Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-09
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 City Fathers
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 city election last Tuesday. Atde1- man Boyce, chairman of ,ne hna+Se committee, reported that the hiii was excessive and included the meals of the clerks and judges. lie said the city attorney on previous occasion had ruled that there Wa but one thing to do and that was to pay the bill. The payment of the bill was ordered.
 After A. ;i Russell was elected to succeed Rudolph C. Wolfe as city collector, Alderman Jordan report ed that he had been informed that the Bluff City Lumber company had been using certain city street prop erty for several years on the site of their recently destroyed lumber plant. He 4aid now was gooi time to take the matter up, before the plant is rebuilt He urged t'.af the council ascertain what right the city had on the premises.
 Alderman Boyce thought this a poor procedure, in view of the fact that the Bluff City i.umber company was debating whether or not t should rebuild it's Liant in this ,iiv He believed that it would only be an obstacle in the way of re-e.;t:lo- fishing the lumber plant here. Ai- l derman Nichol Immediately with | drew his second TO Alderman ,Jor- l dams motion and the matter was dropped.
 Alderman Jordan, chairman of ! the water and light committee, re. ported that he had made thorough investigation into the matter that led to the controversy between Doc. 1 tor J. W. Scales, the local specialist. and the two light companies, both of which refused to supply Doctor Scales with light service at his home. The Pine Bluff Light and water company's management claimed that it was not taking on new customers; that it had all the business that it could attend to, and that was the reason why Doctor Scales home had not been wired again. Alderman Jordan declared that the contention was not we'll founded; that the company was wir- ing new homes and taking on new business. He said an agreement be- tween the Pine Bluff Water and Light company and the Citizens Light and Transit company existed, whereby it was impossible for one consumer. when he is delinquent with one or the other, to get serv-
 i've from either It matters not how just or unjust the complaint of the consumer may be, he said
 It was urged that the council take some action to remedy the matter and give local light consumers re- lief. Doctor Scales is perfectly re- sponsible, he continued, and should be supplied with lights. He moved that Doctor Scales select the com pany from which he desired the service and that the company be compelled by the council to make the connection at his home and fur nish him with lights. The motion carried unanimously
 The special committee, appointed some weeks ago to arrange new system of accounting for the vari- ous departments and the manner in which the books, under the new system. should be kept, reported. One of the. clauses in the recom- ? msnaations as i! of the. committee. pro- vides that fines can be paid only to- the police judge and not the chief of police -or other police department officers. I he. chief, under the new ruling ,s,has. no right or is given no authority to collect fines. This feature of the committee's |:report was objected to by Alder man DunningtOn. He believed that the chief ought to be invested with the authority to collect fines AL derman Royce informed him that law prevented the chief from do- ing this. Alderman Nichol spoke up and said that has been the trouble with the police department too long. The chief should not be permitted to collect money, he said. fine when fined or go to jail This