New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-04-13
WERE MEEK and CONTR|TE
Aldermen Confirm Mayor Silver.
sons Appointments.
Henry N. Somsen Attorney and
Louis Schilling Assessor.
Expected Opposition Fails Entire
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named as city attorney by Mayor
Charles Silverson and the appoint
ment was confirmed by the council.
The expected opposition to the mayors
appointees failed to materialize and
the list went through with hardly al
glimmer of obstinacy. The aldermen
coAld not refrain entirely from a show
of vindictiveness, however, and retail
ated for the supposed slap at their
official dignity by reducing the salary
of the city attorney to $3.50 per annum.
Aid. Herman Nagel appeared at the
meeting we'll primed with neatly type
written resolutions and at intervals
they were adopted by his associates.
In anticipation of the ruction which
rumor said was to follow the reading
of Mayor Silverson's appointments, a
big crowd gathered in the council
chamber. Every few minutes it was
augmented by new arrivals until the
room was we'll filed and all of the
chairs taken. Aid. Amann was the
only member absent.
When the new council had been
called to order Wd. Eibner was re-
elected as president unanimously and
the bonds of the various city officers
were then fixed as follows: treasurer,
800, 900; clerk, $4,000; justices, $500;
and constables, $500. Salaries were
then taken up and at this point Aid.
Nagel produced his batch Of ready
made resolutions. The first provided
that the mayor be paid 500 per an
mum; city clerk, S75 per month; treas
urer, SIS per month; aldermen, 800 a
year: marshal, $50, and patrolmen,
$45 per month; and city attorney, $3.50
per annum. Last year this official re-
ceived $500 but the amount is now re-
turned to the old basis. The second
''Nagel" resolution appropriated $50
year to the poundmaster on condi-
ton that he secure suitable inclos-
ure. .-4@
Mayor Silverson submitted his ap-
pointments, which were as follows:
Henry N. Somsen, city attorney; Lou
is Schilling, assessor; Geo. Book,
surveyor; Adolph Klause, marshal;
Jos. Weissenborn and Jos. A, Tauer,
patrolmen; Chas. Klotz, street com
missi oner; Jno. Nun, ST., poundmaster.
What followed did not even border
on the sensational. Aid. Gieseke
offered a motion that the appointments
be confirmed and Aid. Richartz start
ed to object, but he subsidized when
Aid. Flor seconded. The latter stated
that he was not in favor of the city
attorney at the outset but had changed
his mind. To this Richartz replied:
II can't change my mind on it, - and
when the roll was called he was the
only member voting nay.
Tt had been understood that Aid.
Nagel was Of the ''antis'' but he voted
meekly with the majority and came up
smiling after the body blow with an
other resolution, this time to appoint
Robt. Scherer as a member of the
board of health for a term of three
years and Albert Steinhauser to fill
the unexpired term of VIM. Frank, re-
signed. Aid. Richartz introduced a
resolution naming the Journal as the
al paper of the city; the bonds of
twenty-seven saloon keepers, the two
justices and the city treasurer were
approved; and then the chair an
nounced that the lighting station az
pointments were in order.
At this iuncture the fact that he was
prepared with a resolution embodyi
everything completely escaped Aid.
Nagel's mind and he did not recall it
until reminded by City Attorney Eek
stein. In response to that officials
bunch he came out Of his trance with
a start and produced the document
from an inner pocket. 1t named the
employees, with the salaries to be paid
monthly, as follows: Adolf Wagner,
superintendent, sl00; VIM. Leonhardt,
engineer, $50; VIM. L. Tanley, as
sistant engineer, $50; Emil Rachel,
electrician, $50; Lorenz Postel and
Herman Lehnart, fireman, each $50. In
one instance the councilmen were eco
nomical, for they reduced the superin-
| tendent's stipend from Sl25 to $500.
| A recess of ten minutes was taken
to allow the president to select his
standing committees, which he later
ann ounced as follows:
! Lighting and waterworks Gieseke,
Nagel, Amann.
Streets and sewers -Nagel, Richart
Amann.
Parks and cemetery Richartz,
Amann
Fire department Flor, Richartz.
Buildings and grounds Richartz,
| Flor.