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ANOTHER DEADLOCK.
Harrison's Council Tied Up
Over the Health Board.

IN the Harrison Common Council over the
election of two members of the Board Of
Health to succeed DR. NJ o. f. Dolphin
and Peter r. Goodman, whose terms as
members of the board expired in May last,
but who, on account of the deadlock in the
council over the election of president,
held over. All the meeting last night forty
ballots were taken and no result was
reached. Aldermen Rice, Bulger, Henry
| and Sullivan, all Democrats, who tried to
defeat Goodman's reappointment picked
up their hats and left the council cham
| ber. leaving President Haller and Alder
men Van Deren and Witt, Republicans,
and Alderman Riordan, a Denocrat. The
| Aldermen who left the hall were hissed
| by the citizens.
| The trouble started when Alderman
Van Deren announced that there were
two vacancies in the Board of Health.
| the terms Of Peter. j. Goodman and DIR.
| NJ. 0. F. Dolphin having expired. He
| placed In nomination Mr.. Goodman. AL
! derman Riordan nominated DR.. Dolphin
| and Alderman Bulger dominated Anthony
| O'Malley. On each of the forty ballots
Goodman received four votes. The other
four votes were divided between DR..
| Dolphin and Mr.. O'Malley. On some of
| the ballots O'Malley received four votes.
| When the fourteenth ballot was taken
| Alderman Henry moved that the Council
| adjourn. A vote was taken, but the mo-
| tien was lost, Aldermen Witt, Van Deren,
Riordan and President Haller voting
| against it. Aldermen Rice, Henry, Sui
| livan and Bulger voted for adjournment.
| Alderman Van Deren said that he could
| see no good erason why Mr.. Goodman
| should not be elected to succeed himself.
| II was a member of the Board of
| Health with him for several years. said
| he, "and there was not a more pains
| taking, careful of better member of the
board than Mr.. Goodman. He had the
| interests of the town at heart at all
! times and in his duties he never let poll
! ties interfere. He has been resident of
| the town since boyhoed, and I have
known him all that time. He is one of
| our best citizens and a man the people
want to see on the Board of Health"
| HE is voting for and keeping in office
a sinspector of the Board Of Health re-
piled Alderman Rice, "a man who is a
| Republican and whom the Democrats
want removed. I have nothing personally
against Mr.. Goodman but that I must
admimt that the inspector he is sustaining
is one of the best officials we have in the
| town, but he is a Republican and Good
man IS renegade to the Democratic
party in sustaining him
| Mr. Goodman, who was in the audience
asked to be heard, and on motion OF
/ Alderman Van Deren the privilege was
granted to him.
Il have lived for thirty-five years in
| Harrison said Mr.. Goodman, "and dur
Ing all that time I defy Alderman Rice. OF
any other person In the town, to bring
anything against me. Since l came OF
| age my whole ambition has been for the
betterment of the interests of the town.
do not propose to let the man who says ]
am renegade Democrat go without an
answer. Whatever public office 1 have
held have received without asking for it.
would not today ask any person to vote
for me for public office, no matter how
great. AS to being a renegade to the
Democratic party, there is only one rene
| gade to the party that know of in Har-
| rison. He is Alderman Rice who has time
and again voted for Republicans, and
whom the Democratic party in West FIud-
son repudiated at the polls in the Novem-
| Der election. He was foisted upon the
| people against their protests
| Alderman Riordan said ii don't know
what to make of Alderman Rice. l think
! he is losing his head He is always
| boasting about his true Democracy and
| parading it before US He calls man
a renegade. Only a few moments ago
this same Rice voted for George Cooper,
a Republican. for water purveyor'
Il did not retorted Rice It voted a
/ blank ballot
| The balloting was then resumed and
| kept up until the fortieth ballot, when
/ the members Of the Rice faction got up
/ and left the hall. The action of the AL
| dermen in leaving the hall was surprise
! TO their colleagues, who took a recess
for five minutes.
On reaseembling Alderman Van Deren
! said:-'The action of four members of this
/, Council in leaving this meeting is a pro-
ceeding that has never had its equal in
! the history of the town. now move that
! Clerk Walsh be instructed to note in his
minutes the action of the members of the
Council who left the hall and the circunl-
stances under which they did it'' This
was ordered done
/ Before the trouble over the appoint
ments arose Alderman Riordan, chairman
of the Finance Committee, introduced the
/ tax ordinance, which was read twice and
/