Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-03
COUNCIL APPROVES LIGHT CONTRACT
Mayor Announces He VIII sign Il in
the MORNING.

Mayor Announces He VIII sign IL in
the Morning.
After a discussion lasting over two hours
the city council, by vote of to = last
night approved the revised lighting con-
tract and Mayor Macrae announced he
would sign 1t i'm the morning. The two
voting against its approval were Wallace
and Olson.
1t was past 10 o'clock when City CLERK
Sspp took up the lighting contract and
commenced 10 fead IT, AS he
had done so Councilman Maloney moved
that ii be approved and the mayor dl-
rected to sign it, Councilman Younker-
man. chairman of the fire and light com
mittee, seconded it and then the trouble
began. Councilman wallace wanted to
know why a provision for a moonlight
| schedule as well as an all night schedule
had not been incorporated in the con
tract He thought it ought to be optional
with the city on which schedule TO run. as
on some nights as much light would not
be required as on others
Councilman Olson, who had been doing
| some figuring while the, contract was being
read. also had an objection to raise. lie
did not approve of using the entire light
ing fund to pay for the 200 lights He
| thought there ought to be a balance kept
/ in the fund for new lights that might be
required.
| The contract for supplying the city build
! ings with coal was awarded to the Carbon
| Coal company, the only. bidder The price
is based upon present freight rates, but
| IL they increase then the price of the coal
scars correspondingly. IL the rates go
down then the city is to pay less for its
| fuel The price named by the company
is 1850 for anthracite in ton lots and S3S4
T.. IxN.-
| Prices were also named on several other
varieties of soft coal. including mine run.
Councilman Younkerman wanted the
council to empower his committee to sell
three OF the fire department horses and
purchase two new ones. To this Mayor
Maorae objected and'he outlined a plan for
| the purchase by the city of three dunn
wagons to clean up after the street sweeper
and to use the three discarded fire horses
for this purpose. The matter was referred
to a special committee consisting of Coun-
cilfnen Knudsen, Maloney and Wallace, tc
report at the next meeting,
Considerable time was devoted to a dis.
cussion over the manner in which the pay,
ment OF bills against the city should be
authorized. Councilman Smith thought
the custom in vogue was too lax and thai
| members of committees did not sufficientlN
investigate the correctness of bills befor,
attaching their o. X. to them. City
| Auditor McAneney suggested that all bill,
except the regular pay rolls and salary
lists be held until the second meeting each
month instead OF being brought up ant
allowed at the first meeting as has beer
the custom since Council Bluffs was able
to boast city council. He contende6
this plan would give the councilmen bet
ter opportunity to investigate the bills be
longing to their committee. The plar
seemed to meet with favor and the city
auditor and city solicitor were instructed
to draft an ordinance providing for thi.
change and submit same at the next meet
ing.
John Mergen was granted a permit tC
conduct saloon at 617 South Main street