Palisadian., 1923-03-30
CADIEN AND SIECRIST CROSS SWORDS
over APPOINTMENT OF MRS. C0UL TER;
". GRANTWOOD BONE OF CONTENTION
Members of Library Commission, Sinking Fund Commits
sion and Inspectors of Pub Imp. Appointed by Reso-
luton; w. Grantwood Citizens Protest-Heated
Discussion

The use of the power granted to the
Council Board to make appointments
by resolution in the event the Mayor
failed to do so within thirty days after
terms of appointed officials expire
caused lively scenes at the meeting of
the Mayor and Council on last Mon
day night.
A resolution introduced by Council
man Siegrist appointed the following
to serve on the Library Commission:
Mrs. Fred Wilson for two years, Mrs.
r. H. Mutt for three years, Mrs. ]. H.
Koch for four years, and Mrs. Jane E.
Coulter for five years.
The Mayor questioned the appoint
ment of Mrs. Coulter, asking if she
was citizen, to which Councilman
Siegrist replied she has been for
about two weeks. In the discussion
that followed Mr.. Siegrist stated that
she was appointed once by the Mayor
and was later dismissed because she
was not a citizen and for "other rea-
sons" Mayor Cadien resented the
statement and challenged Mr.. Siegrist
to tell the "other reasons" but he said
he was not obliged to. The Mayor
said that in the United States those
who were good citizens would not
make a public statement that they
could not back up, and the Council
man inferred that the Mayor meant
he wasn't good citizen, but the May
or replied that he had not intended
rLr tn hn int n, a
light and stated that he was very
much surprised at the appointment.
Councilman SchweitZer said that she
served in this capacity once and if
she was good enough then she is good
enough now. Councilman Marini voted
no on the resolution because, as he
explained, i it was net in keeping with
the spirit of borough government for
the Council to make appointments
without the approval of the Mayor.
regardless of their legal rights. Coun-
Gilman Meyer defended the action Of
the Council, stating that the Mayor
had plenty of opportunities to make
appointments but failed to do so and
the Mayor at this point stated he had
never even been consulted about the
appointments made by the Council
and felt that they showed him no
courtesy whatsoever, to which Mr..
Meyer replied that very little courtesy
had been shown to the Council by the
Mayor in the past.
Another resolution appointed Rev
erend Gozzo as Overseer of the Poor,
another appointed as members of the
Sinking Fund Commission Herbert L.
Post for the years of 1923-24 and Will
liam C. Heaton for the years of 1928
24-25, and still another made Jean H.
Rass and Henry ]. Smith Inspectors
of Public improvements.
In connection with the resolution
appointing members of the Sinking
Fund Commission the Mayor asked
Mr.. Siegrist if he wouldn't like to re-
place Mr.. Shean and himself, and Mr..
Siegrist replied that if he could have
found any way to do it he probably
would have. On this, particular reso-
luton Mr.. Marini reversed himself and
voted yes, stating that he did so be-
cause he was quite sure if the Mayor
had been consulted he would have ap-
proved this appointment.
On the resolution appointing two
Inspectors of Public improvements
Mr.. Marini doubted whether or not
Ordinance 125 which created these Of
fees had been done away with by q
subsequent ordinance and simply
passed on the vote.
The Mayor opened the West Grant
wood discussion by stating that he
had received a complaint from man
in that section regarding the refusal
of the driver of the fire engine to
pump out his cellar after he had fin
ished pumping the cellar of Mr.. Olsen,
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