The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-05
Gilman SLABS
=, HAARER ON WRIST
Thinks Commissioner Sights Ways
and Means Committee-voting
Machine Fight Postponed.

Aid. Gilman, chairman of the coun.
ell ways and means committee, meta
phorically slapped Public Works Com
missioner Haarer on the wrist. Tues
day night, because the commissioner
went ahead with certain paving work
on the assumption that the council
would authorize him to borrow money
from the liquor funds until his appro-
priations are available in July.
Ordinarily all such transfers are re-
ferFed- te-the- ways-aHd- meaHs-eeia-
mittee and. on its recommendation,
are allowed or disallowed Commits
siOner Hearers communication and
accompanying resolutions, providing
for the necessary loans, had already
been referred To the committee, Tues
day night, when the commissioner rose
to urge immediate action, saying that
the work on some OF the streets had
already started and the pay rolls
would be coming in this week Tn
less the loans were authorized at
once there would be no money to
meet these pay rolls. he said.
II was then Aid. Gilman rose To
gently chastise the commissioner. He
wanted IL distinctly understood that
the ways and means committee should
be consulted in such matters. Why
didn't the commissioner put in his re-
quest week ago? What was the
ways and means committee created
for anyway, IL not to look after just
such matters?
The estimators had not finished
their work a week ago" retorted
Haarer. Il couldn't go ahead until
knew whether the appropriations
were going to be allowed"
We'll, you should have waited" re-
sumed Mr.. Gilman. do like other
commissioners do
Very well. If the council wants me
to lie idle till July I'll do So"
That remark turned the trick for
the commissioner. Aid. Gutman and
Allan rose to his defense Far be IL
from us to stand in the way OF public
improvements" was the substance of
their remarks. And besides, those
men must be paid. So the action re-
ferring the matter to the committee
was rescinded and the loans allowed
after warning from Aid Gilman not
to let 1t happen again.
The paving jobs already started are
on st. Antoine and Chene-sts. and JEFF
ferson-ave. Fort-st., from Fifth to
Trumbull, will be started at once; also
Cass-ave., from Ledyard to Warren.
The commissioner will start on Wood
ward as soon as the ID. u. r. track
work is completed.
Anticipating fight with the Heine-
many atson-Allan faction over the ap-
pointment of a special committee to
supervise the purchase of voting ma
chimes, the Zink-Glinnan crowd did
not present its resolution calling for
the reappointment of the special COM
mittee that has had charge of the vot-
ing machine proposition up to the
present. The resolution had been pre-
pared and was to have been presented
by Aid 'Reinhardt, but he got cod
feet. The ants, ii Is rumored, will in
sist that the purchase OF the voting
machines should properly be left to
the public utilities committee. which
they control. =
AS an aftermath OF the recent floods
In old Fairview, several property own
ers Of that section sent in claims for
damages as result Of water backing
up in their cellars. All were referred
to the committee on claims and &C.
counts.
The council added three department
heads, the city engineer. the commits
sioner of public works. and the com
missioner Of parks and boulevards. to
the proposed civic Identification and
improvement commission. increasing
the number of members to IL. The
mayor will appoint the other members
in the near future.
A request from the park department
for $4,000 to replenish forage and
other funds that have become ex-
hausted on account OF the high price
of oats and for other reasons, was re-
ferred to the ways and means COM
mittee.
The Family theater, on the Campus
Martius. will be called on TO explain
to the streets committee why IL put
I'D an outside stairway without the
councils permission.
Aid. Thompson's resolution author
izipg the public works commissioner
TO return the surety bonds filed by