Arizona republican., 1912-04-18
HEADGEAR IF ALL SORTS |S
 IN THE RING
It All Game About When Council Met Last Night to Discuss City
 Charter
TRADES COUNCIL
 WANTS TO HELP
That Is, With the Making of the Charter for New Form of
 Government

The very air of the council cham Der was charged last eevning with electrical and other kinds of energy, which developed into positives and negatives very soon after the mayors gavel fell.
 It was all about the charter The trouble started when the re- corder read a letter from the trades council protesting because the labor ! ing man had not been given recogni- ton in the framing of the tentative charter. At least the protest said that such recognition was lacking.
 Then w. C. Griffin. president of 1 the trades council, took the floor and 1 told the city legislature just where | to head in He discussed eloquently { the "inaIienable rights" of what he | termed his bunch,' and insisted upon representation on the official cOmmis- 1 sion.
 i City Attorney Prescott pointed out ] that the council did not elect the charter commission, but that nomina- l tions would be made in the regular way, according to law, and the fel- ! lows who got the most votes were 1 '.it."
 During the course of his remarks i the city attorney referred to you | voters" as being the proper ones to ! choose and elect these officers. By l that remark the lawyer man started as much of a disturbance as though 1 he had made a bum decision at a ball game
 Griffin interpreted PrescOtts words as you workers and intimated in | heated language that Prescott had 1 looked right in the direction of his committee when he said it. That he 1 had in fact pointed the finger of scorn." "We are all workers" said he, and will not be held in contume- l ly and contempt" or words to that 1 effect
 | Mir. Prescott explained that he was strong for labor. and that he never said it nohOw Griffin magnanimous- l ly let it pass" the mayor ruled that personalities must cease and Barney Kersting shied his hat into the ring. | Kersting had his pocket filled with 1 petitions calling upon the mayor to | call a freeholders election to choose a charter commission. He suggested that. though, perhaps the council might all favor the commission form of government. he wanted to know | when" He had waited a long time and had staved off the dogs of war l for months just because he wanted l to give the council a chance, and now he wanted action prOntO or he would | sic" his petitions on the public and then where would the council be? Councilman Cisney made a few re- marks. the most interesting of which alleged that "Kersting was an apt scholar at casting insinuations"
 Then Kersting took a fresh hold
 and in about a minute had run afoul
 of Fred Cleaveland, chairman of the
 unofficial commission. Cleaveland, ac-
 cording to the speaker, had repeatedly put him off when he went to him to
 ask about the status of the charter MT. CleaVeIand was present He
 took the floor in defense of the com
 mission and the charter He pointed
 out that for seven months the com
 mission had worked. gathering data
 from all parts of the country and mOlding the very best charter for a
 commission governed city that could
 be devised. He declared that the
 commission had performed in just
 the manner he had assured MT Kersting it would perform, and tha
 the best interests of the city had beer uppermost at all times.
 He then formally presented an of ficial copy of the unofficial charter
 which was ordered received anC
 placed in the archives until the of
 ficial commission is elected, when i
 will be turned over to that body fO,
 it's consideration.
 The mayor explained that the Olt
 commission had no legal authority
 but had been appointed simply to ex . pedite matters, and that if any part. l or faction had been neglected in tn : Appointment aOf the committee he wa Q responsible, but that his ambition wa 5 to have upon the board a group o s representative citizens commandin ? the respect of the public at large.
 Nearly every member of the coun
 cil resented the insinuation that ther
 was an inclination to delay the call
 ing of an election or the fulfilling c e the will of the people in any way.
 MT. Cisney moved that the city at
 torney be instructed to secure tn
 opinion of the attorney general of tn state as to the proper way to procee = in calling the election There is
 conflict between the old primary la1 s and the constitution. Under the pri T mary law it will be necessary to hol a primary and then the election, tn
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