The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-31
CONVICT MAKES
APPOINTMENTS
Schmltz, From the Dark Re.
cesses of the County Jail,
Insists He Is Mayor.
NEW LIST OF SUPERVISORS
MEN ALL FROM UNION LABOR
RANKS.

san Francisco. July 30-Eugene
Schmitz. the convicted mayor, today
made the following appointments to fill
the vacancies created by the forced re-
signations CT fourteen members of the
board of supervisors Schmitz claiming
lhe right of appointment on the ground
mat he is the de jure mayor of San
Francisc:
William Cole, carpenter, building
trades council
T. j. Tierney, cement worker. build
ing trades council.
Thomas Maxwell, carpenter. amalga-
mated carpenters.
Henry Sheehan, painter. building
trades council.
P. D. Hawthorne. rigger and steve
dore, member city front federation.
J. A keagh, musician, labor council.
2. w. Myers, machinist, labor coun-
Gil
J. F. Leonard. electrician. labor
council.
j. Williams, master plumber.
J. j. Henry, steamfitter, labor coun
John McCracken, department store
clerk.
Charles l. Berry. printing pressman,
allied printing trades.
Charles Warcourt, blacksmith, labor
council.
All of these fourteen but Mr. Berry
have accepted, and his acceptance is
expected today
Mayor SchmitZ will appoint a sue
cessor to be supervisor in place of Nc
Gushin, when the latter's resignation,
which was not forthcoming yesterday,
is submitted
Schmitz mas already appointed a
successor to Supervisor BoxtOn, whose
resignation was handed in at the time
of his election to the mayOralty. The
seventeenth and eighteenth menu ers
of the board, Tvietmoe and O'Neill
remain in office undisturbed by the
bribery graft prosecution because they
did not take office originally until after
the alleged briberies which are now
being prosecuted.
Statement by Schmitz.
In giving out his appointments today
Mayor SchmitZ made the following
statement:
These appointments will be signed
by me today at the county jail, where
l am still confined, and will be at once
delivered by nv secretary TO the four
teen appointees at my Office at Post
and Franklin streets. They will go
from there to the county clerks office
and take oath of office, after which
they will present their credentials TO
the clerk of the board of supervisors.
''They will meet in special session at
the hall of justice either tomorrow or
Thursday and organize for business.
Supervisors ONeill and TveitmOe will
be invited to attend and participate in
this meeting. 1 presume they will do
So
Il wish to make this comment on the
municipal situation: / am exceedingly
sorry to see this supervisorial tangle,
for it is likely to cause a deal of liti-
cation for the city and county of San
Francisco for years TO come. My own
course is clear. Acting upon the adj
vice of my attorney, which l believe to
be absolutely legal, 1 hold that 1, as
the mayor of San Francisco, have the
sole power of appointments to vacan-
cies in municipal office, and that the
appointive acts of Mr.. Edward r. Tay
lOr are void and incapable of legal
support. That, however, is for the
courts to decide, and 1 assume that
they will be called upon for determine
ton soon after the TWO boards of SUI
pervisors get down to business. If any
other municipal vacancies occur, by
voluntary decentralization is the
only kind of vacating force 1 shall re-
cognize-I shall promptly fill them by
appointment Incumbents will pay no
attention TO attempted removals by
Mr.. Taylor.
Union Labor Men Only.
Il wish to call attention to one fact: |
/ have appointed union labor men only
to the vacancies in the board of super
visors. In doing so I have observed
strictly a custom that has long been
traditional, namely, that the appoint
i've power shall fill vacancies from the
ranks of the political parties from
which the original incumbents were
elected. The people elected a union |
labor board of supervisors, and it is |
my duty to preserve that political rep
in office. If the people de- |
sire a board of some other political !
faith they will so announce at the next |
election"
Mr.. Schmitz complained that his pri- |