Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-04
ONE MORE PLOT
TOSTOP HARBOR
READY FOR NAIL
TERMINAL ISLAND BRUNT OF
LATEST SCHEME
FLEMING SAYS TACTICS WIN
FRIENDS FOR CONSOLIDATION
Trustee Foot Leaves with Wife for
Tia Juana, but Friends Say
He viii Be Back on
Tuesday
/ N eftort to deprive tho resldents Or p


n Terminal island precinct of the
"A right to vote at the San PEDRO
consolidation election August 12 is ex-
pected, and will be handled properly oy
the attorneys for the conSoildatloh
committees If it is sprung.
The plan is to attack the legality OF
the annexation by San Pedro on teen
nicaiitles with no real hope OF sepa-
rating the territory from the harpor
city. but with the intention of tying
the matter up in the courts so that the
vote in that territory may De re-
strained until too late.
II Is known by both sides on the con-
solidation fight that the residents Oh
the section formerly claimed by Long
Beach are heartily in favor of conson
dation the more so since the aclloh VI
the trustees on the Shaw lease. IL
they can be kept out of the eiectioh
the consolidation movement VIII 20
weakened in San Pedro accordingly
Trouble Is Expected
"We have been looking for something
of this sort" said A. p. Fleming yes
terday. land If 1t develops we shal! os
prepared for it. / don't believe the
voters on Terminal island can be denied
thelr right to vote. Onhand. ! should
saw that they can cast their ballots
without trouble, even If there is some
entanglement in the courts regarding
the annexation"
It is presumed that the attack, II II
is made. will be on the ground that the
territory involved IN the annexatt1n 1's9 tI,,l
was incorrectly described in calling the
election and that other irregularities
will be alleged.
on the other hand, there are rumors
that colonization may be attempted III
the Terminal island precinct with a
view to confusing the election result in
the newly acquired territory.
San Pedro is full of rumors, ana the
harbor city shows a tense excitement
about consolidation and "harbor grabs
that is noticeable in all sections. one
of the most startling rumors which
spread yesterday was that enough trus-
tees would be absent from San Pedro
Tuesday TO make a quorum Impossible.
so that il would be likewise impossi-
BILE to pass the resolution calling the
consolidation election for August IL.
Foot OFF for South
This rumor was started because
Trustee +. d. Foot left yesterday
morning on the steamer for San Diego,
accompanied by Mrs Foot. His friends
assert, however, that he will be in san
Pedro again Monday and will be at
the meeting of the trustees Tuesday.
! Cooler heads among the consolida-
ationists do not place much credence In
/ the statement that the trustees Will
dodge the consolidation resolution by
failure to have quorum Tuesday. In
the end they would gain nothing, and
1t is hardly believed in San Pedro that
they would dare go against public SEN
timent, already greatly wrought up.
That the trustees have any intention
It.,Tr sl.a aggffN of l.
dation resolution has been denied by
j. w. Walton, president of the board.
II want to be put on record" said
President Walton to a Herald reporter,
las having asked the city attorney If
there would be ample time for passage
of the resolution If the routine OF CIV
ing until next Tuesday for it's prepara-
ton were gone through with. He re-
piled that it's passage then would be in
good time, and 1t was accordingly al
lowed to take the regular routine of
waiting over a meeting for its prepara-
tion. If it were deemed desirable to
hold a meeting this week for the as
sage of the resolution there would have
been three trustees on hand for that
purpose"
1t was stated that Trusteet Foot had
gone to Tia Juana to see the bullfght
and that two of his friends were to
leave by train for Tia Juana last night,
the entlfe party returning 10 oan re-
dro Monday evening.
Tactics Winning Friends
1--WE don't care If he goes to the bull
fight" said e. d. Seward, secretary of
the San PedrJ consolidation committee,
last night, "but we do want to see him
back here for the meeting of the trus-
tees Tuesday.
''All this turmoil and excitement Is
making votes for consolidation in
fbunches Many who have heretofore
been against the merger now say that
something must be done to stop the
b. harbor steals and that the charter of
Los Angeles will provide the relief
which is so urgently needed"