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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