The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-21
CALLED MAYOR A LIAR
AND HE WOULD BACK IT
Police Commissioner childs Of Burlington
Was Called achump' BY the
MayOr--A Warm
Session.

Burlington. June 2i.-The board of po
lice commissioners held a meeting Sat
urday evening at 7;3o o'clock to consider
charges Of physical incompeteney pre-
ferred By the mayor against Policemen
German and Mongeop on the ground that
neither Is five feet eight inches in height
and that neither was Of that height Al
the time Of his appointment The mayor
gave the commissioners a letter stating
that because the commissioners had pre-.
viously reported 0ficer German to be un.
der five feet eight inches in height, he
had removed him from the force and
withdrew the present charges against
that officer.
The board voted that as the measure
ment Of Policeman German 10 which the
mayor referred had not been taken under
the standard made By Commissioner
Childs and adopted BY the board as its
standard for measuring policemen, the po-
liceman be measured Under this standard,
He was found to b five feet eight and
quarter inches in height. The board
then voted 70 amend It's previous records
on this point to make them conform TO
The finding Of the board under it. present
standard.
Policeman Mongeon was measured by
the board with its standard and found
to Be Ave feet eight and half inches
in height. Both officers we're measured
wearing their shoes. as the board had
previously decided should be the rule.
Before adjournment the board unani-
mously voted not 10 sustain the charges
Of the mayor against Policeman Mongeon
and to find the fact that be is five feet
eight and a half inches tall.
Mayor Burke appeared IS complainant,
City Attorney Villas represented the city
and II. S. Peck and r. y. Brown repre-
sented the policemen.
The hearing was prolonged until nearly
midnight and was never tame or mild.
The mayor, the attorneys for the officers
and the commissioners we're frequently
involved in sharp controversies, In which
the mayor WAS usually strenuous and
uneompromising Toward the close Of
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" angry at the repeated rulings Of the
board against him, and affirmed his in
tent TO stay BY the position he had tax.
en- and "a carry the case to the highest
courts, at the same time fiefoely denoune.
ing the attitude Of the commissioners.
AS the mayor started 20 leave The IN
closure within the rail he several times
called Chairman Powers q chumpl"
This finally angered Mr.. Powers, who
came out Of the inclosure toward the
mayor, forced the door shut as the may
or was trying to open H. and demanded
OF the mayor what he meant BIZ calling
him "a chump.p simply because be did
not agree with him. The mayor repeated
the term, where upon Mr Powers standing
very close. several tinlss called the mayor
a liar and before the parties became calm
intimntod that were not Mr.. Burke the
mayor Of The city he would knock him
down.
During this last controversy Mfr Pow
ers charged the mayor with coming to
his house on the morning Of election day
in former campaign with twenty dol
lars in ten-cent pieces and in the pres
ence Of Mr.. Powers wife offering them
TO him to use among the voters to obtain
votes for the election Of Mr.. Burke and
named Others to whom Mr.. Burke had
done the same thing and further stated
that he knew many facts shout his po.
litcal methods ard dared him to deny the
fact which he would be ashamed to have
told in public.
Mr.. Powers charged the mayer with
rank ingratitude for what he and other
Of bis friends had done for him and as.
serted that one was a good fellow with |
the mayor only SO long az that one did /
Just as the mayor wanted him to do and |
no longer, but that just as soon as
man disagreed with him or had a mind |
Of his own he became 8 "ehump7
The mayor finally left the room, after
stating that he was ashamed Of his APP
pointment Of Mr.. Childs as commissioner,
and in the midst Of the denunciation Of
Mr.. Powers.