Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-09
D0|NGS IN THE
 CITY COUNCIL -'.'! VA -- >w*- Alleged Error Charged by City Attorney Coleman to Be Investigated and Ex- posed by Committee.
MIR. SORRELLS' SPEECH
Aid Given East Second Avenue Paw ing District-Money Appropriated For Fire HOrses-COmpIain Against City Physician.


 council last night, the alleged error ill printing the ordinance re- lative to the annexation of outlying territory to this city, was referred to the finance committee, as request ed in a petition from the Adams Printing Company, which asked that the matter be fully investigated and exposed. At the meeting of the council week ago, City Attorney w. F. Coleman stated that he thought it best for the city to with I draw the ordinance authorizing the 1 annexation, at the time pending be- fore County Judge James Gould, and he further gave as his reason for this action, that an error in the printing of the ordinance made by the Graphic would render it neces- sary that all the work which had already been done by the city off 1 cers in behalf of the annexation be l done over again.
 To this statement the Adams Printing company excepts, and as a result had Attorney w. B. Sorrells to appear before the council in it's be- half and present the following let ter from J. w. Adams, president of the Adams Printing company The letter was read by City Clerk w. A. Lee as follows:
 To the Hon. Mayor and City Council, Gentlemen:-
 In reading the proceedings of the meeting of the council as published in our evening contemporary, we observe that the statement was made by the City Attorney at said meeting that an error in printing the annexation ordinance by the Graphic was of such serious na- lure that The feared that any action hich might now be taken would not stand the test of the courts" et..
 Y While it is true that an error was made in the printing of said ordi- nance, nevertheless we are reliably informed that the error made by the printer was not of such a serious nature as to invalidiate the election and consequent annexation had such proceedings been. pursued to the end, but that such an error was made either in the copy for the ori- glnal ordinance, or in the printed ordinance as it appeared in the Graphic, or in the notice of annexa- tion subsequently, published in the Graphic. While we admit making errors at the Graphic office occas- ionally, which will probably be the case as long as types are treacher- ous and man imperfect, yet in all the legal notices due diligence is es- PSSAesAAy CAC1CloCO dlu dll ICdu dlu compared with copy, which was done in this case, but we must respectful ly decline to have settled upon us the responsibility for a movement, which, if our information is correct, was abandoned because of mistakes mades in the legal or some other de- partment of the city government.
 Therefore, for the Adams Print ing Company, I respectfully ask your Honor to appoint committee to in- vestigate and ascertain if any error was made by this office of such ser ious nature as to make annexation illegal, and. furthermore to examine and inspect the original copy as to legibility. erasures, interlineations. etc, and fix responsibility, if any there be-. for such errors, etc. z Respectfully submitted i. J. w. ADAMS
 Pres Adams Ptg. Co.