The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-30
BUDGET
FOR 1871 IS
A TERROR


At the eleventh hour the Gary coun- |
ell last night fixed it's appropriation |
list for the year 1911 amounting TO
$232,015 and had it not taken action |
last night the chances are that the
1910 list would had to prevail for an
other year. The biggest items in the
list is the appropriations for the two
city police departments Chief Martins
department will get $4,000 for salaries,
$4,000 for miscellaneous affairs while
Chief Cateys new department which
will come into existence in a few weeks
| will with the Identification bureau have
$1,000.
Ordinance Target of shots.
| The appropriation ordinance had to
be introduced three times before it was
given life. First, when Mr.. Rowley of
the finance committee brought 1t in, Mr.
Castleman amended it so as to include
the second police departments $4,000.
AS the ordinance was an emergency one
to be passed the same evening the
unanimous vote of all the aldermen
present was required and when that
little item of $1,000 got into it Mr..
| Rowley, Mr.. Feuer and Mr.. Walsh vot-
ed no, thus killing the ordinance
Then Mr.. Castleman sought to strike
| out the emergency clause and he in :
troduced an amendment to that effect
But you can't amend it," ruled
Mayor Knots, that ordinance is killed
and cannot be amended"
"All right answered the statesman
| from the Fifth ward He then went
over and gave it new number cross
! ing out the old one.
Il have here Mfs-isster Mayo oor,"
| "a CT lam I,a RI \, t.
specs an ordinance appropriating. ETC."
This was no other than the ordinance
he had just read introduced anew. 1t
got to second reading from whence it
was referred to the committee on ordi-
nances.
Unless this $1,000 gets in this
budget Will not go though" said Mr..
Castleman as he gazed for an affrma-
tive response from his FIVE colleagues.
Ordinance Nearly Lost
Just before the council adjourned
, every one REALIZED that unless som
, thing was done with the appropriation
ordinance it would be lost and the city
t during 1911 would have to operate on
the 1910 basis.
; This was Castleman's trick hand
There seems" said he, ito be a spirit
of animosity on the part of some OF the
j passed tonight the city will suffer-
4 Then it was seen that to have enough
] money for next year some action would
have to be taken and Castleman and
a his colleagues were willing to let i,
e go through if the $1,000 would be in
I cluded. Some thought that the diff
Guilty could be surmounted by adjourn
p ing and calling another meeting al
Q once Finally Mayor Knots, Aldermen
d Rowley and Feuer held a conference
4 and the latter two agreed to vote fol
n the ordinance as it stood.
While Castleman did most of the
i talking last night he was not bossing
the council opposition that did tbs
e work. Alderman Bowser did little
e talking but he directed most of the
> manouevering and told Castleman wher
t to get up and when to sit down. Blu
s neither Bowser nor Castleman would
e have had the power they used Leg
: night had not their colleagues Gibson
Baukus, Szymanski and Simiasko giver
n it them.
Although one or two OF the alderme.
do the apparent work it is the com
bined six that behind the guns
The loss of any part of this six-votins
machine means its demolition so eacl
alderman is as much integral par
as the other and the chances for an,
great assumption of domination on TIL
part of any one is very meagre 70
each one is a power in himself and an,
one to be effective must be unit par
of the six. Six more do TIL
n work but five will not be able TO keel
the we'll oiled machine running. Prob
ably no other political combination
p made up of democrats and republica ms
has existed in Gary since its founding
List of Appropriations.