Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-02
GIVEN A HARD SNUB
Aldermen Leave Mayor to Him.
self at Council Meeting for
Sewer Consideration.
THEIR PATIENCE EXHAUSTED
Will Not Even Consider Twenty-fourth
Street Fraud With Southwest
Enterprise.

What the city council thinks of Chiefo
Police McCaskrin. his attitude toward
that body and his antics in public, was
indicated by the members Saturday
night in concerted action totally il
noring him. He had called a special
meeting for that evening 10 consider
the sewer proposition and while al
of the aldermen but one assembled at
| the city hall they refused to go into a
meeting. AS is the custom previous
to the hour of assembling formally
they gathered in the police station and
the mayor was on the second floor pre-
pairing the instructions he was about
| TO give them.
Leave in Body.
| AS the hour for converting passed.
| some body said, Lets go home" and
| all of the others agreed. The result
was a walk-out and up town without
even sending an emissary TO the mayor
TO inform him that he would not be hon
ored with the aldermanic presence on that
| occasion. The mayor continued in his
conference with H. Craig Haverfield,
he of shotgun fame, presuming that
the aldermen were awaiting his pleas
ure. When he was through he found
that for once there was a harmonious
session, as he was The only one in at
tendance.
Storm Drain Politics.
In walking out the aldermen express
ed. and in this manner demonstrated
their contempt for the politics the
mayor is attempting to play not
only in his antics on the river
front last Friday. but with the
storm drain. The situation in brief is
that he is trying at the behest of influ-
ences now handling him to force down
their Threats aSettlement for the Twenty
fourth street drain in the passage of
and ordinance for the southwestern
system so urgently demanded by the
citizens of the lower end of the city.
He has tried to do it in committee. ana
in the call for this meeting, he had the
Twenty-fourth street drain tied on as
tail TO the kite of the big system
proposed for the benefit of the resi-
dents of the southern and eastern por-
tions of the city
Refuses to Stand.
On this proposition the aldermen re-
IuSG W Slduu WIFI MIN ana lneN are
making it plain. They authorized and
appropriated money for plans for the
southwestern drain, without any Nc
Caskrin kite tails to the proposition
They have been working on il and look
ing forward to it for several years.
Since the plans have been made known
the people are demanding it, especially
those in the lower portion of the city.
They have been urging the mayor to
act Every time he has anything to
say about it he drags in the Twenty
fourth street drain. which was disposed
of in the courts several months ago.
The aldermen are ready and anxious
to act upon the southwestern drain.
but they refuse to have mess of 9TH
er things tangled up with it.
Given No Chance.
Judging from the past it is reason
able to suppose that the mayor was
expecting TO grasp this occasion to tell
the council about his crazy antics with
relation to the railway tracks on the
levee, but the aldermen were not in a
mood to listen to any harangues OF |
that kind. as they were thoroughly dis. |
gusted with the whole affair.
The action was simply an indication |
Of what the councilmen think of Chief |
Of Police McCaskrin.