Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-10
THE PEOPLE ARE VICTORIOUS
 TINE ADAMS CRDlaAHcE PASSED
By Vote of 10 ie iy Council Passes Ordinance Appro pating Money for Greater Pine BIuf Mayor While Promptly Signing the Measure. Sensational Coup dEtai Follows a Midnight Injunction Suil

1 city council and to the county leyvipg court to the effect that he would soon issue a booklet, entitled the "il- lHstrtaed Industrial Souvenir of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County" The booklet was to be i'll no sense of the word special edition of the Ora lhic. as has been erroneously stated; but a separate and distinct undertai5. ing from the daily paper of which Mir Adams is the business manager. By the terms of his proposition he was 10 publish q booklet that would represent Pine Bluff resources and marvellous progress in full. and would be in fact complete in every respect. Tn addition he was to fur 1ish a large number of costly cuts il- lustrating various views or the city. and give the city 800 copies of the booklet when published. Tn consid- eration of this council was to pay him the snm of S500-a plain busi- ness proposition As stated similar proposal was made 10 tho county 1evving conrt The latter failed to make the appropriation at it's session here, due doubtless to the fact that the court was callnH uno" at this narticular session to make nHny heavy appropriations among them Icing one for the free bridge, one for the county hospital and one for hn court house.
 When the matter was presented 10 the city council, a number of alder men favored it. while some opposed t Of the latter, Alderman Fox. Nichol and Well spoke against it. the last named following his well known policy of extreme censervativeness in municipal appropriations, and at the tine explaining that he would prob- ahlv favcr a smaller appropriation fer the purpose, expressing himself as being in favor of advertising the city and proaressine with the times.
 The matter was delayed but final " tho council. by majority vote tacitlv ace pted he proposition by or scrino tho city attorney to draft the necessary ordinance
 Aeain after some delay City Attor- nov CclPnor reported the ordinance. hn irrnortant fact to Dear in mind hoTo is that tho city attorney himself sdrcw I'D this ordinance.
 Then bp@an another saries of de- lays. A fight was waged a@ainst the ,anasnre in certain quarters. and the claim WIS then set LID that tue ap- nroNriation was illegal from a tech n;cal etandnoint. The council finally nasec9 the ordinance. however. May or White cave notice that he would call mon the city attorney for an coinicn as to tho legality of the or 7inarnn. and if unfavorabla to it hc v0uI3 voto fl
 ncsnitn the fact that City Attorney Coleman had himself written the or Ginanee he rendered an adverse oniniop. declaring that his own handi work was q technical illeeality.
 Ma"er White promptly vetoed t12e cedinanee.
 Ono of the strange features of the case fs that the city attorney never aynro@7od pualiclv an opinion of the loealifv of the measure until so late dat, and then declared that his aHt d"c"1aent would not stand the ioet ef the courts.
 Then came another series of de- lavs. II should be stated here that Alderman Well. who had at first op Ncse1 The measure. became one of it's stron"ast advocates immediately af ter the council had made it's first tacit acceptance of the proposition, evn'aininc that he felt morally bound to Hfford Mr. Adams the desired re- lief since the council had accepted l re nronosition and he had gone for wa"d in good faith in the work and eynnnse of publishing the booklet
 MT. Well deserves much credit for : lis championship of the ordinance. Aftar the mayors veto, new or
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