The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-06-22
COUNCIL HAS
HOT SESSION
NEAR FIGHT MARKS MONDAY MEET
Moore and Price Mix Commodore Dean
Pays Respects Bonds Bring
Big Money

"A hight was almost precipitated in
the chambers of the city council Mon
day night when City Electrical In
spector and Water Superintendent w.
/. Price, expressing resentment at
charges of Max L. Moore, an electri-
clan, characterized Mr.. Moore. as a
skunk and dirty pup and rushed toward
him. Mr.. Price was restrained and
resumed his seat, but the passage of
hot words between Mr.. Moore and Mr..
Price and other city officials continued
for some time.
Mr.. Moore addressed the council to
ask for itemization of a bill, which it
was claimed had been rendered him for
delinquency in payment of inspection
fees on electrical inspection. Mr..
Moore claimed alleged. incidents where
Mr.. Price had failed to comply with
requests for inspection. He also al
legged that state inspector was re-
Gently here and raised a complaint on
laxity of the work of Mr.. Price. The
latter in turn stated that the state in
spector had raised "hob" because of
failure of electricians to comply with
the ordinance.
In the course of the war of words.
Mr.. Moore alleged that the council had
been hoodwinked into passing the or
dinance at the will of one man. that
the ordinance provided an inspection
that was superfluous, in that the state
electrical inspector would do the same
work free of charge. that the city was
needlessly expending 1920 per year.
At this juucture City Recorder Howe
in stage whisper instructed Mayor
n fro n
the responses to Mr.. Moore, to tell the
latter that he was liar. The en-
broglio ended in the mayor telling Mr..
Moore to cease. his accusations or he
would be put out and, that the ordi-
nance would be enforced.
& The climax of the MooregPrice alter
cation was led up to by an incident
that, too, was pregnant with possible
outbursts. Commodore 0. G. Dean
asked the council to permit owners of
property abutting on streets recently
improved to demonstrate against ac-
tion of the body in paying the con-
tracing concern doing the work. the
Transfer & Livery Co., although the
council had complied with the formal
ity of advertising the closing of the
work the required time. Commodore
Dean declared that the advertisements
had been so made that not one in 80
citizens were aware of the action.
While he held the council innocent of
wrong doing, he declared that they
were culpable in allowing an intimated
collision between the contractor and
the city engineer, E. Il. Newell
81 haven't thing to say against
the costs of the street Improvement
under the contract awarded by the
said Commodore Dean, ''but
we certainly were bilked by excessive
charges in force account work. have
been in the contracting game, know
how they work it. I'm blaming you
fellows for letting them slip it over on
you.
Mayor Scobee indicated that En-
gineer Newell, who was present, might
be in position to explain the matter
Of the work and its cost to Commodore
Dean. The engineer. however. de-
,lared a council meeting no time and
place for such discussion. He stated
that he would be ready to privately go
over the matter any time with Mr..
Dean.
The meeting was initiated by spir-
tied bidding of six out OF town bond
buyers and one local concern, the But
er Banking Co.. for an issue of $25. 900
general obligation bonds, running for
20 years and bearing elk per cent in
-erest. The highest bid, accrued inter-
est and a premium of 81, 257. rs, was
made by Ladd & Tilton, of Portland.
The local bank, the second highest, was
lnly $3.50 less. The lowest bid. an
,ffer of premium of S33 so per 1000.
vas made by Fred Glenn & Co.
Representatives of the bond houses
fought to have the city reject all offers
Monday night and leave the sale to an
auction on the spot. In view of the
act that no representative of Ladd &
rilton was present. it was decided, in
airness to the Portland institution. TO
cave the final disposal of the bonds
lntil Tuesday. when applicants were
.iven the permission of increasing
heir offers.
On Tuesday the bonds we're finally
lwarded to Ladd & Tilton who raised
heir bid 500. although some of the
ther bidders were slightly in excess
Z this figure.