The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-24
AT HIS BACK.
City Council May Stop Pay of
Employees.
Applies to Those Who Try to
Hold Places.
MIR. FORBES MAY QUIT.
License Collector Shows DispO-
sitiOn to Give Up.
Supt. Goodrich to Have In
vestigation He Demanded.

The city council win back UP Mayor
Bergundthal. and win in all probability
refuse to allow pay after May L for any
city officials who are holding Office in
spite OF the demands of Mr.. Eergund-
thars new aDDointees.
Street Commissioner Snyder. License
Collector Page and Superintendent
Mitchell of the electric light plant. ali
new appointees of Mr.. Bergundthal. are
planning to take charge of their re.
Epective Offices on May I. There may
be something doing in Topeka on that
date besides the visit Of President
Roosevelt.
City Physician Judd will also retire on
May T. and w. D. Storrs win take his
place. Judd is the only old incumbent
who has manifested a cheerful dispOsi-
tiOn about giving up his job. The OILS
anpointees who are trying to hold Oh
are G. n. GslsGs. street commissioner
j.. H. Forbes. license collector. and h.
X. Goodrich. superintendent of the cleo
trio light plant MI Goodrich. however
says lie is wiling to quit as soon as the
cuuatu INVESTIGATES his management OF
the plant and certiies that everything
ls an right This investigation is to be
made this afternoon and this evening.
License Collector Forbes is beginuins5
to weaken i'm his fiat refusal to give up
lis job until May %. He came to H. W
Haee, the Bsrgundthal appOintee, on
IhursQaY and offered to give up his
place On Aiay Is. Page said he would
CONSIDER the offer IhereuDon Forbes
went to Mayor Bergundthal and told
nlm tnat he FAD fixed it uD with Page
To- turn over the office on May Is.
Page says he made no such agree
ment and zoe IS planning to make a de-
nland on Forbes for possession of the
books Of the office ON May l. He went
LcfoLe city clerk Squires this afternoon
u.ed his bond Of $500 and took the oath
OF office. ~ is ready to begin business
Immediately, and there is no doubt that
the council " al give him the best Of
IL u it comes TO "A fight
FORBES is very sore at BergundthaI
because he thinks BergundthaI has mis-
treated him Forbes was an original
Hughes man, and he has never gotten
over it, He was appointed by Hughes
hung TO his job through Parker's adj
ministration. supported Hughes for the
nomination second time. and when
the break came. Topped to Bergundthal
He thought by doing this he would be
retained in his place, but Mr. Bergund-
thai has "a different idea about it, and
appointed Page. who was the manager
of the Bergundthal campaign and stood
by him from the start.
Mayor Bergundthal said today: Mr.
Forbes called upon me. and told me
that he had arranged with Page to sur
render possession on May Is. I simply
told him that whatever Arrangement he
made with Page was all right with me.
MI Page tells me that he made no such
Arrangement"
COMM1TTEE MEETING TONIGHT
This evening the Republican city
central committee will hold its final
meeting The meeting viii probably be
a short one. and there is no business
Of great Importance to be transacted.
The principal thing viii be TO decide
what viii be done with the $40 which
the committee has left from its cam
paign fund. There are some who want
the money returned to the candidates
who paid il in, but the probability is
that it viii be allowed to remain in the
funds of the committee. as starter for
the campaign work in the next city
election. The amount is so small that
each of the candidates would only re-
Ccive a few dollars apiece
THE GOODRICH INV INVESTIGATION.
This afternoon the committee on
streets and walks will meet for the pur-
pose eff investigating the charge that
the city electric light plant has been
allowed TO deteriorate under the man
aRement of II. K Goodrich. Mr.. Good
rich demanded an investigation of this