Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-23

and whose votes helped to override the
Mayors veto abe Harry Ransley, presl-
dent Of Select Council, who is mer-
camille appraiser; william j. Harring-
ton, Of the Fourth Ward, employed In
the office Of the Register of Wits;
George D'Autrc chy, OF the seventeenth
Ward. a clerk In the office OF the Re-
corder of Deeds; William e. Finley. of
tho Thirty-ninth Ward, real estate
assessor; Harry J. Trainer, of the Third
Ward, who has been mercantile ap-
praiser; John f. Flaherty, of the Thir-
teenth Ward, clerk in the Quarter
Sessions Court, and Eduard Buckholz,
OF the Nineteenth Ward, listed In the
Manual of Councils as real estate as
SCISSOR.
Referring to the dual oficeholders In
his message last Thursday Mayor
Rlankenburg said: Here are men
charged with tho important duty OF
making laws which govern the COM
munity, who. because OF allegiance they
owe to political dictatcrs, can block and
have blocked important public measures,
end on the other hand have passed over
tho head of the Chief Executive meas
ures which he dlsapproved and which
have been recognized by the whole pub
lie as against public policy"
FALSE TO CONSTITUENTS.
Thomas ]. McGinnis. elected by a
Democratic constituency in the Sixth
Ward, cast his vote as usual in bipar-
tisan sympathy with the Republican or
ganization. Herbert l.. Maris, the Glib
honey Keystone representative, of the
oath Ward In the Select Chamber, SINH
larly cast his vote with the organization
Elwood s. Davis, elected as an indie
pendent in the 23d Ward, lined UP with
the gang.
Republican standpatters in Select
branch, who consistently boosted the ex-
travagant plans of the Municipal Court
and voted yesterday for their realization
werc Charles Seger, of the Seventh
Ward: Edward Patton, of the 9th Ward:
James L. Lennon, Vare's man in the 26th
Ward
Although Common Council passed the
ordinance over the Mayors veto last
Thursday, 1t was accomplished by bare
three-fifths vote, and Independent men,
bers later voiced their doubt that the
veto could have been overridden In less
hasty procedure than was adopted.
Even President McCurdy. of the Com
mon branch, disapproved of the land
acquiring ordinance for the Municipal
Court. Yesterday he favored cutting
for Municipal Court buildings. The At
titude of President McCurdy in opposing
the expansion plan of the citys
newest court and his championing of
the economical scheme to house the court
near the present House of Detention Is
awakening considerable speculation
among Organization forces
CAMP FOLLOWERS oBEDIENT.
Other camp followers of the organza-
ton held in leash by Ware and Nc
Nchol influences, who voted yesterday
to override the Mayors veto were
James Willard. of the Eighth Ward:
Alfred NJ. Waldron, of the Thirty-f1rst:
Louis HUT. of the Twenty ninth; VIII
liam H. Quigley. of the Twenty-eighth;
James NJ Neely. of the Ninth; John J.
Mckinley. Jr.. of the Thirty-third;
Henry J. Klor. of the Forty-fifth; Harry
F. Kennedy, of the Fourteenth; Albert
De Prefontaine, of the Thirty-eighth;
William ]. Crawford, of the Thirtieth:
John j. Conroy. of the Twenty-fifth:
William BoaI. of the Forty-first, and
Elias Abrams of the Sixteenth.
The Select Councilmen who voted to
sustain the veto of Mayor Bankenburg
and check the expansion planned for the
Municipal Court, were Edwin c. Boileau.
OF the Thrty-second Ward; George ID
Cox, of the Forty-thrd: George B.
Davis, of the Twenty-fourth Joseph ].
Dlworth, of the Eighteenth Ira D.
German, of the Forty-sixth; ]. F. Green
wood, of the Thirty-seventh: William ]
Huston, of the Thirty-sixth: Colonel
Sheldon Potter. of the Twenty-second,
and William R. Rieber, of the Forty
second.