Arizona republican., 1915-12-17
lmpassioned Speeches, and Nehemenant Protests Are Flung Back and Forth at Warm Meeting of City s Ruling Body


 1 yesterday morning It was evident l that the members were not going to ! dwell together in that degree of unity 1 enjolned upon the brethren by tho i psalmlst. There was a lot of miscel- l laneous and routine business but the 1 mayor was anxious to have the storm l over first. He knew that another at l tempt was to he made to remove City | Attorney Christy and he knew that 1 the remOVerS, who had failed sc often now had the strength to do it if mere i votes could accomplish it. But the mayor believed that he had something l that he thought was worth more votes ! than the enemies of the city attorney 1 could muster.
 i Accordingly as soon as the minutes 1 of the previous meeting had been i read and Clerk Thomas took up the regular order, the mayor stopped him i and said that understood that there | were some resolutions to he presented 1 The resolution the mayor had in mind was not on the table. The mayor asked again for it and said that it re- l lated to a matter that had been brew ing for some time and now the time had come to bring it to head. Thereupon Commissioner Richey in troduced the resolution, calling for the removal of the city attorney. Commissioner Corpstein seconded a motion to adopt the resolution.
 Mayor Young left the chair to make an impassioned protest It diffused a great deal of warmth against the chamber He warned the members | who had conspired against the city attorney that they were unwittingIy aiming at the commission form of government. He would give them credit for being honest. But he said that they were being made the tools of politicians who desired the over throw of the commission plan He said that even now q politician was standing about the street corners hoasting that he carried the commis- sion in his hip pocket. The mayor did not at that time mention the name of the politician who thus unccrmo- niousIy Iugged the commission about in his vest pocket, but later he made a disclosure.
 He said that he had not himself been about town much; business had required his absence from the city. but always very soon after his return he had not only learned by the way of Hugh DaggS what business re- mained yet untransactcd, but he also learned what instructions Mir Daggs claimed to have given the members as to voting
 The mayor said that he had for some time held the resignation of Mir. Christy. but he had declined to lay it before the commission. for he be lieVed that the best interests of the city would not be so served. Though he Was d friend of MT. Christv. Mayor Young said that there was no ,f,If ,...T., Christy was a relic of the Parish ad- ministration and the mayor reminded the commissioners that he alone had not voted for Mir Parish The latter had been elected city manager by the votes of the four members of the com mission But, said the mayor, he had stood Loyalty by MT Parish
 The vote was then taken on the Richey resolution. Richey Corpstein and Cope voting aye. The mayor an nounced his veto of the resolution saying that the members would have to bring the absent member. Mir. Mac Bean, if they desired to pass it. He added that Mr MacBean was not present probably because he desired tO remain outside the entanglement and did not want to take part in this game of politics.
 
 the language of the mayor and later moved that all the discussion on the subject be expunged from the record. i Inasmuch as it had not yet become a part of the record. it was decided to exclude it from the record. though i the mayor said that that was hardly worth while as it would not be cx- cluded from the newspapers.
 MT. Iichey then offered a motion declaring the office of city attorney l vacant. The mayor refused to enter 1 tain it. Later he said that MT. Richey might put the motion After some l sparring that was finally done. Clerk ! Thomas having taken occasion to state that in this move as well as in the proposition to mutilate the rec i ords he seemed to have been made 1 the goat. When the motion was final l ly put MT Cope declined to vote, but 1 it was held that under the charter he i should be counted in the affirmative 1 Mayor Young voted no. A vacancy on | the face of matters having been off ! Cially declared, MT. Richey came for ward with another resolution naming Judge R. F. Sloan to fill it. This resolution took the course of the last motion and was carried by the same 1 vote. The last proceeding in this con- ! nection with the issuance of instruc- tions to the associate city council to inquire into the legality of the pro ceedings that had been had
 Mayor Young, it is understood, re- lies upon an act of the legislature passed at the regular session last spring to sustain his veto of the va rious measures yesterday bearing upon the city attorney matter. The para graph follows:
 , No city or town ordinance resOlu- , tion or franchise shall take effect and
 become operative until thirty days after it's passage by the council and approval by the mayor, unless the
 same shall be passed over his veto
 and in that case it shall not take 9 effect and become operative until 3t l days after such final passage. except
 measures necessary for the immediate
 preservation of the peace, health ol
 safety of the city or town; and nc
 such emergency measures shall be.
 come immediately operative unless i shall state in a separate section tho easons why it is necessary that i should become immediately operative and shall be approved by the affirma
 time vote of three -fourths of all mem