Arizona republican., 1909-02-02
MONTHLY MEETING
 LADYL|KE AFFAIR
City Council Attended to Routine Mat ters and Refused to Get lrritated About Anything.

l hSlS hCldoCu hO oCI
 About Anything.
 The city council held its regular
 monthly meeting last night, reported
 progress and asked for further time,
 which the gentlemen unanimously
 granted to themselves. It was hard to
 determine whether the body is emulat- | ing the republican United States senate
 by devOting itself to deliberation rath-
 CT than action or whether it is modest ! ly holding back and referring every thing to the committee of the whole
 out of respect to the precedents of the democratic territorial legislature, which
 has to get the approval of the caucus before it acts. The only precipItate ac- tion taken last night was in referring | things to somebody and that wasn't | done fast enough to take any skin off General fund warrants were ordered to the amount of $7,639.9S, library fund warrants were ordered to the amount of S9S0.30, and water works warrants were ordered to the amount of $26SI.46 By a resolution the council accepted the offer of the Y. NJ. C. A. of the pro posed area to be devoted to q park on
 the Y NJ. C. A. lot, this being done over the negative vote of Councilman Cisney. The invitation of General Sampson, to attend the Lincoln cele- bration was accepted, the quarterly re ports of officers were read and filed, the officers recently elected by the fire department were confirmed. The rest fpf the time was devoted to the grave reconsideration of matters of state, such as whether there should be two or four radiators in the city jail and passing them along for future action.
 |, Citizen Barney KerstinS made speech pertinent to a bill he had under stood the city attorney had prepared for the consideration of the democratic territorial caucus designed to facili- tate the building of sidewalks, sewers. and pavements in municipal corpora tions. MT Kerating was in sympathy with the purpose but thought some improvements could be made in the bill suggesting a number of them. The council rather thought so too and it was decided to consider the matter in committee of the whole at the next meeting. Citizen Kersting then called attention lo a bill of Representative De Souza providing that banks handling territorial and county deposits should pay two per cent on daily balances. He thought Phoenix ought to get in on that also. Representative DeSouza was present to say that If Phoenix wanted it he would be glad to tack on an amendment. but if it didn't it was all the same to him. This was passed for later consideration.
 Citizen Thalheimer asked for a little light on water rentals. He wanted tO know why it was that the water meter made him pay more for water than he had to pay before municipal owner ship of the water works. The sub ject was passed up to the light and water committee and Citizen Thal heimer for mutual conference.
 Citizen Hinckley wanted permission to locate and maintain a popcorn stand in the alley near the Hotel Adams That was passed to the street and alley committee.
 Citizens Pool Room owners wanted the ordinances changed so boys who are old enough to acquire the rudi- ments of bowling. namely IS years. might also receive instruction in play ing pool, without having their eduCa- ton retarded three years longer, as is now the case. MT. Cisney was willing but there was nothing doing.
 The matter of the transfer of the s6O. 900 recently sold, and the taking up of the old water works bond. was gone into. but was finally referred to the city treasurer, city attorney and MT Stewart of the Valley Bank who had devised a plan whereby they thought they could save the city little freight on the goods.
 Citizen R-'H. Greene was present to inquire if the council had accepted or blackballed East Central Place, whose application for membership had been filed at an earlier meeting. The coun- cil said the candidate was reported upon favorably, but the ballot would be postponed until the county assessor certified to good character by signing an official document showing that the property belonged to its owners, so the city would have clear title. That was all satisfactory with MT. Greene who had another proposition to make which was that if the City would dig and load on the cars, sufficient amount of caliche, the promoters of the addition would gravel the streets at a cost of about 1000 a street. He also intimat- ed that it would suit him just as well if the city would lay the water pipes before the streets were graveled so he would have some assurance the gravel would stay where he put it, though he