The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-21
CEDERHOLM BREAKS LOOSE
 AT MEETING Alleges Common Council Serves
 Corporations His Colleagues Take Him to Task and He Finds Him. self Voting Alone

1 Alderman Frederic Cederhoim's res
 olution seeking to establish a public
 market place. and also the one relat-
 ing to the filling of vacancies in the
 Board of Aldermen, were disposed of
 at the Common Council meeting last
 the only one in the council who voted
 in their favor. He spoke in regular Socialistic vein, and when he found
 his arguments. did not bring favorable
 results he tried more forceful lan-
 guage and thus disturbed the compo-
 sure of some of the other Aldermen
 present
 | The report of the Ordinance commit
 tee on the resolutions was read. Al derman Cederholm : asked that the
 resolutions be taken up separately and
 then he asked what excuse the com mittee had in reporting unfavorably l upon his ideas. Alderman Robert G. f DeForest undertook to answer him
 He said that. the preamble in the res
 olution relating to the filling of va
 cancies in the Board of Aldermen was ; altogether too long and he wanted to know what sort of document it was
 whether 8 political speech or what
 not. He was in doubt as to the ex-
 act meaning. Other members of the committee expressed similar senti-
 ments. They all were in favor of the ] cardinal principle in the resolution
 but didn't like such preamble.
 Alderman Cederholm thereupon mov-
 ed that he would .like to have the
 preamble stricken out of the resoN- tion and the bare resolution offered
 Alderman George w. King declared ir
 a heated maTineri that Alderman Ce- deTholm was not free agent and did not voice his own sentiment.
 l There was a, good deal of talk III
 connection with the matter. Alder | N>S S~p p1. >y~ l pJ- ~3v i peepuI'' several times and insisting
 that ther district voters should have l some voice in the matter of who should represent them in the city government when a vacancy occurs IT i the board.
 erence to his market place resolution He said that he sought to reduce the 1 high cost of living and thought that | a market place was one means of
 doing this. He criticised the Ordi. nance committee and declared that il
 a public hearing had been given or
 the resolution there would be 1.00t people present to support it. Alder.
 man DeForest thought it a splendid l thing to see the alderman so solicit. 1 ious concerning the welfare of the people but the resolution az submit.
 ted did not show any way of accom- l plishing what it was for. He point
 available, no land upon which to To.
 cate a market place, and no mean: | of securing sufficient appropriation at this time.
 1 Other aldermen pointed out i'm l practicable features of the resolution Alderman Cedarholn then arraigned l the council as being tied up with cor. l poration interests. He said that wher | a. corporation wanted anything il readily got it but wSen the people desired anything they were unable te l obtain it. Alderman James P. Gar. rity didn't like the complexion of this l talk and he took Alderman Cedar. l holm to task. He said that because l a man does not appeal to Alderman l Cedarholm does not mean that he is a crook. Alderman Primrose &nl l Alderman King spoke in critica 1 manner of the way Alderman Cedar. l holm talked.