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- Feb 5, 1895Starvation Wages and a Broken Light Contract: Seattle's Lower House EruptsDelegates demand answers on Pike Street paving, city jobs parceled out by foremen, Kilbourne Avenue subcontracting, and the gas-electric company's failure to light the city.Seattle, WA
- Mar 5, 1895The Free-Water Fight and the 'Idle Single Men'A proposal to give the Seattle Industrial Co-operative Society free water for two months set off a council debate over poverty, manhood, and who deserved public help.Seattle, WA
- Mar 28, 1895The Council Keeps the Charter PenSeattle’s city council refused to pay for a freeholders’ election and voted to rewrite the city charter itself—setting up a fight over cost, legality and who gets to redraw city government.Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
- Apr 23, 1895Seattle to the Railway: Pave Your Share of Pike StreetThe city council pressed the Seattle Railway Company to live up to its franchise and pave between its tracks on Pike Street, after hearing that the road's receiver was in no hurry.Seattle, WA
- May 7, 1895City Hall Refuses to Rewrite Its Own Rulebook — and Dares the Supreme Court to DecideSeattle's council rejects the freeholders' petition for a new city charter, declaring the enabling law unconstitutional, and offers to bankroll a test case all the way to Olympia.City Hall, Seattle, WA
- May 19, 1895City Council Wrestles a 50-Year Streetcar Franchise Into ShapeA committee debate over percentages of gross earnings reveals how Seattle gave away its transit future one clause at a time.Seattle, WA
- May 28, 1895Seattle Shut Every School for Scarlet FeverWith 53 cases and a council fight over authority, Seattle's health board ordered public, private and Sunday schools closed in May 1895.Seattle, WA