Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-15
FINK STlRS THE COUNCIL
Puts a Cracker Under it Which at Last
Forces Action on Office.
MEMBERS WILL BE GOOD If GIVEN TIME
Fink withdraw Notice 20 Occupy
Place I'm City Hall Pending
Action by Bridges and
His Colleagues.

The council committee on public buildings
and property got scared at the announce
ment Of Treasurer Fink that he proposed
moving the city treasury to the court house
to consolidate IL with the county treasury
because the new council seemed unable to
provide suitable quarters In the city hall.
The committee, headed by Councilman
Bridges and some of the other councilmen,
waited on the treasurer and asked him TO
reconsider his determination. They said
II he gave them a week they believed they
could find a way to shift the departments
about so as to accommodate the combined
fiscal department
Treasurer Fink consented and took down
the notices concerning removal to the
court house. IL the city treasury is to be
in the court house. besides the life-destroy-
ing task of climbing Of steps much trouble
would be caused the public buying dog
tags and licenses and permits of all kinds
A trip to the city hall would be necessary
first, then to the court house and, finally,
back to the municipal building. On the
other hand, Mr.. Fink believes the time is
more than ripe when the two offices be
actually consolidated, enabling a property
owner to pay all his taxes at once
COuRcIImen Are PerpIexed.
arrangements to be made at the city hall.
Vigorous protests have been made by the
Park board and every other municipal
branch that would be AFFECTED and nunler-
Gus preteXts advanced for letting things
alone so far as each individually is con-
cerned. 1t seems to be assured, however,
that the comptroller's rooms will be given
| over to the treasurer and quarters for the
| former found on some floor other than
the first
Thursday City Clerk Butler raised the
| question as to the right of the county "a
use the city hall without paying an ade-
quate rent. He pointed out that the city
pays the county 1 per cent for tax
| collections and besides pays the treasurer
a salary of 1000 year Vacation of the
treasurer's rooms in the court house will
set free valuable and much needed space
there and it has been asked if the dea
is not worth something in cash to the
| county
Voting Machines Take Space.
The city clerk has discovered, also thai
the county's voting machines are storeC
in the basement Of the city hall, occupying
considerable good space there and he 1,
thinking of making a demand for storag,
charges.
1
once the cheapest thing to be had at tn,
city hall, has grown more valuable. Room
have been taken by the Water board tn,
Juvenile court officers, the Associated
Charities, the chemical laboratory of tn
engineering department, the Nebrask;
| Humane society, and the engineering de
partment has spread out. feeling it needed
the room. To oppose this two moderate
sized rooms have been vacated by tn
defunct tax department and are still un
used. Several offices, however, are 81
little employed that they could be devote,
to other purposes One of these is tina
of the gas inspector the fourth floor
who has removed his testing instrument
to the basement and another is that of tn
license inspector on the second floor, who's
clerical work is handled in the city clerk
Office.
Eccentricities in the plans of the building
which in fifteen years have grown almos
archaic, add to the problems of the counc
in making the reimbursement