The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-11
IS NOT CONFIRMED
MAYOR APPOINTS HENRY HIM.
MELMAN PRESIDENT B. OF P.
Council Refuses to Confirm Appoint
ment by Vote of 3 to 2 With
Alderman Pass Absent. Mayor De-
Clares Appointment Will Stand,
While Opposing Members of Coun-
Gil Stand Pat Against -
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Mayor Meyer called a special meet
ing of the council for nine o'clock this
morning to receive and confirm the ap-
pointment of a successor to j. N.
Day as president of the board of pub
lie works. All of the aldermen were
present except Aid. Pass, who was cal
led to Orange City. Iowa, on business,
yesterday before the call for the meet
ing was out.
After calling the meeting to order,
Mayor Meyer said that he had called
it for the purpose of appointing a
president of the board of public works
to succeed Mr.. Day, who has resigned.
He would appoint man who had serv-
ed on. the council and board of public
works, and who was the father of
the present waterworks system. He
named H. Zimmerman Jr., for the
office.
Aid. Hampl moved that the appoint
ment be confirmed, and Aid. Mahow
aid seconded the motion The roll
was then called upon the motion, and
Aids. Hampl, Mahowald and Wiltgen
voted aye, and Aids Eichstaedt and
Lloyd voted no.
Mayor Meyer inquired whether the
motion had carried, but City Attor-
ney Schmitt said that it took a ma
jority of the members of the council
to confirm the mayors appointments,
which meant four votes.
Aid. Hampl, after pause, asked
what could be done.
Mr.. Schmitt replied that he did not
see that anything could be done. The
council had voted on the matter.
Mayor Meyer asked whether the
board of public works could do any
thing without a president, and Mr..
Schmitt replied that the two remain
ing members of the board constitute
a quorum, and if they agreed they
could act. There was no one to per-
form acts that had to be performed
b. the president.
Aid. Hampl said that three of the
aldermen would be out of the city
and another meeting could not be
held for several days.
Mayor Meyer said that he would
not call another meeting before the
next regular meeting of the council.
Aid. Hampl remarked that as the
aldermen could not come to an agree
ment he did not see what thew
could do now but adjourn, and he
moved that the council adjourn.
Mayor Meyer said: 81 will not
call another special meeting. will
reappoint Mr.. Zimmerman at the next
meeting, and will keep on appointing
him at the succeeding meetings until
| get him. That is nv privilege"
Aid. Eichstaedt: "Then the city will
go for two years without a president
of the board of public works"
Mayor Meyer: "That is your priv
lege"
The motion to adjourn was put and
carried.
Aid. Pass, who was not present
at the meeting, is understood to be
opposed to the appointment of Mr..
Zimmerman, and it appears that if
Mayor Meyer persists in pushing the
appointment the city will be in SER
ious deadlock. The only objection
raised to Mr.. Himmelman's appoint.
ment, so far as known, is based on
the disclosures in regard to the losses
that the city is said to have sustained
In water rent at the City hotel be-
cause OF the alleged manipulation of
the service pipes in such a manner
that city water need not pass through
the meter. The claim of the citv has
not been adjusted and the attitude of
the owner of the property seems to be
against conceding anything or offer
ing to compromise, and with the likeli-
hood of litigation some of the alder
men feel that the appointment of Mr..
Himmelmen Jr., as head of the water
department is at least illtimed.
Mayor Meyer takes the position that
the water matter is i'm the hands of
the council and city attorney and that
Mr.. Himmelman's appointment could
not affect the city's attitude. ~
Mr.. Zimmerman, when asked after
the meeting whether he had anything
to say, replied that he did not. The
appointment was offered to him bv
Mayor Meyer without any solicitation
on his part. He had his bond ready.
and the councils action was evidently
great surprise to him.
1t is understood that former Aid. At.
Gibson filed formal application for an
polntment, and the name of John r
Bowen was also mentioned
Aid Eichstaedt remarked TODAY that
MIR. Atchison or the present water in
spector, w. Fl. Ward, would suit him
Friends of Judge Porter would like tn
see him reappointed. Doubtless manv
candidates will come forward now.