Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . n occuirintr in the introduction to theIhaiter piohibiting city officials from interest in contracts with the , andthe provision authorizing the mayor to re-voke saloon licenses for cause, elicited muchapproval. Much embarrassment was oeca--ioned by the pi-oblem of changing from theold to the new form of government. Certainofficials holding office under the Ccmncil felt? hat the , who undei th(> new charterhad the power of apjiointment, would deprivethem of office.
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . n occuirintr in the introduction to theIhaiter piohibiting city officials from interest in contracts with the , andthe provision authorizing the mayor to re-voke saloon licenses for cause, elicited muchapproval. Much embarrassment was oeca--ioned by the pi-oblem of changing from theold to the new form of government. Certainofficials holding office under the Ccmncil felt? hat the , who undei th(> new charterhad the power of apjiointment, would deprivethem of office. This difficulty was smoothedover by seeurine their positions to them forthe terms for which they were appointed. On January .>. ISill. the Board of Tradesportion of the conuiiittee reported to it. andon t) the Commei-cial Clubs Icprc-sentatives did the same, the two i-eports beingpractically identical. They state that thecommittee first decided that it was to undertake a revision of ;dl the lawsuoverninu the City of Tiidianapolis. except JIISTOKY OF (IKKATEl! I z a zos CO « co O < HQ :Mi; IlLSTOEY OF GKEATEIl 1M)1AXA10LIS. those in relation to tlie public sehools. to em-body the revision in one uniform code orcharter drafted in accordance witli the mostapproved modern notions of municipal gov-ernment. A sub-eonnnittee was appointed tojirepare a general outline of the work. * * *One member of the committee was at an earlydate designated to prepare a draft of the newcharter, upon each topic iu its proper order,wliich draft would be gone over line liy lineby the sub-committee rewritten and reconsid-ered as often as necessary, and afterwardspresented to the whole connnittee, by whomthe entire document was twice revised lineby line and twice rewritten. In the courseof the work they exivmined and digested allof the magazine articles, some three hundredin innnber, which have appeared in this coun-try on the subject in the last twenty
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