The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-30

colulhlllee Tn appointing MT. Cafroli | had exceeded it's authority, and said l that he would have raised the point if 1 any other person than MT Carroll had ] been appointed by the committee. Mr. Carroll-"Did you raise that point
 of order because you thought an in | spector would embarass MT. Gllbert?'' No, sir"
 MT. Moran, a member of the board | of education was then called. He is
 now member of the committee on
 schools and said that he offered the
 motion in the committee meeting that MT. Carroll be appointed. He said that the matter of supplies was placed in
 part in charge of the committee on | schools and in part in charge of the committee on school buildings certain
 supplies to be bought by one committee
 and certain supplies by the other He said that the bids were all opened in joint session of the two committees. He
 said that after it had been voted to
 award the coal contract to MT. Gilbert
 he moved MT. Carrolps appointment as | inspector and weigher of coal. The vote on the motion resulted in tie and 1 the chairman of the meeting dissolved
 the tie by voting in favor of MT. Car | rolls appointment. He said that noth- | ing was said in th&t meeting as to the right of the committee on schools to | vote on the appointment of a weigher | of coal. After the vote it was found | that former weigher, MT. Shields, re-
 ceived twenty-five cents per hour and | it was decided to appoint Mir. Carroll | under the same terms. He said that @ | few days after that action by the com | mittee Clerk Hewlett read to him over l the telephone that draft of letter which he had prepared to send to MT. | Carroll acquainting him of his ap- | pointment. MT. Moran said that he told 1 Mr. Hewlett that the letter was all | right and that it was sent to MT. Car | roll.
 MT. Moran then said: T say now, as l then that if the committee had au- thority to appoint MT Carroll, he was | appointed weigher and he has an ac- tion against the district. In my opin-
 ion it is wholly a question of construc- l tion as to whether or not, the commit | tee that appointed MT. Carroll had au- | thority."
 | MT. Carroll-"Mr. Moran, have got l the impression that my appointment | was a kind of a joke" l "Oh, no, MT. Carroll it was not | Did a member of that committee
 say there at the meeting that he want ed an inspector appointed because citi-
 zens were asking him what weight the
 city got?'
 l Yes, a member did say that"
 Do you think coal ought to be weighed?"
 Well, I voted to have a weigher ap- pointed'
 l Did MT. Hewlett ask you to get the | committee to reconsider my appoint ! ment?"
 "Oh, no; MT. Hewlett said on the con- trary, that he had no objection. The l only thing he said was that it would l probably be thought that he had the
 appointment made to call you off from 1 the investigation of the charges against l him.
 From what you know of it what time | do you think MT. Maloney, the building l inspector, who has been instructed to l inspect coal, will have to attend to the 1 weighing of it?'
 1 T think he already has about all he I can do.''
 | MT. Connor another member of the l board of education, was then called. He l said that he was a member of the l committee on school buildings, MT. 1 Betts being the other member of the
 committee He said that up to this | ha jr,dp of the iqnftOrc a l the various schools was relied upon as to the quality of coal furnished. He l couldn't say from his own knowledge 1 whether one load of coal furnished by | MT. Gilbert had ever been weighed or l not.
 President Whitney, who testified at | the previous hearing, was recalled. MT. 1 Hogan asked: After the act of the ] board of education in sustaining the I chair did you direct the clerk to mo- l tify MT. Carroll that his appointment had been revoked?"
 l q remember mentioning that MT.
 Carroll ought to be notified and a few l days after, when I inquired about it. 4 found that the secretary had notified l Mir. Carroll that his appointment had l nOI been COHIIHieu uy lHe DOdtu s| Mr. Hogan-"Did you receive the mo- I tice, MT. Carroll?"
 l MT. Carroll-"No, sir.'' I w. F. Gilbert was the last witness called He said that he had furnished l coal for six years at least to the dis | trict, not six consecutive years, how
 ever. He said that the contracts which
 he had bid on In the past were practic- ally the same as the one he bid on this year.
 | MT. Carroll-"Mr. Gilbert, when this
 contract was given out to you, clause l said that an inspector was to be ap- l pointed by the committee on school buildings, you read that in the contract,
 didn't you?"
 T remember one was to be appoint ed. %.,sas
 You knew that it was to be weighed i and screened under the supervision of | a weigher?'
 "Yes; but he wasn't to be there all
 the while, though"
 DO you know that a ton of coal was l ever weighed by an inspeetor?"
 "No, Sir"
 This concluded the testimony and the | committee went into executive session. l It was voted to hold another meeting | +to CarroIl ratition at a date In he