The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-11
Prize Puzzle
Session of
Council
MAYOR PUTS a HARD ONE UP TO
BODY-DOES SOME GYMNAS-
TICS At Observation-Disclosures
ABLE BUSINESS TRANSACTED

All members were present at the
meeting of the city council last night
with exception of Councilman Root
Architect Beardslee handed in a
report stating the city hall was com.
pleted according to specifications and
recommending that it be accepted by
/ the council.
Bills for insuring the new city hall
were ordered paid II. c. Herrick
will get So; John p KERN. $50
and Ely Investment Co. $3.50.
Architect Beardslee's bill for
$136.26 was allowed. J. #. 4 II,
L. Schraven. the contracting firm
on the new city hall got their final
payment of $3.50. w. l.. Nelson was
allowed $500 on his account. the
balance. amounting to s292.50. will
likely be allowed at the next meeting.
Peter Watt appeared before the
board in the interest OF the Ely Vol
unteer Fire department and asked
that the council allow the depart
ment between $50 and SIS with
which 10 purchase running har-
ness. The latter amount was allow
ed and Watt and John Murphy in
structed TO do The purchasing.
Ira NJ Thompson submitted COM
munication asking that he be given
the sole privilege to handle all bill
posting in the city The council de-
eided il would be impossible to grant
such privilege al the present time.
communications was read from
Councilman Root asking that he he
given an extension OF his leave of
absence. from the / 18th Of March to
April !
o. Z. Mann sent in a eommunica-
ton which contained proposition
to furnish an outlet for the proposed
sewer system. The communication
was ordered filed.
According to an interview printed
last evening. Mayor Clark was going
to veto the license ordinance as re-
Gently passed. When the board met
later in the evening he stated that
he had been to the clerk : office i'm
the city hall on Tuesday with the or
dinance. which neither then nor now
carried his signature. This meant
that he had vetoed the bill The law
specifically stated that any ordinance
which has been passed by a board of
councilmen must be returned within
five days. III it is signed and return
ed within the five days. it then be-
comes a law, but If II Is returned
within the statutory time without
the signature of the mayor. then 1t
is considered vetoed.
Last night the mayor insisted that
he had by virtue of having called at
the clerks Office on March . with the
ordinance unsigned. vetoed the act
The city attorney was Obliged to go
to his office and get the statutes COW
ering the case. with the view of as
pertaining whether the fact that the
mayor had been to the clerks Office
with the unsigned ordinance consti-
tuted delivery of the ordinance. The
law did not cover this matter fully
and Mr.. Walker stated that should
anything be done in the matter as il
stood. there might result number
of suits.
The mayor then discovered that he
had not vetoed the BILL and stood pat
on that ground. AS result. Conn
Gilman Hall moved that the clerk he
instructed TO have the ordinance pub
lished. inasmueh as 1t was not re-
turned by the mayor. This motion
was seconded by Councilman Holly
man and when put to a vote carried.
The mayor then put on another
comeback, He stated that he de-
sired the clerk to make a minute en-
try that he had returned the ordi-
nance to the city hall on Tuesday.
March 3. III this entry was allowed
to stand on the records of the meet
ing it would appear that the ordi-
nance had been vetoed. The council
thereupon resolved itself into rid
die solving society to the end of en-
deavor to find just where the mayor
stood on the veto proposition. II
the mayor really wanted to veto the
license ordinance, why did he not GO
to the law Office of the city clerk and
filethe unsigned ordinance with him
He surely knew where the office was
for he found his way there in hur-
ry when the News stated some weeks
ago that there had been a special
meeting of the board. If he did not
want to veto 1t. why didn't he sign
It? The council puzzled the conun-
drum until a late hour last night
and finally concluded that the mayor
had statement placed on the rec
ords and that the statement accom-
panying the unsigned ordinance was
not intended as veto. In conse-
quence the new ordinance will be
published for the specified time and
will then become law