The Detroit times., 1914-03-25
DnNCEMAN PLAN
. TO BAR DEBATE
ONBUDCETFAnS
Gag Resolution ID Turned Down
by Council by Vote Of
10 to 16
vICTORS IN BITTER
FIGHT LED BY ALLAN
Calls It "Raw and Rotten DEAF
Revised Poolroom Ordi-
nance Stands

The bad blood brewed In the com.
mon council when President Dinge'
man refused important committee
places 70 the Is aldermen that op'
pSssd him In his night against AID.
Khan for the presidency, was In evil
deAce,. Tuesday night. The occasion
for HhS \bitter outburst was an at
tempt oR the part OF Aid. Rutter,
ardent Dingeman supporter, to force
the adoption OF q resolution shutting
az debate IN committee OF the whole
on the 912, 900 900 budget. The adop-
ton Of this resolution would have pre-
vented the minority members In the
council from having q voice on the
preparation Of the budget. They had
little or NO voice In the committees.
and their only chance to let their
constituents know how they stand on
various items ID to make Q noise In
committee Of the whole. The gag
resolution was defeated by vote OF
10 to rs.
President Dingeman made no pre-
tense Of lodging the fact that he was
behind the resolution.
1T was offered In good faith" he
said after the meeting. by accept;
Ing the report from the committees
We figured on doing away with the
eleventh hour stunt Of restoring the
cuts made In committee. We had no
intention Of taking . slap at Aid. Al
Ian or his friends In the council. The
truth Of what I say will be proven
on the moor Of the committee Of the
whole next Friday morning. ! ven
ture to say that at least $1,000, 900, II
not more. will be put back In the
budget which ia now top-heavy."
While the Dingeman followers had
. legitimate excuse for attempting to
pass a gag" resolution. the Allan
ties on the other hand, had perfect
right to challenge the motives behind
Rutter's resolution. and o well-dlled
gallery gave the minority members q
grand opportunity to crate on gag
rule" "favoritism" and "the immor-
tai sixteen"
Aid. Allan, leader of the minority,
was most bitter IN his denunciation
OF the Dingeman wind throttle"
plan.
'Tt's positively laughable-it's so
raw and rotten" shouted Allan. IL
cannot conceive why It was intro
duced unless It was q dirty slap at
me. The object II merely to stop us
from voicing ourselves on the dkRer.
ant proportions.
"0entlemen. II you pass that .reso-
luton. GOD. help you In the future.
Some Of you aldermen are going to
be In the hopeless minority some day,
and then you will be squeezed In the
same way. We have not had one
word to say on the estimates. Why
Because we opposed certain alder
man for the presidency. wouldn't
be q party to such dirty politics even
II were q member of the gang. One
respectable aldermen told me tonight
that he had pledged himself to sup
port the gag resolution because ne
had in return been promised support
ON . social center item that he want
ed reinstated."
Aid. Owen frankly admitted that he
would vote for the resolution because
he had secured what he wanted.
Aid. O'Brien. Dingeman supporter
and q Democrat, who heads the com.
mittee ON claims and accounts. took
personal offense at Allan's remarks.
II never heard such q rank four.
flush before" reared OBrien. when
Allan was on the top Of the heap he
was classed as Q salary and budget
booster. He played politics all the
time. He has grossly insulted me by
his talk about trading and jobbing
on items in the school board budget.
want to say that nothing Of that
kind was done and Allan knows 1t.
Because he got his wings clipped,
which should have been done years
ago, he II trying to play to the grand
stand - q martyr-he wants sym.
patty"
AID. rreiwald, Ldttlefeld and Guth-
ard urged the adoption Of the res0.
luton, while Aid. Lodge and Rein
hsrdt pleaded with the council to de-
feat the resolution.
The Gag" resolution was killed On
AID. Allan's motion to indefinitely
postpone action Of the Rutter meas
ure.
The vote was - follows: Aye-Al-
Ian. Buelow. Bliel, Dill, Gilman. Cold
nsr. Hess. Hindle. Knapp. Lempke.
Lodge, Reid. Reinhardt, Schultz,
Thompson. Wenzell. Wilson. Vernon
--1S.
N9y-68IuetIs 0uEIOns OSoOs ~
raIan. Friewaid. 0uthard. Jakei.
Keating. Littleneld, Nowc, O'Brien.
Owen, Rutter. Schemansky, Skrxycki,
Wartell-16.
Ala. 0linnan's vote was surprise.
He "thrsw down" Dingeman WITHOUT
: word Of explanation. Dingeman had
counted on 0linnAn's vote 70 carry
tnS resolution. Naturally Dingeman
IL peeved at Gilman since the c0un.
eli president risked his own political
reputation TO give Gilman good CON-
mittse appointments In the tace Of ad-
vorSG public sentiment. Aid. Lodge.
: Dingeman supporter. stated that he
voted against the resolution because
he thought Il was useless"
The attempt by Aid. Wartell to have
the poolroom ordinance reconsidered
was easily blocked. The alderman
from the Fifth ward announced that
he had been deputised BY the pool
room proprietors In the city TO pro-
teet against the new ordnance be-