Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
Mayor Named Him For Fire
Chief Last Night
BUT HE WAS NOT CONFIRMED
Elderkin Made a Speech Announcing
His Change of Front And
Voted to Confirm.

The feature of last nights meeting OF
the city council was the manly speech
OF Alderman Elderkin of the Eight
ward, urging the aldermen to get to-
gether and vote for the confirmation OF
Mayor McCarthy's appointments. mas
much as Elderkin has heretofore been
voting with the obstructionists his speech
announcing his change of front was IN
the nature of a sensation. and was lloer-
ally applauded by the crowd back OF the
rail and the mayors advocates among
the members of the council.
All the aldermen except Medin were
present last night and when the mayor
called the meeting to order he stated that
the meeting had been called for the pur-
pose of Offering to the counclls consid-
GRAFTON the appointment of certain per-
sons to the various offices of the munich
pality.
He also said the various departments
were showing signs of generalization,
and was of the opinion that the interests
of the city would suffer unless something
was done Immediately. He named AS
sistant Fire Chief Peter Sanger for the
position of chief of the fire department.
THE clerk will call the roll on confirma-
tion," said the mayor.
Before the vote was taken Alderman
Elderkin rose and said:
Il agree with the mayor In the state
ment that the city needs action by this
body. The city must suffer so long as
our trouble continues. / would like to
see the council as a whole confirm the
men named by the mayor whom they
deem to be competent and fit persons
for the positions for which they are
named. We are elected to serve the
people and taxpayers at large, and 1t
is our duty to the taxpayers to lay
aside all feeling, to call the fight off,
to stop our differences at the polls n
to have unity and harmony in working
for the good of the city. Let us con-
firm the mayors appointments so far
as we can con~scientiously do so. There
is a difference of political faith between
the mayor and myself. / buried these
differences on the night of the Sd OF
April. My duty is now to the taxpayers
and citizens. l want to serve them ia
the best of my ability. So long as re-
fuse to listen to the wishes and the a
vice of the mayor, and thus cause a dead
lock, the best interests of the taxpayers
cannot be subserved. 1 hope all will vote
for all the appointments so far as they
conscientiously can, and let us make the
\ OCo oceACt 4 AAlo " IAN NANS
The vote was then taken with the fol.
} lowing result:
Ayes-Elderkin, Ferns, Kelly, Knowl-
ton, Macarthur, Page, Smith,.
Noes-Archambault, BauSlnan, Britt
Bryant, Kroger, Noyes, Siebenaler, Vir.
tues.
Gentlemen" said the mayor, II have
no further nominations to make tonight
} Seibenaler moved for adjournment.
; Knowlton moved that the mayor pro-
! coed with his nominations. Elderkir
seconded the motion.
"Gentlemen," said the mayor, II de.
cline to entertain the motion. l do no
I propose to usurp any Of your privileges
but those privileges and rights which be
long to me I will keep. AS long as thu
I council will not confirm it will do NJ
! good to name other appointments. Alder
! mar Knowlton, you told me yourself, tive
years ago hat you had nc idea whom
Mayor Harrington would appoint unit
the appointments We're announced in tn,
council chamber"
Elderkin said his idea was that pos
. sibly some of the appointments would b
confirmed which would give the cit,
some officers. He did not like to see ap
: pointments made outside of the council
. which complicated a grave situation. Fl
had not concluded his speech when Sci
benaler desired to know what had becom
of his motion to adjourn. But McArthu
& wanted to say something, and did, as h
usually does, in a very forcible manne,
He was with the mayor, he said, an,
further appointments were out of tn
> question, because it only gave some O
the aldermen an opportunity to sit dow
, on the mayor. The counci then voted t
adjourn.