Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-02
MAYOR REILLY AND COUNCIL.
MEN BELL AND CRELLIN AS
SUME CITY GOVERNMENT.
APPOINTMENTS HELD
OVER UNTIL TUESDAY
Council Members Not Ready to Organ
ize by Assigning Departments to
Members-lmportant Hang Overs"
From Old Council Are Paving, Sewer
District, and Water Supply.

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meetings of the old and new councils,
held this forenoon. Mayor Willard and
| Councilmen Mcfarland and Austin re-
tired and Mayor 5. II. Reilly and
| Councilmen John I. Bell and J. c. Crel-
lin succeeded them. The change was
made without demonstration or cere-
| mony. The only display of sentiment
was a bouquet Of roses for Mayor
Reilly from old friends in Laurel.
The new council was unprepared to
| organize. assign departments to coun-
| Gil members. or make appointments. It
was the opinion of members that it
would require a days time to agree on
assignments and appointments, so they
adjourned without making any until
Tuesday morning at . O'Clock.
Hang Overs For Council.
In addition to its first duty of or
gaining and making appointments the
new council will at once be confronted
with some large city projects which
come to il as hang overs from the
old council. These are paving. storm
sewer system in the Third ward. and
the city water supply.
One Of the last acts CT the old coun-
Ct. was to pass TO final adoption reso-
buttons ordering thirty one blocks Of
paving and the storm sewer system in
the Third ward. The resolutions call
for bids for the paving to be opened
April Is, and for the sewer April IA.
Water Supply Question.
City Clerk J. J. Wilson will bring to
the attention of the council at the
earliest moment the city water supply
question. 1t has developed that data
necessary for Dabney H. Maury Of
Chicago. the consulting engineer whom
City Clerk Wilson engaged TO make a
report on the city's water supply sys-
tenn, has not been supplied.
Part of this data has been supplied
Mr.. Maury. He saked that borings De
made in the water field, and that he
be supplied with report and samples
showing the nature OF the water bear
| ing strata and their depth.
City Clerk Wilson said this forenoon
| that he had ordered city water sup
! ply employees to make these tests, but
| En- Mayor Willard and Councilman
Mcfarland had ordered the employees
not 10 make them. The result has
been the behring's have not been made,
| and until they are Maury will not re-
port.
May Rearranse Departments.
Up to the time the new council met
this forenoon there had been no
agreement reached among the mem
bers as to division Of the city's work
and the assignment Of depa rtments
Members indicated that there might be
an arrangement different from what
has been the custom, and that perhaps
Mayor Reilly might be assigned 10 a
department, the same as the council
IJnen, for the purpose of distributing
the work.
II is quite probable that the coun-
Gil will establish a municipal court by
appointing a municipal judge. The
law, it Is understood. makes it compul-
sorry for councils of cities Of the first
class 10 appoint a municipal Judge to
| do the police court work that has
fallen TO the mayor. acting as a JUS
tice of the peace.
| The question of cost for the salary
Of a municipal judge, if the appoint
ment Of one Is considered. will early
attract the councils attention. The
salary would have to be paid out of the
general fund. which is drawn upon
most, and most frequently exhausted
This difficulty might be surmounted
by appointing the mayor municipal
Judge without additional compensa-
ton. The fees Of the municipal cour,
go to the city.
! New Members Sworn In,
Councimen-Elect Bell and Crellin
were sworn in by Mayor Willard. as