Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-19
Aldermen Are Willing TO Allow Rob-
bins and Bancroft S. Per Day
for Expenses at St. Louis.
ACCOUNT VOTED DOWN 7 TO 6
Hereafter Appropriations VIII be
Made in Advance For Represen-
tatiVes of City Sent Away.

VIII DG duuGQ.
This plan is the outcome of the re-
cent junket of Aid. F. Z. Robbins
chairman of the waterworks commit
tee, and Z. T. Bancroft. superintend-
ent of the waterworks, TO the conven-
ton of waterworks superintendent at
st. Louis, for which they presented
TO the council a bill for $40 They
were i'll st. Louis five days, during
Which they learned many new ideas
that doubtless will prove profitable to
the city in the operation of the water
works plant here.
But several of the aldermen who
had had practical convention expert
cnce could not understand how such a
sum could have been burned up in
those few days unless the Rock Island
ers had been setting the pace among
the spendthrifts at the meeting. MCKEE
cigars were good enough at home, but
it was understood the representatives
to the waterworks convention from
here had been calling for those four
for a dollar goods. They made the dis
ciples OF the cheroOt appear ridiculous.
Aid. Robbins Does Not Vote.
The bill, after slumbering two weeks
in the hands of the finance committee
was reported back last night at the
meeting of the council without recon-
mendation. ThereupOn there was a
motion by Aid. Anderson that the ac-
count by allowed, and it was lost by
a vote OF : 10 6. Nays: WeStbay. VIII
kins, Eckhart. Obcrg, O'Connor. Sex
ton, TrefZ. Ayes: Hause. Benson.
Wilson. Christensen, Brooks, Ander.
son. Aid. Robbins was excused from
voting, but after the result had been
announced he asked permission TO cast
his vote in favor of allowing the por-
ton due MIR. Bancroft. Ii was suggest
ed at the former meeting at which the
bill came up first that there he an
itemized statement made ont of the
expenses of the trip. but this has not
been needed. Some of the aldermen
are willing that S. per day be allowed
each delegate. This would reduce the
bill to $50. q little better than half of
the amount asked. The bill will be
heard from again, probably at the
next meeting.
y petition signed by w. A. Corcoran
and others was read asking that the
city see that Thirteenth street be-
tween Third and Seventh avenues be
graded and otherwise repaired ana
placed in a passable condition. The
matter was referred to the street and
alley committee.
Pay For COmmisiOner Gazetteer.
Aid. Anderson. of the finance com
mittCe, read report relative to Com
missioner c. +. GaCtjer. who had asked
that he be compensated for work done
in Longview park. He said that while
the city ordinance provided that the
commissioners should not receive sal
AIRY, he was in favor of remuneratfng
Mr.. Gazetteer. He said that the work
at Longview that had been done and
that is TO be done was so great that
a salary should be attached. The re
port was adopted. On motion the mat
ter was referred to the mayor and
| clerk TO report.
The bill from the Smith Manufacture
| ing company for $3.50 for a tapping
machine for the waterworks depart
| ment caused another wrangle and
| finally was allowed by a vote of 10
TO !. Aid. ECkhart said that while he
| lad no doubt that the machine was a
Sood one and needed. yet he did not
think that the purchase of the machine
| had been done properly. II had not
| come before the council as body
| as II should have done. The machine
| simply had been tested one day on the
! street. The alderman wanted to know
who bought the machine and if the
price of the machine did not vary
| TIn al ha 10
of machine had been purchased in
Galesburg for the same price as was
asked here.
Nuisance Does Not Exist.
| The police committee after an in
vestigation of the complaint of resi-
dents OF the neighborhood against the
| construction Of a proposed veterinary
! hospital on Twenty-second street be-
| tween Fourth and Fifth avenues re-
ported that there could be no steps
| taken until after it was established
that the nuisance was in existence.
| The hospital has not been built as yet.
Aid. O'Connor protested the block
i ing of Seventeenth and Eighteenth
street crossing by trains during the
| lay. and on his motion the chief of
police was instructed To order the rail
to keep those crossings clear Aid
| O'Connor stated that trains would stop
N the middle of the street for several
minutes at a time. causing people to
miss boats they planned boarding at
the Rock Island shore
| The health commissioner was in.
structed to inspect and report on the
quality of the ice and milk now of
fered for sale in the city in accord
ance with motions made by Aids. Eek
hart and Wilson.
| When bilious take Chamberlain 5
/ Stomach and Liver Tablets For sale