Omaha daily bee., 1897-10-20

NOutl nave any NblUltNtt III NHt way
things we're managed. MIR Rosewater said
1t was an old principle Of law that when
man lied about one thing he could not be
believed about anything. Chlrges OF lying
had been printed in the newspaper which
could not be denied as they were matters OF
record in the courts and such rascality must
be overturned II public confidence was to be
restored. Tho thing necessary to be done
was to reorganize the management
Mi. Rosewater proceeded to exphin what
he meant by reorganization. He said no
exposition has been carried on without
director general. In the Transmissssippi
Exposition, up to this time olch department
had been carried on entirely by subordin1tes,
except In the Publicity and Transportation
department for the reason that no mana
ger OF department except that Of trans
portation and his own department
had ever had experience in the bus
mess OF that department. In all
former expositona, on the contrary, dircc-
tor general had been in direct charge Of all
departments, working under the direction Of
the executive committee. Mr.. Rosewater
expressed his firm conviction that this form
of organization would have to be adopted
for the Transmissssippi Exposition.
Leaving this subject Mr. Rosewater said
he did not care to continue as a member OF
the executive committee unless the board
would call a halt upon the eXtravagant and
incompetent administration of affairs by
Geraldine He said he would do all in his
but he would not muzzle The Bee and sup
press matters of notoriety and scandalous
manipulation.
OPPOSITION TO THE BONDS
Referring again to the bonds to be sub
mitted at the coming election Mr..
Rosewater warned the buurd that the bonds
would unuues tOnably be lost unless the di-
rectory acted promptly. He analy2ed the
vote which his experience showed him would
be cast on the bond proposition and reached
the conclusion that the vote outside of Om-
aha would be about 4,4O0 against the bonds,
making it necessary TO pile up big vcte
inside of Omaha to overcome this adverse
majority, and carry the proposition by the
necessary two-thrds. He said the entire
weight of organized labor has already de-
cared against the bonds, and something
should be done at once to alay the feeling
of the public. If the board passed fine reso-
buttons and voted each member medal it
would not help matters in the least-the
bonds could not be carried unless the conf
dsnce OF the people of Omapl i'll the eXposi-
tion management was restored
This lengthy statement of the opposite
sides of the matter was followed by a dis
cusBion in which a number of directors took
part, being mostly Cross-ire of questions
referring TO details already discussed.
Following this Director Youngs, the repre-
sentative of organized labor, said he didn't
suppose anything he could say would have
ary weight with the element which seemed
determined to support Geraldine at all
hazards but he merely wanted to say that
the public knew perfectly well that Geraldine
was the wrong man for the place He said
Geraldine had created bad feeling among the
working classes and has openly discrimi-
mated against Omaha labor. Mr.. YOungs
said he had in Lis p secession an affidavit OF
labOring showing that Geraldine had
tried to holi him up in order to get a chance
to work on the exposition, and he believed
other aiiidavits of similar nature could be
obtained In conclusion Mr.. Youngs offered
the following resolution as a substitute for
the resolution then pending before the board:
Whereas, The stockholders, organized
labor, and the public ir general, have pro-
tested against the longer retention of Dion
Geraldine as superintendent OF construction
OF the Transmississippi and international EX-
pCSit n; therefore be 1t
"Resolved, That the services of Dion
Geraldine be ana they are hereby dispensed
with"
MANDERSON RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Mr.. Mandeson raised the point of order
that it was not germane to the resolution be-
fore the board. The point was sustained by
President Wattles ana the roll was called on
the Henderson resolution. Mr.. Rosewater re-
fused to vote and YOungs was the cnly vote
recorded against the resolution, the result be-
irg 81 ayes, no.
Director Youngs then called up his resOlu
tion, but before he could move its adoption
MIR. Manderson moved that it be referred to
the executive committee.
MI. Youngs rather warmly insisted that
courtesy would have dictated that he be given
the opportunity tO move the adoption of the
rcsolut ion, but vote called for at once
and the result showed thirty-two votes in
favor of referring and eight against it. Sew
eral OF the latter explained that they voted
against referring because they thought the
matter should be settled at C".ce. The eight
50 voting were Hector, Fitzpatrick. Kirken-
dali, Rosewater, Thompson, Wattles, Yost
and TouEgs.
Mr. Manderson then asked Mr.. Rosewater
If his resignation had been withdrawn. Mr.
Rosowater replied that it had not.
Mr.. Henderson asked il he would insist or,
its acceptance or whether the reference OF
the Geraldine matter to the executive COM
n,ittee would not be satisfactory to him. Mr..
Rosewater said that he would be willing to
keep working until the next meeting of
the executive committee and lay further evil
dcnce before that committee II the commit
tee would take prompt action He said the
resignation was conditional and ii the cordi-
tions were complied with he would be willing
to withdraw it..
Several members OF the directory spoke
strongly against allowing Mr.. RGsewater to
leave the committee, and the discussion on
this point became general, ending in the
withdrawal of the resignation pending action
on the part Of the executive committee.
TRY TO ENLARGE THE COMMITTEE.
After this action the members commenced
further business would be transacted. Al
this point, however Mr.. Wharton addressed
the ard on the question of allowing Presi-
dent Wattles vote on the executive COM
mittee. He advocated taking action that
would bring about this result and Mr.,
Hitchcock moved that the bylaws be so
amended as to make the president member
OF the executive committee.
Chairman Lindsey of the executive com
mittee opposed this action, saying it was un-
necessary, that the president already had a
vote in case of a tie in the committee snd
that the proposed action would destroy the
present plan of organization.
Mr. YOungs moved that the matter lay
over until the next meeting,
Mr. Manderson thought the time would
soon come when the present plan of Crgani
zation would have to be changed and Il
director general chosen Before that was
done, he said, he would want to investigate
the relations which would exist between the
positions of president and director general,
and he advised that the matter be laid over
until some future time.
President Wattles explained that under
the bylaws the president had no power and
was rather an anomaly He insisted that
he should be given some authority and that
action should be taken at this time, that
he would have authority to say something
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