City of Seattle Records

467 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE May 2nd/84 E R Clark hauling hose cart No 373 $1. W P Boyd & Co canton Flannel No 374 .80 J L Kahaley hauling lumber to #1 No 375 .75 E R Clark repairing sod No 376 .50 Fourth Street Grade Fund #395 J M Snow Engineering 995 $73.88 J N Bigelow et al Final Payment $2357.37 City Fund Newman & Argens Repairing Doorlock No 683 $.50 Gordon Hardware Co. screws No 684 $.25 The Claim of P E Smith in the sum of $20.00 is laid over The claim of C&PSRR Co. in the sum of $35.25 referred to Finance Comtee. Miscellaneous. Councilman Rasin submits the following motion to wit: Whereas there has appeared in the public press of this City a Statement purporting to have been made at a public meeting of Seattle Fire Company No 1, by F W Wusthoff a number of this Council to the effect first that the Ordinances organizing the Fire Department of this City was passed in an improper manner. That the Ordinance was bulldozed through the Council by a certain man. That after the Ordinance was passed it was reworded in the Mayor's Office and published as remodeled and not as passed. That the passage of the ordinance was intended as corruption. that Mr Wusthoff knows of several corruptions which have recently come to light. That the ordinance is a corrupt scheme to carry a certain man back into Council And whereas these statements contain very grave charges against the chief Executive Officer of this City and aginst the council as a body. Now that a Specail Committee consisting of Mr Clancy, Mr McDonald and Mr Northrup with Mr Northrup as Chairman be appointed to ascertain whther such statements were so made by Mr Wusthoff, and if they were so made To demand the proofs of the charges against the Mayor, a Statement