Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
COURT TIES HANDS
OF SCHMITZ' BOARD
NEW BOARD NOT ALLOWED TO
TAKE POSSESSION
Presiding Judge Coffey Grants InIunc-
tion Restraining Convicted
Mayors Appointees
Selling Offices
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-The issue
between the board of supervisors appoint
ed by Mayor Taylor and the fourteen
men named yesterday by ex-Mayor
Schmitz for the same offices was brought
into the courts today, when Presiding
Judge Coffey, on application of Attor-
ney w. B. Kolmeyer, on behalf of the
Taylor appointees, this afternoon issued
temporary restraining order to prevent
the Schmitz board from making any
move toward assuming office.
Kolmeyer, on behalf of the board, filed
the application for an injunction at the
office of the county clerk, alleging that
1t is part of the plan of the Schmitz
men to seize the Office records, seal and
other belongings of the supervisors and
attempt to usurp the authority OF the
board.
1t is alleged that Chief of Police Dinan
intends to aid the fourteen unlicensed
men in this raid upon the supervisors
offices, and the court is asked to restrain
| them all from doing anything in this d.
| rection.
Presiding Judge Coffey issued a tenn
porary restraining order and assigned the
| case to Judge Seawell in department one
] q. Tayior's Board Meets
| Mayor Taylor's new board of supervis-
ors held its first business meeting In the
| hall of Justice today, DR.. Taylor presid-
| ing. Standing committees were an
nounced. Ill but one of the eighteen
supervisors were present The absentee
was O. A. Tveitmoe, one of the two
Schmitz appointees holding over from the
| old board. He bolted the new board on
the night it took office, announcing that
he did not recognize DIR. Taylor as mayor
and therefore would not participate in the
actions of his board Tveitmoes col
league, J. j. O'Neill, also a Schmitz hold
over, was in his seat and took part In all
the business transacted. An inspection
of the list of standing committees shows
that while O'Neill was made a member
of five of the twenty and chairman of one,
Tveitmoe was completely ignored by Tay-
lor, The business done by the new board
at the first real session ran the gamut
from a $3.50 dog license to the creation
of a commissioner to represent san Fran
cisco in the Hetch-Hetchy controversy
before the secretary of the interior. In
cidentally bills for the total amount of
$25O,0OO were held up for scrutiny.
Refuse Fight Tickets
An incident of this first business meet
ing of the new board of supervisors was
both amusing and significant. On the
desk of each of the eighteen supervisors
had been deposited an envelope contain
ing two tickets to the Britt-Nelson
prize fight The envelopes were opened
Immediately after the meeting came to
order and after their contents had been
inspected Supervisor Matt Sullivan ad-
dressed the chair:
"Mr Mayor" he said, at is evident
that about $500 worth of graft has been
distributed in this room in the shape of
prizehght tickets. Never before have
been the recipient of this particular
kind of favor. Private life brought me
no such perquistes. 1 move that the
sergeant-at-arms be instructed to return
these tickets to the sender, and that he
be specially cautioned not to tarry by
the wayside and distribute them among
his own friends"
With a grim smile all around the mo-
ton was carried.
An observer remarked:
THAT means that the new board of
supervisors has its hand on the bell rope
and presently will ring the death knell
of professional prize fights in San Fran
cisco"