Was A Short Session

Momlay's meeting of the oommon council was not reinarkably productive of results and tlie session was somewhat short. Aid. Grossman, Brown, Vandewarker and Spathelf were absent. Three petitions were presented ttnil ordered reierred. Edson Wetbei-bee asked $5,000 daniages for injuries recelved on Detroit street bridge; Nieholas Miller asked $2.000 daumagos for injuries caused by defeotive sidewalk ou Uiller ave. The Ransome-Raiidolph Co. askedthat they be reimbursed in the sum oí $30 for personal taxes. Telephones were ordered put in the offices of the city physician and city hoalth officer. Then aróse a discrission as to the rates which tbe New State Coinpany is authorized by its charter to charge the city. It waslinally agfeed fhat tlie charter obllge.s the city to take twenty telephones, ten of which are free and the other ten are at half price. The council voted to allow $100 lo Contractor on the recomía endation of the board of public works and city attorney, it being derstood that tliis is the eontractofs linal claim. The recomnendatiuns of the street coruinittee relative to prepararon for the ÍMain stre?t paving were adopted wihh the added provisión that all eleetTic light poles in the district .shall "be chango for iron ones! The Street railway company ia ;o bave nv stejl rails and tles on the ground by Aspril 1 for the Main strt cli.-üige. Aid. Koch moved to dispense with the services of Sewer Inspector E. W. Groves and the motion was referred to the flnance and sewer eo uniitte'. Aid. Rhodes Uien pres inted this ïfsolution: "Whereas, there is pending in Cojigress a bilí known as the anti-tick ü scalping bilí, (H. R. 30); and "Whereas, we believe tüat üil biii will eucoui-age dlscrlminatíon in rates and pool fonning by the raili-oads of tlie United States, besides unwamintable interference with rights vestea iu the purchasei-s and hólders of railroad tickets; therefore be It "Resolved, That the mayor and eommon couneil of tlhe city of Ann Arbor i-espectfully ui-ge our Senators and Kc])resentatives in Congress to use rheir influence to defeat said bill." After some diseussion the Tesolution ".:n-ied. Couneil then adjourned.