The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-16
MAYOR MAY VETO
 NEW ORDINANCES
TO-DAY THE LAST IN WHICH HE HAS TO DETERMINE WHAT
 HE WILL DO IN MATTER.
One Provides for Reduction of Police Force, and Other Gives Ten Men as "Flying Squadron" for Street Work.

Two new ordinances. the work of the new city council as reorsanized at the first meeting last Monday night, may meet the official displeas- ure of Mayor McClendon in a veto ! today Yesterday was the second day after the ordinances had been passed. On the third day unless they are signed and approved they become law, except if they are dis proved by the veto of the mayor.
 City Clerk Housley stated yester- day afternoon that the mayor had not vetoed the ordinances, but that he would decide today what he would do in the matter
 In the event the ordinances are vetoed they would have to be voted on once more in the council, and would have to receive a support of eight members of the council to be- come law over the veto of the mayor. Eleven of the twelve members of the city council were present when the ordinances were passed and all voted for them Alderman BOrman, who was in Little Rock at the time, will express the only new voice rela- tive to the measures, when after qualifying, he sits in the council at it's next session. He may vote on whether the ordinances shall be passed, or whether the vote shall be sustained in the event Mayor Me Clendon applies it.
 One of the ordinances was pre- sented by Alderman Ledwidge, chair man of the streets and alleys com mittee, for the main feature, provides that the street commissioner, Mir. Golden. shall employ ten men as a flying squadron" to work on the streets of the city both at cleanup work and grading and gravelling, wherever the street commissioner may direct such work. Under the present Petit ordinance the street ward, then shift to another. and therefore it is complained that be cause of it being six months before the gang gets back to the ward, the improvements are not lasting.
 It is of this ordinance that Com missioner Golden is reported 10 have said 'T win show the people some street work now"
 The other ordinance which as yet has not been signed, and therefore is subject to veto today is that by AL derman Sigman. which requires that the police department slal. aside from men needed for particular work, consist of but eight men in the sum mer and twelve ia season" This ordinance also removes from the of flee of Chief Ellison one of the two aides he now has, and it goes fur ther, for it gives the police commit tee of the council something to do, in that when special police are need at any time, they cannot be hired on approval of the police com mittee of the council.
 The two ordinances are the only two the new council passed at it's first meeting They have not met with veto as yet but they have not been signed. as they migit have been before this had they met with the approval of the mayor and there fore it is matter of decision today whether Mayor McClendon wilI veto them or not.
 It is said that Mayor McClendon has heard objections to the ordi- nances, and that he is considering these objections in the matter of the application of the approval or veto. The meeting of the council will be held Monday evening.