Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-10
IF THE MAYOR DON'T
 CHANGE HIS MIND
RESIGNATION HE PROMISES TO GIVE COUNCIL WILL MAKE
 TROUBLE.
City Will Be Without Head for Sixty Days, in Opinion of Attorneys, Who Think Special Election Will Have to Be Had--Suits Possible.

Unless Mayor Taylor changes his mind. the next session of the City Council will receive his resignation. The latter is prepared. consisting merely of the words, T hereby re- sign As yet it Is a probable dOCu- ment and will remain so until the Mayor calls d meeting of the Council and presents it to that body. Then. If he insists upon fits being accepted, the city will be without a Mayor.
 in the latter event, the city's hands will be tied for sixty days, so far as the taking of definite steps with refer ence to any ordinance. contract or pay ment of funds may be concerned. This will be for the reason that. in the opinion of attorneys seen last night, special election will have 10 be called to fill the office Of Mayor Under law enacted last winter councilmen may be appointed hy Council to fill vacancies arising. but the Mayor must be elected by the people. Also pri- aries must be held sixty days prior to an election.
 Aside from the expense that a spe- cial election in the city for Mayor would incur, much embarrassment would be inevitable during the sixty day intermlssion. The new city hall, about which the Mayor exerted him self in urging the need of haste. will be held up So will street paving This unless the contractors are willing to 20 ahead with their work and take their pay when they can get It. for there will be no one authorized to sign warrants for the extraction of funds from the city treasury during the time the city is without a Mayor.
 The sewer matter will also be held up. Damage suits against the city | by those holding contracts with 1t Tor f the payment of certain sums at cer' | tain times will be possible also. Among | those having such contracts are the sewer engineer, the city hall excaya' | ton contractor, and all the city em ployes.
 Paving Contractor Brown, if faith is kept with him, will also have such contract. He yesterday signed the
 contract prepared for the work he IS to do. and left for Dallas in the even ing with assurance that the Mayor and Council would forthwith sign the
 contract he had put his name to. All of this is possible from the view of at torneys seen last night, though none of them said they would take positive ground without going more thorough ly into the law than they had yet had | time to do.
 The resignation of Mayor Taylor was promised by that official some | weeks ago as soon as he could close
 his townsite books. These were clos | ed a couple of weeks back, or at least
 supposed to have been.
 1 in statements to the Council at dlf
 ferent meetings. the Mayor reiterated determination to resign. His reason
 for so doing, according to his oWr
 statement, was that the city was rush
 ing headlong into more indebtedness than it could handle, and that he hao had enough trouble, without waiting to share more. All the expenditures i ahead. which the Mayor expressed | himself as believing would load the city with more debt than it could car ry were advocated before the Coun cil by the Mayor The only expendl
 ture opposed by him was that Of soZ'
 to go to the subway cleaning fund.-