Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-03
COUNCIL FACES
MONEY DEBATES
FINANCIAL QUESTIONS WORRY
COMMITTEE
Pay of Police Prosecutors and New
Jail Are Live lssues-LandIords
and Smoky Chimneys Slated
for New Laws

Today's session of the city council
will embrace a wide line of discussion,
growing out of prospective reports of
the finance, building, legislation and
other committees.
AS the finance committee majority has
refused to finally consider the demands
of the salaries of the police station pros
ecuting neys-Councilmen Drom-
gold and Wallace refusing to attach
their signatures-it is up to the council
to act. Last Monday the council agreed
to stand by it's previous decision to leS
District Attorney Fredericks name two
prosecutors agreeable to the city. But
is it understood that even If the COM
mittee had approved the salary de-
mands they would have been held up by
Auditor Mushet, hence a suit to test the
cOnstitutionality of the new law seems
inevitable. The trouble grows out of
the action of the last legislature in pass
ing the Broughton act for police prose-
cutors. This act turned this patronage
over to the district attorney.
| Those whose claims are held up are
e. ]. Fleming, $S1.31; Harry Alexander
$70.91; Guy Eddie, $70.96; Joseph Ford
| $70.96; also Stenographer A. H. Russell
$35.47.
Fighting Smoke and Landlords
The new anti-smoke ordinance may be
presented today through DR.. L. M.
Powers, health officer, who, with COM
mittee and Deputy City Attorney EN-
met Wilson, has worked on the plan for
months. 1t will allow ninety days
grace for factory owners to make their
chimneys tractable.
The law will be drawn so that VIOLA
tions begin only when for over five
minutes there has been a dense con-
tinuous discharge of smoke. When fir
ing or putting on extra loads of steam
extra discharges of smoke are unavoid-
able but all good firemen should be
able within five minutes to check this
density.
Councilman Bernard Healy will make
another effort to introduce his measure
imposing an extra tax on landlords who
refuse to take tenants who have chill
dren. AS the father of eight children,
Healy has suffered the rebuffs of the
hard-hearted landlords, and says he is
fighting race suicide. The last ordinance
offered was ruled out as illegal by the
city attorney.
Want New Jail
The building committee may recon-
mend to the council today that steps be
taken at once to erect new Jail and
police headquarters for the city on a
larger site than the present one. The
price which the city will obtain for the
present Jail will go far toward buying
a new site and erecting modern build
ing. Chief Kern and the police commits
sioners are working hard to get the ap-
preparation.
Another effort may be made to push
the new electric sign ordinance. Under
this measure signs may swing out any
where at night, provided they are
hinged or fixed in such a way as to
fold back and out of the way when not
lighted. Much opposition has arisen
against the scheme, which is simply a
variation of the old billboard evil and is
drawn manly to benefit the elecric COM
panies, which are now fighting the
owens river bonds. Metallic signs are
provided for, and they must be lighted
every night continuously except Sun
days. Exceptions are made for news
papers and theaters, which may erect
illuminated bulletin boards, provided
they do not obstruct passageways.