Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-05
ENTIRE COUNCIL
CANvASSES VOTE
WILL SEND RESULTS TO CAPT.
tai TODAY
RUMoRs OF INJUNCTION CAUSE
NERVOUS STRAIN
Official Count of Charter Amendment
Vote Shows No Material Change.
Councimen Act Quickly
and CheerfuIly

A special messenger will take the
amendments that the people voted
should be Incorporated into the charter
to Sacramento on the Owl today, and
they will be ratified by the state legis-
lature, when they will become part OF
the city charter and hereafter known
as the amendments of 1909.
The council met yesterday and spent
the entire day in canvassing the vote.
and at 8 o'clock last night adjourned
Until il o'clock this morning. Every
member of the council was present
yesterday except A. j. Wallace, who is
still too i'll to leave his home. Healy,
Lyon, Clampitt and Yonkin, who are
most opposed to the amendments, were
the hardest workers yesterday and
footed tally list after tally list. Lyon
especially was the star performer, MAX
ing his calculations with a rapidity
and accuracy that showed him an eX-
pert mathematician.
The official count made no material
difference in the result, few minor
errors being found in the figures given
by the tired clerks of election. During
the morning difference of 100 votes
was found in the figures for amend
ment %, and it was first reported these1
votes were in favor of the amendment.
Had this been the case this amend
ment would have carried, as the semi
official returns showed it lost only by
twenty votes; but in the afternoon a
re-check showed these 100 votes against
the amendment. This amendment pro-
vided for what is known as the street
plan and in the opinion of the city
attorney would have saved the city
much money in future damage suits
had it carried. This was the closest
vote on any of the amendments.
Rumors of Injunction
Some of the tally lists had not been
made out correctly, and it was neces-
sary to cite judges Of election to ap-
pear to correct the defects.
The council worked under a nervous
strain all day. There was a report that
the proceedings would be stopped by
injunction proceedings, and color was
given to this rumor by the presence of
Attorney E. L. Hutchison, the Eighth
ward politician, in the council cham
ber, with a pink bound legal instru-
ment, the character of which he would
not divulge. He took copious notes of
all the proceedings. and City Attorney
Hewitt and Chief Deputy Emmett Will
son watched him with nervous appre-
hension.
If the members of the council had at
first had any idea of lodging the issue
they have got over it, as their rapid,
careful work showed yesterday.
'"The people have expressed their
opinions by. their votes,' said Council
man Lyon yesterday, "and whether We
like it or not it is UP to US to do what
the people have said we must"
D. M. Carroll, minute clerk of the
council, determined last night that
there were still twenty-six precinct
officers who had not signed the re-
turns and had failed to appear. when
cited to come to the council chamber
Councilman Wren moved that Chief of
Police Broadhead be directed to send
patrolmen after the delinquents and to
order them to appear by IL o'clock to-
day. The council hopes to finish its
part Of the matter before noon.
The decision to meet in the morning
was quite unsatisfactory to Attorney
Hutchison, who nervouslv fitted from
one councilman to another, saying:
MAKE it 2 O'Clock; make it 2 O'clock"
-o%,I No4a ~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS