The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-07-14
SAYS He CAUSES
ALL THE TROUBLE
LOOKED SQUALLY IN COUNCIL
FOR A TIME, BUT ENDED
IN LOVE FEAST.
The Clerk, However, Did Not Take
Part in Last Act - Mayor Then
Made an Appeal for Harmony
Among the Council.

City council met in adjourned ses-
sion last night The meeting was held
mostly for the purpose of receiving
a report from the public works COM
mittee regarding the matter of street
grades. The committee reported that
the trolley line be required to come
up to the terms of the franchise in
building the line.
But more than this report happen
ed. Indeed, it looked rather squally
for a time and lively scenes were
enacted, but everything ended well
and maybe the little mixup will dc
more good than harm in the end, in
asmuch as it may be the means OF
bringing the council together in the
interest of the city.
The lively scenes were brought
on by report from the finance com
mittee relative to the board of edu-
cation. The report was lengthy
one; it showed just what had been
paid to the board of education fol
the past few years, what the board
had received from Town Commons
etc. But it was the last paragraph
Of the report which caused the dis
turbance. In this paragraph it was
stated that the 1903 appropriation OF
$4,000 was held up by the mayor. As
soon as the clerk finished reading the
report Mayor Hopkins opened the
dramatic section of the meeting.
Il am tired of this man (referring
to Clerk RusselD writing up all
kinds of lying reports about me. 1t
has got to stop, and stop tonight. That
part of the report rejecting On me is
a lie. l am responsible to any of you
after this meeting.
This little scoundrel,' the clerk
has been spending part of his time
getting up eX-parte reports to vent
his spleen against me. All | ask OF
you is to look at his reports before
you sign them. You took exception
to me on my vote for chief of the
fire department, in which present con-
ditions show that l acted wisely and
for the best interest of the city. The
clerk for some reason has a deadly
enmity for me. eInstead of coming to
me he takes this method of using the
official city organ for attacking me
to the public.
Through this mans instrumentality
you have this day restrained rela-
tons between city council and the
board of education.
Il ask you as council to eliminate
the clerk as an alderman.
Il want to call your attention to
the fact that in the resolution refer
ring to the police court, which was
introduced some time ago. on the
eve of the council meeting, the clerk
went to the marshals office and found
that no such condition existed. there
fore he gave false reports to the
committee. If the various commit
tees will frame their reports and not
take them from the clerk and if he
will attend to his own business and
not interfere in matters in which he
is not interested, he ana the council
will get along better"
After the address Of the mayor a
motion was made that the last para
graph of the report, which stated
that the mayor had held up the ap-
preparation of 1908 to the board of
education, be stricken, was made and
the report was then adopted.
After the adoption of the report and
after the paragraph had been stricken,
Mayor Hopkins again took the floor
and made a brief talk, in which he
appealed to council to stop its con-
tinuel wrangling.
81 don't know for what cause you
took exceptions to my actions early
in the year or for what reason I
have been antagonized to the extent
that I have, but I feel that the people
are tired of this wrangling, and if the
aldermen will discharge their duties
without assistance from the clerk
this wrangling will cease"
D The mayor then apologized to coun-
; eli for the necessity Of having used
such language He said that he
thought all of the wrangling could be
eliminated if the members of the
council would not call upon the clerk
for assistance.
Alderman Cox, who is chairman oi
+he finance committee. then took the
19or and made an address, iD which