Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-18

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These remarks Of Mr.. Wilhelm were
regretted by the other members Of
the Council, as there was largo
crowd present. including Rev. @. n
Keller, pastor Of the Trinity Lutheran
church. n
Mr.. Shook asked the speaker to
confine himself to the immediate sub
ject. I'VE are discussing a site for
the City Hall, not my personal hab-
it's" he declared Mr.. Gauthier was
angry at Mr.. Wirhelm for the remarks
he had made about the beer incident,
and said: II am sorry that any pea~
sonalities should have crept into this
argument I'll admit that we enter.
ed q saloon and had some beer, but
I thought that It was n private mat
ter not ono for general discussion boz
fore the public And as to Mr.. WilS
helm, will only say that he wsas with
us, that he drank beer, too, and that
regard any man who will betray his
friends as a person unfit for the COM
fidence of any man" r
Relative to Mr.. Wilhelm's remarksa
against taking the hall so far seuthyS
Mr.. Shook said that at one time MIRA
Wilhelm had expressed himself ass
willing to vote for the purchase of a!
site at the corner Of South High and
Exchange SITS. "This is the Keyser
property" he said, ''and Mr.. Wilhelm
is personally interested in it. As to-
my changing my vote, did so COM
sistently, as l was chaEman of thes
committee which recommended the
purchase of the Buchtel and Main st..l
when the matter first came up."
Rev. Mr.. Keller was called upon fon
remarks. II have nothing to say" he
replied, "other than that I came here,
excepting some fun, and 1 have not
been disappointed"
The battle started out when NIr.s
Sawyer presented a motion to havel
the proposal of the American Cereal
Co. referred to committee, for report,
at the next meeting of the Counciln
The motion was lost. And so was al
motion to adjourn. Then the resoluX
ton to purchase the Buchtel and Mains
site was taken up, but before vote3
could be taken, MIR. Sawyer presented4
motion that it be laid on the table
until the next regular meeting on
Council. This motion was lost. The
votes in every instance throughout
the battle were the same, so far as the
line-ups were concerned, Messrs.
Gauthier, Seidell. Warner, Piske, Merz,
Shook, Ormes and Martin voting
against everything that woul3
knock out the South Akron site, and
the other five-Messrs. Sawyer, Will
helm, Amundson, Hill and Mander-
bach doing their best to have the matt
ter laid over until their entire force
could be at the meeting.
The next move by the North Finders
was the proposal of an amendment,
substituting the High st. site for the
one in South Akron. This was very
clever move, for immediat tely there waS
motion put to lay the amendment on
the table. And it was laid, too. TheH.
smiles began to spread over the coun~
tenances of the North Enders, and az
motion to adjourn was presented. ''ItS
all over now," they declared. Bye
laying the amendment on the tablet
you also tabled the original PROPOSE
tion" Reference to the rule booh
showed this to be true, but as those
nine members could easily pass reso-'
luton to reconsider the act of laying
the amendment on the table, they soon,
had the original proposition up again
for consideration.
More delays followed, as the North
Bnders called for the City Solicitor to
settle question which sprung up
relative to the legality Of the proceed
ings, which it was believed had been
thrown all out of plumb by the see-i
saving back and forth on the severaL
propositions. But motion to senI
for the Solicitor was lost.
Other motions and proposals OF.
amendments followed so thick and fast
that the situation became complicated
and the voters scarcely knew where
they were at. Besides, they We're very
tired, as 1t was after II o'clock, and
they had been in session since 730,
and had heard nothing but site, site,
site" Voting was fast and furious.
Things became twisted, and the South
Enders seemed to mistake a motion to,
proceed with the original proposition.