Reichenberg for an alleged overcharge.
and that the mayor objected to for the
reason that the nature of the claim was
not explicitly stated, and that the general
fund had already been overdrawn. In his
communication he stated, however. that
he believed Mr.. Reichenberg to be entitled
to the money and that he would sign a
resolution in due form.
The resolution directing the tax commits
sloner to cancel upon the tax list for 1900
an Item of $192 assessed against the chan
yer Ndiocese Of Nebraska was. returned
simply for the reason that a mistake had
been made in the resolution, in the de-
scription Of the property. Following the
same policy with regard to the general
fund which characterized his contemporary
action upon other resolutions the mavor
had refused to sign the document instruct
ing the Board Of Public Works to renaIr
Forty-sixth avenue from Center street
south to CASTELAR, street, and his action
was sustained by the council.
Toward the close of the evening Council-
man Whitehorn and a resolution which he
i"'iouuCsu IN the regular course OF bust
ness gave rise to considerable good -natured
banter among the members.
Hascan Makes a Joke.
The measure provided for three arc
lights to be placed on Military avenue
between the former terminus of the street
railway line and the city limits. The lights
had been requested by the Country cIub
and Mr.. Hascall said he would favor the
because he had a Mud-sil club
In his part OF the city which would later
be glad to get a few lights. Councilman
Lobeck added that he had a club of gar
deners' farmers and dairymen who would
also want lights before long and he hoped
the other members would stand by him
when he asked for them.
Comptroller Westberg submitted the
following statement OF the condition ~
funds on this date: