Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
AGREEMEN I
On SHEET
FAR OFF
Mayor Continues to Urge Council
to Stand Firm-Aldermen
Ready for Long Fight.

Both factions in the deadlock over
the passage of the city budget issued
statements Tuesday which totally dis
couraged those officials who were OPP
timistically at work to effect COM
promise by the meeting of Council
Monday.
The fight has become so bitter that
conservative members of Council fear
it will mean a hopeless division on all
matters of importance during the
whole year Mayor Woodward him
self showed his apprehension over the
situation Tuesday in advising men,
bers of the Finance Committee to
continue to stand firmly by the bud
get.
That crowd of Rldermen intended
to tear up the budget before it ever
reached Council he said. IF you
yield to them in this instance, they'll
run the whole city government dur
ing the rest of the year.
Promises His Support.
Stand firm. I'll back you up. We're
in the majority, and if they don't
finally yield Wen refer the matter to
the people by asking their recall or
through some such plan"
Alderman John S. Gambler. the lead
er of the Aldermen, was just as posi-
tive.
"The budget will never pass at is
stands" he said.
Alderman Gambler was suffering
with rheumatism Tuesday and went
to his home early in the morning, say
ing he might not be able to come
downtown again for several days I'M
less the weather improved
The other four Acknowledgement,
Maddox, Owens and Nutting-who,
with him, compose a majority in the
Aldermanic Board, have no notion of
yielding.
THE position of the Finance Com
mittee is absurd" said Alderman
Thomson. They take the stand that
no member of Council who is not
member of the Finance Committee
has any right to say how the peoples
money shall be spent"
Raps Humphrey and Mayor.
81 think it is purely a matter of
personal pride with Chairman Hum
phrey and Mayor Woodward that they
are so implacable. Mr.. Humphrey
wants the budget passed because he
is chairman of the committee. Sub
terranean information has come to us
that if we allow the budget to pass
money will be provided for White
hall street and Cherokee avenue and
that the adjustment of the jobs of
Street Inspectors Dozier and DIAL
vigny will be rescinded
That's not the right way to go
about it, Let the Finance Committee
amend the sheet first or appoint a
conference committee to amend it
and We'll pass it,
The opponents of the budget
thuoght they had forced a technical
amendment in the budget by an in
genious route, but Mayor Woodward
proved too sly for them.
Woodward Raps plot"
An emergency resolution was Of
fered at the last meeting appropriat-
ing $4,000 for a public vaccination
Council passed it and when, the next
day, twenty city doctors began the
vaccination, the Councilmen laughed,
for it meant that that much Of an
amendment would have to be made in
the budget before it could be passed
Mayor Woodward "smelled a
mouse" He told the health doctors
to go ahead with the vaccination, but
on the grounds of a technicality he
will send the resolution back to Coun-
Gil disapproved, and the dppropria-
ton for the vaccination will have to
be made some other way.
While the row is on money for
regular city work is being paid out
by the Mayor; but all street and
sewer work and other new improve
ments are at a standstill. The bud
get has been held up for more than
month, the record for such a dead
lock. 1t may be a month more be-
fore it is passed.