Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-22
Council Passes Ordinance Creating Special Fund of
 Police Court Revenues.
SUIT AGAINST THE I. M.
t fly Attorney Instructed to Proceed to Seek Forfeiture of Franchise If Contract Is Not
 Fulfilled.

Tired of the procrastinating policy of the St Louis, Iron Mountain x Southern railway, in regard to fulfill i ing their contract with the city, the city council last night authorized City Attorney Earl s. Wood to proceed in road make certain improvements spe- cfied in a resolution recently passed or forfeit the franchise with the city 1 The company was instructed at a meeting last month to make certain | improvements on West Fourth avenue as provided by the contract, but up to the present time nothing has been done and no word received from them.
 By vote of five to two the .idl- nance creating a special police fund whereby the patrolmen will be paid in cash, was adopted, after stirring address against it by Alderman Sor- rellls, who, with Alderman Hut, cast a dissenting vote. Mayor Bloom, who fathered the ordinance, asked that 1t be give ma trial and that if it did not work successfully that he would be one of the first to urge it's repeal. Aldermen Franey, Johnson, McGlb- bony Johnson, Simpson and Well favored it. Alderman Bahlau was ab- sent.
 The ordinance provides that reve- nues from the police court shall be paid into a special fund, from which salaries of the police are to be paid It also reduces the pay of patrolmen from $70 to $60 month, and of the janitress from $30 to $25.
 A committee composed of Aldermen Sorrells, Veil and Simpson was nam- ed by Mayor Bloom to ascertain the cost of new digest and report at the next meeting.
 Stepping of Cars.
 The matter of repeating the Ordi- nance recently passed requiring the Pine Bluff company to stop all cars on the near side of the street was re- ferred to the ordinance committee with the instructions that it be re- pealed or one brought with provisions that would not inconvenience the public It is pointed out that the other one worked a hardship on the patrons of the company in those DOT tions of the city where the streets are not paved.
 The ordinance committee was in- structed to bring in an ordinance as- sessing an annual privilege license against all clothes cleaning establish ments and rug dealers in the city.
 resolution was adopted imposing the usual 5-mill tax on all real and personal property in the city.
 The necessity of a motorcycle po- licemen was again argued and com mittee composed of Aldermen Wei and Franey and members of the po- lice committee were instructed to look /, after the purchase of cycle. Mayor Simon Bloom was instructed to look after the purchase of weed cutter which will be used by the city to cu } weeds when property owners who have been notified to do so failed. A minimum price will be charged fol
 the work.
 Ordinances Adopted. = Ordinances adopted were: : Ordinance +o restrict people iron hitching their horses on Pine stree l between Second and Third avenues f It was argued that the many animals l kept standing on this street had be = come a nuisance.
 : Ordinance to appropriate $500 t t pay bills incurred by the street de
 partment during the month of Sep = tember.
 = Ordinance to prohibit owners 0 e horses, cattle. sheep, geese, pigs, etc y to deliver them from the pen afte
 being impcunded without permission
 from the chief of police. ! Council adjourned to meet Octobe s 12.