Time Checks Are Troublesome

THE COUNCIL SEEKS TO PROVIDE PAYMENT

At the Earliest Possible Moment By Allowing Warrants for Them

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The inability to pay labor claims without the proper warrants being drawn came up in council meeting. The system of giving out time checks which had no authority in the charter was what had caused the trouble. 

Ald. Clancy said he had been talking with the mayor and the mayor said if these time checks could be collected he would call a special meeting of the council to authorize their payment. He moved that the clerk advertise for all labor claims of the past three months so that a special meeting of the council could be called to authorize a warrant drawn for their payment. 

Ald. Fischer didn't exactly see the object of calling in these claims. 

Ald. Clancy said these time checks had been out since Jan. 1. No  warrants have been issued to pay these labor claims. The laborers needed their money. Some of them had shaved these time checks. 

Ald. Douglas wanted the board of public works to furnish a list of the time checks out, so that warrants could be issued. He thought this would do away with the necessity of advertising for the time checks.

A lengthy discussion followed, all the aldermen apparently being in hearty accord in desiring to see these time checks paid at once, but only differing as to the easiest and quickest way of getting at it. Ald. Clancy's motion finally carried. 

A special council meeting will probably be quickly called to provide for the payment of these laborers whose claims have not been allowed by the council.