The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-15
LITTLETON INDUCTS NEW
OFFICIALS INTO OFFICE
MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS
AND CITY JUDGE.
Hon. A. w. Chambliss Makes
Response in Behalf Of In
coming Members. Ay

To Mayor Jesse NJ Littlcton fell
the duties Of officiating in carrying
out the program Of inducing the new
board Of city commissioners Tuesday
afternoon, and the mayors remarks
In each instance, as he called the
names of the new members before
him for the purpose of taking the
oath of office, were full Of pleasant
tries. Besides administering the oath
Of Office to the mayor and the COM
missioners, Mayor Littleton also adj
ministered the oath to City Judge
Martin A, Fleming f..
Mayor Littleton paid high tribute
to all the commissioners and to CITY
Attorney Frank Garden and Judge
Fleming. He stated to- Mr.. Garden
that there may be better city attor-
news in Tennessee, but the board Sc
riously doubted 1t, and he called
Judge Fleming "Taerciful Judge
and said that the people had said u
also by giving him majority over
splendid young men who ran against
him in the last election.
None of the new officials, with the
exception of Mayor (Chambliss. made
any speech. Mayor Littleton's vale
dictory address was as follows:
"Gentiemen OF the Board OF Commas
sioners:
A"Men may come and men may go,
hut the CITY goes on forever. at seems
but Yesterday that this board OF COM
missioners was induced into once.
The old was rung out and the new was
r,Ine in. For little more than Tour
years we have directed the AFFAIRS OF
| the city--how well or how indiherentiy
the future local historian must say.
| 80 far as am concerned, quit my
| place here grateful to every member on
| this board for help and cooperation IN
| administering the affairs OF the city,
and fully conscious that without that
helm the splendid condition of the
| finance department would.not be what
| II is. II It as In good condition, II we
| are within our appropriations, II we
| have been economical. the credit IS
| due to you gentlemen of the board. on
| whose wisdom and Judgment ! nave
depended. find now that my cmeless
| regret in going out Is that ! shall miss
| the weekly meetings with the board OF
| commissioners, the city attorney and
| the departmental officers. l have been
| with you for so long time that l
find 1t painful to give you up. Let me
| say in this connection that. whatever
| our disbursements have been as to
matters of municipal policy. and how
ever much as we may have sometimes
seemed to border on bitterness Or UNI
/ Kindness in discussing the various
things with which we have had to deal
| go from The city hall with no heart
aches and no luminosity. leave the
| members of this board with the sin
cere wish that everyone OF you will
find his future Respondent with hope
and that success and happiness will
attend your every effort. The depart
mental officers. who have made possf-
BILE the success of this administration,
have been mostS loyal and faithful, end
the regret of nay going from them Is
lessened only In the consciousness that,
SO far as the MAYORS Office is con-
cerned, they will have a more worthy
chief"
Tribute to Successor.
When Mayor 'Chambliss was escorted
into the commission room by the COM
mittee appointed by Mayor Littleton,
and the mayor still retaining his place
as presiding officer. said:
Mr.. Chambliss. you have been
charged with an ambition to be mayor
of the best city in the central south.
You have been tried and convicted by a
verdict so overwhelming as to convince