The Detroit times., 1911-06-27
PUTS IT RIGHT
UP TO ALDERMEN
Mayor Digs Up Resolution Instruct
ing Haarer To Purchase Rather
For Testing Paving Brick.

Mayor Thompson has another veto
of paving brick bills ready loI the
common council, Tuesday night. and
in this instance, he bases his action
on the councils own records.
The mayor has dug up the resolu-
ton passed the council, on motion or
Aid. Gilman. two years ago, request
ing Commissioner OF Public Works
Haarer to purchase a rattler lor the
purpose of testing brick.
This action has never been
rescinded,n said the mayor, Tuesday
noon, yet Commissioner Haarer still
refuses to submit the brick to the
rattler test In defiance of the coun-
ell and Notwithstanding his promise
10 me. am simply putting the mat
ter up to the council for any action
IL may see fit. IL the aldermen want
10 allow the commissioner to keep
OIL defying them, why that's their af-
fair.
my only interest in this matter
is to see that the city gets No. l
brick, such as the specifications call
for. The only way We can tell
whether we are getting No. ] brick
is to submit them to. the rattler test,
the same as other cities are doing.
Commissioners Haarer, as previous
ly announced, has finally purchased
a rattler but, as far as the mayor
can learn, no attempt Is being made
to use II.
The brick bills. covered by the
mayors latest veto aggregate $1,573
and are due the Jacksonville Brick Co.
The mayor, in his veto message,
says In part;
I'm addition to the several reasons
which | have presented at some
length In my recent communications
for disappearing the payment pf
these bills, desire to call your atten-
ton to the fact that by his refusal
the commissioner has defied the ex-
press direction of the council as d.
rected to him by the resolution Of
Aid. Gilman, presented and adopted
in a meeting OF the council ON March
%, 1909.
"At that session the council. by
unanimous vote of the aldermen pres
ent, approved the contracts which nad
been entered into by the commits
sioner for paving brick to be furnish
ed to the city during 1909. and in
the report of the committee on
streets, which was unanimously adopt
ed, the committee used the following
language:
In this connection your com.
mittee begs leave TO state that
we secured samples of the vari-
GUS brick accepted by the -depart-
ment, and ordered same tested,
but this test the commissioner
claims Is entirely unfair, and that
Notwithstanding the outcome or
the test, he is willing to resume
the entire responsibility OF the
quality OF the brick selected, and
recommended for acceptance by
him. and in view hereof and the
further fact that in our Judgment
the accepted prices are reason
able, We recommend that the vari'
Gus contracts entered into by the
department with the above-men-
toned firms be approved and con-
firmed.
Before adjournment Of the same
meeting. the following resolution,
presented by Alderman Gilman, was
adopted without dissent:
BY Aid. Glinnan: Resolved,
That the commissioner OF public
works be and he Is hereby re-
quested to purchase a rattler for
testing paving brick, at an ex-
pense not to exceed $3.50, and
pay expense of same out OF gen.
eral road fund. Adopted.
"T am unable TO find, from care
full examination of the records Of the