Arizona republican., 1914-10-02

proposed amendments to be placed before the voters of the city.
 It was a lengthy meeting, held in an almost air-tight chamber, it be- ing necessary to close all the doors and windows in a futile effort to shut out the sounds of the band and the speakers at the republican rally in progress in the city hall plaza.
 Besides the adoption of the Cope motion there was much business of more or less importance. Further extension was made of the matter of the proposed paving of Madison street, and protest against the pay ing of Central avenue south of liar rison street, was read and laid over without action.
 Under suspension of rules an or 1 dinance was adopted regulating the annual levy and collection of city | taxes. Under this ordinance the fis- cal year begins July 1, and ends June 30. The taxes are payable the ! second Monday in November and 5e- come delinquent the second Monday 1 in December. However, it is permit | ted to pay one-half of the taxes on real property in November or Dec ] ember and the other half six months later Personal taxes must be paid in November or December. There is penalty of fifteen per cent for tax
 es not paid before the second Monday in December. lssen A communication was read from Chief of Police Brisbois and Police man Gulley relative to the apparent inability of five proprietors of small grocery stores to pay the regular city license tax. Some relief was asked
 and City Attorney Christy was in
 structed to see if there is any method
 under the charter by which the pro- posed license tax could be rebated or otherwise taken care of by the city. A communication was read from
 the Merchants and Manufacturers
 committee relative to the failure to
 include in the new license tax ordin-
 ance a limitation of its effectiveness,
 two years being suggested as the proper period for it's life. City At
 torney Christy said 1t would be un-
 wise to establish a precedent in fix
 ing or agreeing to a limitation, in fact, believed the city had no author ity at law for so doing.
 The Phoenix Portland Cement con-
 pany in a communication asked that
 the commission direct that the local
 product be employed in street paving
 work, that it be specified, offering to
 furnish the same at s2.20. The letter
 charged that while the Fl Paso
 cement was being offered at s179,
 this was done at loss and for the
 purpose of killing competition. It
 was claimed that the Fl Paso cement
 cost the concern $2.02 f. O. b. Phoe-
 nix. Attorney Christy said the char
 ter provides that any material used
 in city improvements, exceeding in
 value $500, must be purchased under
 bids and by contract. Manager Far
 ish inquired if it might not be pos
 sible that the citizens of an improve
 ment district where paving is about
 to be put down could specify Phoenix
 cement. He said that the city itself
 is using very little cement, except
 for minor street repairs.
 proposed ordinance was intro- duced at the request of the Phoenix
 Railway company, establishing the . grade for paving on First street from , Adams to Roosevelt streets for five years, except the 300 feet on either side of the town ditch Attorney Christy said that the commission , could pass no ordinance taking away
 from the city the power to change q grade at any time necessity arose The matter was laid over indefinitely , A committee consisting of Messrs
 McElroy, Adams and Williams, suc- ceeded in securing the adoption of 2 motion, that the city of Phoenix at
 tend to the decoration of the city 5 streets during state fair week and the days of the mining convention
 the outlay for this purpose not to ex- y ceed $500.
 A resolution was adopted approv.
 ing the assessment diagram for the