Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-25

Locked up in the safe at the office of City Clerk Hicks is the ordinance passed by the City Council providing for payment by the city of s625 to a fund for cleaning the subway.
 When the ordinance was passed near the end of the stormy session of the Council last Friday night, at which the subway matter called for much heated talk, and announcement by Judge O'Connell that payment of the money it was proposed to give toward cleaning of the subway would meet with injunction proceedings through the District Court. the document re- trained in the hands of the City Clerk for the signature of Mayor Taylor to make it effective.
 The Mayor has not yet signed the ordinance. He has not even inquired of the City Clerk about it. nor taken any step indicating intention to affix his signature. On the other hand. he has said since the meeting, that it was very doubtful if he would sign the or iinance. In addition. he has said that had there been tie vote on the pass age of the ordinance at the meeting of last Friday night he would have cast his vote against passage.
 In the meantime the ordinance is working its way along to the ten-day period of existence which will make it effective without the signature of the Mayor, unless within that time he puts his veto on it. In the latter event the ordinance will still have a show for becoming effective, through passage by a two-thirds vote over the veto of the Mayor. The ten days giv en the Mayor in which to act will ex- pire at about 10 o'clock on Monday night next. So the Council at it's next regular meeting on the succeed ing night will havesthe matter up to it one way or the other, either as a fin ished piece of business, through eff fectiveness by reason of signing oI pfgeonholing. or to pass over veto by the Mayor.
 The situation as above stated, to- sether with the feeling aroused by the determined opposition made at the last Council meeting, to an appropria- ton in any degree to further susten. ance of the subway from the monies paid blythe taxpayers of the city at large, has given people about town a good deal to talk about during the last several days. and they are still busy with the subject.
 The promise of resignations thrown at the Council meeting have also given ground for a good deal of talk. Wheth- CT these will be forthcoming at the regular meeting next Tuesday remains to be seen. In the case of Mayor Taylor, he has repeated during the week his intention of getting out and ashing his hands of the troubles of public office as soon as he closes and turns his townsite books over to the Council Monday he started in to close the books up without delay, and he will doubtless succeed in doing this during the week In that event he would be ready to hand in his resigna- ton next Tuesday night. He has ex- pressed himself as favoring Council man Thompson as his successor. MT. Thompson has said that he did not care to assume the burden. None of the other councilmen are known to have aspirations to sit at the head of the table. either.
 The resignations of City Attorney Sutter and Assistant Shelley, which the latter said were ready for the Council at the meeting last Friday night, while he was indignant because of rebuffs and criticisms of the attor- ney's office handed out without gloves by the Councilmen. have not appeared at the City Clerks office. MT. Sutter told the City Clerk the first of the week that the resignaions would be forthcoming, but they have not trans pired and the attorneys office may have changed it's mind.