The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-19
THE LAST DAY.

it last uuS lOl llllnB caucus VI Hii-
mary election returns with the county
commissioners viii be next Tuesday
SO that in all the wards where extra
councilmen are to be elected there will
have to be some pretty tall hustliny
done by both parties If they want TO
nominate candidates In the regular
way. \ number of ward primaries
will be conducted this afternoon.
The last day for the filing of inde-
pendent nomination papers will me
Monday, January 81. It Is expected
that in some of the wards there viii
be no regular primaries and that all
the aspirants for counclmanic hOnlrs
will simply file nomination papers he
fore that date.
When asked yesterday by whom the
apportionment printed above was
made, Mayor Moir said;
The councilmanic apportionmcnt
committee made that apportionment
and l decided that there was no time
to lose and I accordingly issued this
notice. / want it understood that I'm
not attempting to usurp any power.
I'm simply doing what consider to ''e
my duty as mayor of this city.
THE law governing cities of the sec-
ond class provides that the number of
councilmen shall be apportioned an-
cording to population and I'm simply
doing all can to have these council
men elected at this coming election. Tre
people of this city are entitled under
the law to an enlarged council and
they must have It. Nothing can PR
vent it,"
WHAT VAUGHAN SAID.
Councilman ID. w. Vaughan, who
was appointed Il member of the ap-
portionment committee on Thursday
night said yesterday: II want II un-
derstOod that I wasn't present at any
meeting of the apportionmcnt commit
tee, nor was ] notified that any meet
ing of this committee was to he held.
1.-The whole proceeding is to my mind
entirely contrary to law and the DEM
ocrats may be expected to fight the
matter out in the courts. In the first
place the common council committee
was appointed when the city was still
in the third class and when one had
no right to operate under a second
class city law. The select council part
OF the committee was appointed prop
cry dlteT tHe SONtllpi = ptocldiilSll'pl
was received.
"The law provides that when the as
SCISSORS prepare the list Of taXables
they must certify to it under oath to
the president of the common council
and that on the next meeting there
after the committee shall be appointed.
The list of taXables was never certified
to the president Of the common cour-
ell because he's in Washington and the
committee was appointed before the
list was ever prepared.
"Why / am sure that we can sue.
cessfully prevent the election on these
grounds alone without taking into con-
sideration at all the fact that the law
says the apportionment must be made
in July and that they're just four
months ahead of time. There are
eleven Democrats in the common coun-
Gil and il they can't prevent the cle2-
ti0n they can prevent the new mem-
bers from taking their seats"
AS was expected, there was no meet
ing of the common council last night,
there being only eight Republican
members present when Clerk Lynott
called the roll These were Messrs.
Keller, Alworth, Mcdonald. Albert
Lewis. W. +. Lewis, Evans, Nageli
and Paine. All the Democratic mem-