Show NEITHER Will YIELD Mayor and Chief as Far Apart as Ever WAS ROBINSON BUNCOED Fight for the Scalp of Chief Hilton Back to tho Starting Point Tho Mayor Will Not Accept tho Resignation Resig-nation and tho Chief Will Send in No Other Somo of the Principal Factors That Aro Figuring in tho Muddle Uo Solution Is Yet inSight in-Sight Little else but the Hilton matter was discussed In local political circles yesterday yes-terday Mayor Thompson has refused absolutely to accept the resignation of the Chief In the form in which It came to him on Tuesday night the Chiefs closest friends announced yesterday that the Mayor would have to take thatassignation or nothing and this would seem to leave the matter Just exactly ex-actly whsre It was when the Mayor sent his communication removing Hilton to the Council flvc weeks ago All the work and scheming and wrangling that has cropped out of the matter since must now be treated as so much labor lost REISER HAD RESIGNATION An Interesting development yesterday was to the effect that Councilman Robinson Rob-inson never had the resignation Chief Hilton In his posscsslon and tho Chlcfd advisers assert that Robinson never had authority to say to the Mayor or anyone any-one else that he could deliver an unqualified un-qualified resignation The resignation with the string was secured by City Auditor nc ser at a late hour Tuesday evening after several hours of hard work It was presented to Mayor I Thompson at the Council meeting by I Reiser and that gentleman wag I promptly Informed that It would not be I accepted in that form Robinson was Informed of this and tried to get a modification modi-fication of the paper by telephone but failed He was the only man In the whole outfit who was buncoed ROBINSON WAS SORE Robinson was very sore after tho Council adjourned Tuesday evening He nromlsprl mpmhprs of tho Tpnnhllf City committee that he would have an I inQualiflcd resignation from the Chief jy 10 oclock yesterday In this he ailed HQ met with Wey lfc ers and Lawson of the Republican City commlt lee yesterday and infdr ned them that he would continue to work on the mater mat-er along the line he had been following follow-Ing The committee will give him time but > hopes for nothing It was said that i Robinson had decided to vote for the removal of Hilton If the latter refused to carry out what Robinson considers his agreement with nlm COULD NOTACCEPT IT It was lhe general feeling on all sides vestcrday that Mayor Thompson could not accept the resignation as It was sent In without stultifying himself and surrendering all for which he had been contending from the beginning His plan has been to remove Hilton then Increase the salary to 52000 while tho vacancy exists and then appoint a Chief and Jot J him take office without strlngr or pledge attached I to him ANOTHER COMMUNICATION tIn t-In November he asked for Hiltons resignation to take effect the first of the year The Chief refused Then he Mayor asked the new Council to concurIn his removrl The Chief and his friends In the Council have cvar since been lighting the Mayor trying to force him to surrender to them TIc plan has been to hold Hilton In office until the Mayor sent In the name of the new Chief This would give the four Democrats and the four Republicans Who make up tho fusion In tho Council time to catch the new Chief and get pledges from him to take care of their friends on the force If he refused he could be turned down In the Council and this could be repeated until a man vas found who Would enter Into a deal of this kind These are the rcaons why the Mayor will not accept the res gnatlon In Its present form Aside from thlh statement he would not outline his plans in the matter yesterday but hla close friends are of the opinion that he will send In another communication to he Council next Tuesday evening ask IngCor the removal of the Chief This will bring the fight right back to the starting point It goqs without saying that all other appointments will bo held up until this matter is disposed of HILTONS ADVISERS Many are wondering what there Is brick of this Hilton light It Is well criown that the Chief Is not acting upon his own Judgment but Is taking advice every day from a coterie of the shrewdest ward politicians In the city Very active among these Is City Auditor Audi-tor Reiser but he Is by no means the head of the coterie One of the active advpcates of Hilton said yesterday REASONS PIVEN FOR OPPOSITION One oC the chief factors back of HIlton HIl-ton Is sentiment against the machine I In politics Many fear that the Mayors Jr determined to make of the police dc parmnnt a part of a machine Many people have taken the Hilton side of tho controversy simply for this reason Another factor Is the fueling among some of the Mormon people that the patronage of the city Is to be turned over to the Gentiles The street sprlrt kllng patronage has been taken from Condic and the Mayor In his message recommends that the Irrigation be taken also This would reduce Condles salary to 550 per month and might force him out of office Then Ncbekcr l would be all we would have left 1C Hilton were succeeded by a Gentile Still another factor that Is cutting In Is the Sunday closing sentiment Many people have I arrived at the conclusion that Hilton Is to be removed in order that Salt Lake may be made a wideopen city This position regarded by the Mayors May-ors supporters and many others as ab sura CASE OF SHEETS ET AL The case of Sheets Janney and Brown has not yet been disposed and threatens In the er Important part ens to play a very wrangle before It Is i finally settled City Attorney Nyc has given out the opinion that those olllcers are still In the employ em-ploy of the city The matter was not dlspocd of at the meeting of the Council Coun-cil on Tuesday evening MAY GET IN COURTS In the wretched parliamentary tangle In that meeting this much stands out clearly itoberlson moved for a rccon slderallon the Councils action In the case of these three men Eardley raised the point that reconsideration was out of order President Cottrell sustained the point An appeal Was taken from the decision and the Chair was reversed by a vote of 7 to 7 It was left In that shape us the m Question was never reached Auditor Reiser la I becoming worried 1 concerning this phase of tho light Payday will oon come around anil Shcats t Janncy and Brown will jdol mand pay for full time If ho refuses to pay he wll at least have a lawsuit on his hands It Is practically certain now that the matter will land In the courts before the end Is reached |