The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-23
Feeling Between the Council and
Police Commission
THE LATTER BEING SNUBBED
Some OF the Very Recent Cases 10
Point
The Police Board Has Lately Been Overlooked
and There May Be Wholesale
designations

The bars are up between the space
which officially separates tue latest po-
lice commission and the city council, and
as result faces are again being made in
the corridors of the city hall, and there
is considera Bile Ill feeling Ia sight.
Ths cause for the latest then on" as
Col. Michael Deedman, The assistant zan-
jero, has dubbed it, lies in what the sew
eral mem bers OF the police board deem
continued snub of their department of the
city government by the flock of municipal
ducklngs presided over by Cul. Freeman
G. Iced.
The first break in the present hostili-
ties came when the council, under the
KIngery resolution, declined to turn
over 10 the police commissioners the task
OF finding quarters for additional city
prison purposes, as had been intended by
the councilman from the Fourth ward.
The matter was turned over instead to
the councils own building committee,
because. as Councilman NJ. p. Snyder at
the time explained it,. would have given
to the police board too much power"
The various mem bers of the police com.
mission rather reese nted being thus uncer-
enormously sat down upon, but they
could onIy nurse their wrath in silence,
as it was intiniated to such of them who
inquired about the matter that if they
did not like their jobs they might all Of
them resign.
Then came the transfer of the chain
gang to the active control OF the police
department and that bill the council
pass ed over tie head OF the board by
dealing directly with the boards eih-
poloye, the chief. of police. The latter
was somewhat averse to having himself
toI fopu th,t ttar nd ho ant
before the counci on Thursday for the
purpose of finding out just exactly where
he stood in the matter. There the snub
to the police commission was made
plain. but the chief was told to employ
his own guardians of the chain gang,
which is CONTRARY to the rules Of the de-
partment the police board having al
WAYS, as is provided in the charter, hired
and discharged all the men.
Chief Glass, with that diplomacy for
which he is famous, has sought to heal
the wounds caused by the late several
councilmanic snubs bv formally notifying
the board of the councils instructions,
but this fact has only made matters
worse. The several mem bers of the
police board talk OF resigning rather
than to be further ms ulted, and the
atmosphere Is just now more than Jrdi-
nurily torrid on the second floor of the
city hall. Nor IS this all, for the board
of fire commissioners also has grew
ance. Memb ers OF the council, whenever
and wherever fire alarm boxes are needed.
pass a resolution ordering them, never
thinking to first refer the matter to the
fire board, as is provided for in the char
ter and as should be done. AS result
dozens of bvxes are constantly being
ordered and when it comes to raying
for the supplies, the bills fer the same
are promptly and emphatiealIy turned
! down oy this council. The fire com mis-
/ sioners say that all requests for boxes
ought first to be turned over to them to
investigate whether or not they are
needed and tina. were this done no boxes
would be ordered unless they were alb
solu tely necessary.