Show STATUS Of MilTON GASE C I Matter Just Where it Was at Beginning NO SPECIAL SESSION HELD Efforts to Get Council Together Yesterday Yes-terday Failed and Settlement of Trouble Is Postponed Indefinitely A J Davis Hewlett and 1 Robinson Will Bo Absent for Somo Time Somo of tho Plans Propossd for Disposing of the Difficulty and tho Manner in Which Thoy Polled All the efforts put forth yesterday to secure a special session of the City Council to wrestle with thc Hilton imbroglio im-broglio ended In another fizzle nnd the feeling all around now Is that the fight la off Indefinitely If not for all time Councilman A J Davis left early yesterday yes-terday morninG for the East to be gone indefinitely Hewlett leaves this morning morn-Ing for England to be gone two months and Robinson expects to leave today on an extensive business trip This breaking of home lies leaves the Hilton scrap In just the position It occupied oc-cupied when Mayor Thompson sent his communication on the subject to the first session of the Council In January A desperate effort was made yesterday yester-day to secure a special session of the Council for the evening to make one last I supreme effort to compromise the matter In yesterdays work the First precinct Republican leaders played the moatprominent parts A F Lawson George Wilson Orson II Hewlett and Walter J Meeks were again to the front and a hard days work was put In to no purpose MAYOR WOULD NOT YIELD The first move made was a call upon Mayor Thompson to see 1C he would not yield to the extent of sending in the namo of Peter S Condie for appointment appoint-ment as Chief In the same communica tion removing Hilton The committee was satisfied that Robinson and Spenco would support such a proposition and this would carry ft through the Council In splto of the absence ot A J Davis Tho Mayor Informed the gentlemen with that bluntness for which he Is noted that he would have nothing whatever to do with the matter that whenever there was a vacancy In the ofllce of Chief of Police ho would send In an appointment to Jill It but until then he would wash his hands ot the whole business and did not care to be1 pestered with any more schemes Falling here tho corripromlsers called upon tho Republican Councilmen who have been the cause of the deadlock Not one of them would agree to vote for tho removal of Hilton unless the Mayor would send In the name of anew a-new Chief before that action was taken This left l the matter In as bad shape as It had been at any time since tho beginning gInning and the First precinct workers deserted the field COULDNT WIN THEM OVER There was work also on the other side of the Council the object In view being the winning over of Arnold and E A Davis to the side of the Mayor At the bottom of this movement were the friends of S M Barlow who asserted that Mr Barlow could get the appointment appoint-ment whenever he was assured of a sufficient I number of votes In the Coun cil to conurm the appointment Part of this understanding was that Joseph Bull Jr was to be desk sergeant It seemed to be the feeling among these workers that If Arnold and Davis could be won over Fernstrom would be ready to go with them Nothing came of all this and the scheme was dropped It developed during the day that the First precinct leaders who worked so hard to brlngabout a settlement Tuesday Tues-day night hnd tho interests of their own precinct In mind all the time They hold that the First Is destined to be the banner Republican precinct of the city In spite of this It has very little city patronage It was calculated that if Condlc could be promoted to Chief of Police some other good man could be appointed Superintendent of Streets and in tho general shakeup the First precinct could bo well cared for At the same time the man most favored for Condles place was Alonzo P Kosher of tho Third precinct CONDIE RUSHED AROUND The plan to have Condie appointed Chief was well laid At a late hour A F Lawson and George Wilson got a hack drove to Condles home got him out of bed and rushed him to tho city and county building There Albert S Reiser got Into the hack with Condie and a rush was made for Chief Hiltons Hil-tons home There all that was possible possi-ble was done to get Hiltons unqualified resignation on the understanding that Condie was to succeed him He refused absolutely Then Condie wag rushed bagk and taken to Mayor Thompsons ofllce and the supremo effort there made to get a promise from tho Mayor to appoint Con le If the Council would oust Hilton This the Mayor would not agree to do and the adjournment of the Council cut short the negotiations With the failure of all negotiations yesterday and with the positive statement state-ment of Mayor Thompson that he would havo nothing whatever to do with the matter until a vacancy was created by thc Council It seems to be taken for granted that the fight Isj I to be dropped and Hilton Is to remain un 1 disturbed at thc head of his department I depart-ment until some other compllcatlpns come up |