Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-27
APPROVE BILLS
over PROTESTS
OF DAN BUTLER
Commissioner Declares City
Council Acted in Opposition
to Law in FaVOring the
Two Measures.

Two bills were approved by city
council yesterday over Commission
er Buffers violent protests that ac-
ton was taken in exact opposition
TO the law.
One of these was for $40 for re-
pairs to a steam roller and asphalt
kettle last March. Repairs were
made by the S. G. Johnson conf
pany under orders from George
Parks, at that time commissioner
IN charge of street cleaning and
maintenance.
why wasn't this bill approved
and paid by Mr.. Parks before he
went out of office if it is iust?" de-
manded Mr.. Butler.
Mr.. Parks testified that the kettle
was not his and he didn't know to
whom it belonged.
Made Verbal Contract.
The other bill was from S. J..
Jackson, a contractor, who dumped
$500 yards of dirt on the proposed
city boulevard from Thirty-third
and Dewey avenue 10 Thirtieth and
Harvey streets. Commissioner FOWL
had made a verbal contract with
him to pay him 10 cents load. Mr..
Butler said much OF the ground was
dumped on private property.
These bills aren't paid yet" said
Mr.. Butler after the vote, "and they
can still be taken into the courts and
| think someone will do it."
Dance hall permits were granted
to the Fontenelle hotel, Castle
hotel, /. O. o. F. hail. Florence;
Bohemian Catholic hall, 1915 South
Thirteenth street, and Pulaski hail.
$3.50 L street.
A resolution was passed pro-
viding for laying an extra sewer to
connect the Omaha Athletic club
with the Dodge street sewer
through Seventeenth street. Re
Gently the swimming tank in the
Athletic club was emptied and the
resulting flood of water in the To-
inch sewer through the alley to
Sixteenth street, flooded the base
menti of the Hayden Brothers store.
Sustain Contractors Protest.
City council sustained the protest
made by Bauer & Johnson company
against the bids Of G. Vacant &.
Sons and Sam Noble on street grad
ing and paving on the ground that
the bids were received after the time
provided in the advertisement, Q
o'clock, and after the other bios
we're being read. City Clerk Hunt
err testified that the two bids in
question were handed to him while
he was reading the other bids at
about OBS o'clock Monday morning.
The Bauer & Johnson company bid
on two paving districts was exactly
the same as that OF one Of the other
bidders mentioned
Commissioners Ringer. FOWL and
IRE will go to Des Moines this
week to inspect the. new jail there,
with a view to getting ideas for
Omaha's new city Jail Obedient
to the court decision in the anti
junketing case brought by Ed A.
Smith, they will pay their own ex-
penses.
Council went on record unaui-
mously against House Roll No. 289,
which proposes to give the State
Railway commission jurisdiction
over all viaducts and all steam and
electric railway crossings in On
aha.
Boost Murray's Pay.
The salary of Assistant City At
torney Murray was raised to $1,000
year.
A resolution was adopted in
structing the city clerk to advertise
the proposed grading of Dodge
street and adjoining streets and
alleys. Twenty days is allowed for
property owners to file a protest.
This is a matter Of form to comply
with the law.
A resolution was adopted by a
vote of to 2 asking the legislature
u pass a bill authorizing the is
suance Of mot to exceed 100000
bonds in any one year for building
new contagious disease hospital
in Omaha. This is to take the place
Of the pest house" and emergency
hosnital