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Show WEAVES HAS HIS INNING Secures Suspension of Injunction. Old Officials Fired Again and New Appointees Reinstated. i Gas Lease Councilmen Are Literally Besieged by Citizens Demanding Demand-ing Its Defeat. PHILADELPHIA. May 25 -Tho bitter feeling that has been engendered by the gas lease fight was Intensified today, when Mayor Weaveer practically ejected from the office of tho Departments of Public Safety and Public Works his two former directors and again Installed the men appolntcrl by him on Tuesday nlghL The nows created much excitement In tho city hall and on tho political rlalto, and nearly all that were Interested assembled as-sembled In tho vicinity of the Mayor's offico to learn of tho next move This came eiulckly, but from an unexpocted quarter the State Supremo court Injunction Is Suspended. AVhrn tho Mayor was ordering his old directors out of their offices his attorneys attor-neys appeared In the Supremo court and obtained B special supersedeas, suspending suspend-ing tho temporuo Injunction granted to the old directors yesterday by tho County court A dramatic Incident of the day wan tho great ovation given Mayor fiu er by several thousand persons on his way from the City hall to the Union league luncheon. Impeachment Rumor Unconfirmed. A rumor that the Mayor Is to bo im-peached im-peached spread today b'oi what offense n.is not rlenrly defined One nlorj had It thHt he would be brought before the bar of the City Council for his conduct of an lSCtlon fraud ease while he waa District Attorney! and another rumor had it that i , wan to be maue to answer to some al-legerl al-legerl lapse of duty while In his present position All attempts to confirm the m- p, nchmeni rumor failed. The organization eaers snv they continue con-tinue to "stand pat' on the gas lease, and that their ranks ar solid. On the other hand, Mayor Weaver announced today that he bad a.-siirnnces that tho vote in both Council chambers, when his veto Is considered would ba changed m.i-torlally m.i-torlally Irom the lari week's vote. Councilmen Besiogcd. The Councilmen who favor tho gas ease are having hard time of It. They ai., being swamped with protests, and delegations oi neighbors are calling on them it their homes, their places oi ousi-n.-M or "io holding them up in the streets. Up to tho timo when he wont to lunch--eon the Maj'ur hd not lca-o tho city hall from early In the morning until t p. m. A remarkable feature of the struggle Is the alienee that both sides am maintaining. Little of consequence leaks out, and nothing Is known until a move Is actually publicly made Federal Employees May Be in It It nns reported today that President Roosevelt will be asked to Issue -a special warning to Federal employees to keep out of the gas lease fight It is charged by some of the anti-gas lease people that the organization Is calling upon Federal office-holders to use their Influence with Councilmen In behalf of the gas lesse This Is denied by the organizations It aders. Leaders against the organisation say that they know that Government employees em-ployees are V, ringing pressure to , .n , n the Councilmen, and that If It continues a delegation of citizens will go to Washington Wash-ington i" i i he President. Duune Congratulates Weaver. Mayor Weaver is receiving hundreds Of letters and telegrams of congratulation, congratula-tion, Among those he made public today was this: "I congratulate you upon the firm stand you have tOkSh In behalf of tho people. Edward SV Dunne, Mayor Chicago." |
