Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-12
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Health Department Comes Close to
Being Voted a windfall.
DAVIS FINALLY BLOCKS PLAN
City Attorney Rules Railroads Can
he Compelled 20 widen and
strenEtben when
Ii Becomes Necessary.

DR. Cornell, city commissioner OF health,
got his N.2W for the department in the
meeting Of the city council lssf night. the
amount he asked for, though he came near
getting $500
The committee Of the whole Monday
afternoon decided to appropriate a.&o, the
money to be divided into two funds, one
Of $500 for the emergency fund and one Of
$500 for the health fund. When the coun-
Gil met last evening. however. Councilman
Bedford, chairman Of the committee Of the
whole, introduced four resolutions, two
apprOpriating $500 each for emergency and
two sppropristing $500 each for the health
funds. All of them were passed, DR.. J.
c. Davis. the councilman who had all
along opposed the appropriation, voting
aye on three OF the resolutions
After the passage Of the measures one
Of the newspaper reporters asked TIRE doc
tor what Was meant in appropriatinG twice
the amount the commissioner Of health
required. Thc doctor was unable to answer,
being unaware that the double amount had
been appropriated. He lost no time in find
ing out. and when the president told him
thai the double sets Of resolutions ap-
propriating 81, 400 had passed. be moved for
reconsideration and the amount was cut
in two.
City Clerk Butler, who swings the lash
over the democrats in the chamber, then
declared:
IF the newspaper men would keep their
mouths shut we would run more things
through
Il am glad the newspaper men DON'T
keep their mouths shut" retorted Coun-
Gilman Davis. 'for sitting back where We
do we don't hear half what is said.'
Johnson Against Appropriation.
President johnson voted against appro-
priating any funds for the health commits
sioner. telling the city clerk, who asked II
he warted DR.. strauss, the physicians III
charge Of the emergency hospital. TO starve;
that he thought the money should be ap-
propriated by ordinance provision and not
by resolution.
That railroad companies can be forced
TO widen and strengthen viauucts when in
creased traffic makes 1t necessary, was
the opinion Of the city attorney, as sent to
the council last night. The Sixteenth and
1--WE nty-fourth street viaducts, It is alleged
are too small and weak to accommodate
the increased traffic. The railroad COM
panies refused to remedy the alleged fault
and the council put it up 10 the legal de-
nartment for advice in the premises. The
opinion Of the city attorney was referred
TO the city engineer with instructions TO
investigate the overlooking of the viaducts
ana the structural strength OF the bridg-
ing.
Henrietta wenninghoff notified the coun-
Gil that she will bring suit for damages
IN the sum of $500 on account Of the build
ing of the proposed Bancroft street viaduct'
and Elizabeth A. and Mrs. Anna Edwards
each filed notice of personal damage suits
against the city for injuries sustained by
driving into a depression on Lesvenworth
street near Forty-firEt.
The council decided to pay the special
policemen who served ON election day 81
each for their days work.
Arc lights were ordered installed al the
intersection OF Cass and Thirty-eighth
streets and Charles and Twenty-second
streets, and on Florence boulevard at the
entrance to Miller park.
Comptroller LObeck's Report.
COMPTROLLER Lobeck reported that In
compliance with the provisions Of Ordi'
ua.,ce No. 400, on October 81 1905, at II m.
he counted the cash in the hands Of the
city treasurer, which he found to be al
follows: