Arizona republican., 1897-11-13
POLICE REORGANIZATION.
The Mayor Invested With Authority
 Last Night.

A devastating storm of which there had been premonitory mrtterings burst upon the head of the police force last nigha. Mayor Adams was the love who hurled the destroying thun- deubolts. Ever since the eleclion in the Third ward last Saturday, in which the police were charged with displaying pernicious activity, the mayor has been threatening a reorga- nization, in fact, reconstruction of the force. They seemed to be se- curely hedgeh about. though. by the ordinance which gives the chief of police the nominating power. The four democratic members, however, had been nominated and confirmed and under the ordinance they could serve at the pleasure of the marshall But that ordinance is, alas! no more.
 At the council meeting last night the mayor introduced the following corrective measure: Crdirance No. 262. An Ordinance Regulating the Appointment of Special Police.
 1.-The common council of Phoenix do ordain as follows:
 f'Section l. The mayor shall have power, by and with the consen. of the city council, to nominate ard ap- point or deputize one CT more per l sons to assist the city marshal or the 1 city police in making arrests, as the case may require, and in keeping good order and preserving the peace. And the common council shall fix their compensation by resolution.
 ''Sec. 2. Section thirty-four of ar tiole of ordinance 100 and all orther acts and parts of acts or ordinances Or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby re- pealed.
 "Sec. g. This ordinance shall take effect and ba in force from and af e. | its passaga and publication accordi g 1 to law
 The ordinance was promptly sec onlde1 by John I. Brooks, the member | from the Third ward, and wi h the aid of Councilman Moss vote was ad- vanced through it's various readings | to final passage and was passed by the votes of the mayor and Messrs Moss and Brooks Councilman Gang vote dagainfst it ard Councilman Dyer who was elected last spring on the re- 1 publican ticket from fihe First ward declined to vote, or as they say in the | slums, 'He laid down. The ordi- nance amending ordinance 100, as it does, confers upon the council the 1 power to remove the msmbers Of the police force. The shifting will likely ibe begun as soon as the new ordi- nance has had the ten days publca- ition required by law.
 The mayor has all along believed that the charter conferred upon him the polwer given by hhis ordinance. In all cities whose police force is not regulated by metropolitan police board appointed by the governor of lthe state, the mayor holds the ap- pointing power In all cities under a special government the mayor is the creator of the police beard So the 1 government of Phoenix has been unique as to the manner of constitut- ing it's police force.
 Mayor Adams would have tested the power he believed he had, last spring but for the attitude of Councilman Dyer, who could only be safely count ed upon to vote with the two demo- cratic members in the case of an emergency, so that in all such eases the council, though nominally repub- lican, was actually democratic. The | election of MT. Brooks, however, has given Ithe republicans a reliable work