San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
SEE ELECTION
| CONTEST OVER
BLACKS VETO
Responsibility for Middle
Placed on Mayors
Shoulders.
The WAS NEGLIGENT
Expected Commission Will
Override Veto at First
Opportunity.
HE WAS NEGLIGENT

dIleiilkHeu 10 name on llurSuuy Will
offici4te at the primary election on
April % will be d. ,ided Wednesday
when hearing of the injunction petit
ton filed by attorneys for the Poo
pies Ticket Saturday is set before
Judge II. w. b. Terrell in the Seven
ty-third District Court. A temporary
restraining order, hating the mayors
attempt to name these officers was is
sued by Judge Terrell Saturday and
upon his decision Wednesday rests the
final outcome in the controversy. 1t
is barely possible that any decision
rendered by the district court may be
taken up on appeal and that con-
test Of the entire election may result
1T is also probable that both sets of
presiding officers may attempt to
serve at the April primary as it is
hardly probable that n decision can be
obtaiSed from the higher courts by
that time.
Full responsibility for the muddie
threa tened at the coming election is
placed by tae city commission on the
shoulders of Mayor Black. The four
members of the commission, and the
attorneys representing the Peoples
Ticket, contend that Paragraph > Of
Section IL of the charter gives the
comptssion full authority to name all
election. officers after June /, 1918.
This contention is fully set out in the
petition asking for the injunction. The
mayer, on the other hand, contends
that Paragraph 1 Of the same section,
which those familiar with the charter
claim prevailed only before June /,
1915, gives him that right 1t Is this
question that the courts will be asked
10 decide.
viii Override Veto.
The injunction filed Saturday is di-
Fected against the mayor, city clerk
and the 81 presiding officers the may
Or attempted to name The plaintiffs
are the candidates on the Peoples
Ticket and the presidi officers
E,aped by the city commission last
tloMlay. Deputy sheriffs were work
ing over time Saturday night in an
effort to serve the citations in the
Ease and did not expect to complete
theif labors until some time Sunday
DR. possibly Monday. The citations
were not delivered to them until near
IL @ O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
On the heels of tie filing of this
nJufietiv" Ianie aniiounoeinehe i .,
nhsos piack lnas ne hsu Ne.oeI lne
esViu.ion auopleu w Iou. i.
Thursday. disappearing of his attempt
10 name the presiding officers for the
Election, and instructing him to re-
fraiu from issuing his proclamation.
His veto. however, is expected to come
haughe as tne yoniuiissn' aisei
ne heceseary seven ea' eiap' -
pecteu 70 pass oNe. Iis .eo I'm
nissioher nieuen sWItc,l run 'dasoi
p'aeh' 10 mhohi ~ na' S,uns ~.
TWO years. gives tne coniliisSi 10
nc power 10 Iass an!thihs OYER tne
mayor veto. II ~ also pr1 pro, Una.
ne street epinnissioher VII eon.inne
Vote Win lne oVne. tnIev eoiio
'ioners on al proposl,ions, n. NY, AZ
rs ne 10 sdu 10 DC cohSi a u,
pieased WIN inc mayor . treatment Vi
nm; o,c.
Hack Nesiec'ea 10 >snie V,l''es.
IL IL also expected tsat ume sum-
our commissioners WIN on inursuay
pass the resoiution naming lhe presn .
ng oI.icers ior me e'ec.ion, oye, tac
mayors veto; "nile IL Is propupis
nat tnis VIII De uone' some contehu
nat such acton wo nsl,s es uh my ;,
IS mayor FRO lem fIeilier hau sishea
md approved the resolution ana tnat
ne mayor was witnout DOW W te.o
{. ms question: may DC lnIec'eI ITO
ne court proceedings Deiore 'uuse
terreii Wednesua!. ,,
Inc petition Tor i1JuIceioh Iiieu
SATURDAY sets gu. thal me mHor Is
uea =. prociamauon caiiins .ne re
lalieu 70 name tne prssiuihs
efricers. ~ rurther P1,hts oup u.at
be COMMISSION, Dy aIilrmali.e WIS
ef all members present on aPrh .;
I'D name these PRESIDING otiicers anu
nat mayor FRO Ici. rieiiier ssneu
nd approved TINS action, ~ 1urDher
eclfes the attempt py tne mayor u.
subsequent meeting 10 suosti1uIe y
list prepared by him for those alreads
banned. such action, IL is contendeu'
contrary to the law ana charter'
Pfeii!er says Mayor wrong. >.
Plaintiffs plead that the action OF
he commission was final and ask that
he mayor and city clerk De rcstraiheu
rom issuing credeptials to the OFFICERS
winch the former IS attempting 10
Ianle and that no interference be had
With the men named by the council
nd that they be given their creden-
ia1s.
Commissioner Pfeiffer SATURDAY