Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-05
ANTS DISCARD
BOND PLAN FOR
MARKET HOUSE
Block Passage of Ordinance
for Repairing City Building
Planning Bill Passes.
HIT SLAUGHTER HOUSES

Hill SLAOUT1 En- 11OOSEO
Passage Of an ordinance authorizing the
board OF public safety to issue 1928, 000
worth of bonds TO pay for the remodel
ing OF the city market house was blocked
by the four anti-administration members
of the city council at the regular meet
ing last night.
The ordinance was an administration
measure and was designed to enable
Mayor Charles w. Jewett to carry out in
the last year of his term a pledge to do
something for conditions at the market.
<Yhe board of safety planned to put in
new floors, uniform stand supports, rest
rooms and other physical improvements,
instead of making a change in the meth
DDS of mana cement, which many persons
who have studied the market problem
have recommended.
COuncilmen Sumner A. Furniss, Jesse
e. Miller, Jacob z. Brown and President
Russell Wilson, administration mem
bers, voted for the ordinance, but it re-
auired six votes TO pass. The negative
votes Of Councilmen Gustav G.. Schmidt,
Louis W. Carnefix, Lee J. Kirsch and
William B. Peake prevented passage, but
did not permanently kill the measure,
merely reverting it to the status it held
before the vote was taken. 1t was not
thought likely, however, that the ad-
ministration would attempt to call 1t
out again for some time because the anti
administration forces can block 1t so long
as they maintain their present attitude.
VOTED AS RELIEF
TO TAX BURDENS.
The ants explained after the meeting
that they were Influenced to vote the
way they did by the tremendous demand
from the public that taxes be lowered.
The ordinance authorizing the board Of
public health to issue 100000 worth Of
bonds for the construction Of nurses
home was not even reported out Of COM
mittee, although by the Interpretation Of
the rules under which the council Ordi-
narily operates It automatically died be-
cause 1t had laid IN committee through
two regular meetings. 1t was understood
that some Of the administration as we'll
as anti administration members are OPP
posed to this expenditure.
Ordinances creating a city planning
commission and regulating rne location
of slaughter houses, tallow chandlieries
and other plants giving off an offensive
odor were unanimously passed. The sec
ond measure went through despite legal
objections raised by WOOdburn Mason,
attorney for John f. Concannon, who pro-
posed to establish a slaughter house at
1101 South Harding street. The ordinance
wasPsporsored by citizens of West In
dianapolis who opposed Concannon's
plan.
PUBLIC HEARING
ON SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The city planning commission viii be
established IN accordance with the State
law. 1t win be composed of five citi-
zens to be appointed by the mayor, the
president of the board of public works
the city civil engineer and one member
each of the board Of park commissioners
and the council to be chosen by the
bodies.
A public hearing was held on the
slaughter house" ordinance before the
regular meeting. Approximately $50 resi-
dents OF West indianapolis, members Of
the newy organized Enterprise Civic
League, were present. Father Joseph f.
Weber. rector of the Church Of the As
sumption, 1925 Blaine avenue; Attorney
Henry Seyfried, Heyden Buchanan, pres
ident Of the league, and stephen Fuller,
chairman of the committee appointed to
sponsor the measure, spoke in favor
of it. They declared that it was de-
signed to protect homes from further en-
4eroachmerr Of industries tending TO make
the distTi. uninhabitable.
! The ordinance provides that 1t shall
re unlawful TO establish, attempt or be-
sSStn to establish any slaughter house, tai
lew chandlery, soap factory, starch fac
tory. glue factory, tannery, brewery, dis
tillery, bone factory or fertilizer factory
in the corporate limits OF the Chty within
1000 feet of any established public build
ing, park, playground, boulevard, church,
school, library, hospital or any estab-
hshed residence neighborhood comprising
ten or more dwelling houses. 1t also
terms such Industries nuisances whenever
established in the future. gives the board
OF public health and charities power to
abate them and fixes penalty Of not more
than $500 fine nor more than six months
imprisonment, or both.
QUESTION: Is SLAUGHTER
HOUSE A NUISANCE?
Attorney Mason commended for Mr..
Concannon that the ordinance would pre-
vent the establishment of the Concan-
non slaughter-house elsewhere than in the
Harding street neighborhood If he so
desires; that the council could not at
tempt TO abate q nuisance when 1t was
not nuisance, and that the Supreme
Court has held a slaughter house not to
De IN TINS class. lie SAID LlaL the or
dinanee is a violation of section % of
the bill of rights of the State constitu-
ton, and that it cannot stand in the
courts because it attempts TO declare
businesses to be established In the fu-
tdre nuisances and at the same time ex-
empt the same industries already estab-
lished.
1t was announced by Councilman
Carnefix, serving as chairman, that the
city legal department had asked that the
ordinance be postponed until the next
meeting because Corporation Counsel
Samuel Ashby desired to look into its
legality, but the protests of the delega-
ton were so strong that it was reported
favorably out of committee and passed
by vote Of Z to 1, Councilman Brown
voting no.
When one of two ordinances providing
for the remuneration to the city of a
/. strip Of territory running approximately
four blocks east of Emerson avenue from
Tenth street TO a line 700 feet north was
brought up, Councilman Schmidt bark
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