Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
ACREEMEN 7
On SHEET
FAR OFF
Mayor Continues to Urge Council
to Stand Firm-AIdermen
Ready for Long Fight,

Both factions in the deadlock over
the passage OF the city budget issued
statements Tuesday which totally dis
coura ged those officials who were op-
timistically at work to effect a COM
promise by the meeting of Council
| Monday.
The fight has become so bitter that
conservative members OF Council fear
1t will mean hopeless division on all
matters of Importance during the
whole year. Mayor Woodward him
self showed his apprehension over the
! bers OF the Finance Committee 10
continue to stand firmly by the bud
get
That crowd of Aldermen intend ed
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 We'll 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 il
stands" he said.
Alderman Gambler was suffering
from rheumatism Tuesday aud went
to his home early in the morning say
ing he might not be able 10 conc
downtown again for several days un-
less the weather improved,
The other four Aldermen--Thomson,
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 a
member of the Finance Committee
mas any right 10 say HON AIIC PcoPiO :
money shall be spent
Raps Humphrey and Mayor.
II 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
rterranean 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vigny will be rescinded.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 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 1t 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 techn!cality he
will send the resolution back to Coun-
Gil disapproved, and the appropria-
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 d month more be-
fore it is passed,