Atlanta Georgian., 1913-02-11
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He Il De C|TY'S
SENTINEL
CounCiImen Talk of Court AC.
ton to Force the Mayor to
Sign Checks.

Rejecting upon his defeat by coup-
ell. Mayor Woodward today outlined III
one sentence what he said would be the
future policy of his administration.
The condition of the city treasury is
such that do not expect to accomplish
any large improvements; but | am go
ing to stand a sentinel on the watch
tower and advertise to the people what
their officials are doing he said.
Councilmen who engineered the over
riding of Mayor Woodward's veto of
the budget said today they were pre-
pared to mandamus the mayor to force
him to make the payments on the new
crematory as soon as those payments
became due. Mayor Woodward replied
that the mandamus must be approved
by the supreme court before he would
act.
Samuel n. Evins, attorney for the
Destructor Company, declared that
Mayor Woodward's attitude now would
mean no serious obstacle and that the
new crematory would be ready to burn
garbage by the return of warm wealth
er.
hfee with Mayor
IF the crematory company makes
good that statement, the people of At
lanta won't be troubled with garbage
dump piles this summer" said Sanitary
Chief John Jentzen.
Leaders of council said that the ap-
proval of the contract absolutely meant
that the electric plant would be built in
NJ
contract provides for a $37S,O00 Gre
matory and garbage plant. After the
crematory part is completed, council
will have the option of eliminating the
100000 electric feature. But promi-
nent officials predict that no admins
tration will ever have the nerve to do
that
Mayor Woodward was philosophical
in his view of the action of council. 1t
was a great surprise and disappoint-
ment to him when Alderman J. B. Ev-
erett left the meeting before the vote
and made it possible for his veto to be
overridden.
Woodward Vexed.
He told me as late as / o'clock yes
terday that he would stand firm with
the other three aldermen and sustain
my veto," he said. Il am not surprised
that council approved such a contract
when a member will act as he acted"
Alderman Everett said he left the
meeting deliberately because he had
been convinced that the city's moral
obligation should not be repudiated. He
said he declined to vote because of the
conflict between his own convictions
and his promise to Mayor Woodward
The meetings of the two branches Of
council that passed the budget was
brief and to the point Before the
first session was called to order it was
known that the budget would pass; 9TH
erwise, the majority intended to ad-
journ until a later date in an effort to
persuade one of Mayor Woodward's al
dermen to change his mind. They were
determined not to have the budget re-
jected.
Only three members of council
Ashley, Colcord and Kimbrough-voted
to sustain the mayor. Councilman
Lynch, one of Mayor Woodward's S
closest friends, was absent when the
vote was taken. Councilman Hall, an
other strong supporter of the mayor,
voted for the appropriation.
The meeting was then adjourned and
the aldermanic board called to order.
When Alderman Everett failed to an
swer the roll call Aldermen McClel-
land, VanDyke and Harwell the other
three advocates of the mayors policy,
looked around in surprise. They knew
that the fight was lost.
The vote in council was IS to 3 and
the vote in the aldermanlc board was 6
to 3, a two-thirds majority in both
branches.