The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-10
COUNCIL APPROVES
SALARY, NO BILLS
Scouts Danger of Illegally
Through Labor Day
Meeting.

!! legdl monday, the lily council last
night adjourned without touching sew
eral ordinances that are of vital i'm
portance to the improvement of the
Cape. No arrangements were made
for an adjourned meeting to take up
ordinances pending, at time when
the councilmen might feel a little
Safer
The measures simply were shunted
to the next" meeting, meaning an adj
ditional delay of two more weeks on
many of the improvement PROPOSE
tions.
The holiday feature of the Council
meeting made the members uncertain
as to the legality of any action they
might take upon improvement ordi-
nanceS.
They wondered if their ordinance
would hold water should a fight be
made upon it, and it should be brought
out that such-and-such an ordinance
had been passed on a illegal holiday"
1t matters not that courts were in ses-
sion yesterday and in a perfectly legal
way doing their business.
AS a matter of fact the legality of
the Councils action on improvement
ordinances seemed to be the only thing
that was endangered by the holiday.
The councilmen decided it wasn't
illegal to place an o. K. on the city's
salary list. But as one man explained
that afterward, that was spending
money and this other is collecting it..
A vast difference!
The motion to defer the Merriwether
street ordinance had been delayed over
the protest of the men who framed it,
from the last meeting of the Council.
The official reason given for such
delay in the Merriwether street ordi-
nance two weeks ago was that "com-
mittee" needed time to investigate the
potency of a remonstrance that had
been filed against the ordinance and
the improvement that it proposes to
accomplish.
The facts are as follows: The ordi-
nance was not introduced till the re-
monstrance had been on file in the
City Clerks office for several days.
The fact that the remonstrance was
on file had been made public exclusive
ly in The Tribune the morning after it
had been brought to the clerks office.
The entire text of the remonstrance
was given to the public and Senator
Thomas F. Lane, who was employed
by the city to draft the ordinance, to-
gether with Chris Silver, City En-
gineer, had examined the platts of the
city to ascertain if the remonstrance
would put an end to the ordinance.
The fact that the remonstrance was
not capable of holding up the ordi-
nance was known at the last council
meeting to every councilman. Silver
knew it, and Senator Lane knew that
every councilman knew it.
The Council Caused" and played
it safe by delaying two more weeks.
Last night the matter of having a
third reading on pure milk Ordi-
nance that has been pending for weeks
and weeks, was not even mentioned.
1t wasn't even deferred. 1t didn't even
come up for consideration. Apparent
ly it was forgotten.
The pure milk ordinance is STAN
dard ordinance 1t was drafted by a
Statewide organization that has ex-
amined what qualifications milk
should have before it is allowed to be
distributed to the citizenship of a
town, and it sets forth qualifications
a dairyman should fill.
The ordinance, enforced, is calcuL
lated to make milk men toe the mark
and deliver sanitary milk.
1t provides fees to aid in its enforce
ment. Consequently, it is hard on the
milk men who have to pay the fees.
That is the position one councilman
has aiken on that ordinance. He wants
it to die out because by providing san
itary milk, a product which if unsan-
itary and only given the opportunity
may become the greatest disease car
rier known, it works a hardship on
the dairyman. The people in the Cape
can get along the best way they can.
1t was understood last night that
the ordinances providing for the
widening of Themis street, Hanover,
Painter and several other streets that
must be made wider in connection with
the construction of the West End
.sewer, would be ready for considera-
ton.
They were not mentioned.
And the Council adjourned. It was
expected that in order to gain time on
the improvement ordinances, the mem
bers would set another date for an .ad-