Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-14
Sc WEIR MONEY
RETAINED BY
BLANCHARD
WALLACE AND WREN GO DOWN
FIGHTING
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS
ARE PlTTED
AI-Day Debate in Council Fails to
Change Status of $4,000
Voted to Ninth
Ward

After an all-day speech making session
the city council yesterday decided that
Boyle Heights was entitled to Its $42, 900
dip into the city treasury to build sewers,
Councilman Wallace and Wren alone vot-
ing In the negative. Previously Council
men Wren voted for the measure. when
Chairman Wallace OF the finance commit
tee was absent in Washington, but he an
nounced then that he did so merely to
be in a position to reopen the question.
The five-minute limit rule for speeches
was suspended from the start council
men and citizens representing the i'm
provement associations speaking for and
against the proposition until their voices
became husky.
Chairman Wallace won praise and crit
icism from those who debated. though
most of the speakers admitted that he had
made hard fight single handed during
the last two weeks. 1t was after
o'clock when the vote was taken.
Rees Scores Wallace
Former Councilman Samuel Rees bit
terly scored Wallace and was followed
by former Mayor William Workman. who
pleaded for the sewers, but in the same
breath denounced the personal attacks
made on the Fifth ward member.
The morning session was given over to
the advocates of restitution of the money
to the treasury. The other side held the
floor In the afternoon
1.-The intellectual giant of the Fifth ward
has shown himself to be moral pigmy,'
said Rees, pointing at Wallace, who
smiled at the fling. "He has vllified our
citizens of the Ninth ward. pacing up and
down the city shouting like a maniac.
IF the 1906 bond issue had been suf-
ficient we should then have been spared
the sad spectacle of one member of the
council disturbing the peace of the city
and attempting to besmirch the good
name of his fellow members of the coun-
Gil and villifying the citizens Of the Ninth
ward.
1.-THE gentleman from the Fifth ward
has eloquently entertained the people OF
the city. He has stirred up strife and
generated animosities, but while so doing
he has very ingeniously contorted the
truth and covered up the real facts
How Trouble Started
''If the money from the first bond issue
voted In 1902 or 1903 to build certain main
sewers, including the Ninth ward
branches, had been enough to build the
same then no issue would have been
raised and the gentleman from the Fifth
ward would have lost great deal of
publicity.
'If it Is not right for the city at large
to build main sewers for the Ninth ward
then 1t is not right but manifestly unjust
to compel the Ninth ward to help for
main sewers in other wards"
Former. Councilman Rees had intimated
that the councilmen must be ninkom-
poops and mollycoddles to let Wallace
pull the strings. puppet-like. and added
that Wallace had suggested that boodline
tactics were used, when Chairman Wal
lace jumped up, saying:
Now, you take that back No one evel
intimated that boodling entered into the
case"
guarded in his utterances, whereat Rees
said:
81 bow to the decision of the president
but 1 will not take it back for the gentle
man from the Fifth
Workman Deprecates Sectionalism
Former Mayor William Workman fol-
lowed. Immediately declaring himself as
against the sectionalism that had been
introduced into this fight.
II think Mr.. Wallace Ia sincere in his
fight" said he, land had the bond money
held out he would have said Amen; go
ahead with the work
This. however, is no steal or grab.
Boyle Heights has been cheerfully paying
years but has got mighty little out of the
whole amounts.
1.-THE excess in taxes growing out of
this Improvement will more than pay
back the $4,000 to the city in taxes
Former Councilman Nofziger then re-
viewed the history of the legislation.
showing how the Ninth ward had been
plainly given to understand that 1t would
get these sewers just as other wards had
cfO tuhi G 10
they wanted out of the bond issue.
Councilman Dromgold reviewed the
speeches, adding that possibly the board
of public works had done unwisely in not
calling the council together when the Ar
lngton sewer complications arose, though
he said he was not trying to criticise the
board.
"Blanchard Diplomat"
TITS all tommyrot about the steal and
grab" said the First ward lawmaker.
Boyle Heights got the call, that's all
Pop Blanchard is a great diplomat and he
got the first mortgage on the money"
President James Anderson of the board
of public works explained that the south
ern boundary sewer was deemed neces-
sary first, which explains why so much
money was put into that feature.
Chairman Wallace, who had made one
of the lengthiest speeches of the year al
the morning session, reviewed the after.
moons developments at length, express
ing a willingness that the sewer moneys
be voted to all the wards as needed, pro-
vided Boyle Heights stood willing to take
it's chances under the boards direction
with other sewer claimants.
This was voted down.
In the final vote Councilman Wren of the
Third ward alone lined up with Wallace
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