The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-12
|ULLMAN RESIGNS AS CITY ATTORNEY EFFECTIVE JULY 1 Relations With Commission Always Pleasant, States City Attorney in Letter F. c. MOORE SLATED
 FOR CITY ATTORNEY Extensive Report and List of Recom- mendations of Needed Acts and
 Reforms Filed by Attor-
 ney Ullman

City Attorney Monte Nj. Ullman ten dered his resignation to the city com missioncrs yesterday and it was imme- diately accepted. It takes effect on July L
 This action on the part of MT. UEman was not unexpected. it having been understood and generally known among those familiar with the situation that change would ultimately be made in the office. In handing in his resignaAon Mr JIllmar calls attention to the fact that he had offered to resign at the time the present commissioners went into office but that he continued to 70 ,h after the city's law business at the re- cuest of pr. N. A. Barrett, president of the board of commissioners and co:c- missioner O. public affairs under whieh | the law department falls.
 1 When MT. Ullman rendered his reslg- nation the commissioners complimented | hin highly for the efficient manner in | which he had conducted the affairs of the office, and expressed regret that | their pleasant official relations were to l be severed.
 1 Speaking of the resignation later Dr. l Parrett said that Mir. Ullman had ai- ways been attentive to his duties. had l discharged them in an entirely satisfac- l tory manner. and that this step was not l taken because of any friction between
 attorney and commissioners, nor be- cause of any neglect of or inattention to l his duties
 l MT. UllInan stated that his relations with the present commissioners had al- ways been of the peasantest, but feeling that certain of the commissioners pre- 1 ferred another, he concluded that it was | time for him to make way for that | preference
 Fred G. Moore, city attorney of Ens-
 ley before Birmingham absorbed that l city, will succeed MT. Ullman, and will probably be elected at the meeting of .he l board next Tuesday. MT. Moore was an
 ardent supporter of Dr. Barrett in the | campaisn last fall. and it has been un- l derstood all along that when a change
 was made he would get the place. He
 has an office in the First National Bank
 building.
 MT. Ullman. in rendering his resigna-
 tion, reviewed the litigation now pend
 ing in which the city is interested, and
 offered to furnish the board or his sue. | cessor any information, assistance, sug-
 gestions, advice, aid or counsel that theJ
 may see fit to call for.
 LETTER OF RESIGNATION
 In his letter of resignation Mr. Ull>
 man says:
 Shortly after the last municipal cleo
 tion, at which the present administration was elected, I voluntarily called upon
 your president and called his attention tr fLA I1,%a 1G N N-TA% and the rate litigation with the tele-
 phone company, and also called his at
 tention to the fact that I had been di- rected by your predecessors to go to New
 York city for a conference with associ-
 ate counsel, in regard to the Mcdonald
 case. l suggested to MT. Barrett that,
 if an immediate change in the city at-
 torneys office was contemplated, my successor ought to be sent to New York
 in my stead, in order that he might
 familiarize himself with the questions in- volved, and, thereby, be in a better posi-
 tion to represent the citys interest. Dr. Barrett then stated to me that he
 desired me to continue as city attorney
 until he had assumed the duties of his office and had an opportunity to acquaint
 himself with the affairs of the city, and
 he requested that I continue in the per formance of my duties, qualifying his statement, however, with a frank admo nition that if it became advisable, in his , opinion, to make a change. I would bt
 given due notice From that time for ward until the present day I have giver practically my entire time to the city: affairs
 . DESIRES A CHANGE
 After conferences with Dr. Barrett to | day, I am advised that he desires tt place some one else in charge of the lega | depa rtment of the city.
 I, therefore, respectfully hereby tende my resignation of the office of cit. | attorney, such resignation to be effectiv on July 1, 1918.
 desire, in severing my connection with the city, to assure the board that i has been a very great pleasure to hay t had the opportunity of being associates : with this commission, composed. as D is, of men exhibiting in a marked degre d a conservative spirit of loyalty and devc . tior to the interests of the city, handl lcapped doubtless, by constitutional an . statutory restrictions which, in my 1udg f ment, are incompatible with the progres O and development of the community. Tn $ commission has labored unceasingly wit d a solidarity that can only result in goo Y and, ultimately in the solution Of tn y many vexing problems which have cor
 fronted former administrations, an d which will confront this and future ac l. ministrations I desire to assure yo f that, in severing my connection wit Il the city, there is not the slightest
 will, soreness or other improper feelin = on my part towards the city, or toward this administration. or any of the men | bers thereof.
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