New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1921, Page 5

MEETIN £ICTING AFFAR IContinued from First Page.) or the drafting of the 1§ mill budget, announced that he would steps today not only to have astion of the meeting cancelled grounds of illegnlity but would o an injunction taken out to have ! mayor removed from office on grounds. Two Platoon Adopted. tion was taken on the two pla- systom after a division of the on an amendment presented p, 8. McMahon that the matter decided at the polls next month. re was little question as to the ing of the meeting when the men rmed to the south ond of the to majke known their desirc to e tho matter given immediate at- tion. Interesting in coneotion with mendment was the fact that Mr. ahon, after suggesting in his endment that the question go to polls, remuined on the south side 2 hall thereby voting against p ndment he had introduced. o yor declared the amendment t and the mftter resolved on the {nal amendment, introduced by rman C. J. Dehm, which was to pt the system and appropriate 000 to put it into effect in Oc- ‘Women Swing Issue. A mecond division of the house s ordered. This time the vote was Mttle closer but the question was t great enough to require a count. o gallery, which was reserved for on voters, stood almost to a per- for the adoption of the two pla- hw. The mayor declared the endment adopted and a roar of istaction went up gradually gain- momentum until the building rly rocked. Fireworks Are Started. President F. 8. Chamberlain of hoard of finance and taxation had oduced a resolution for the adop- of the budgoet submitted by that mission, ecarrying with it a 21.7 i tax. The mayor was about to the qu owicki, who' had been retained by Taxpayers’ association, secured bor and mounting the stage Rded the resolution. He present- several of the items under the ption of estimated ihcome before or Curtis banged his gavel on table with a crash that could be | ard in all parts of the bullding. e mayor explained that in its pre t form the budget was illegal and orefore not acceptable. This started @ fireworks. Lawyer Henry Now- | ki lald sside his papers and de- nded to know wherein the figures was about to submit were illegal or Curtis replied that It was hin the power of the chair to in the matter, which brought a tort from the lawyer that the “pub- o was entitled to know.” Items Ome at a Time. By this time the crowd had begun g take sides in the matter and was ly expressing opinions pro and n. Someone in the crowd shouted Attorney Nowicki to go ahead APPOINTED AT YALE, Davie of Western Reserve Is O ng to New Haven University, New Haven, March 6.—Prof. Mau- ce R. Davie, now at Western Re- orve university, has been appointed ssistant professor of the science of oclety, in Yale, it was announced to- ay. He was graduated from Yale in 1915 and was an early winner of h Cleveland Alumni Association holarship. Rev. Dr. O. A. Petty, ho was chaplain of the 102nd regi- in the war, has been appointed lecturer in the divinity school. OMEN WHO CANNOT WORK ' comment. n when Lawyer Henry | S read o MAYOY agam rapped for orler. THis Honor then explained that the budget called for $16,000 for street sprinkling while the amounts chargeable in that ac- count in accordance with the charter and the layout of the city's streets would allow but $10,400. The Tax- payers’ budget was immediately ended to provide an additional $2,300 in the first and second districts in the item of miscellaneous receipts. The crowd called for a ruling on the meeting was one at was satisfac- before the time. This procedure tory to Mr. Nowicki. Several Other Items. The Taxpayers' association lawyer read the school enumn ation, even- ing schools and library and apparatus items with the same figure as that contained in the finance board's budg- et. The items were accepted without The amendment to change the tax on bank and insurance stock from $14,000 to $16,000 was lost. The Americanhization grant was allowed to remain at $400. An effort to in- crease the trade school grant from $1,600 to $2,500 was lost. Several other itewss of less importance were passed when an item to increase the estimated income from police court from $12,000 to $25,000 was intro- duced. Simons Put Off Stage. Just as the battle on this item was about to start a long anticipated inci- | Chief Rawlings * dent occurred when forcibly put Isadore Simons off the stage for interfering with the prog- ress of the meeting. Policeman Willlam O’'Mara had been | obliged to dgvote their entire time up to this point to silencing Simons who insisted upon having a word to say in every resolution or item that was discussed. The Taxpayers' president resisted the chief and made every ef- | fort to remain on the stage but was | finally shoved off into the arms of a | waiting follower. Several times he bobbed up in different parts of the hall but his voice was heard no more. P. 8. McMahon had left the hall in disgust before the incident occurred. Sexton Givea His Views. At this point Lawyer