The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
BILL is FORCED
INTO LAST-HOUR
JAM BY FOES
Public Hearing Is Ordered
for Friday Afternoon on
NoII Measure.
DECIDED BY SHERWOOD
Mitchell Legislator Casts
Vote to Skater
Deadlock.

City manager foes counted a VIC
tory today when, to delay considera-
ton of the NolI bill and force it
into the last-minute legislative jam,
they succeeded in obtaining a pub
lie hearing on the measure Friday
afternoon.
First shots of the senate battle
on the city manager law and Noll
amendments were exchanged in the
committee room, where the cities
and towns committee chairman,
Senator John G. Sherwood, Mitchell,
cast the deciding vote for the hear
ing demanded by Senators Sumner
Clancy, indianapolis, and George w.
Sims, Terre Haute, bitter antago-
nists Of city manager government.
The hearing granted, the commit
tees report on the Noll bill can not
bs delivered to the senate before
Saturday morning. The senate is
scheduled to consider the budget
bill at that time, and as result,
the Noll bill may not be sent to the
senate floor before Monday, opening
the last week of the session.
Davis Aids Sims
Senator James P. Davis, Kokomo,
sided with Sims and Clancy for a
hearing, Opposed we're Senators j.
Clyde Hoffman, indianapolis, who
is sponsoring the bill in the COM
n1ittee, Roy M. Friedley, Muncie,
and Byron Huff, Martinsville.
At the outset Of the meeting,
Sherwood q clared he was fighting
a public hearing" But when the
division came he said: II want to
be fair. I'd rather you hadn't
thrown this on me. Well have a
hearing, but not later than tomor-
row. This bill has got to go out"
Contention that the Noll bill and
the 1921 manager act are uncoa-
Stitutional, that Indianapolis voted
to adopt manager government at a
''misfit election" and that "some
very reputable people" want the
hearing, punctuateo arguments of
Sims and Clancy,
Clancy a week ago agreed with
committee members, in the presence
of reporters, that there was no need
for further public hearing. Today
he denied being party to such an
agreement.
Directed by Coffin?
Today's nnaneuver was interpreted
as having been directed by George
Y. Cof1u, Seventh district and city
Republican chairman. From the
same source, it was believed, came
the instructions that caused Clancy
to switch to the ranks of Republican
regulars" in the senate Wednes-
Gay with the deciding vote that
passed the primary modification bill.
Processing deep concern" for
cities proposing to adopt the man
ager form of government, Clancy
interrupted Hoffman's reading of the
bill with:
''I've been requested by some very
reputable people who want public
hearing to insist that one be ar
ranged. We can't go laundering on
with lot of whopping and hoorays.
This thing is legally wrong and I'M
SOuIlQ.
When he asserted the Noll amend
ments were drafted with mo con-
siderable legal talent" Hoffman re-
minded him that they had been dis
cl;ssed and approved by a majority
of Marion county legislators before
the session and represented the
agreement of Representatives j.
Glenn Harris, Gary; Lloyd D. Clay
cornbe, indianapolis; Charles w
Jewett, former mayor and city man
ager foe, and Fred G. Cause, attor-
ney and election commissioner. All
are attorneys.
Raps Public Hearing
do you admit" Sims shot at
Hoffman, that the present law is
unavoidable and that you adopted
the manager form here by a little
misfit election?"
Tired of the wrangle, Senator
Friedley doomed: I've attended a
half dozen public hearings and they
never get anywhere They don't
amount to row of pins"
Sherwood, returning from phone
call, cast the deciding vote on the
motion for q public hearing.
Hoffman will carry the fight to
the senate floor with minority re-
port for passage. Sims declined the
committees offer to consider his own
bill, which would repeal the city
manager law and make it impossible
for Indianapolis and other Irdiana
cities to be governed under the man
ager plan. When we move these
amendments, Wen move my bill" he