The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-04-19
REPEAL PASSED AT REQUEST OF
MAYOR WHO THEN FAILED
TO SIGN PROMPTLY
BOND ELECTION ON KELSEY PLAN
WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
Council Called OFF Election Under
Suspension OF Rules and the Mayor
Signed To-day Mcmillan Gas Or
dinance Repealed.

When the city council adjourned
last night the spectators were in a
quandary to determine whether the
election for city waterworks bonds,
a la plan Kelsey, had been repealed so
as to stay repealed or not. For the
council had at the request Of Mayor
e. M. Sweeley, passed an ordinance
repeating the election ordinance, but
this repeal had not been signed by
the mayor and unless signed by him
and published officially Thursday, the
repeal would not be a repeal at all
and the election would have to pro-
ceed.
This condition led to intimation of
all sorts of Machavellian plans today !;
some of them to the effect that the
plot was to leave the impression that
the ordinance had been repealed when
it had not been and then run in a
bunch of voters in favor of the bonds
on election day and carry them.
When the council met last night
Mayor Sweeley asked that action be
taken to repeal the gas franchise or
dinance, No. 172, made in favor of
James Mcmillan, on the ground that
none of the terms had been complied
with and that as the franchise had
been granted by the present council
it was proper that it should be re-
called by the same council, so that
no dead ordinances binding the city
be left on the books. He also sug-
gested that the ordinance called for
a bond election April "a be repealed
He asked that City Attorney George
Herriott be instructed to draft ordi-
nances providing for the repeal OF
the ordinances mentioned. The city
attorney on being so instructed, re-
tired and drafted the required ordi-
NNqances which were passed by the
council under suspension of rules
Mayor Sweeley signed the ordinance
repeating the Mcmillan franchise but
did not then sign the ordinance re-
calling the bond election.
Council proceeded to transact 9TH
er business and when it had finished
doing so, the mayor suggested that
if there were no other business, one
motion would always be in order, evi-
IDENTIFY meaning a motion to adjourn.
Councilman F. F. Bracken said 81
make that motion" At this point
City Clerk r. M. Williams called at
tention to the fact that the ordinance
repeating the bond election ordinance
had not been signed. He suggested
that if signed at once so as to secure
publication the next day, the printing
of the ballots could be stopped ant
some expense saved the city. The
mayor asked if the ballots had beer
printed and the city clerk said tha
they had not, adding that he had re
ceived the proof on them short time
before. The mayor remarked thai
they would likely not be published
anyhow, until after they got out
their paper" and that the ordinance
could be attended to Thursday. 81
the council adjourned with the ordi
nance unsigned OF course, the val
idity of the ordinance did not depend
on its being signed at council meet
ing, and the speculation resulted from
a natural sort of wonderment why i
could not have been signed at once
as we'll as "the morning after"
All speculations relative to the why
and wherefores were rendered purel,
academic when the mayor signed thu
ordinance this morning. So the bont
<election. will not be held next Tues
day.