Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-31
ISSUE INVITATION
FOR COOPERATION
PUBLIC INTEREST REQUIRES AN
ADVISORY BOARD
Committee on Revision of Charter Not
Expected to Be Completed Be-
fore the First of Next
Week

Charter revision was briefly discussed
at yesterdays meeting of the city coun-
ella special session..
In the pressure of business Monday the
revision invitation was crowded out.
| The council merely discussed the form
| of the call and devoted some time to
forming the makeup of the list of repre-
sentatives whose aid is wanted in laying
the foundation for revision
| Mayor Harper said last night when his
attention was called to the omission of
the bar association and the medical asso-
citation from the representative bodies in
vited that he personally also wished to
add q few names, but had concluded to
wait till the movement is farther ad-
vanced.
| AS the city council will not select it's
| three representatives until next Monday
and as some of the bodies must await
| the regular meetings of their executive
| boards the conference may not be held
| till late next week.
Some effort was made yesterday to get
| the City club and the Sixth Ward Good
Government club included in the list, but
| 1t failed.
| City Attorney Hewitt said last night
| that in the selection of delegates by the
chamber of commerce and some of the
other organizations he presumed some at
torneys would be selected for the commits
sions personnel.
Official Invitation
Following is the official invitation ex-
| tended by the Los Angeles city council
| for a charter revision conference.
Whereas, The present charter of the
city of Los Angeles was prepared by a
board of freeholders of the city In 1888
and was approved by the Legislature in
| 1889, and the same has been thereafter
altered by amendments in many essential
particulars to meet conditions not contem-
plated when the charter was originally
adopted, and which amendments have
been made necessary by reason of the
great changes that have marked the po-
litical. commercial and economic develop
ment of the city, particularly in recent
years; and
whereas, Further changes in the or
ganic law of the city are believed to be
| imperative in the near future, not only
to provide a form of government better
| adapted to the present necessities of the
/ citv and for its future development, but
which make provision for such other
cities as may consolidate with 1t and form
| one municipality under scheme OF gov
ernment which shall be appropriate for
| that purpose; ana
"Whereas. 1t Is deemed advisable that
the proposition of amending the present
charter or adopting a new charter should
| be thoroughly discussed so that amend
ments may be proposed or new charter
framed in ample time for thorough con-
sideration by the people of the city be-
| fore final action thereon and the supmls-
sion of the same to the Legislature lor
approval at its next session; now, there-
| fore, be 1t ,
"Resolved, By the mayor and councll or
1 1nd
| interest requires the appointment or an
advisory committee of the citizens or the
city to consider the question of further
| amending the city charter or OF framing
I a new charter, and the most practlcaple
means that should be adopted to accom-
plish one or the other of said objects;
| "That said committee shall consist or
eighteen members; that eleven of whom
shall be appointed by the various COM
mercial, Industrial and civic organizations
| of the city as follows: Three by the
chamber of commers, two by the Munich
| nal league two by the Council OF Labor
| two bv the Merchants and Manufactur-
ers' association, one by the Clearing
House association and one by the voters
| league, and that the remaining seven
members of said committee shall consist
of the mayor, the city attorney, the city
auditor. the president of the board OF
public works and three members OF the
city council. Be it further
"Resolved, That the several organiza-
tions named be and they are hereby In
vlted to appoint the respective number OF
their members herein requested to serve
on said committee and that the city clerk
be and he is hereby directed to send a
| copy of this resolution to each of said
organizations; that If said invitation be
accepted the mayor shall call meeting
of said committee to assemble at the
earliest practicable date thereafter to
consider and take such action as 1T may
deem advisable to carry the purpose of
this resolution into effect"