The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-09-04
MAYORS VETO SUSTAINED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL.
WILL PREPARE ANOTHER TO
CONFORM TO STATUTES
City Council Tuesday Evening Trans
acts a Grist of Routine Mat
ters-Long Session.

Mayor Fechter and Councilman
Armbruster, at the meeting Of the
city council Tuesday evening, had
rather lively discussion. among 9TH
er remarks passed being an allega-
ton by Armbruster that the North
west Light & Water company at
torney had written the mayors We
to.
q brought this up at an early
time" stated Armbruster relative
to the ordinance calling for a vote
Of the people at the next municipal
election on the proposition Of the
city owning water system, II
brought this up as did so that It
would be no party issue. I find that
no vote could be taken, as It is either
stopped by injunction or veto"
Mayor Fechter stated 1t is not
TOO late for an ordinance to be
drawn up to conform with the stat
utes. Such an ordinance would bs
preferable, 7 believe, to the present
one, which means nothing and can
accomplish nothing
Mayor Fechter's veto Of the ordin-
ance was on the grounds principally
that It does not conform with the
state laws and that the supreme
court had very plainly stated how
such an ordinance should pc drawn
up to make it effective.
When 1t come to vote as to
whether the mayors veto should b
sustained Keck voted mo- and the
veto was sustained
It is generally understood that a
new ordinance covering the same
proposition will be drawn UP to con-
form with the law
Saloon Licenses.
Saloon licenses and renewals vera
granted as follows Ernest Lund.
| Olaf Sandberg, F. NJ. Shardlow, Sam
Heller and James Corbin and C F.
Paradis.
The Yakima Hardware company
was granted license for plumbing
work and exeavating in the streets
Make Appointments.
The sexton reported he had re-
oeived sos; the chief of police re-
ported collections of s1171.50 and
the police magistrate reported fines
to the amount of sl147.50.
The report OF the sanitary engin-
Ger who examined the conditions in
the city relative to septic tank was
read and laid over until the next
meeting. As announced in the
Herald the tank will cost approxi-
mately $4,000, and is for the puri-
tcation OF sewage.
Health Officer Thomas Tetreau
reported that the draymen and cab
men standing on the streets as they
do now create nuisance and they
should be ordered to some more re-
mote spot. preferably the west sids
of Front street.
He stated in his report that many
more duties are devolving on the
city health officer under the new
state law, and asked for certain fees.
Instances of fees are as follows:
GUARANTEEING IS, raising quarantine
and fumigating IS, for investigation
of reports of diseases which prove
to be not of nature requiring quar-
antine $3.50. The city attorney was
instructed to frame an ordinance to
be presented at the next meeting
This ordinance is TO outline the du.
ties OF the health officer and to make
certain recommendations of dutie.
which should require the payment OF
fees.
Accompanies the report was the
opinion Of the attorney general rela'
tive to the duties of the health OF.
ficer. The opinion has been reprint
ed practically In full in the Herald
Notice was received that there
would be a hearing on drainage dis.
/, trict No 4 before the county com
missioners October 2. City Engineer