South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-16
COMMITTEE FAILS
TO ASSEMBLE FOR
BUSINESS SESSION
Only Five Members Appear
for Session-Many Ordi-
nances Carried Over.

THE slogan Business is Poor
evidently cannot be applied to mem
berS Of the South Bend city council"
declared a local business man Mon
day night after ne had waited for
the committee Of the whole meeting
OF the council 70 convene. and thon
learned that the meeting would
have TO be postponed for a week be
cause Of the lack of a quorum. Just
five members OF the council were
present and ready TO transact bust
ness. and as six members are re-
quired for a quorum. City Clerk Bill
inski announced that there would be
no meeting.
Councilman Hagey, first ward,
-Visniewski, second ward. Vennet,
third ward. Judson. fourth ward and
Byers, fifth ward, were the absen-
tees. With the exception of Coun-
Gilman Byers who has been IN i'll
health for the past several months,
the other councilmen were kept
away from the meeting by business
appointments. according 70 inform
alton obtained by other members of
the council when they tried IN vain
&c round up a quorum
Says Meetings Are Jokes.
One taxpayer who has been en-
deavOring to get action on an or
dinance which has been pending be
fore the council for several months
declared that the council committee
meetings are getting TO be quite a
joke. "A few of the councilmen re-
port at the city hall on scheduled
meeting nights, while the others ap-
parently arrange their business 50
they can dodge the problems now
facing the city law makers" he
said.
THE council committee was
scheduled to take action on the pro-
uosed new builElng code ordinance.
and had Instructed Mr.. Bilinski TO
order the city attorney building
commissioner. works board MEM
bers. and the park board members
TO be present at the meeting so the
ordinance could be discussed in de-
tail, but they evidently forgot what
action they had taken last week"
he concluded.
Other ordinances which were due
to be acted upon at last nights
scheduled meeting We're; An APP
preparation Of $4,000 for the re-
surfacing Of four OF the city bridges.
an appropriation of $4,000 from the
general fund of the city to the
health department, an ordinance ap-
propriatng $4,000 to the board Of
public works, and the ordinance de-
claring certain streets preferential
traffic streets This last named or
dinanceais directed Il is said, at the
operators of bus lines from out OF
the city. The streets designated by
the ordinance as preferential streets
are: y Michigan ST.. south OF
Leeper bridge; 5. Michigan st,
north Of Ewing av.; Portage av.,
south Of Blaine av.; Lincoln Way
West. east Of Olive St; W Wash
ington av.; Prairie av.. east Of In
diana av.; Lincoln Way East; +.
jefferson blvd. South Bend av.. west
OF St Louis blvd. and Mishawaka
av
Lewis Plans Delayed.
Grant Lewis. a taxpayer, was con-
siderably Inconvenience by the fail
ure of the council 10 hold a meet
ing. Last week he had a resolution
introduced seeking permission OF the
council 10 move a house from 1915
s. Michigan St. 20 a lot on Broad
day and Rush SITS The council de-
layed issuance Of the permit after
one of the councilmen declared that
he would like 10 hear from officials
Of the Northern Indiana Railway
Co. because the house would have
20 he moved over their tracks
Mr. Lewis pointed out that the
house would be moved after the
cars had stopped running for the
night but this did not satisfy the
alderman and action on the permit
was held up until the next meeting,
which was supposed TO have been
held last night The permit can not
now be issued until next week and
Mr. Lewis declared that IL is i'm
possible for him TO proceed with his
plans for remodeling his home until
the council issues the moving license
and hence his work IS being unnec-
esS8riIy behaved