M. A. Sexton, the attorney for the Taxpayers' Asso- clation last year but who is this year identified with the movement for the higher rate, and who is now liquor prosecutor in the local court, mount- ed the stage to speak on what he termed the absurdity of the court in- crease. He removed his coat and hat and moved toward the front of the stage. Just as he was about to speak someone shouted, “Get down, Mickey."” The rest of the crowd was quick to pick up the cue and for sev- eral minutes Mr. Sexton stood on the platform unable to make himself heard above the din. He finally blurted out, “I thought I was to talk to a erowd of intelligent men. Don't be a lot of boys” When the crowd quieted down, he explained that the increase this year is 108 per cent. and more than the court has made in 15 years. “It just shows how absurd the whole damn budget is,”” he con- cluded. Soldier Asks Question. i Joseph Smith, adjutant of tho Pri- vate Walter J. Smith post of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, who had come in the interests of a $12,000 appro- priation for servicemen's club rooms and service bureau here, caught the attention of the mayor for a moment and was given the floor, He demand- ed know why the mayor had allowed debate on the budget after he had ruled it pot admissible as being il- legal. The crowd again took up the yell, this time to have the budget ex- cluded. The mayor explained that each item was being taken as a sep- arate amendment. Orowd Becomes Offensive. By this time.the crowd had become so completely confused by the intro- duction of amendments and matters foreign to the business of the meet- ing that few were aware as to what they were voting on. Groups in dif- ferent parts of the hall had gathered together to do their booing syste- matieally and at every utterance set up a yell that would gain momentum invariably and drown out the voice of the speaker. Realizing that ac- tion was being halted on this account Mayor Curtis called to Chief Rawl- ings and requested that the offend- ers be ejected from the hall if they continued. The chief replied: Chief Afraid of Riot. “I wouldn't think of it, mayor. If one of those men have a riot on your hands. Let me talk to them and see what I can do." The chief then took the floor and FOX’ Starting TOMORROW EVE. CHAS. APLIN | Smashes al.l his r\ect_)rds “THE KID”’ 6—Reels of Joy—6 The chief and ! is put out you'n' that all might have the right to ex- press their opinion. Matters Rushed Through. The packed condition of the hall and the uneasiness of the taxpavers made it evident that early action on one or the other budget was to be taken. F. S. Chamberlain blurted out ; a motion to adjourn, which under the interpretation of the officials, was ac- tion for which a motion w accept- able at any time. As the mayor stood entire budget but the mayor explained | With gavel in hand ostensibly for the that the only way to bring the items | purpose of putting the motion, Al- derman Dehm in a rather inaudible voice moved that the 21.7 mill tax be put into effect and James Desmond seconded the motion. Mayor Gives It to “Ayes” The motion was put before the house in «quick order. Lawyer Nowicki took a position facing the audience when he realized that the intent of the resolution was fully un- understood. and waved frantically for his followers to vote against the motion. The resilt was, in the opinion of the lawyer and very many others present, that the “noees” had carried by an ovenwhelming ma- jority. Mayor Curtis rapped his cel and declared in or of the s The crowd “razzed” the mayor mercilesdly, declaring that the resolution was lost. La r Nowicki advanced and said: Refuses to Question Vote. “Mr. Mayor, T doubt that decision, I demand that the house be divided.” | The mayor refused to recognize the appeal of the lawyer and when the | resolution for adjournment was re- peated by one in the crowd it was quickly put and more quickly decided. | The meecting was then declared at an end. . Sexton in Control? To those who stood on the platform the decision of the mayor did not come as a surprise since the actions of His Honor seemed to many in direct accord with sug- gestions made by Lawyer Sexton. and near | ., The attorney had issued a suggestion that the vote be declared in favor of | the “ayes” long before the question ! had been put, one of the witnesses declares. All of the action leadinz up to adjournment had been under the supervision of Lawyer Sexton, | who took up a position at the right ear of the presiding officer, and di- rected the policies of the meeting, it is sald. After the mecting had adjourned, Mr. Simons called up the mayor and ' congratulated him on “putting over something that even the Kaiser or the Czar would have found im- possible.” CITY ITEMS. Wallace Reld at Palace tonight— advt. Miss Fannie Holmes of Hart strect and Marion Hoar of Arch street are spending a few days in New York. We have them, March Victor rec- ords. C. L. 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