Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-18
VOTING CLASH
WAS FEATURE
AT COUNCIL
Some Business Transacted,
However, Despite Efforts
at H0rseplay.s
$15,OOO FOR FOCH DAY

SI5,UOU FOR FOCH DAY
For the first time in several months
voting clash between the old admins
tratfon and anti-administration wings of
the city council developed at the regu-
lar meeting Monday evening. The admin
istration members were in a negative
mood. Councilmen Sumner A. Furniss
and Jacob P. Brown and President Rus
sell Wilson prevented the rest Of the
council from passing an ordinance chang
ing the taxicab stand at the Union Sta
ton over Mayor Charles W. Jewetts
veto and Councilman Brown blocked i'm
mediate passage of an ordinance de-
signed to regulate location of filling sta
lions, backed by the city plan commits
sion when he voted mo- on suspension
Of the rules
Some of the old time ,'horseplay"
which marked the early months Of this
councils regime also cropped out. The
council, led by President Wilson, steam
rollered" number of fund transfer or
dinances without the legally required
formalities Of votes on second readings
and secondings. The cOuncilmen INDUCED
in weird voting, some registering mo"
votes apparently just for the sake Of
adding to the fun, much to the amuse
ment Of the council.
Castor Brothers, printers holding the
contract for printing of the official Jour
nal of the council were taken to task
for not delivering any journals since the
meeting of Aug. Is and threats were
made to give the printing to some one
else until Deputy City Clerk John Am
buh1 volunteered to get the back copies
delivered within one week or get them
printed elsewhere
To defray expenses Of the city plan
commission the remainder Of this year
$4,000 was appropriated. The ordinance
appropriating $4,000 for the expenses Of
the celebration and reception for Marshal
Foch on Nov. was passed under sus-
pension OF the rules.
Voting places and inspectors for the
municipal election Nov. s were fixed in
resolutions passed under suspended rules.
When it was reported to the council
that Mayor Jewett had vetoed the ordi-
nance changing the Union Station taxi
cab stand from Jackson Place in front
of the station to the east side of Illinois
street beside the station and beneath the
elevated tracks, Councilman Louis W.
Carnefx moved that it be passed over
the veto, asserting that he understood
the police department and board of pub
lie safety as well as five Of the six taxi
cab companies to be in favor Of it. With
Councilman o. B. PettfJohn absent and
Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Brown and DR.. Fur
Mss voting mo" there were only five
votes for the motion and it was lost
six votes being required.
ho oil
held up by refusal to vote for suspension
of the rules was referred to the city
welfare committee with instructions to
report at the next meeting. The ordi-
nance would require the city building
commissioner TO make a report and sub
NIT it with the application for a build
ing permit to the city plan commission
for approval in all cases where there
was to be construction, alteration or re
modelling and use of buildings struc-
lures or devices for the storage Of autos,
gasoline, benzine, naphtha, kerosene, oil,
grease and other explosive or combustt-
BILE substances.
In an attempt TO get Councilman Brown
to vote for suspension Of the rules
Councilman Schmidt pointed out that this
was the first stumbling block placed in
the way of the city plan commission. Mr..
Brown said he did not want to be in the
position Of blocking the commission but
thought more time ought to be taken to
consider the measure.
President Mark H Miller of the board
Of public works, a member Of the plan
commission. supplemented Mr.. Schmidt's
remarks: "Since the city plan commission
was organized an effort IS being made
by real estate and oil men to locate film z
stations at points where they know they
can not be after the commission estab-
fishes zones. In other words they are
attempting to get by with something they
know they shouldn't"
st drove horses when I was and
narnessed them when l was Z" remarked
President Wilson In voting mo" on an
ordinance establishing the age limit for
drivers OF horse drawn vehicles IN In
dianapoEs at Il and Of motor vehicles at
IT. The board of public safety had re-
quested the limits be 16 and IS year,
respectively, but the council amended the
bill and passed it.
4 resolution directing the city con-
troller to pay City Clerk George o. Hut
sell 81 294.11 for extra duties performed
incident to the copying Of the city reg
istration books, which would be at the
rate Of 8 cents for each of the 143, 131
names, was introduced and referred to
the elections committee.
Authorization Of a bond issue Of $751;
600 to meet the city's half of the excess
cost Of paving Sutherland avenue from
Bellefontaine to Thirty Fourth streets
Sherman drive from Twenty-First to
Thirtieth streets and East Riverside
drive from Sixteenth to Eighteenth
streets under the connecting link law was
contained in an ordinance introduced.
The county will pay the other half.
The ordinance to annex approximately
one and one-quarter square miles Of ter
ritory lying east of Sherman drive and
north OF Sixteenth street was introduced.
Presidetn Miller of the board Of public
works asked the council If 1t were IA
vorably disposed to the ordinance chang
ing some seventy street names prepared
several weeks ago, but never introduced.
President Wilson informed him that the
council had discussed the matter, but
thought 1t best to let it wait until after
the election in order to avoid confusion in
addresses.