The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-09

The organization Of the new city
council Monday evening was a mat
ter that afforded some entertainment
to the few present and proved to he
quito little experience lesson to the
new members who were not especially
familiar with the course OF procedure.
over on the north side of the re-
arranged council chamber, Sneckcn-
berger, Clary and Kr1use, threc new
members, formed q sort OF faith,
hope and charity combination repres-
enting the north end Of the city.
Sneckenberger has faith i'm the north
erd as y commercial center; Clary
hopes that everybody Is happy end
Krause views, with n large charity,
the action of the late city council in
refusing to pave thoroughfare in
which Mr.. Krause was more or less
interested.
3 But the new council isn't composed
Of bunch Of novices, by any means.
President Smart has been there be-
fore; Member Sauttor Is growing hard
and monol!thic where the collar chafes
the most; Memter Streyer has been
there before and Is inclined to he
Just q trihe impatient with his less
experienced brothers; Member Neber-
gall has had much to do with council
Grom the outside) and knows "A lit
tie something of what he is up egainst
while George Smith is one of the old
time I'll tcha-if-I-was-in- -council-Id
do-thinRs sort OF a legislator who will
prove immensely valuable as n safety
valve.
In opening the meeting at an unus-
ually late hour, President Smart eX-
pressed his sincere regret ct the alb
sence OF members of the retiring body
He called attention to the fact that
from the time the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary, II had
been a custom that the old council
take up the work; a everything being
harmonious and the meeting winding
up In a genuine love-feest in which
the welfare of Marion was the main
thing.
! For the 6-st time In the history Of
the city. this old condition did not
exist. Even Miles Longshore. the re-
firing clerk, was not present Some
one suggested that A. j. Sautter be
elected temporary clerk and that was
really the beginning of the meeting
Sautter grabbed up a resolution pro-
viding for the appointment Of Il. Il
Blazer as city clerk at $50 a month.
, The resolution was quickly passed un-
der suspension of the rules and Saut-
ter lost his hurried job hurriedly.
A resolution was next introduced
naming w. B. Strayer as president,
protein, OF council. Strayer and Neb-
crgall refused TO vote on the suspen-
sion Of the rules, but there We're
enough without them When 1t came
20 the adoption OF the resolution,
|Clary. who was looking for what fun
might be gotten out of the situation,
and believing that Strsyor and Neber-
gall were simply Kidding" and would
vote on the "show down." voted
against Strayer. Straye~ was game,
and refused TO vote, while Nebergall
seeing the danger into which he had
stepped, voted for Strayer. But II
wasn't enough. Bill had lost n job.
Under the pretext that the clerk had
misunderstood the vote, the roll was
again called and the foolishness cut
out. Strayer was elected.
Clerk Blazer then took up the read
Ing OF the standing committees OF
council. Heretofore these committees
have been named by the president.
who simply announced his nppoint-
ments, but in this case they We're sub
mitted to council for confirmation. The
committees are as follows:
Streets and alleys-Smlth. Strayer,
Sautter.
Finance-Nehergall, Strayer, Krause
Sanitary end sewer-Sneckenberger
Smith. Clary.
Waterworks and fire department =
Krause, Nehergall, Strayer.
Street lighting and gas-Strayor
Sautter Smith.
! Judiciary-clary, Smith, snecken-
berger.
Printing and supplles-strayer, Clary
Krause.
Buildings strayer, Nebergau
Krause.
| Police-Krause, Smith. Strayer.
Public parks and markets-SneclS.
.enberger. Strayer. Clary.
Puddle library-Sautter, Smith, Clary
A resolution was then introduced
providing for the holding Of the regu
, lar meetings the second and fourtf
! Tuesday Of each month. instead ot
Monday, as heretofore. The new cit,
solicitor suggested that he had othei
arrangements for Tuesday eveninl
and suggested that Wednesday wOult
suit him fine and dandy Member
. krause then Withdrew his motion fol
TUESDAY night and made 1t Wednes
day instead
About this time six or seven fee
lof Andy Sautter arose 10 state thai
,since the time he was a little boy
which was long time ago-counci
Had met on Monday night and far b,
ii from Andrew TO kick a dlnt in tn,
stats of custom. He was strong fol
the regular Monday night thing
George Smith, the new member from
the third ward also thought that un-
less there was some good reason fol
1t, council should not change the meet
ing night as II had come TO be gen.
Ierally understood by citizens whc
We're burdened witt compisints thai