Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-25
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
President Berka Names Standing
Committees, Making Few Changes.
TWO BIDS FOR STREET LIGHTING
Ordinance 20 Deal with Garbage sit
uRtion introduced and Referred
TO Committee Of the whole
for Debate.

OF the committees President Louis Berka
OF the city council. last night named his
standing committees for the year Burmese
ter was made chairman Of the judiciary,
while Funkhouser was given a place in
stead Of Johnson Brucker was placed at
the head Of the railways and viaduct COM
mittee. and Berka named himself as chair
man Of the rules committee. These were
the only changes in the chairmanships
The paving and sewerage committee un-
derwent the greatest change, Schroeder and
'Funkhouser being dropped and Brucker
and Burmester appointed in their stead.
kugel was retained chairman.
Here are the new committees:
Judiciary-Burmester, chairman; Hum
mel, Funkhouser Schroeder and Berka
johnson and Berka
Paving and Sewerage-Kugel, chairman;
Brucker and Burmester
Street Improvements-McGover chair
man; HumTnel and Funkhouser.
Telegraph and Observation-Disclosures
chairman; Bridges and McGovern.
Railway and Viaducts-Brucker, chair
man; kugel and Johnson.
FIRE, Water and Police-Bridges chair
man; SCHROEDER and Davis.
L1ghung-Johnson, chairman; Burmester
Public Property and BuiIdings-FIInk-
houser, chairman Kugel and Brucker
Parks, Pathways and Bouievards-Hum-
mel, chairman; Bridges and McGovern.
Davis, chairman; Schroeder and Sheldon
Davis.
Bids for furnishing equipment for street
lighting and for furnishing maintenance
for gas lamps were opened One for each
was received. the T. w. Minor company
OF New York offering to furnish equipment
for $50 per lamp. providing the city
bought not less than 1850 lamps. The
City Lighting company. through it's man
aser, John Dennison, offered to maintain
the lamps for $ each per year. Action on
the bids was postponed until this after
noon. when an adjourned meeting of the
council will be held.
The bids came In response to resolu- |
ton passed by the council two weeks ago. !
when a movement for the city to do it's |
own lighting was put on foot With the
threat of the Omaha Gas company to dis |
continue its street lighting service on or
about June / to be met, the council is
considering the feasibility OF the city doing /
its own lighting.
On opinion from the city attorney |
that emergency ordinance cannot be
passed for providing funds for insurance |
on the city hall and its contents. the bids |
we're placed on file.
Deals with Garbage.
An emergency ordinance declaring the |
necessity of appropriating funds and |
creating a specific fund for the collection |
and removal Of garbage, was introduced |
passed second readings and referred to the
committee of the whole The amount to |
be set aside was left blank. this to be in
serted by the council members
The preamble to the ordinance states |
that the prevailing conditions will un-
doubtedly, inevitably and unavoidably pro- |
duce an epidemic of typhoid fever and |
other epidemics Of disease. unless garbage
Is PROMPTLY removed and disposed of long
before the end Of the fiscal year
The petition of the fire and police board |
directing the city clerk TO advertise for |
bids for a 70-horse power automobile for |
the use OF the police department was re-
ferred to the committee of the whole |
after the city attorney gave an opinion
that the council should heed the request.
p. ]. Tebbins. Otto Bauman and o. A. |
Scott were appointed appraisers to assess
damages on the ground that the park
board has secured by condemnation pro-
ceedings for the extension of the North
west boulevard The ground lies along |
sprague street from the belt line tracks |
TO Fontenelle park and will complete the
boulevard connecting Bemis and Fonte-
nellie parks.
A suggestion from the park board that |
the city acquire by condemnation proceed
ings lot on the corner OF Nineteenth and |
Ohio streets and another at Twentieth and |
Ohio streets for boulevard purposes was
placed on file on a recommendation OF the
parks and boulevard committee.
A petition from the Standard OIL COM
,pany for change in the plans OF the
approach to the Locust street viaduct SO
that access can be had TO its property
was referred to the railway and viaduct
committee without debate.
A bunch OF ordinances, among them the
one fixing the price OF gas. and another
regulating and licensing dance halls, was
referred to the new judiciary COMMITTEES.
These have been in the possession of the
old committee for varied lengths of time.
Among the ordinances was one regulating
and licensing BARRIERS and providing for
the appointment of an examining board
of three which has been in the judiciary
committee since last October.
OrdinaAces Referred.
These ordinances passed second readings
and were referred; For the paving OF |
Grant street from Forty-second 70 Forty |
fifth. Erskine street from Forty-second 10 |
Forty-fifth. Burdetts street from Forty |
second 70 Military avenue, Paclfio street I
from Central boulevard to ThtrTy-eighth |
avenue. rhirty-fourth street from Martha
70 Arbor. Forty-seeond street from Cum
ing to Hamilton. Mgson street from
Twenty second to Twahty-fourth, for the
repavtng Of Capitol avenue from Thir-
teenth 70 FourtesRfh streets and for the
changing OF the curb lines OF Decatur
: street from Twenty-seventh to Twenty
ninth streets, Ontario street from B street
TO Twentieth and B street from Thirteenth
60 Ontario.
An ordinance calling for a special cleo
ton for issuing 100000 In bonds to build
three new engine houses was referred to
the finance ana claims COMMITTEES, after
passing second reading. June q is named
as the date for the election. An ordinance
directing the Union Pacific and Missouri
Pacific and other railroads TO build the
Nicholas street viaduct passed second
reading, as did one providing only for
the post norton inspection OF veal meat
under four months old.
These ordinances were passed: For paving
Lake street from Forty-first TO Forty NTH
streets. Jackson street from Thirty-eighth