Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
MAYOR AND ENGINEER CLASH
Discharge Of Bridge Foreman HOyt by
LATTER stnris Trouble.

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Latter starts Trouble,
Mayor Maloney wants to know if any
among the members of the city council or
the municipal official force wants 10
attempt to tread on the tail of his coat,
The mayor feels that some of the city
officials have been taking unto themselves
some Of the authority which the statutes
confer upon the chief executive of the city.
Within the last few days the entente cor
dale between the mayor and certain mem
bers OF the city council and the municipal
official family has received n shock, the
echo from which. It is said. will be heard
at the meeting of the city council tonight.
Mayor Maloney will, it is said, explain to
some of the members Of the city council
where the city ordinances and state statutes
give them the right to head i'm and
where they do not.
Bill Hoyt, bridge foreman under Tim
Flood, the street commissioner is. so to
speak, the 'casus beli." Recently the
bridge gang was directed by the city en-
gincer to make certain repairs to the
bridge over Indian creek at Fleming ave-
nue.. While the repairs were being carried
out the bridge collapsed. city Engineer
Etnyre and Councilmen Jensen and skods-
holm. whom, it is alleged. did not feel over
friendly towards Mayor Maloney's APP
pointee. held a council of war and as a
result notified Hoyt that he was dis
charged. Now it happens that under the
statutes Mayor Maloney has the appoint
ing of both the street commissioners and
the bridge foreman, also the discharge OF
| such officers
When the mayor learned that these three
officials had discharged Hoyt without con-
sulting him he told Hoyt to stick to his
job, and Hoyt stuck. Then the mayor
started out to do things. He first called
at the office of the city engineer and had
a short heart to heart talk with that
official.
when I find that I cannot run the
mayors office then ! will turn it over to
YOU, but until that happens I want you
g understand that I do not want you but
ing in where you dc not belong said the
0ayor to the city engineer.
It is understood that the mayor will tell
~ouncilmcn Skodsholm and Jensen a few
hings at the meeting Of the city council
.onight and incidentally, it is understood,
MS remarks will be intended for all the
members OF the city council, whom the
mayor says. have been fighting him and
his appulntees ever since the appointments
were made.
LAS 7 understand it," said the mayor
Yesterday, "Hoyt was not to blame for the
collapse of the bridge. I have been in
formed that he was carrying out the direc-
! tons of the city engineer. 1t looks as IL
hey wauted to make n scapegoat Of a
nan who is trying to support q family on
= raltry s. a day, Hoyt was appointed by
nc, and the only way he can he pried loose
rom The job is. by filing and proving
harEes of neglect or incompctency against
nm"
The Board of state Railroad commissions
Hs will be in Council Bluffs today for the
rIrpose of investigating and settling II pos
;bIe the controversy between the Omaha
Council Bluffs Street Railway company
md the Burlington and Wabash railroads
yer the crossings of the proposed extern
ion Of the street car line to the School
or the Deaf.
The railroad commissioners will be at
he Grand hotel, where a conference will
O. held in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, and
'veryone interested in the matter, 1t is
r-derstood, is invited to attend the meet
ing