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December 28th3% 1931. REGULAR MEETING.
<br />MINUTES.
<br />$e it Remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met-,,in 2 the
<br />Regular Session in the Council Chambers-in` the City Hall, Monday evening December 28th, 1931,
<br />at the hour of 7 :40 0' clook P. M.' All Members present.' President 'Nelson presided.' The Minutes
<br />of the �revious`meeting were read and on Motion of Councilman Hull were referred to the
<br />Committee on the'Inspection and_Supervision of Minutes.' Motion carried.'
<br />PETITION. -
<br />South Bend, Ind. Dec. 21st 1931:'
<br />To Members of City° Oouncil South Bend, Ind.'
<br />Honored Sirs:
<br />We, the undersigned: employed as taxicab drivers do hereby plead or petition your
<br />seauextx august body for intervention an d relief in our behnialf by some form of regulation in
<br />the taxicab industry whereby we as citizens of this community can hope to make an honest living.
<br />( signed by 93 names) On Motion of Councilman Cripe the Petition was referred to the Committee
<br />sixtk txlkmlextmxxgpmatxkamkxtpxtkaxitommx on Traffic to report back to the Committee of the Whole
<br />REPORT OF THE'CITY CONTROLLER OF THE'CITY OF SOUTH BEND'FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1931.'
<br />Balance on Hand.-First-of Month .......:...................... 669,424.70
<br />30.. 1931 320,289 25
<br />Balance Nov. ............ ............................... .
<br />Respectfully Submitted, Geo." A. Knoblock, City Controller.0
<br />The report was accepted- and-ordered to be placed on file. Motion carried.'
<br />REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MINUTES.
<br />To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: _
<br />Your Committee on the inspection and supervision of the minutes, would respectfully report
<br />that they have inspected the minutes of the previous meeting of the Council and found them
<br />correct.' They therefore recommend that the same be approved. I. W. Cripe, Joseph S. Jaworski,
<br />Julius Altfeld, Committee. South Bend, Ind. Nov. 23rd, 1931. The report was accepted by the
<br />Council.'
<br />STATEMENT MADE BY GLENN L. OAKLEY, COUNCILMAN.
<br />When I moved-for a reconsideration of the vote on the charges filed against Mayor Hinkle
<br />and Mr. Lomg on last Monday night I thought.the answers of the defendants should all have been
<br />filed and a copy delivered to each xauxxttmember of the council so as to give myself and the
<br />rest of the council a change to inform ourselves on the defense to thxese charges and as to
<br />whether or not there was a basis for the action which the charges demanded.' This was not done
<br />and kit my request for reconsideration was made by me so that I might fully inform myself of
<br />the charges and the defense to the same. Since the meeting of last Monday night I have had
<br />an opportunity to examine the written answers to the several specifications of the charges, and
<br />I now conclude that the vote of last Monday night on this matter should be sustained and I,
<br />therefore, have no desire to ask °tforx a reconsideration of the - same.'
<br />Mr.' Will G. Crabill, Attorney for Mr. Rudolph Ackermann;, then made a few remarks to the
<br />Council, in which he eritized them for their action'
<br />COMMUNICATION. _
<br />South Bend, Indiana, December 28, 1931.`
<br />To the Honorable Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana:
<br />On December 14th I brought.to,your attention certain acts and conduct on the part of We"
<br />Riley Hinkle, Mayor, and Albert M. Long, member of the Board of Public Safety of this citT,
<br />which, if evidence had been permitted upon the ,charges, would have proven both of said off icialE
<br />guilty of serious official misconduct:'
<br />Your body on that day adopted the charges by unanimous vote. You fixed December 21st as a
<br />day for hearing the evidence. On the day fixed for the hearing six members of the council
<br />indicated by,their votes that the proceedings should be dismissed and that the evidence should
<br />not be heard:`
<br />It is inconceivable that Mayor Hinkle and Mr. Long should have made such frantic efforts
<br />as displayed by them to prevent a hearing-and suppress all evidence. If innocent, they should
<br />have welcomed a hearing. Innocent men are not afraid of facts/ -They do not attempt to conoea]
<br />them by thwarting and preventing the testimony of witnesses.'
<br />The public, as I have insisted throughout,had a right to know the facts.' To conceal the
<br />truth has been an injustice to the public, an injustice to the Democratic party itself.' Reliab7
<br />witnesses were ready to testigfy.
<br />It may be correct, as I am advised, that the k votes of the six councilmen, together with
<br />the operation of Rule 18 of the city ordinances, has rendered futile any attempt to continue
<br />with the present proceedings before the council, but let me say emphatically that I do1.not
<br />accept any such miscarriage of justice as final, nor will the public.'
<br />To those who have been responsiblenfor stifling the hearing and thus suppressing the
<br />evidence, I have this additional to say that subsequent developments wiffill determine whether
<br />in the end the facts can be concealed, whegkther those guilty of serious official misconduct
<br />can go undistaturbed, unpunished.'
<br />Rudolph Ackermann
<br />The Communication was accepted and placed on file.`
<br />On Motion of Councilman Goetz the Council adjourned at 8 :10 o'clock P:' M.`Motion carried.`
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