Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-12
What Will The
HARVEST / | BE?
CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
TO FURTHER CONSIDER APP
PORTIONNIENT LEVY ~ DECIS-
ION May BE REACHED ON
THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES
AND OTHER THINGS.

a. -
It is expected the city council will
meet in adjourned session tonight
and finish the work of levying the
tax for the ensuing year. At the
last meeting the council sustained
the veto Of the mayor Of the amount,
appropriated for the water fund and
| it is understood that the members
agreed on an amount sufficient to.
cover the contract with the Bis
marck Water company, cutting out
the sums proposed for new hydrants
I in the east end of the city and for
watering troughs in the business
center 81
Another matter which might we'll
be concluded by the council Is the
passage or rejection Of the codified
ordinances as prepared by the spec
ial commission named by the mayor.
The ordinances as codified have
passed first reading and have been
in the hands of the ordinance COM
mittee for several weeks. where it is
complained the codification commits
sion changed some of the ordinances.
It is naturally true that many Of the
ordinances were changed as must
nececcarily be the case If the dead
wood is to be cleared out Of them,
otherwise there would have been no
need of the revision. There have
been no change in the existing or
dinances, however, save to incorpor-
ate the amendments made from time
to time except in the case of the
street and sidewalk ordinances,
which were rather conflicting.
In order that these important and
technical subjects might be straight
ened out in a proper and skillful
way, at the request of the codifica-
ton commission the city engineer
prepared condensed ordinance COW
ering the streets and another cover
ing the sidewalks, a reading of which
would lead one to believe that the
| work is unusually well and cares
fully done.
Members of the ordinance COM
mittee are said to feel aggrieved
that provision for parking the
streets have been Incorporated in the
street ordinance, seemingly forget
full of the fact that it is the duty Of
that committee land the codificatien
commission expected ito use it's
discretion in recommendations for
such changes in the prepared ord
finances as they saw fit, and have
held up the whole proposition.
The council is under no obligation
to pass the ordinances as revised by
the commission and it was to be ex-
pected the ordinance committee
would use the same power of re-
/ commencing amendments as with
any other ordinance which had been
referred to it. The old street and
Sidewalk ordinances are at the dis
posal Of the committee and if it so
desires, can be substituted for those
prepared by the commission; it can
recommend that the whole PROPOSE
tion be killed, or it can cut out the
Questionable feature and let it go at
thai. But something ought to be
done. 'a 5S III ~.
The necessity Of having printed
copies Of the ordinances is pressing,
for without the revised ordinances it
is a very difficult matter to find out
Just what the laws Of the city are
and small pamphlet containing the
ordinances Of the city would be
mighty useful to great many peo-
pie including the city fathers and
officials.