Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-05-23
WANTS THEM TO RESIGN
ALDER MAN JONES AND THE
CITY POLICEMEN.

Mayor Patton Discovers a H-eRls
lntive Enactment That H"raCtI-
Cally Futs the Police Under the
Civil service, and Some Inter
estinx Talk Follows.
The individual who asserts that the
new administration is not buckling
down to work and preparing to prccipi-
tate several surprises in different quar-
ters simply articulatcs through his tile.
very strong ir,ation of the Boards
attitude toward the members of the
present police force was given yesterday,
too, and the end is not yet.
The Aldermen met little after 4
o'clock, Mayor Patton, Aldermen Jones,
HI. L. Gudgcr, Cosby and Westal1 being
present. The missing members, Messrs.
Starncs and J. NJ. Gudgcr were not in
the city.
Mayor Patton laid cfore the meeting
copies of several acts passed by the last
Legislature and relating to the city char
ter of Ashcvillc. which he had received
| from the Secretary of State. One of
these, he said. was very surprising. mas
much as the Buncombe representatives
at Raleigh had said tnat they would
| favor no legislation that did not come
from mass meeting of the citizens of
| Asheville. The material portion of the
bill is follows:
THAT section 20. chapter Ill private
| laws of 1883. be amended by inserting
after the word officer in line 3 of said
| section the words Except said marsh al
or marshals,' and by inserting after the
| word Aldermen in line of said section
| the words the said marshal or marshalS
holding their offices during their good
| behavior. all of which officers shall be,
so that the amended portion of said
section from the beginning of said sec
Il HrNu tf,f I,n s@,,kr
| of said section shall read follows: !:
| That the Aldermen at the first meeting
after their election shall appoint n clerk
| and treasurer who may be one of their
| own number; also a collector of taxes
| who may be one of the marSha1S pro-
| vided for; and shall appoint or
more marshals, all of which officers ex-
cept said marshal marshalS. shall
| respectively hold their offices during the
| official term of the Aldermen. the said
marshal or marshals holding their
which officers shall be subject, however,
| to be removed at any time, for msbc-
havior or neglect of duties, for any
| other good causes such as inability to
| perform the duties of said position
NIr. Jones' Views.
| Alderman Jones read this bill for the
benefit of his brethren and then pro-
| ceeded to talk out in meeting. He
| said the man who drew that bill was
lexpecting change in the situation here
and had taken this step while having il
in his mind to FIX" the old administra
tons policemen upon the town. "Mcr
of self respect and charactcr,'' said Mr.
Zones, would not want to continue in
office after what has taken place here
If l was on the force L should resign
The Board does not like to single out the
| men and prefer charges against the mem
bers of the force, because that might be
| hindrance to them in securing other
work: We would much rather each mar
would come up and tender their rcsigna
| tions. This bills passage was very
Extraordinary proceeding, in he light o
the promises made by our members o
the Legislature, and the man who
mind to engraft upon the city perma
nently SO much of the old administration
as has been in force for two years"
Mr.. Jones' talk throughout was very
plain, and gave an intimation that til,
headsman would be unrclcnting when i
came decapitation day. He also sale
Icharges would surely be preferred aSains
somebody. On motion of Mr.. Jones TIL,
consideration of this new bill was re
ferred to the police committc to repor
Friday.
Always Something New.
The Board requested Clerk Young to
bring in the official bonds and w he II don
it was found that City Tax Collccto
| Reynolds bad not made a bond for TIL
taxes of 1892. The bond for S91 wa
l
laxity of the old administration was her
brought up again, and the finance com
nittee was instructed to investigate an,
report at once, also as to whether th
collector has complied with the law i
making weekly and monthly report
from his department. This commit te
was also requested to look into Sanitar
Inspector Brevard's bond, which
merely a personal bond.
Postmaster Kerr asked for the wate
rate that the government would have
pay for it's big building next year, an
his request was referred to the wate
committee, which will also consider til
advisability of a thorough revision
water rents.
, These bills were ordered paid: Wats
department, $2S; sanitary department
$3.50. This latter bill is the cost of Su,
days street cleaning.
Bonds Asked For.
e The finance committee was at wor
till noon today, and among other thint
considered the matter of the offici
bonds of Tax Collector Reynolds and Sa
itary Inspector Brcvard. These gentl
: men were instructed to have their bono
prepared properly by next Friday to
submitted to the Board.
THE ADVI9OEIS.