Arizona republican., 1913-06-11
MANAGE RIAL FORM
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the commissioners At the last meet ing of the board Colonel Cog2-ins had moved To Increase the. salaries to $"eoo for the mayor and S24uo eol. tn" members Of Int cuuult--lon Judge klbhey at that jlut offered an amend ment for further increase to s&60e and $%oo". and in that shape. the mat ter Was left h. action having been taken "n the amendment or the mo- tion.
 In presenting his resolution last night. a~ :n amenament to a pend ing motion by Nr Fowler. Judge kib- be> said that he had prepared j, witt great relu.l.tnec. bat alter uo had come tp believe that .t was thc ouIr Way tp keep politics uut or city af- fairs. to remove from elective officers the power to confer political r.w.rd. or to contract political obl.gatlonS
 Secretary Trott of the board -,t5d that though, in the beginning he lad favored the m nagerial form he had since had reason t. believe that it was not desired by :, majority Of the people of Phoenix. He further said that the charter Is it now stands enables the commission to adopt that form i. 1t is found tp be desirable. and for that reason he would oppose the resolution which uuaItara0lE com mits the city to that form
 Chairman Alexander ~tate-i his op- position to be based on the ground that the board had been guided as [" the desires of the people bN the untnimity with which they had adopt ed the former charter and which they wished amended only -p that it would meet the objections of the governor to 1T. This resolution. he -.,id altered if in principle. changing the very form of thr eoNerumenr
 This view WAS taken bv Barney I[erSting. who said that h- believed that the board h1d received definite instructions from thc committee of ono hundred and twentz-f five ani he felt bound by them
 W F. Lount. without expressing an opinion as to the resolution. took a different view of the obligations of the board from that expressed by Chairman Alexander and Mir Kcr-st- ing He believed that the board had been delegated to exercise it's judg- ment in the preparation and prcsen- tation of d charter. He could not be bound by the work of the old board. H also said that he had talked with mechanics and they opopsed the man dStIIdi ibilil
 E X. Fowler spoke at length in favor of the resolution. after declar- ing the freedom of the present board from the actions Of itz predecessors. ! He dWelt upon the insidious methods of the politician against which the 1 managerial form or government pro i Vided, and replying to a speech of l one of the opponents. in which he had stated that it offered mo provision since the voters who desired favors would pledge the candidates for the 1 commission in advance to Influence l the city manager in their favor.
 Mir Fowler could not conceive that members of such an honorary com mission as il was proposed to ere ate. men serving without salary. WoulC l be so approached or that they could be induced to attempt tn influence
 a city manager for the efficiency of whose administration they would be held responsible. Nr. Fowler de
 voted the greater part of his remarks to the Sumpter system. which is in effect that proposed in Judge kihbeTs resolution.
 At the conclusion of his remarks the resolution was adopted. Messrs ! Alexander Trott and Kersting oDpos-
 ing.
 The meeting adjourned after the passage Of the resolution above set
 out. to meet one week from tonight.