The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-05
N. N. DREW NOT CONFIRMED
ONLY RECEIVED THE VOTES OF
KENT AND DEvINE..
why Superintendent Touhey Stop
ped the Work of Cleaning
the Streets.

At the meeting of the Board OF Trus'
tees last night Trustees Dolan, MCKAY
Douglas, Paine, Bentley, Kent, brown
Tebbets and Devine were present. Oo'
Ian presiding in the absence OF MCKAY
who was excused on account OF SICK
ness.
"A number of claims were allowed.
Paine reported that there wouiid MOI
be enough money to erect cenlrd
stand in the P street plaza this year.
The confirmation of M. M. Drew as
Chief of Police came next, ana % rol'
call Kent said that he was glad TO nave
chance to vote for the grand, uprlgh'
old man who had once filled the once
The people had demanded that ne
should help to put the man in the po-
sition who had back bone and would
not fall down instead of doing his duty
He was not fighting the next Mayor
for 1t was the privilege of the board
to fill the position made vacant by
death. The next Mayor was not OPP
posed to Drew personally, but it was a
matter of politics. If he is confirmed
he would feel compelled to go straight
-
and the new board with him, for Chiefs
of Police care not half so much for the
people as they do for the fellows thai
have influence and power. He would
vote for Drew because eight out of ter
of his constituents wanted him to.
Brown said he wished to explain his
vote. The board was about to select a
Chief to fill the vacancy made by Chief
Dryers death. 1t was a matter OF
much moment who was chosen Chief
and it was more than a political mat
ter. He was a Democrat, but when
Mckinley was elected President the
Democrats accepted him as the coun-
try's President. So when Henry T.
Gage was elected Governor all parties
accepted him. Now that a Republican
has been elected Mayor, he, although
Democrat, believed in giving him a
chance to appoint the officers for whom
he is responsible. Moses Drew was his
friend and would doubtless have been
elected if Mayor Land had sent his
name in at Dryers death, but now that
only a month remains of Mayor Lands
term, and he did not think it right to
handicap the new Mayor, so believing
although a Democrat, he felt compelled
to vote against the confirmation.
The vote stood: Noes-Dolan, Teb-
bets, Paine, Douglas. Brown and Bent
ley. Ayes-Kent and Devine
Chairman Dolan declared the confir-
nation denied.
Kent said he did not propose to vote
to please the papers, for members of the
board knew better the inside matters
~. ~
for bringing Democratic and Republi-
can politics into the board. He pro-
posed to stand by the people, and he
did not allow himself to be elected by
Democrats and then vote for a Repub-
Ican as Mr.. Brown had.
Bentley rose to a point of order an6
said that Kent blamed Brown for bring.
ing politics into the board and here he
was making a Democratic speech. He
himself had been elected by the Demo
Gratis, but he did not feel compelled tt
vote for a Democrat or for Mr.. Drew
either.
The Chair sustained the point OF or
der.
A resolution of intention to improve
the alley between H and I, Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets was adopted.
The contract for furnishing power fol
the sewer plant at the stump and this
bond therefor We're approved.
The matter of the crossing at the al
ley at Thirteenth, between 1 and
streets, was referred to the Superin-
tendent of Streets
A message from the Mayor was read
stating that, with the President of the
rd 1,a H.
ed the money in the city treasury and
that it amounted to $155, lib 20.
Bentley said that no crossings had
been laid at Eighteenth and G and
Twenty-ninth and G streets, as ordered
some months ago, and the Surveyor was
instructed to proceed with the work.
Devine said that orders had beer
given to the Superintendent of Streets
to put some earth in the alley between
O and N, Seventh and Eighth streets
but it had ont been done.
Dolan said an order had been giver
to the same official to clean the streets
above Twentieth and the next day al
the men at work had been laid off, He
thought the board should find out why
its orders were not obeyed.
Kent said the Mayor had been in
formed by the Auditor that there was
no more money to do the work with
and that, if he had it done he would
have to pay for it from his own pockei
and he had ordered the work stopped
A resolution for improving the allie,
between o and P, Sixteenth and Seven.
teenth streets with sewer wa.
adopted.
A communication from the League
of American Municipalities, inviting
Sacramento to become a member o.
the league, was partly read and ordered
to the file. Bentley stating that it hat
been before the board and it had no
been deemed expedient to join tn,
league.
Devine wished the matter taken up
as he wished to speak on if, and it wa.
SO ordered.
Devine made a ten minutes speech
on the communication. during which HI
rambled from municipal ownership t.
flood water storage and took occasion
to denounce in unmeasured terms tn,