Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-20
COUNCIL PASSES
TIE AMENDMENT
Water Committees Rate Dis
count Amendment Adopted
by the Council
FISHER ALONE OPPOSES i
Chairman Greene Takes Occasion to
Rebuke the Gentleman From the Sec
ond for HIS Seeming Interference
Discount Of Rates for Prompt Pay.
mont Of Water Rents Now in Effect.

meeting Monday night, proved to be in
pretty good humor after all, altho the
storm cloud lowered over the council
chamber at the beginning and threat
ened to break with ali the ferocity of an
old time session. Mr.. Greene took ac-
casion to rebuke Councilman Fisher, of
the Second ward, for his seeming inter-
ference in the water committees BUSH
ness, in introducing an amendment In
lieu of the amendment to the water or
dinance. brought up at the last meet
ing.
Mr.. Fisher has been evincing a keen
interest in the records of the clerk S
Office, as they referred to water matters,
for several weeks. His action, the water
committee claims, did not have the
sanction of the committee, and the in
formation that he sought to secure was
not furnished by any one sufficiently
conversant with the facts to be in a
position to give it OUT. In other words.
Mr.. Fisher. according to the committee.
formed his own conclusions about rates
and embodied them in the amendment
which called for discounts of 35 and %
per cent instead of Is and 90, as the
amendment of the committee recon-
mended. Mr.. Fisher gave no reasons
for his conclusions other than to re-
mark that "he knew so and So" and
because of that knowledge he thought
the discounts should be even greater
than the committee saw fit to grant.
Mr. Greene grew eloquent in his de-
tense Of the committee, and said that
the committee had begun at the bottom
Of the water business, worked out every
proposition that presented itself in
logical manner, and therefore was in a
position to know what should be done.
The information scared was not by
piece meal, but data gathered as a
whole. He was proud to say that the
committees action had been ratified by
the people, SO far as he was able to
learn, and that the committee possessed
the confidence of the council for what
1t had been able to dc for the benefit OF
the community.
Mr. kreutzer spoke openly for the
committee, fayoring its action. as did
also MIR. Psenicka. Mr.. Greene then
moved that the rules be suspended and
the ordinance passed to its. third read
ing. All voted aye but Mr.. Fisher. On
the final adoption the vote was the
same, and Mayor jones declared the
ordinance adopted and the title agreed
to. This means that the water con-
sumers Of Marshal.tcwn, when their
mi-annual payments are due on May
1. may take advantage of the liberal
discounts in the rates. II paid within
fifteen DAVIS from the date the rents are
due.
Small Tilt Over Saloon Permit.
A small tilt resulted over a resolution
OF Mr.. Kreutzer to grant the consent
Of the council in permitting Lawrence
Ill, of Des Moines. to operate a saloon
at 40 South Center street, in the
Flunkett building. Mr.. Kirby raised
the question that il another saloon was
nut in in the south part of the city
there would tn a probable need for an
other policeman. Mr.. Kreutzer did not
believe so, neither did Mr.. Psenicka. Mr..
Greene expressed his views without
trying to evade the point. He said that
the state of Iowa, in the wisdom OF It's
legislators, had granted certain rights
and privileges to voters, who were al
lowed to sign petition saying whether
or not saloons should be operated IN the
communities in which they reside. He
thought the only matter for the council
to decide was whether or not such per-
son, applying for a license, was MT
and proper person to conduct saloon.
II he complied with the law there was
nothing left for the council to do but
consider whether or not he were q
proper person. and grant the permit II
il found the person complying to the
acquisitions.
Mr.. Webster favored the granting of
the consent so long as the place Sc
lected for the saloon was in a business
section. He took occasion to say, how
ever, that he would not support the Pc
tition for any saloon that might be
placed in thoroughly residence dis
trict.
Mr.. Fisher thought that the permit
should not be granted, and when the
resolution came up for vote was the
only one who opposed it's being grant
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