The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-18
GALLAGHER
IS NOW THE
ACTING MAYOR
SUPERVISORS PASS RESOLUTION
DECLARING SCHNIITZ UNABLE
TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES.
DEFENSE TO FIGHT THE MOVE
Reform Mayor to Succeed Gallagher
and Entire Schmitz Administra-
tiOn Is to BE Ousted.
tDy Associated rress.)

SAN FRANCISCO, June IT,
Acting under orders from District
Attorney William II. Langdon, the
board of supervisors shortly after
O'Clock tonight adopted a resolution
declaring Mayor Eugene Il. Schmitz
temporarily unable to perform his Of
fetal duties and appointing Supervi-
sol James l.. Gallagher acting mayor.
The latter says he will assume the
mayoralty at once, and he denies that
he has made with the district at
torney or anyone else any agreement
to resign at command, in order to
make way for reform mayor, whose
name is yet to be announced.
Mr.. Langdon, Assistant District
Attorney Heney, Rudolph Spreckels
and their immediate assistants in the
bribery-gratt prosecution are by this
move placed i'll actual control of the
| municipal situation. That they will
be allowed to so remain without y
gal contest by the convicted mayors
attorneys Is not expected. 1t is the
plan of the prosecuting forces to call
for the resignation in a few days of
some one of the eighteen supervisors.
This forthcoming, Acting Mayor Gal
lagher will appoint to the vacancy a
So soon as he takes office Gallagher
will resign from the mayors chair
and his resignation will be accepted.
The board, acting under orders from
the prosecution, will then elect the
new member its president pro tenn
pore, and by virtue of that office he
will at once become acting mayor.
The man most persistently mentioned
for this place is Attorney Joseph
Dwyer, president of the Independ-
ence league, but that political con
nection is said to render him unac-
ceptable to Mr.. Spreckels, the fnan-
| cial guarantor of the whole bribery
graft investigation.
The first action of the reform
mayor, IL the prosecution program
is carried out, will be to demand the
resignation of practically the entire
Schmitz administration, whose places
will be filled with reform agents as
fast as the vacancies are made. I'm
less disturbed by the courts, the new
regime will endure until next Jan
uary, the time for the Induction of
the officers to be chosen at the mu
nicipal election next November.
Mayor SchmitZ, convicted last
week of the crime of extortion, re-
mains prisoner Ill the city ana
county Jail. He is to be sentenced
by Judge Dunno June 27th. His
lawyers maintain that his incarcera-
ton does not disable him from per-
forming the duties of Office, and they
say the action of the board of su-
pervisors is revolutionary and en-
tirely Illegal. 1t is understood they
will test the latter claim by institut-
ing quo warranto proceedings, ap-
plying for writ of review, or asking
for an injunction restraining Gala
CHER from assuming the mayoralty
The resolution declaring the
mayors chair vacant and appointing
Supervisor Gallagher to fill it, was
adopted after u fight on the floor. 1t
was opposed by Supervisors Tveitmoe
and ONeill. 1t was voted for by
twelve supervisors, each of whose
confessions to bribe-taking is tran
scribed in the grand jury records.
AS none of these has been indicted
for bribe-taking the general under
standing is that they are to escape
punishment If they continue to do
the bidding of the district attorney
and his prosecuting assistants. No
denial of this has been made by Mr.
Langdon, Mr.. Heney or Mr.. Spreek-
els.