Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-13
Mayor Meets With First
 Opposition.
CITY WILL HAVE
 NEW SECRETARY
Retail Merchants Protest Against In- discriminate Use Oi Posters
 and Hand -bilis.


 the will of the new mayor by the members of the city council was shown last night at an adjourned meeting of the council when voting to sustain veto by the mayor. At the last regular meeting of the council. an ordinance was passed providing for the purchase, by the city, of property at Tenth and Main for the purpose of opening up street between Main and State The mayor stated that he vetoed the Ordi- nance because the city had not enough finances; that the street would be of no benefit to any citizen except those owning property adjacent; that if this street were opened the city would have then to be continually opening streets; that there were more import ant streets than this one and many other reasons.
 Upon the reading of the veto, Ald- erman Mcbride immediately made a motion to sustain the veto. The mo- tion seemed lost, when Alderman Mill Ter seconded it.
 Oppose Veto.
 Then began bitter opposition to the veto, lead by Alderman Clements and championed by Aldermen McGe- hee and McGibbony. Alderman Me- Gehee stated that the business dis trict of the city was going south and that to prevent terrible congestion on Main street, not only must the street in question be opened up, but that every street east and west, en- tering Main must be opened. "The road money cannot be spent to better advantage than opening up streets," he said.
 One of the mayors objections to the purchase of the property was that it was below grade and considerable sum would necessarily be expended in grading it up. The city engineer was asked for an estimate The street was from two to six feet below grade, he stated, and approximately 1900 yards of dirt would be needed to grade the street up.
 Aldermen Stand Pat.
 At this point, Alderman Mcbride took the floor in. support of the veto. Alderman Clements then made mo- tion to amend Alderman's McBride's motion to sustain the veto, and made one refusing to sustain the veto. AL dermen Clements, Mcbride, and Me- Gibbony voted as refusing to sustain the veto while Aldermen Means, Mil Ter, Mcbride, Vance voted to sus- tain the veto. Alderman McBride's motion was then voted on, the same councilmen voting as before, the three former, not to sustain, the latter four to sustain it.
 Mayor Hollis then declared the mayors veto sustained, when Alder man Clements played his trump card by declaring the whole proceedings were out of order because the matter of acting on the mayors veto could not be acted on until the next reg ular meeting of the council, and as this was but an adjourned meeting. the veto could not properly be decided. City Attorney A. R.. Cooper was ap- pealed to by the mayor for ruling. MT. Cooper read section of the statue, which coincided with the con- tention made by Alderman Clements, and the matter was dropped, to come up at the next regular meeting of the council.
 Object to Dodgers.
 E. B. BlOOHl, secretary OI tlc CudHl- Der of Commerce, and E. M. SchOber, representing the Retail Merchants as- sociaton, brought to the council re- quest that steps be taken by the coun- cil to prevent the indiscriminate and promiscuous throwing about of post CTS and dodgers. MT. Bloom stated that the merchants felt they were losing money on legitimate advertising by this use of dodgers, and further state that the indiscriminate use of them Uttered the streets. Mayor HOi- lis turned the request over to the city attorney for investigation to determine the course of action to pursue in or der that the request might be com piled with.
 An ordinance creating the office. or a secretary in the mayors office was fixing the salary at $l0O month. The duties of the secretary will be that of stenographer, secre- tary, assistant city collector and ne will perform any other such duties as might be required. .S The only other ordinance adQpsen N was one providing for the extens1on ,f the water main. and the locating os ] fire plug and hydrent at the A0f 'a & ,cott Syrup Factcry plant Miss Norms Mitchell, do41 NJ treet, spent the Weak z;