Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-20
PROPOSALBY
COLEREFUSED
In MEETING
Cobolini II o | ds All
Warrants Issued
Are Legal

The deadlock in the city commits
sion remained unbroken AZ the close
Of the special meeting Wednesday
morning. in which ~ A- Cobolini re
fused to consider a proposition put
by Mayor A. B. Cole for financing
the city. while at the same time the
mayor stood pat On his refusal to
sign SIS 900 In warrants voted at a
recent meeting.
Cole proposed 40 tho commission
ers that they give him and A. E.
Munday city manager. complete
authority 10 handle the financing OF
the Sit- until after the election. He
stated that he had talked tO off
cials AZ the bank. and they had in
dicated that they would carry the
city over until that time. Cole went
On sd say that if the bank officials
wished he WDGld give them u signed
statement from men or the Rent
fro ticket assuring them that the
Legality Of the debts SO incurred
would not be questioned.
The proposal was rejected without
discussion BY Starck ana Ccbclini
CobOIInl Speaks
The question or the $4,000 III
warrants was brought up at the
opening or the meeting hy bOtn
CobClini and Starck. Mayor Cole
has refused three times 10 sign
these warrants, holding that they
arc Illegal.
I these warrants are illegal,
whnr nhny,r tt,n cDcn nnn 49,. --E.-.
has already issued? Il these war
rants are illegal, then all the 9TH
ers are Illegal and x. as "A one
citizen. Will refuse to pay my tax
es, Cobolint declared. I'VE issued
$4,000 while Ford was in office, to
cover current expenses. tThis was
a reference 20 the Mayors stand
that the warrants can legally be
issued only 20 pay permanent I'M
provement indebtedness This is
tine first time you have ever re-
fused TO sign warrants. Why don't
you sign them now2r
Mayor Suggests Close
When Cobolini grew emphatic on
the question OF warrant issued
under FOrd'S administration. Nav
or Cole said if warrants were All
they had met TO discuss. they
might as well adjourn at once.
We've got To come To some con-
clusiOn about this thing" Cobolini
declared. We've got 70 pay these
DIlls, and we've got 10 meet the
payroll Why not 10 OIL and sign
the warrants. and Get this thing
Strengthened out? We've got 10 have
the money, and there's no use
either leaving the tangle over for
the next commission tO Straighten
out, or going down 70 the bank and
paying 3 per cent. when we can
get the money for per cent with
warrants"
Claims Filter Work stopped
IL don't want to put anybody on
the payroll, but we're laying them
off now. Stopped work on the filter
plant last Saturday, because Ches-
GER Cohn, the man from the state
health department. couldn't Get
money for the payroll this week
Both Mayor Cole and commits
sioner Arthur Hipp interrupted I'D
demand why men mad been laid
off at the filter plant. Cole said
that the pay roll had been met
last Saturday. and would continue
90 be. Hc said last week when
they were checking the pay roll
Munday specifically asked If anv
of the men at the filter plant should
be laid off. and H. had told him
that they should not.
Cobolini declared he had had 10
from Cohn that men had been laid
OFF and the work held up, and
that he had told Conn that IN the
city can not meet the payroll for
him TO keep the men OH another
week. and he would personally
pay them.
The street SH~e per. which na9
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