The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-03
CITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLU TON RElNSTATING SELF.
 OPPOSED MEMBERS.
SPECIAl ELECTION CALLED
Mayor McCIendon Sent in Veto of Petit Drumming Ordinance Which Goes Over Under the Rules to Next Regular Meeting to Be Acted On.

The Board of Public Affairs, a ma 1ority of the membership of which had been declared vacant when a technicality was raised that they had not qualified by filing bonds as re quired by the law, was formally 2ein stated last night by the council in special session when the Reynold resolution giving the two member 0 days in which to file their bonds was passed without a dissenting vote Alderman Williamson, who had raised the point in the council the evepina before was absent last night
 There was no discussion Of the Reynolds resolution. All the alder men present understood the purpos of the resolution, and after it had been read early in the session by City Clerk Housley the vote was ta ken viva voce and there was not a dissenting vote
 The veto Mayor McClendon affixed to the Petit ordinance which eX- tended the limits within which hote drumming might he regulated, was brief The mayor merely declared ir brief note that he did not believe the ordinance passed the night be fore was proper, said it was "detri mental to the best interests of ths city, and when this formal note wa, read, Alderman Ellis rose and stated that under the rules the subect went over until the next regular meeting of the council, which will be the meeting of January
 IL had been expected that the tesf vote on sustaining the mayors veto would have come last night. and thos who wanted the veto sustained were certain they had a sufficient vote present
 There was again a large audience present in the council chamber las' night and while not as large as or the night before the citizenship gen erally was well represented.
 A resolution was adopted which au thorized the mayor 10 call a specia election for December 22, for the pur pose of electins an alderman in the sixth ward, 10 fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of D. L. Weaver There will be no primary. The can . didates must be residents of tn. sixth ward but hey will be voted or all over the city.
 The Burgauer ordinances providing for the increasing of the fire fight ing facilities in keeping with tie rec concentrations of the underwriters provided some argument and mucl comedy The first one called up was that ordinance providing for the pur truck
 Alderman Ellis asked the priyileg, of the floor for MT Robinson. of thu Robinson Auto Truck Company. who he said would furnish some infofma tion on this point
 Mir. Robinson stated that he be lieved it was practical for the aeria truck to be provided with an apDara tus that could cause 1t to be attached 10 lis autotruck, so that when tho auto truck was called to fires in thu business district the aerial trucl could be carried along when the biz auto-truck went out He said tho connection was made with draw ba or courling pin. SO that when th auto-truck went to the residential dis trict where the aerial truck would no likely be used the coupling could b' released He said his auto-truck hal sufficient power to take the aeria truck along, and that he believed ; saving could be made 10 the city,
 Alderman Ellis. in view of thi statement, asked MT BuTgauer t' withdraw his ordinance for an aeria truck tractor, but Mir Burgauer staN ed he would not do that but would o' willing to let the ordinance remaii up to a third reading until he hal taken the matter up with the actu ary of the state. He said the under writers recommendations require the equipping of the aerial truck wit tractor. but if saving could b made he would favor it.
 q have heard about enough of thl underwater business" said Alderma Peden. T would like to know whetf CT the underwriters are running thi city or whether the council is. and