The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-19
EAR NEW PAVING SCANDAL
See Tn Amendment Clipping Power of Paving Cornmis-
 sion, Return of $160, 900 Warrenite Deal On Wings
Members of Commission Consult As to Propriety of Sending Designations to Mayor at Once.

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 Members of the paving and sewer commission indignantly resent the sae- eion of the Republican administration Sf it's efforts to take from them their power-f to protect the taxpayers and cfrizens of Bridgeport. in the matter of paving contracts. The action of the common council, last night, if enacted Into law and charter amendment Dy khe legislature, will make the neTnb bers of the paving and sewer coraEni ssion n1ppeuts and fgurehesds assigned to earry out the dr1dgery of supeTyis1ps Ehe faithful execution of good paving contracts by road builders, without khe benefit of being able to exercise hudement in the selection of pavement
 The members of the paving and sew er conan-Ission are foremost citizens, all active in the business and political aife of the city. AsH serve svitdoa1t remuneration of any sort The action so resented by several members of the board that they consulted together on h plan to have each member inInedi- hteIv tender his resignation to Mayor tVv1lson
 i sTg,.af sarY1e action was not taken on ] Rhas plan bo17ay was due to the fact ehat Col M H. Rogers, MFesident of hhs board, i1 whose judgment the oth- er members place the utmost cond- kaence, was in Hartford today and could not be located by telephone Col H2oeers left BrtaEeport for the Capital 5cty on an early train, tafs morninlg.
 5sfefs Es 9ssHg t11e Tn t4a mon council chamber last nIg51f, zHayor wilson signed all the proposed amend rnents to the city charter, including mhat which will prevent the paving and sewer commission contracting for tany pavenaen4 except that laid on a H3ortland cement concrete base,
 l The attittDde of the paving and sewer Commission in preventing Mayor Will Bon from putting over the $160,O00 War repetItznn. Although members of the paving board were rather reticent to- Anay in discussing the action Of the EouncfI they intamated that in the C17arter amerdKnant they saw the handwratA11g on th,e wall which meant E$16O. 900 Warrenfte deal. which feT bhrough last year, because of the stand kaken by the paving board, and be- EattIse of the wave Of adverse public bpin5on which followed
 President Rogers of the commission, ewhen located at t4ae Allyn house, Hart Gord hate this afternoon, by The Far hner's legislative correspondent would hlot discuss the proposed charter bI11end1nemt but 9nti1nated that he RWp111d have something to say on the hasatter 1a4er on. Col Rogers said he bNas In Hartford on private bllsiness land his presence in the Capital city lEas not oecasfoned by the proposal to curtan the powers of his Bridgeport board
 James H OfRourke, a Democratic hnember Of the commission, would not kdiscuss fae amendment, nor eonfrrn Ehe r11raor that he had been visited eby another member of the board today pVith a proposition that all tender their resfgnaHiOns MT. OsRourle said thai since the common council is the gov- kern1ng body in city affairs and choser by the people. he did not think it be canne any other city official to criticise Ehe dofngs of tfaat body