The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-01-10
NERVE IS
LOST BY
KNOTS

Mayor Knots lost his nerve last
night at the session of the Gary com
mon council and actually walked out
of the meeting during the midst of the
session in order to check any further
legislation. one of the three aldermen
supporting the mayor, Mr.. Rowley.
made a hurried motion to adjourn
which was sustained by two other
votes with six voices protesting against
this. With this a pretext Mr.. Knots
quickly declared the meeting adjourn
ed and grabbing his fur cap he made
a bee line for the nearest police at
tended exit-but he came back.
Decapitate street Commissioned.
The council majority of six had
started the evening by decidedly op-
posing the mayor and after it had
abolished the street commissionership
1t was plainly to be seen that the
mayor was getting nervous.
Rumor had it that the council in
tended to impeach Knots last night
and the omnibus looking document that
Alderman Bowser and Castleman fire.
quently consulted made it look that
way. In any event the rumor got out
on the street and Knots adherents
soon packed the council chamber al
though more than one-half present
| were with the opposition
Quietly standing at the three exits
and in various parts of the council
room were many police officers in plain
clothes but they were particularly ac-
| tive at the exits but prevented no one
| from entering.
Disturbance Planned.
/ Knots follower had given out dur
| ing the Afternoon that it was their plan
to create a riot or disturbance if the
Impeachment ordinance was introduced
and this is what part of the crowd did
when the aldermanic six protested
againstl Knots leaving the council
room. But the bowls soon died down
| Probably no other meeting of the
city council had such large and varied
attendance and no other ever had an
every ready mayoralty police squad
within easy reach. Nearly every city
official was present. In the mayors
office were Works Commissioners John
Nyhof. Safety Commissioners H. H.
! Highland and Emmett White and a.
galaxy of other democratic oficeholders
who feared the council axe. For the
| first time in many months Brother A. F.
Knots. who was supposed to be in
Florida shooting crocodiles. was also
with'the rescue corps
Another Choice Plum Frosted.
1t is but few weeks since the
council abolished the comptrollership
there by removing from the mayors
hands the most choice official plum in
gift. Last night the aldermanic frost
blighted a close second when 1t killed
the street commissioner job now held
down by P. c. ITinerty.
Acting under the statutes the coun-
ell passed ordinance Kidding the city
of this s1lO monthly post and speci-
fed that the commissioner of public
works. John ]. Nyhof. shall perform
the duties at no increase of salary.
Alderman Feuer and R9wley although
| they supported Knots had to vote
against him here as 1t meant the saw
ing of money for the tax payers
Extra Money for City Clerk.
| City Clerk Harry Moose who now
gets $4,000 annually as clerk of the
fourth class city of Gary will get 1920
more for acting as clerk of the board
of public works. Another ordinance
also empowered him to empolye a
deputy clerk at 500 annually
| Efforts were made by Aldermen
Bowser and Castleman to have the
minutes of the previous meeting and
| the prior to that no approved but
the vote got mixed up and they were
unable to accomplish what they wanted.
The stories that the council combine
of Gibson, Bowser, Baukus Szymanski
Simiasko and Castleman had broken up
proved TO be false for the combine vot-
| ed in a solid phalanx of six.
Insurgents See the Point
| an old Gao of haxin0 the r,fnor;+x-
wanting to adjourn and the chair sid
| ing with II. This was carried through
| by Knots last night when he got ex-
! cited and feared something big. AS n
motion to adjourn is not debatable the
opposing aldermen could have continu-
ed the meeting If they had called for
a roll call Immediately after the mo-
ton was seconded.
| But they were not quick enough so
they did not ask for it until the aye and
nay vote was given and although the
motion was lost by six to three the
mayor following the old time gag rule
declared IT carried and the meeting ad-
journed.
Insurgents show Power.
| An attempt was made to put Alder
man Bowser in the chair as mayor pro
tenn. but City Clerk Moose called Mayor
Knots back and told him that he
would have to call a session of the fl
| nance board.
| The mayor called the council to order
as finance board but Immediately
Castleman making a supported motion
| to adjourn was foxy enough to have
a roll call on the vote asked for and
the meeting thereupon adjourned by
vote of six to three. This was done by
| the insurgents to show that the first
meeting had not been adjourned by the
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