The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-22

. re ~ ne itAleFi was asked by Gill
zens to so into the council cham.
e ber, as his predecessors had done
and compel the members to act
g Mayor Guthrie refused, giving as
4 his reason that tie members of
t council had been elected to devise
city legislation and it was his duty
to rass. veto 1t II he considered 1t
, good or bad, otherwise he would
not even make suggestion.
All the time that he has been held
up Mayor Guthrie has been quiet Y
working with the Civic league, gath
ering data relative to the actions OF
the members of councis Owing to
the fact that the people having
LQharge of the Civic league work are
lpea"H all leading members Of the
bar, II Is the opinion that they
would not have nTadea move unless
they had ample evidence not6 provb
their charges in the information 70
I All the seven mefnberSfof 'couf
ci's were arrested n1ast hight. The
linfcrmations were maisn bef8re
MAGISTRATE sF. J!ls Brhdydiat central
Ipolice Station. as1Ie made out the
warrants, which were placed IN tn-'
hands of Supt. Thomas McQuade
He detailed members of the detec-
tive force to make the arrest Jac6"
Sonel, jr., was the first man ap-
pretended. He is a member or ele
firm of George Soffel g. Co, the larg-
est plumbing concern. in the city.
He appeared with his uncle, Peter
Soffel, of 119 Sycamore-st., who
went OH his bail for $4,000. His
arrest was followed by that of Capt.
Klein, who is steamboat man and
owner of sovera' excursion boats.
Klein had dlnicult time finding
bondsmen,, but Alderman Steve }
Tcole, formerly a Brooklyn pitcher
I in the American asSociation, was
found and went on CAPT Klein's
bond for $4,000. AS two counts
were made against Klein on the
same charges he had TO put up
All extra $4,000 BAH" aud Thomas
Delaney, owner of ths!l Delaney ho-
tel furnished the additional bail
! Hugh Ferguson is a contractor. He
considered the who.eG thing joke
and had Edward Davidson of 249
iOth-st. as bondsmanr for $4,000
William Brand, president of tho
common council, was very serious
about the matter when he brought
in with him his tpndsman, Charles
p. Naser of Pittsburg. These bridges
connect 6th-st., on the south side
of the Allegheny river, and Federal
ST., Allegheny, on the north side,
the 7th-st bridge connecting 7th-st.
Pittsburg and Sandusky-st., Allie
gheny the 9th-st. bridge connects
9th-st., Pittgburg and Anderson-st,,
| Allegheny.
\ Allegheny was Juine1 to Pittsburgh
\ last usprlngI andsaNlayor r1tjuthrlem.set
babouti tolibuy the bridges sarl rlaHfi to,
\ make pthem free! Every umoYe her
made was 9obstruGted bynthe fnanea
committee unttllnthei price, for the.
bridges were said to rhave been
raised beyond all reason, then copn,n.
ellis were ready to shove an ordin-
ance through to buy the bridges.
An attempt was also made ito. pass
an ordinance through TO build NJ a.
bridge at 1lth-st,, Pittsburg to eonr
meet with the North side, which the (
mayor vetoed.
In recent years Plttsburb has con-
structed ,arge filter beds In the
Allegheny river to filter the drink
ing water for Pittsburg proper /.
was ALLEGED that the beds were in
adequate and ordinances were pass
ed to vote for a bond issue for
additional flterlngs. These ordin-
ances were voted on last November
and passed. 1t is charged that the
finance committee of councils for a
consideration were in favor of sell
Ing The bonds to certain banks b,p.
The Heberton-st, railway fran, 4
chise Is said TO have been, puT-
chased by its promoters. from mem
bers Of council who voetd in, favor
of the ordinance, There Is alleged
to be.5a Gig "anake' In, the fran
tAise WHICH was got up to whip
the Pittsbprg Street Railway GO, in
TO line, o1 n6c ~,
No streets IN Pittsburg are, paved
with blccks of wood and when
councils decided by resolution to
pave 4th-av., with wood it raised
suspicion. It is said that the paw
ing of the street with wood was to
be an experiment to stop the noise
of traffic. 1t is alleged that dis
ccyeries have been made that the
members OF council received consid-
erations for the contract.
All the men arrested are candi-
dates for reelection. Soffel, who is
a common councilman. is candid
ate for seect council The whole