Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-06

As result of the city council meet ing Monday evening, work on the dou- ble tracking and paving of Fourth avenue will probably be started in- side of a few days. Following Mayor Il. King Whites drastic action of last Saturday night, the council Mon. day night passed resolution submit ted by order of the mayor, ordering the companies having poles on Fourth avenue to place them within the curb ing on the north side of the street, and freeing them from liability for arise therefrom. This resolution was passed, after being amended so as to give the companies fifteen days in which to do the work, and hot dis cussion in which Attorney Young, for 1 the Citizens Light and Transit con- pany, President Rutherford of the same company, the mayor, and some of the aldermen joined
 Council Chamber Crowded. The council chamber was crowded, every alderman being in his seat, and a large audience in the rear of the room to see what was to transpire. The matter was opened, when, after some preliminary business of minor importance, a resolution reading as fellows was presented to the council Whereas, on Saturday night, March ,, 1906, Mayor H. King White, to- Gether with other officials and em- ploves of the city, proceeded to destroy the property of the Citizens Light and Transit company by cutting it's poles and wires on Fourth avenue. without direction, authority or right from the city council;
 Therefore, Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Pine Bluff, That We most heartily condemn such pro ceedingS as being unlawful, unauthOr- izea and as most high handed and outrageous. and that fer such conduct We most heartily condemn the said mayor.
 Resolution Failed to Pass. As City Clerk Lee read this docu- ment every eye in the room was turned on Mayor White, who sat ir his chair unmoved. listening to the reading of the resolution. When City Clerk Lee had finished, the mayor asked him who had signed it, and the clerk replied there were no sigma lures, whereupon Alderman Hightow- or arose from his seat and walking to the clerks desk attached his sigma ture to the resolution The mayor then asked the councils pleasure on the resolution. Alderman Hightower mov- ed that it be adopted and placed on file, but the motion failed to receive a second for several minutes, when finally Alderman Clements arose and 1 seconded the motion. and explained his action in doing so by stating that while he did not like the terms in which the resolution was drawn, yet he thought the mayors action was a trif1e abrupt, and should receive the rebuke it merited. Alderman Boyce said he did not think he would have cone the thing in just the same way Mayor White had, but that he did not care to express such strong con- demnaton of the chief executive as he would have to by voting for the resolution. Other aldermen voiced the same sentiments, few of them car ing to commend the mayors action, hut none wishing to censure him so strongly. and finally Alderman Clem- ents withdrew his second, and the resolution fell flat.
 TiIt With Attorney Young.
 The resolution giving the compa- nies permission to put their poles in- side the curb on Fourth avenue was then introduced, and Attorney Young, for the Citizens Light and Transit conpany. secured the floor. He be- ear an the question of Saturday ~i"ht's proceedings. but his remarks Necame so personally pointed at the mayer that Alderman Boyce arose ond protested, upon which Mayor white told MT Young to confine his ron,arks to the subject in hand, and