Show I MAYOR RECEIVES SOUND SPANKING I His Veto of Kennedy Claim is Turned Down By the Coti Council I I CONTRACTOR WILL BE PAID I Tom Pitt Chief of Police on Hand With a Few Fe Fe FeRe Re Requests Re- Re quests Mayor l Bransford was tal taken en across the tho th starboard knee knoo of ot tho the city council last night and treated to a left handed spanking that thai must have left an In Incipient incipient in- in sting In the place where spankings spank spank- tags ings usually occur It was all nil because ho lie thought that Contractor Kennedy was not nol entitled to for pumpIng pumpIng pumping pump pump- ing surface water vater out of the interceptIng intercept- intercept Ing sewer The mayors mayor's veto of ot tho the claim which was s pa passed parsed Sed b by the council councH was turned down eon emphatically last night Coun- Coun n Halley Holley Murdock and Stewart voted with the mayor major while wIllie tho rest I ot ti tint UH council voted with Kennedy and passed tho the bill btu over the veto lie cause of tho the checkered career of it has stirred up consider consider- tIl interest In the tho place the n dali-n would never have been created md hud It ft not been for the change in the plans ans of tho intercepting sewer this sewer this coming coining at tho thin outset of ot the lie lit st t American n administration The Tho contract for tho the Intercepting sewer ewer was va let In October 1 1905 Oj un under er erthe the he Morris a administration Early In with the thc crowd In hi office ho tho plans were wore changed and a a. new contract drawn up According to the opinion pinion 0 of the city attorney presented last ast night the change In the contract contract- was as re responsible for the Hooding flooding of ot the sewer ewer and therefore responsible for the h bill for pumping out the vater ater The city attorney scouted the belief that lat tho tim contract abrogated the first and ho held that no mutual or verbal erbal agreement ag would stand stant There Theres is s no record that tho lie city would r remunerate re- re tho the contractor for foJ pumping the lie ic water but it was asserted that oral ral agreements were wera entered catered Into to that mt effect The Tho board of public works wol s turned down lown own the claim and it was presented to 10 o the council The rho council councH passed It It fler arter much jockeying and the mayor the claim Then tho council passe passed assed It over 01 the mayors mayor's veto oto and It ItIs its Is s likely that Mr l Kennedy will vill get his hits mone money noney which was spent principally principally- or coal and antl labor on the tho pumps Th The only Ic lesson son that the dear public publican can an learn henri from the tho affair Is that It was vas as expensive to change the plans on onic the ic Intercepting sewer a as it was likewIse like- like wIse Ise expensive to change those of tile the Big Ig Cottonwood con conduit More From Tom Pitt Tho Tile session of tho the council last night ht one ope om Pitt chief of police pollee another opportunity to hit tho tue councilmen coun- coun bask basic In hi the lie sunlight of his superior superior su- su wisdom Ho IIo merely suggested that lint the council pass pars an ordinance requirinG re- re quirinG every chauffeur lb chauffeur he ho didn't use se that expensive term term pass pass an c cx- cx and take out a license at 12 12 a year car before he be allowed to I an automobile and that the said river driver report each month to the chief chieff chieft I at f t police pollee so that close tab may be kept opt upon ulon him and ami his machine In InUs Inthis this Us way lays ays the chief he will be beetter better etter equipped to catch those who I violate the spee speed ordinance and will make fewer mistakes In fn arrests The council the thin thing back at ut the chief to draw up his hits own ordinance The rho chief also sent In a request that the le council revolee the license c of the Big 4 of saloon aloon on Commercial Comm street be- be because cause causo It Is a 10 low dive and will persist in i selling booze booza on Sunda Sunday But the chief t forgot ot to attach his signature to tole the le ponderous document an and it was also Iso fired back at him The Tile chief revoked tho the special policeman policeman police- police man nan license of or Charles J. J McNulty because he Is a striker on Rio Grande and the lie facts had been misrepresented mis- mis lepre represented when ho he was appointed Tom TOJ 1 Hobday IIo du superintendent of waterworks wa wa- was cyas given en 1 an a additional clerk lerk at 75 a month to help out durInS' durInS during dur- dur InS InS' ng the rush season The Time council passed the tho ordinance creating creating- a lire re marshal hal Ho will bo bJ paid pal by the tho Pacific Board of Fire Fhe Underwriters Un Un- and anti the time ordinance merely confers authority and prescribes s du- du ties les Mr attempted to ad add an un amendment to tho time city ordinances providing providing pro pro- viding that oil wagons shall not be kept within feet feel of residences l The ordinance grew rew out of a a. neighborhood row over the keeping of or a wagon at 3 10 East Fifth South street and George F. F pannes annes called e the attention attention atten atten- tion lion of ot the council to th the matter after falling tamn to enlist tho the sympathy of the theOre tire Ore chief The amen amendment was re re- re Councilman Martin l offered a resolution resolution reso reso- lution hutton providing providing- for the tho purchase ofa ora ot or ota a combination chemical and hose Wagon wagon wagon wa wa- gon from the merican American La France Fire FIro Engine company compan for 1800 but I that was also alo referred Tho The council received word from Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman How Howell lJ to tho the effect that congress would undoubtedly grant a perpetual easement across the military re reservation for fot the city to build bull a conduit con con- duit dult Mayor laor Bransford wired Senator Sutherland that unless a u perpetual right were granted ranted the tile water bonds that may be issued would be affected I |