The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-14
Straight is the way to
"Goats" and all Present
Find 'em.
CRAG lEAplNG DOESN'T PASS
City Fathers Indulge in
Pleasant Pastime For
One Evening.
Thcy Express Fear That Mayor is
Trying to Make Goats of Them and
Bucl<-It Is Possible some Real
business Was Transacted.

Business Was Transacted.
Alcohol and footua, have been sue
ctssfully denatured Now comes along
th6 Marion city Council and ry the
simple expcdent of ignoring it, deno-
lures the veto power of the mayor
Monday evenings session of the city
ccuncil was largely devoted to a dis
cussion OF Goats There was the
plain and whlskercd variety, there was
the goat that hadn't yct been gotten,
the go,t in process Of collection, so to
speak; the ungettab.c goat, the goat
the other fellow tries TO make Of us
and well, 1t was a very goatrul seq
sion.
Councilman Brockctt. speaking for
himself refused To leap from crag 90
crug at the mayors hchast lie ciim.
CT the mayor was sidcstcpping, crawl
ing from under and making goat OF
the city council by his attempted veto
If that portion of a recent appropria-
ton ordinance which provided for the
hchc ding of Park superintendent ana
Market Master Addison Balm. The
mayor had vetoed q portion OF the or
dinance which made 1t incumbent up-
ON council to discontinue Bain's sal
AIRY from October ij TO January 1 of
next year
As stated ia the Mirror exclusively.
about two weeks go, the mayors
Iv,tu had been vetoed by city solicitor
Boyd. who claimed that the ordinance
! had not been signed and returned to
council within the legal period sLoci.
ncd by the cold, cruel glitterns law.
Mayor setter, as per usual claimed TO
| lnow what he was about He refused
To- rc<nowledge that he had not veto
cd the ordinance within tne specified
| tiWo
InEOCKETT ON THE GOAT BUSI-
! NESS
Last night. council looked the mat
ter up ana the record showed that the
ordinance was presented 70 the mayor
, October /. lie returned It October II.
ten days after hp received II, lat as
the law ys IL must be vetoed within
ten days after its rassage. the mayor
didn't quito get inside the llag-the
ordinance having been passed Sep
tember &c.
Mr.. Brockctt explained that he was
growing weary Of having the mayor
fame things up on council and APP
!, ,parently make council responsible for
his own actions. lie, for one, pre-
\ tested against being made the goat.
lie explained that II the mayor wish
ed TO discontinue Bain's Office, he
, should have gone To his public service
director and had tnat gentleman de-
care the office vacant. He didn't
\ think II was up To council 10 pull the
mayors chestnut out OF the FIRE lie
also intlmatcd pretty strongly that
the mayor had recently found another
goat" and was using II, but he didn I
intend to join the herd Mr.. NAPLES
also opincd that he didn't care to
be used" cltncr and the result was
tlfat the mayors veto was ignored and
Mr. Bain's salary viii so blithsomely
tripping ON its merry, merry way
unless some other means is taken 10
stop Il.
The other imro"tant feature of tho
meeting VS. o., calling up of a re-
solution haru FOR its purpose the
satisfying of a demand OF certain good
citizens Of the west end of the city
that a certain electric railway com
Ipany known us the Marion ,G Subur-
) han, be compelled To begin, t. start tc
commence to comply with the term,
of its franchsa. An examination OF
the records shows that franchise was
, granted the Marion & Suburban, Au-
gust 10, l9l1 The line runs over
George, Prospect, Lee and Silver
} streets. The franchise provided that
cars should D., in operation within
one year, or the franchise declared
forfeited. However, there was more oI
less delay in building the line and In
December OF the same year an cNten'
sion of time was granted until Sep
, tcmber /, 1905 The track was u huv,
been completed and cars were TO have
been in oper ton by that time
MOVE FOR ANOTHER GOAT.
. Well about eycrybody living wes
of state street knows what happened
Tho track was built and its there now
. Not car has ever moved over d
and the prospects are rather slim fol
IA movement of that sort Tor Ions
} time. Here the goat proposition
again bobbcd mp, Mr.. Bryant wInteC
to get city Solicitor Boyd's gout II,
therefore asked him what he intende,
, 10 do about it If he Intended to en-
force the law; ir the people were t,
have service on that two streaks o
, lfust that have been staring the peo
! lple In the face for the last three years
All this was mighty embarrassing, bu
Mr.. Boyd explained that the city ha'
, heen enioined from interfering in an
way with the rights or property o
this Marion & suburban.
The story is this The Marion 4
Suburban is part OF the c.. d. 4
NJ. system. The Marion & Subm hal