The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09
SLAP AT WANSER.
The Finance Commissioners
Want to Break" With
the Mayor.
PREFER A DRUG BOSS
Interesting Conversation on TrOls
ley Car-Something About
One Man Rule.

| That the removal of Mr.. William II. Ed
wards and Mr.. Spencer Weart, Corporation
Counsel and City Attorney, respectively, was
blow at Mayor Wanser, delivered straight
from the shoulder, by the members of the
! Board of Finance, needs no further corro-
boration than conversation, which took
place last evening, between five and six
| o'clock on the platform of Montgomery
| street motor.
! One of the gentlemen engaged in the con-
versation was a Finance Commissioner. The
| other member of the Sinking Fund Cem-
missioners.
ONE MAN RULE.
"1Fhat is newg" asked the Sinking Fund
Commissioner.
Nothing that know of in particular, ex-
cept what read in the newspapers" replied
| the Finance Commissioner.
"You are being handled without gloves,
said the Sinking Fund Commissioner.
'i0h, if you hold public Office you must
expect to be pounded. But 1 don't mind it;
rather like it. We have had enough of one
man rule in this city, and it is time it was
broken up" hotly replied the fnancier.
| The subject of conversation was changed
| DY the SINKING HunQ commissioner, VINO, Dy
| the way, is a supporter of Mayor WaRser,
| tooth and nail. After few remarks on drugs,
| the tax man said
'7Ve will be prepared to pay $350,0oo
which falls due in May, if nothing hap
pens:n
1--WE will come out all right if some men
dent lose their heads" curtly replied the
Finance Commissioner.
This concluded the conversation, one of
| the gentlemen aIghtiDg from the car.
| The Finance Commissioners remark, Zone
man rule, was slap at Mayor Wanser, as
was also the reflection that the city's finan-
cial condition would be all right if s'some
men don't lose their heads"
A MATTER OF JEALOUSY.
| 1t has been intimated about City Hall,
| from time to time that the actien of the
| Finance Commissioners in snubbing Mayor
Wanser by fsiiing to advise him that
Messrs Edwards and Weart were to be re-
| moved. was inspired by a feeling OF
jealousy, aroused by the faoe that the
| Mayor is, ia nearly every instance, made
the recipient of praise for every reforrnatory
measure which is set afeet and carried 10 q
successful termination.
| The first hitch the Mayor experienced
| with the Board of Finance occurred but
few months ago, when the time arrived for
the floating of the S550,o09 of City Hall
bonds. Prior to this the Finance Commits
sieners had carried out the suggestions or
the Mayor. Payrolls and claims from the
| various departments, particularly the Street
and Water Department, were hung up, nom
| concurred in or returned Tor correctlon,
and Improvements We're concurred In, as
Mayor Wanser thought proper.
| When the Mayoa announced that he had a
purchaser for the City Hall bonds, the breach
occurred Commissioner Bedell, by virtue
of his position as chairman OF the FINANCE
Committee, thought the Mayor was usulplng
the mower of the Finance Board. he felt
| Al AT a meeting held
shortly after the occurrence he declared that
his resignation would be forthcoming, if in
the disposal of the business OF his commttee,
the Mayor or anyone else ignored him. Even
| at that time Mr. Bedell wished it understood,
| he said. that it was by his aid that Mayor
| Wsnser was able to amicably adjust the
difficulties. attending the creation OF a re-
form Board of Finance. Mr.. Fraser backed
up Mr., Beden in this instance.
THE BREACH WIDENING.
Since that little disruption, Mayor Wanser
has not always been consulted in regard TO
the course to be pursued by the board. Little
bv little the breach widened, until the board
crowned its independent course by ignoring
the Mayor in the matter of the appointments
of the city's law officers.
The Finance Commissioners are consplcu-
ously absent from the City Hall during the
day of late. The cause assigned is that the
Nayor has publicly snubbed two of the mem-
hers. Not only has Mayor Wanser declared
that he will not recognize Br1nkerhoH ana
Erwin as the law officers of the city, but
since their appointment he has consulted
with the old law officers on every
matter which, in his opinion, re-
onired the consideration of able lawyers.
The resolutions passed by the Board of Fl.
nance appointing Messls. Brinkerhof and
Erwin were presented to the Mayor Janu-
arv 2. He has not signed them, and does not
propose doing so. President Hitler, for
some unexplained reason, has also refrained
from signing them.
Mayor Wanser's argument that the Board
of Finance, in appointing Messrs. Brincker-
hoff and Erwin, accepted as constitutional
the law which he the Mayor ignored and
maintained was unconstitutional when he
annointed Messrs. Fraser and Detwiller FL
i nance Commissioners has caused the two last
/ ..o...,rll nrontIarna1, some alarm