The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-21
CIIY AUTHORITY
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Hlcnm0no nao TO have Q license, the
mayor said he thought council should
inform the board of health whether Il
wanted the board to enforce the
license provision In its entirety.
handley's View.
Then Mr.. Handley remarked that hs
had attempted to make Il plain that II
made no difference what provisions OF
the ordnance council did or did not
want enforced. Il repeat II there II
any doubt concerning the provisions Of
this ordinance II 10 the LEGAL depart
ment's and not councils duty TO make
the Interpretation" Mr.. Handley said.
"Of course II the board wants the or.
dinance amended to comply with any
Of its ideas, then II IL up to council TO
take some kind OF action. But the
board does not make any such re-
quests. II merely asks for an interpre-
tation of the ordnance"
1t was then that the O'Neal motion
was defeated. Councilman Williams
moved that the communication OF the
board OF health be referred to the le-
gal department.
Apparently hoping that council
would instruct the board OF health to
enforce the license section only as II
pertAined to retail dairymen. thereby
providing some kind Of an alibi for the
board for permitting q condition re-
Gently exposed by The Palladium. only
IS out Of 1S1 dealers operating under
licenses, Mayor Robbins declared, after
the Introduction OF the williams mo-
ton, that inasmuch as council was the
peoples representative, he thought 1t
should inform the board the course Il
should pursue In enforcing the license
requirements Of the act.
Not Councils Business.
Again Mr.. Handley remarked that t
was absolutely impossible for the pres.
ent council to construe the meaning of
any provisions Of IN ordinance passed
by the council Of 1909. and. further
more, It was not councils duty to do
80.
During the pickering the clerk read
a report from the ordinance commit
tee advising council to give no further
consideration to the milk ordinance OF
1909. pointing out that II the board OF
health wanted to make milk inspection
and delivery regulations more compre.
hensive 1t had the power to do SO by
issuing orders which would be. under
the laws of the state. equivalent to
city ordinances.
Councilman williams then withdrew
his motion and q motion offered by
Councilman Burdsall was adopted. II
provided that Q joint meeting of the
board Of health. the ordinance com.
mittee and the city attorney be held
for the purpose of considering both
the report OF the ordinance committee
and the questions raised by the board
in its communication to council, . re.
port to be made at the next council
meeting.
MIR. O'Neal at the opening of the de-
bate on the milk question. vigorously
declared that Richmond had to have
a pure milk supply. no matter whose
toes were trod upon to obtain such q
thing.
whether the dairy inspector has
done his duty is question" Mr.
O'Neal said. The agitation now In
progress has been beneficial am sure
We must have q pure supply Of milk
for Richmond no matter what the coz
sequences are.
Il would vote tonight for any amend
ment to the ordinance which does
away with the necessity of appoint
ing a veterinary surgeon rs q dairy
inspector. believe a layman can dc
this work just as satisfactorily. be
believe DR.. Glenn is good veterinarian
and may make q good inspector-at
least ] hope he will.
AS for the dairyman who has been
engaged in business any length OF time
and who is now saying that he would
have conducted his business better u
he had been informed of the require
ments expected Of him In the dairy
ordinance. I have no patience with.
Il also favor any plan for giving full
publicity to the scorinSs Of the various
dairfes"