HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-28-31 Council Meeting MinutesDecember 28th3% 1931. REGULAR MEETING.
MINUTES.
$e it Remembered that the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, met-,,in 2 the
Regular Session in the Council Chambers-in` the City Hall, Monday evening December 28th, 1931,
at the hour of 7 :40 0' clook P. M.' All Members present.' President 'Nelson presided.' The Minutes
of the �revious`meeting were read and on Motion of Councilman Hull were referred to the
Committee on the'Inspection and_Supervision of Minutes.' Motion carried.'
PETITION. -
South Bend, Ind. Dec. 21st 1931:'
To Members of City° Oouncil South Bend, Ind.'
Honored Sirs:
We, the undersigned: employed as taxicab drivers do hereby plead or petition your
seauextx august body for intervention an d relief in our behnialf by some form of regulation in
the taxicab industry whereby we as citizens of this community can hope to make an honest living.
( signed by 93 names) On Motion of Councilman Cripe the Petition was referred to the Committee
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REPORT OF THE'CITY CONTROLLER OF THE'CITY OF SOUTH BEND'FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1931.'
Balance on Hand.-First-of Month .......:...................... 669,424.70
30.. 1931 320,289 25
Balance Nov. ............ ............................... .
Respectfully Submitted, Geo." A. Knoblock, City Controller.0
The report was accepted- and-ordered to be placed on file. Motion carried.'
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MINUTES.
To the Common Council of the City of South Bend: _
Your Committee on the inspection and supervision of the minutes, would respectfully report
that they have inspected the minutes of the previous meeting of the Council and found them
correct.' They therefore recommend that the same be approved. I. W. Cripe, Joseph S. Jaworski,
Julius Altfeld, Committee. South Bend, Ind. Nov. 23rd, 1931. The report was accepted by the
Council.'
STATEMENT MADE BY GLENN L. OAKLEY, COUNCILMAN.
When I moved-for a reconsideration of the vote on the charges filed against Mayor Hinkle
and Mr. Lomg on last Monday night I thought.the answers of the defendants should all have been
filed and a copy delivered to each xauxxttmember of the council so as to give myself and the
rest of the council a change to inform ourselves on the defense to thxese charges and as to
whether or not there was a basis for the action which the charges demanded.' This was not done
and kit my request for reconsideration was made by me so that I might fully inform myself of
the charges and the defense to the same. Since the meeting of last Monday night I have had
an opportunity to examine the written answers to the several specifications of the charges, and
I now conclude that the vote of last Monday night on this matter should be sustained and I,
therefore, have no desire to ask °tforx a reconsideration of the - same.'
Mr.' Will G. Crabill, Attorney for Mr. Rudolph Ackermann;, then made a few remarks to the
Council, in which he eritized them for their action'
COMMUNICATION. _
South Bend, Indiana, December 28, 1931.`
To the Honorable Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana:
On December 14th I brought.to,your attention certain acts and conduct on the part of We"
Riley Hinkle, Mayor, and Albert M. Long, member of the Board of Public Safety of this citT,
which, if evidence had been permitted upon the ,charges, would have proven both of said off icialE
guilty of serious official misconduct:'
Your body on that day adopted the charges by unanimous vote. You fixed December 21st as a
day for hearing the evidence. On the day fixed for the hearing six members of the council
indicated by,their votes that the proceedings should be dismissed and that the evidence should
not be heard:`
It is inconceivable that Mayor Hinkle and Mr. Long should have made such frantic efforts
as displayed by them to prevent a hearing-and suppress all evidence. If innocent, they should
have welcomed a hearing. Innocent men are not afraid of facts/ -They do not attempt to conoea]
them by thwarting and preventing the testimony of witnesses.'
The public, as I have insisted throughout,had a right to know the facts.' To conceal the
truth has been an injustice to the public, an injustice to the Democratic party itself.' Reliab7
witnesses were ready to testigfy.
It may be correct, as I am advised, that the k votes of the six councilmen, together with
the operation of Rule 18 of the city ordinances, has rendered futile any attempt to continue
with the present proceedings before the council, but let me say emphatically that I do1.not
accept any such miscarriage of justice as final, nor will the public.'
To those who have been responsiblenfor stifling the hearing and thus suppressing the
evidence, I have this additional to say that subsequent developments wiffill determine whether
in the end the facts can be concealed, whegkther those guilty of serious official misconduct
can go undistaturbed, unpunished.'
Rudolph Ackermann
The Communication was accepted and placed on file.`
On Motion of Councilman Goetz the Council adjourned at 8 :10 o'clock P:' M.`Motion carried.`
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