Arizona republican., 1912-05-07
ELECTION DAY
 fOR CHARTER
Commissioners To Be Nom mated by Petition; Com pulsory Paving Order Adopted; Council Holds Busy Session..

first steps to legislate itself out of a 1 job on the inside of the city hall. there was considerable episode in and about
 the plaza rom eight until t>u o'clock | last evening
 By closing the windows ard turning deaf ears to the cOmpeuira oratnry of the distinguished socialistic single ta | CT council was able to vale thr ,ugh a stack of business as high as a Cteigh- 1 ton district hay stack.
 There was full council presen.- | that is to say every member of the l body was Tn his seat, even Messrs Cis- ney and MCDermOtt whose fate would l be trembling in the balances today if the reelection of these gentlemen was not looked upon IS a foIegone conclus- ion
 Probably the most in neresting piece of legisla ion, so far as the general public is concerned which the council achieved was the unanimous passir1 Of motion inSuuCting che city at torney to prepare a caIl for an cleo tion to be held within thirty days after such call is made for the purpose Of electing a charter commission to pre-
 
 of the affairs of the municipality unlcr a commission form Of government
 The attorney general who was asked to advise the city as to the propc; method of procedure has side stcppc1 that honor c. the ground that it is not has business to furnish opinions for the council.
 The attorney general diI say, unof- ficially. according to the mayor and the city attorney that the way to pro- ceed is under the direct nomination system, and this practice will DC adopted. The official call for the elec- ton will be made by the council. in all probability, at d meeting to he held Thursday evening, and the date set for the election IS likely to bc about June 4th. It will then be up to every citizen who thinks he has within his system d city charter containing 2 panaCe. for all 1l to hustle around a petition and get himself nominated When election day rolls around foul teen of him will be elected, and h., individually and collectively will pass number of gIadsome summer days wrestling with thirteen stubborn fel low members of the commission. Talk en by and large il looks like a fin open faced summer.
 But that wasn't all the council did not by jugful of sweet cider COun ciI did lot of things including a hear ing of protesting property owners who are .agin' the Barber Asphalt com
 pany and do not want to be forced into
 paving the streets before their sev eral properties
 Chief among these prOtestants was C. NJ Scott. superintendent of the Arizona
 Eastern railroad and F. F.. Proweh, who shook the finger of scorn at F. F. Conway. of the Barber Asphalt com pany and intimatcd that he-Conwaf -lidn't dast Dr. LightbOurne alsJ addressed council in opposition to the
 proposed order on the grounds that the estate which he represents did not have the money with which to pay fo the proposed paving.
 Judge Edward Kent of the firm of Chalmers and Kent. representing the paving company, cited the law to coun cil This act provides that fl fifty on per cent of the front footage he rep resented in the protest the improve ment may not go forward. but that lacking such percentage of protestantS and fifty-One per cent of the footag petitioning for the paving, council has no option other than to order the work to nroceed on this showing and it appearing that only about thirty -eiSh- per cent of the property in the pro nosed paving district on Central and First avenues from Washington t. in the testing petitions council ordered the improvement to be made.
 The Barber Asphalt company antici- pate the passing of more liberal pay | ing law by the present session of the l legislature under which council will 1 have absolute authority in the prem l ises. but tailng this they may pro 1 ceeI under the present statutes al- | though the protestants intimated last 1 evening that to do so would be to in- 1 vite litigation.
 i Plans were offered and accepted by council for the paving of West Wash incton street from the present termin ou., of the having at Fourth avenue u Seventh avenue, and a contract has l already been entered into between the company and the street railway com
 panv for the construction of the pave 2 | mcnt between the tracks of the com i pany.
 | The comDlaint of the Southern Pa 1 cific company is based on the allie | eation that the concrete base is not l adapted to withstand the heavy rolling | stock used by the company. and that Il the company is contemplating eXtens- i've improvements in Phoenix which II will make the pavement valueless. II Sandwiched in between the hlgn II lights council surrounded considerable | business of lesser nature. shear ot II bills aggregating several thousand Nol- \ lars collected in the navigating of tn II ship<Of state during April were audited \ and ordered paid, and the usual spring l touch" was made on the water de | partment By resolution five tnouS and dollars is transferred from that l fund to the general fund to tide over | the hiatus until the shekels again be 1 gin rolling into the tax collectors cof ' | fers.
 Building inspector J. M. Creighton reported the issuance of twenty eigf, building permits during April to to 1 tai valuation of $44,620.
 1 Council bought ten acres of irrigat l inc water for use in Wentworth Place