The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-22
DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED
BY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES
OmlnQuS Threats to XIII The
ViaduCt and Other Bond
Ing Schemes

Whenever the national bank crowd
uses the city council to wallop the
West Side it practically insugates Sc
cession The West Side. in council
last night, came back With a vel!
booked up threat TO kill off the VIA
duct scheme, and all other bonding
schemes and 10 aise cain generally
il the West o.ao tire station is not
built according TO plan agreed to in
council two weeks ago. Councilman
Morrison and Durham threw first
class scare into camp last night and
set the mayer and city attorney to
crawiishing
Build a high stone wall a'ong the
Santa Fe and be done with it, shout
ed Durham. I'VE can live without
You. We do not like this division
idea. We have all grown UP here to-
sether and | can not understand this
discrimination The West Side sta
tion will ont cost within $1700 of the
new East Side station. The present
building is unsightly, and unsanitary
and is not credit to any city, All
we ask IS falr play.
Morrison Threatens Retaliation.
Morrison said. IF lI is your pol
icy toibl2c1 everything the West Side
wants there are some more things
that can be blocked, and well block
en-. We helped you build the central
station end the East Side station.
Our big side Of the town still has a
shack. We voted bonds for the fire
department and got nothing We
voted you bonds for a park and we
nave no park | want to tell you right
now that we are going to have a
square deal, and you may as we'll un-
derstand it.
The trouble came over an innocent
inquiry from Durham about the sta
tus Of the West Side station affair.
Two weeks ago the council authorized
a building TO cost not over $4,000.
city Attorney Green would not agree
to approve contract on the ground
that bonds were voted for one addi-
tional fire station and for additional
equipment These things have been
accomplished, he said, and he believ-
cd the councilmen who vote for fur
ther use Of the fund will be person
ally liable
West Side Hopping Mad"
This made the West Side men hop
ping mad They lit into the city at
torney for what they termed his fa-
cility in always finding some techni-
cality to keep the West Side from get
ting anything. Morrison said that if
this plan is wrong, the East Side idea
was wrong and council is liable any
way 81 would just as soon go to the
penitehtiary for TWO wrongs as one,
he said
Morrison reported that he believed
the $4,000 would build station for
the reason that Bert Billings is dis
posed to put in his time and build
ir without profit and that the citi-
zens over there will donate work
enough to keep the cost in the limit
The city engineer and fire committee
We're instructed TO submit plans and
specifications Mayor Falquharson in
structed the committee and Morrison
and BILLINGS 10 get tOSe Ner, saying
that the city would try to scrape up
the money somewhere.
Feud Over CITY FUNDS Deposit.
The inside OF the feud between the
mayor and city attorney on one side
and the Fourth and Fifth ward coun
cilmen on the other is declared to be
based in the earnest endeayors OF
Councilman Morrison to get interest
on city money. Council undertook
last summer TO put the funds out Sc
they would darw interest aud not be
piled up in one bank. Through al
ancient agreement it was found that
the city was practically powerless to
take its money out of this bank,
where the city treasurer was employ
ed, and the bank dictated the terms
now in force.