The daily sentinel., 1909-04-22
FAILED TO PROVE
THEIR ACTS LEGAL
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of the minutes. There was no way
TO answer Gasho's demand except TO
grant it. Gasho was right and Mayor
Lee and the anti-saloon aldermen
knew it, Alderman Drew Joined DR..
Gasho in the demand for a reading
of the minutes. The mayor realized
that IL would be useless to attempt to
hold back the minutes any longer and
he ordered them read.
Clerk Norbeck then read the ex-
tensiye minutes of the last meeting
He had them well compiled and read
them clearly. The minutes plainly
recorded the Illegal manner in which
"elections' were held and motions
passed al the Monday night meeting
When Clerk Norbeck finished the
reading of the minutes Alderman
Gasho arose and formally entered the
following written objections to the
minutes
Objections to certain portions of
the records of proceedings, of a meet
ing of the city council, of the city of
Grand Junction, Colorado, held on
the evening of April 10, 1909.
Pursuant to Section No. 6675 of
the revised statutes of the state of
Colorado for 1908, which law gov
erns this council in such matters,
demand that all portions of the min
utes relating to the election of Off
GERS to fill the offices of chief of
police, street commissioner, assistant
chief of fire department, driver of
fire department, city attorney, police
magistrate, and the official paper and
city printing; the record of voting by
no oil
and declarations calling for Il yea and
nay vote for the election of the above
named officers, and all declarations
of election, be stricken from the min
utes, except that part wherein the
vote for candidates for these offices
was taken by ballot. and further that
that the above objections be made a
matter df record.
Signed this the 21st day of April,
1909.
CHAS. GASHO,
Alderman from First Ward.
After reading these objections
which show in an absolutely incon-
trovertible manner that the actions of
the council on Monday night regard
ing the work referred to in these
objections. were illegal, Alderman
Gasho moved that the objections be
adopted Alderman Drew seconded
the motion.
Alderman McCary got up and
declared that the question before the
council was simply the adoption of
the minutes and whether they were
minutes of illegal transactions or
not, the minutes should be adopted.
He declared that if anything unlaw-
full had been done there was redress
in the courts" He thought that the
mayor should rule the objections out
of order
Alderman Gasho then in a clear
and convincing manner declared that
the minutes as read were the re-
corded minutes of council and
should they be allowed to stand ap-
proved in view of the fact that they
recorded illegal transactions, they
would not stand in any court. He
declared that to adopt these minutes
without clearing them of illegal
records, would indicate that the
council proposes to attempt to make
Illegal actions legal. He declared
that the minutes of any council
should show only what had been
legally done. Many other effective
arguments sustaining the objections
were presented by Alderman Gasho.
that If the minutes are Illegal there
is some way to attack them but that
he believed the minutes were cor
rect record of what was done Mon
day night and should be allowed to
stand. Evidently the mayor and the
four aldermen who participated in
the Illegal actions of Monday night
were not willing to correct their
errors but were willing to allow the
city to go to expensive court proceed
ings to have them corrected. There
fore the mayor ruled the objections
out of order. The mayor was again
proceeding at the instance of Lacy
McClintock, the Illegally selected
"city attorney" who is the man real
ly responsible for the entire unlawful
proceedings.
Alderman Gasho then declared that
the minutes of the council should be
the legal records of legal acts He
pointed out that the law plainly
shows that the actions of Monday
night were grossly Illegal. He asked
that if this council proposes not to
do anything Illegal why does 1t not
be consistent by striking from the
minutes illegal records. He de-
clared that the council was attempt
ing to call men elected who had not
been elected and was riding rough
shod over the law.
1--WE are here" declared Alderman
Gasho, "as the chosen representa-
tiyes of 10000 to 10000 people liv-
ing in Grand Junction. We on both
sides of this council represent tax
payers. Maybe the people werepresent