Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
City Council Takes Action and Calls for Election of New Commission on That Date; City Election Also to Be Held
WILL BE
 CALLED IN APRIL
Two Elections in One to Save Expense; Annual Reports Are Received; Street Lights Cause Long est Word War of Session


 The new election on the charter will be held on May next This was the decision of the city council 1 last night as expressed in a resolution l passed unanimously. Lt the time the charter proposition is up before the people there will be also in progress the regular city election which falls on May $. The charter election, that 1 is the election for final choice for q commission of fourteen to draft l new organic law for the city of Phoenix, will but be a step in the i progress of formulting law for the city this time that will not conflict with the constitution of the state Of Arizona.
 The double election was chosen for the reason that it will mean a less expense, the one board of election of l ficials being sufficient for the two purposes, the single registration that must be had at this spring for the city will suffice, and the city will save money by the proposition all round. The date of the primary was not set for the reason that there had
 mt been q decision reached either as to primary election otficals or polling booths. These will be looked after during the coming week and the resolution providing for the prim ary election and registration will be introduced one week from last night when it will be passed and another step will have beep taken in the | journey toward a commission form of government for Phoenix The date of the primary will probably be April 3 or f.
 The resolution did not cause any comment in thecouncil last night. on the contrary it went thorugh with rush that evidenced the belief of ali l the aldermen in the need of having 1 the matter framed up as soon as pos sible Not until it was found that all l the election officials had not been
 chosen, and the polling places ob-
 tained for the primary election was l there q hitch in the proceedings. | Last night was the night for the receipt of the annual reports of the l city officials, and there were plenty of them. Every department had report showing the actions of it dur | ing the year 1912 Recorder Thomas reported the number of cases he had l tried, and that he had received $8,- 44236 during the year. Then he re-
 ported as city clerk that he had re- ceived in fees s2993O3 The report of the city treasurer showed bal ance of s119,109.42 The report on
 the bonded debt was also interesting
 There are now outstanding s2000 fire
 department bonds: $15.000 of city
 hall bonds; $15,000 of combined city | hall and fire department bonds; $67,- l 900 of Roosevelt road bonds; $30O,-
 900 of water department bonds; S155.- | GOO of general fund bonds; and $400,-
 900 of sewer bonds. The receipts of
 the office for the year were $780, | S6251, while the disbursements were 1 $657, ,907.92. The earnings of the wa
 ter department for the year were given at $10S.260.04.
 1 In the line of monthly reports the
 market master who is also sealer of weights and measures reported | that he had collected $S5.s0 last | month. The city electrician had ob- I tained in fees $1O34O and the water
 department $32,629.62.
 | | importance up for consideration but 1 the longest word match occurred | when Councilman Cisney reported on requests for lights. He was in favor | of granting the petitions but wouldn't | have them put in just yet. Requests 1 have been accommodating for some | time each being referred to Council 1 man Cisney as it came up. Finally 1 he had quite a number so few ! days ago he went all over the town 1 and checked up the lights. There | were eleven requests and two of | them were turned down entirely, Those upon which favorable report was rendered were Fifth and Roose- welt; Roosevelt and Central; Roose- welt and Tenth: Fifteenth and Grand
 avenue; Park road and Washington; 1 Hadley and Fifth: First avenue and Mckinley; Tenth street and Polk Fourteenth and Washington. The ap- plications of Roosevelt and Ninth and at Park and Van Buren were report ed unfavorably
 Councilman McElroy and McDer-
 mott were for putting in the lights and be done with it, but Councilman Cisney said the city was short of funds and needed every cent that could be gotten, he therefore believ
 cd in letting them go over until the
 end of the fiscal year. McElroy said he thought the addition of a thousand dollars wouldn't make any Continued on Page Five)