Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-04

Ben II. Thompson and Ira l.. Bran blett,
Republicans, and Heydon W. Buchanan,
DeHocrat, were anti-administration.
COMBINATIONS ARE
FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL.
1t was impossible to tell Just
how the councilmen were allied, so
varied were the combination, hut the
only one who showed any consistency In
support Of ordinances favored by the
administration was Mr. Claycomte, for
mer leader OF the ants. The voting In
dicated a distinct schism between Mr..
C1aycombe and the other members Of the
former solid six" The leaders Wig
orous opposition to the ordinance Great
ing n boxing commission Of seven mem
bers Of the council is understood to have
had something to do with this.
The legal department was criticised
for not supplying enough copies of or
dinances offered for introduction to give
each Of the nine cOuncilmea, one.
Councilmen Buchanan, Claycombe. Ray
and President Bernd blocked suspension
Of the rules on an ordinance to increa Sc
the salary of Assistant City Attorney
William T. Bailey from 81 800 to $500.
Mr.. Buchanan explaining he WISHED to
let the bill lie In committee for two
weeks while he searched for a way to
decrease the salary Of a couple Of at
torneys in the legal department whom
he did not feel were earning their pres
ent pay. He did not name the officials,
but said he felt Mr. Bailey was working
hard enough to deserve the Increase,
and it should be provided by cutting the
two other salaries instead of by appro-
priating an additional 81 1000.
Every member but Mr.. Claycombe.
vofad 81 On ordinance 70
manent improvement of the first alley
north Of Eleventh street between Scioto
and Pennsylvania streets despite remon-
STRANGE of all the resident property own
ers Mr.. ClaycOmbe was excused from
voting This was the first ordinance to
force an improvement over protest of
property owners presented by the new
board Of public works. Some of the
councilmen recalled Mayor Shank pledged
in campaign speeches not to try to make
improvements which citizens objected to.
CLAYCOMBE EXPLAINS
HIS POSITION.
Mr. Claycombe said he diG not wish to
vote on the measure because he had not
had opportunity to see a copy Of the
ordinance before the meeting and was
not intelligently informed therefore This
provoked discussion of the failure to re-
ceive extra copies Of bills and President
( Bernd said he was in favor OF holding
up everything they send up until we get
some action" He said the corporation
counsel had agreed to provide the
copies.
Councilman Walter w. Wise approved
the presidents suggestion.
Blows began to fail upon the'engineer-
ing department when an ordinance trans
ferring $500 from the city civil engineers
official salary fund to the street sign
maintenance fund to make possible pay
ment Of a bill for new street signs in
herited from the Jewett administration
came up. Ccuncilmen Clauer, Ray, King
and Thompson voted no" The vote was
four noes" and five "ayes" which spelled
defeat for the bill. Appropriation ordi-
nances require six votes to pass.
Councilman King called an ordinance
transferring 5000 from the electric, gas
and vapor lights fund to the city civil
engineers office maintenance fund for
second reading, and asked City Civil
Engineer John L. Elliott to explain its
! purpose. Mr.. Elliott said he needed money
in the maintenance fund to provide
enough to buy a light truck for the
| food prevention gang, and an automobile
each for himself, the senior assistant chief
| inspector, the sewer engineer and the
Super1ntendentS or the aSpnaiC repair ana
the brick, block and asphalt repair de-
partments He said the cars are badly
needed to enable the officials to supervise
public engineering problems in scattered
| localities, but Councilman Bramblett,
Clauer, King, Ray and Thompson voted
mo" and the ordinance was lost.
ENGINEER IS
GIVEN SURPRISE.
The engineer was given another sur
prise, when, without public explanation,
the council unanimously voted to strike
from the files an ordinance annexing 4
small strip of territory in the neighbor
hood Of Raymond street and Sherman
Drive. Councilman King afterwards
said the township plans to build asschool
house on Raymond street within the
territory proposed to be annexed and
to have taken 1t in the city would have
blocked the movement The residents of
the section fear the school city would
not put up the building, Mr.. King said.
On the heels Of this the council further
mystifed the engineer by unanimously
passing two ordinances annexing other
minor tracts. In each case the territory
had been disannexed several months ago
to permit the country to i'm rove a road
which the city could not pave on ac-
count Of low valuation of AUDITING
property.
FdAowing his announcement Of two
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