Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-22
ALDERMEN Will
RECEIVE COPIES
OF ORDINANCES
Adeps Resolution to Furnish DHpli-
cate Of Measure One Week Be-
fore Consideration at Meeting.
Especial Moline service).


Moline aldermen will hereafter
receive copies of every ordinance
that is to be brought up before
the city council, week before the
council meeting.
At last evenings meeting it was
decided that not enough considera-
tion is given the ordinances when
they are presented to the council
few minutes before they are
passed. A mimeographing machine
was ordered purchased last even
ing, chiefly to make copies of ordi-
.nances to be sent TO each alder
fman. The resolution to this effect
twas introduced by Alderman o. F.
Henderson.
In order to give each councilman
time to discuss and study ordi-
nances, four we're last evening laid
on the table and copies of each
will be forwarded to the aldermen.
These four measures are:
1 The traffic ordinance, changing
parking rules and fOrbidding heavy
trucking on asphalt pavement.
>. The water ordinance, fixing
rates.
3. The police ordinance. specify
ing rules under which police Off
GERS work.
: 4. The ventilation ordinance
which requires that all public
places be furnished with at least
z 200 cubic feet of fresh air every
hour and specifies IS degrees F.
as the maximum temperature and
declares that no exhaust should be
located within so feet of rubbish
pile.
The water and light committee
last evening reported the meteriza-
ton of the entire city will reduce
the volume of water pumped at
THE waterworks from 40 to so per
cent. The report says that the
waterworks is delivering double
the amount of water than is &C
scounted for.
The committee recommended that
the entire city be meterized and
thereby save an enormous wastage
and if declared that the f1ltering
plant is exceeding its rated capa-
scity by 100000 gallons a day.
Alderman o. T. Anderson opened
the discussion on changing water
rates. He said that the rates are
all wrong and the ordinance ought
TO have careful consideration He
declared that residents are paying
an excessively high fiat rate for
water. while the larger quantity
users are not paying enough. A
new water ordinance was laid over
for one week.
Although Alderman Elmer Nor
gan of the Sixth ward nearly block
ed the appointment of Lyle Payton,
as city engineer, he withdrew his
motion, the consensus of the meet
ing not fayoring him and the re-
appointment was made. Payton
will serve at a salary OF $1,000 a
wear and an allowance of five days
a month or it's equivalent for out
side work. An audit of the engIn-
GERS books Will be made next
spring.
Among other things passed and
considered by the council Iast
evening were:
Milton BaIlentin was appointed a
temporary member of the police de
tpartment, to take the place of
Payne Works, who resigned last
evening.
The petition from the girls com
enunity service league to hold a
dance on several downtown streets
on the evening of Labor day, was
referred to the street and alley
committee.
An offer of the Tri-City Manu-
facturers' association to give the
old naval reserve building at the
loot OF Twentieth street to the city
was referred to the building and
grounds committee.
A petition asking that the alley
between Eighth and Ninth streets
be graded from Nineteenth to
Twentieth avenue was referred to
the street and alley committee.
Several permits for construction
of new sidewalks were granted.