The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-09-25
East Chicago Council Dis
appoints by Failure to
Name Committees.
TRY PROCRASTINATION.
When These Tactics Fail To Wear
Out Patience of Gallery" Adj
journment Is Moved.

The East Chicago city council held
Its regular weekly meeting at the city
hall last night and transacted consid-
erable business of minor Importance.
The council chamber was crowded with
citizens who had come to hear the
mayors appointment of committees.
but they were destined to be disap
pointed for the mayor and the council
sidestepped this, the most important
work of the session. and adjourned un-
til Wednesday when it is expected that
the appointments will be announced.
This delay is said to be victory
for the business men of the city who
are lighting the attempt Of the coun-
ell to place Alderman O'Girr on the
committee as chairman. Indiana Har-
Dor, which is a part of East Chicago.
is about to have nearly 100000 worth
Of street improvements made and the
residents of that portion of East Chi
cago are not willing that so important
a work be entrusted to a man like
O'Girr, who has done nothing but op-
pose the improvements from the very
start
So they did as they have done on
several other occasions when the peo-
pie of the Harhor were anxious to have
their interests properly looked after.
They caas to sthe council meeting in a
BODY and their smile of approval or
their frown of disapproval has always
been effective with the fractioAs mem
beIs.
There was such strong pressure
brought to bear on the members that
the program of appointments that had
been originally decided upon by the
mayor and councilmen, was quickly
discarded and the consideration of the
matter of appointing committees was
postponed.
A peculiar thing about the meeting
was the method the councilmen took
TO avoid consideration of the subject
Method in their Badness.
Every bit of business under the sun
that the council could possibly trans
act was brought before it. Unimport-
ant subjects were discussed for TWEEN
ty minutes or more when they might
have been settled in five. The more
important matte were debated for
from haif to thre quarters of an hour
The crowd saw the game and stuck to
their posts. Measure after measure
was brought up for consideration and
after 1t had killed the required amount
Of time. was referred to the proper
committee. The matter of the tax
levy was the star time-killer of ,he
whole batch Of measures that came III
for. consideration and was finally fix
ed at $i.SS. About IL o'clock, when il
became apparent that the people were
wiling to stick all night if necessary
the council decided to adjourn.
One OF the Indiana Harbor aldermen
moved the adjournment as the last
car was about to leave for the Har-
Dor. One OF the other councilmen ask
ed about the appointments that were
about to be made by the mayor The
first speaker said he did not feel like
remaining in East Chicago all night
even to hear the mayors appoint
ments,
Then one of the aldermen gave away
the fact that the list of committee ap-
polntments had been framed up b,
the gang when he said that he moved
that the mayor ignore the appoint
ments that had already been decided
upon ana postpone the matter until {
later day.
With sigh OF relief the meeting
broke up and the suspense was con
tinued until Wednesday.