Arizona republican., 1911-07-21
POLITICS IN
 THE PAVING? Commissioners Say Yes! But
 COunci|men Say, No!! ALL IS NOT HARMONY
An Executive Session Wed nesday Night Whose Peace Program Failed to Be Car ried Out At Meeting Held Thursday Afternoon.

Has politics entered into the paving campaign upon which the city of Phoe- nix has just entered?
 The members af the city council say
 not at all.
 Members of the Paving Commission appointed by the council in compliance with the paving ordinance, say yes. Manager Conway. of the B3Tber As
 phalt Company. which is doing the work. hopes that politics has not en- ! tered in.
 Politics are something with which the Barber Company has nothing to do, and will have nothing to dO," says Con way. "An we want is a paving com
 mission in harmony with the ordinance under which the work is being done" Anyhow the members of the coun- cil at least two of them, Messrs. Cis- ney and Warren are at loggerheads with the three members of the com
 mission over the appointment of an engineer to supervise the laying of the pavement and see that the work Is
 done according to the plans and speci- fications.
 An executive session of the council
 and the three present members of the lpaving commission was held at the Val Hey Bank Wednesday evening All | the members of the council were pres ent. with the single exception of Me
 ElrOy who went east on the Elks Spe-
 cial The differences of the commits
 sion and the council were ;hreshed
 out and when the meeting adjourned it was generally understood that when the council met Thursday evening Charles Stauffer and w. A. Parish
 would be elected to the vacancies on
 the paving commission, and that the commission in turn would elect City Engineer Turney as the official engin-
 eer to oversee the paving job.
 But when the council met late in the afternoon instead of the evening. with
 out any apparent reason there was a hitch. Messrs Cisney and Warren
 made the demand that before they
 would vote to place Stauffer and Far
 ish on the commission. the three mem
 bers of the commission. Goldberg
 Racket and Lauver must elect Turney
 as the commission engineer.
 The council divided with Warren
 and Cisney against the mayor and Me Dermott McElroys position is prob
 lematical. The whole matter may have
 to remain in statu quo until his return In the meanwhile the bird of har-
 mony has vanished. Engineer Corn pra ln fn1
 Santa Barbara. California, by the orig | inal paving committee, consisting of | former Governor Kibbey. Dwight R | Heard. II. J. McCmng, Charles Stauf- | fer. Roy Goodrich. A. M. Goldberg. Flu gene Hackett and P. A. Thara ,on. tc
 make the preliminary surveys and es- inmates. and who was later employed
 as the official engineer by tha paving
 commission. is still on the job. but ac- cOrding to authentic reports. thoroughly disgusted over what he believes are at tempts to do politics with the paving
 business. It is understood that the pres
 ent three members of the paving com
 mission. Goldberg. Lauver and Hackett
 are supporters of Cornwall - Another phase of the situation caus- ing irritation is the presence of two | inspectors. R. 1T. Collins. the original article. and second named Fitzpatrick | Collins got into difficulties because of
 the presence of too big gravel in some
 of the concrete work. which according
 to Cornwall was not in accordance with
 the plans and specifications. Collins
 was appointed by the council upon the
 recommendation of the paving commis- sion. His duty is to see that the plans
 and specifications are carried out. HC | is not graduate engineer but for three years was with the Phelps Dodge peo-
 pie and came here highly recommend | cd He is said to be an expert on con-
 crete work
 Cornwall discharged Collins. who
 thereupon appealed to Cisney who told hiES to hold tight to the job until off
 cially discharged or the trouble was
 settled. According to authentic reports
 Manager Conway put on another in- spector named Fitzpatrick. who has
 since been watching Collins with his
 right eye while Collins watched Kilpat- rick with his left. and there you are | According to Collins. KilpatricK allow
 ed bigger gravel to go into the con-
 crete than did Collins. and so duly re-
 ported. According to both sides of tho
 controversy. the big gravel did not les
 sen the efficiency of the concrete ant
 there you are again.
 At the meeting of the city cOunci yesterday afternoon the members of tho