The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-13
THE SQUABBEE IN COMKO1
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COUNCIL.
On the organization of the new Councils, at
the commencement of the year, the Republi-
can aspirants for the Presidency of the Com
mon Branch we're Messrs. Henry HUM and
Louis Wagner. The former received the
caucus nomination and was fairly elected,
and all the ordinary rules of courtesy and
propriety would seem to require his opponent
to be satisfied with the result or at least to
avoid giving public expression to his disap-
pointment by endeavoring to embarrass
Mr.. HUM in the discharge of his duties and
by impeding the public business in the Coun-
Gil Chamber. The public understands very
well that the performances of Mr.. ]. S. Allen
at the two last meetings of Common Council
mean nothing more nor less than that
Mr.. Wagner is determined to
annoy the President as much as
he possibly can, and that he is merely using
Mr.. Allen as catspaw. The last-named
gentleman claims that Mr.. HUM promised
in return for his vote to appoint him Chair
man of the Highway Committee, and upon
his own confession he stands convicted of
having made corrupt bargain, so that he is
not entitled to, and will not be likely to re-
ceive, much sympathy in his disappointment.
Mr.. Huhn evidently did very proper thing
when he declined to make Mr.. Allen Chair
man of the Highway Committee, and the
public interests are much more likely TO be
served as matters now stand than they would
have been had Mr.. Allen obtained the position
towhich he aspired. 1t should be clearly under
stood, however, by Mr.. Allen and his baokers
in his quarrel with the President of Common
Council, that the people of this city are not
sufficiently interested in them or their
grievances to desire a continuance of such
squabbling as has taken place in the last two
sessions of Common Council, and they will
make much better impression on the public
and more surely advance their own interests
| by attending to the duties for which they were
elected than by endeavoring to annoy Mr.
Huhn upon every conceivable opportunity.
MIR. Allen yesterday endeavored to make a
| point against the President because his in
sulting letter of resignation from the Com
mittee on Election Divisions was omitted
from the record, and we hope the very decided
vote of the chamber against him
| will convince both hin and
Mr.. Wagner that they are not likely to get
much sympathy or support from their col
leagues in their spiteful warfare against the
President. 1t was probably great disap-
pointment to Mr.. Wagner that he was not
elected President of Common Council, as it
was to Mr.. Allen that he failed to obtain the
craftsmanship of the Highway Committee;
but from the manner in which they have be-
haved, the public will be very decidedly of
the opinion that it was very good thing
their ambitions were not gratifed. At any
rate, the Council Chamber is not the proper
place for the ventilation of their private
grievances, and they will confer favor not
only on their fellow-members but on the
community at large if they will cease making
themselves nuisances by the public discus
sion of matters about which no one is interested
| but themselves. t-