Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-14
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IA. 1913.

years requested in the report by taXpay-
ers who investigated the city's recent fin
ancial report. Calling attention to an in
consistency said to exist i'll reports fur
nished by the city tax collector and the
city treasurer, he said he believes they
can be explained by the fact that one be
gins on May 1.
Talking Oh the subject further, Mayor
Cole said that to ask anything further
than has already been given is in effect a
reflection upon the administration for
that time. He said that any apparent
discrepancies between the reports of the
explained without expense.
Alderman CriXell claimed that an ar
ticle in the Corpus Christi Caller charged
the Brownsville council with being graft
ers, and he also charged that several
Spanish papers were printing articles
along the same lines.
The council decided that it could not
handle the city's scavenger wagons and
men, paying the mel and submitting bill
for the amount each week to the council.
The council could not sell city script at
below par, and a suggestion by the league
that the league add a fourth the amount
Of each weeks bill to the bill presented
to the council could not be accepted. May
or Cole stated that the action taken in
preparing and circulating a subscription
list was a good one. He believes that the
matter can be pushed further, and will
act upon it.
4 second proposition submitted by Ser
apiO Gonzales was not accepted. The fol
lowing correspondence between Alderman
Cain and Mr.. Gonzales is self e%xplana-
tory; Gonzales reply was in Spanish and
is in a translation furnished the council
by Mr.. Cain:
Your offer to do the Scavenger work
0 fthis city for $175 per month, was con-
sidered at the meeting of the city council
yesterday afternoon.
IF you agree to do the work of the
eight scavenger carts now employed by
the city, that is, remove the garbage from
the streets, alleys, business houses and
residences every day, dump same at the
place so designated and urn the garbage
at least twice a week, kindly advise me
at once.
whether you do the work with two
carts, more or less, does not matter as
long as the work is promptly done. If
you agree to contract with the city, | will
take pleasure in presenting the matter to
the city council Thursday, February, Ii,
1913, and use every effort on my part to
have it favrOably acted upon"
Yours respectfully,
B. L. CAIN,
Chairman Street and Bridge Committee.
Mr.. Gonzales reply, translated:
Replying to your letter of today, per
nit me-tO say to YOU and the city council
that my offer to do the work of the city
carts with two wagons for $1,000 Amer
lean money per month, was not made vol
UNFAIRLY. but through the persistencv Of
Mr.. FOrtO. I know that with two wag-
Ons and four men | cannot do the work
Of eight men with eight carts. What
did say to Mr.. FortO was, hat for $40
gold. cash, monthly, / would work with
two wagons and four men from morning
to night doing all possible, not Obligating
myself to clean all the city daily. ] will
obligate myself to clean up one precinct
daily. that is cleaning up every four
days"
Your Obedient servant,
~(Signed) SERAPIJ GONZALES.
ELECTION JUDGES.
Mayor Cole submitted for the APPROVAL
Of tn %ecOuncil a list Of election judges
prepared by him for the forthcoming city
election, at which time four aldermen are
to be elected. The list was approved by
the council. N%sts#
First Ward-C. II. More. presiding
Judge: Mike Fernandez, Sam Bell and
Frank Slavitchek, Judges,
Second Ward-ThOS. B. Russell. pre-
siding judge; w. f. McDavitt, Richard
Morris and IsadOrO Longoria, judges.
Third Ward-Juan Bouts, presiding
Judge; Pablo Falcon, A, Turk and 0. G.
Sauder, judges.
Fourth Ward-Mike Wise. presiding
Judge, George Conner. 7. j. Clay, and