Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-12-08
ON LIGHT rates.
COUNCIL IN RESOLUTION SAYS
: ''NoT AVERsE'' TO COMPANY
GIVING THEM A TRIAL.

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GIVING THEM A TRIAL
The city council held a regular
monthly meeting at the city hall Mon
day evening which broke all previous
records for briefness. It lasted only
S. minutes. Aldermen Hall, Moeg-
lein, Blake, Peterson, LaFond and
Farrow were present.
The reports Of Municipal Judge
Lyon for October and November with
receipts for $24 and $40 attached,
were accepted and ordered filed.
Street Commissioner LaFond was
given power to fix up ditch on the
west side which is filled up in several
places.
F.. j. Kopacz was granted a permit
to remove the front in the Weum
building and to replace it with new
plate glass front.
A resolution opposing the present.
rates lssf the Water Power company
for current as being unsatisfactory
both as to the manner of charge and
in amount, and wherein the council
! expressed itself as not being averse
to the Water Power company giving
the proposed rates a fair trial, was
unanimously passed, a number of the
/ councilmen stating before the vote
was taken, that as they understood
the resolution the council was not get
ting behind the proposed rates. The
! resolution is as follows:
"The common Council of the City
! Of Little Falls, Minnesota, being in
session duly assembled on the 4th day
Of December, 1916, adopted the fol-
! lowing resolution:
+ Whereas, This Council appointed q
so-called electric rate committee to
| investigate and report to this Council
a schedule Of electric rates that would
be more satisfactory than the rates
heretofore, charged by the Little
Falls Water Power company Of Min
nesota, and
Whereas, Said committee has rem
dered to this Council majority and
minority report now on file with the
city clerk, and ~ '..
"Whereas, This Council believes
that the rates heretofore charged by
said company are unsatisfactory botn
as to the amount Of the charge and as
to the method of making tue. same,
! and
"Whereas, This Council is advised
that it does not have the power to es-
! stablish and enforce rates for electric
service rendered by said company,
| and >-:
| > Whereas, This Council is not in pos
session of sufficient facts to know
| whether the amount Of charges now
made by said company are in reality
excessive or not, and
| Be It Resolved, That this council
tis not averse to said company giving
the rates and the method of making
the same set forth in said majority
report a fair trial, without, however,
prejudicing the right of the city at
any time to assert or to show that
such rates are unreasonable.
| "Adopted December 4, 1867
| President Hall announced that Mr..
Gordon had stated that P. J. Vasaly,
! a member of the light rate committee
and who made a minority report on
this question, had made the statement
that only 13 of the commercial pa
irons Of the company would receive
reductions under the proposed rate.
Mr.. Vasalv,. who was present at the
meeting, denied having made this
statement, saying that he had stated
at the previous meeting of the coun-
Gil, that five Of the commercial pa
irons would take up two-thirds Of the
decrease and that eight more, max
ing a total of thirteen, Would wipe out
the decrease, all the other reductions
being Offset by increases. MI. Hall
agreed that this was what Mr.. Vasaiy
had said.
The letter from MI. Gordon, stating
that the rate asked for in the peti-
tions, had to be refused, was read.
This letter should have been read at
the previous meeting but in some
manner was ON tied.
Upon motion by Alderman LaFond
ed to purchase inoleum covering for
the rostrum on which the council
president desk is stationed The
same committee was also asked to in
vestigate the advisability of purchas-
ing a covering for the floor in the city
clerks office or of putting in a new
floor, and to report at the next meet
ing.
Adjournment was taken to Decem-
ber II, when the application Of Peter
Posch for transfer of liquor license
will be taken up.
Bills allowed:
General
Water Power Co., street lights $4S7. 90
Water Power Co., hydrant rent. 1858
Adams Hdw. Co., catch basins. $1,000
G. F. Ferrell, plumbing, etc.. 1855
L. F. Iron Works, Mdse. ..... ESQ
Burton & Greisch, street sprink-
ling ........... .......... 34.s;
Adams Hdw. Co., Mdse. ....... 100
Water Power Co., water rent
city hall ..............:... 244
Transcript Pub. Co., legal ptg $3.50
N. Dumont, M. D., auto hire. $50
Morrison Co. Lbr. Co., wood
city hall .................. 200
L. c. Smith, police services. 6o.65
Morrison Co., board, prisoners 1900
Simonet Fur. & Car. Co., Ndse. los
Herald Pig. Co., printing. 90. S.75
Marion Roberts, janitor. ...... 1892
F. w. Lyon, Nun. judge 80. 1915
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