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Show II.:': :: KERB MUMS in now in t Buildiiiij Inspector Retains 1 Job After Stormy Session . of-' Commissioners. 'bywater offers head "Ydu Can Remove Me Now," Shouts Fre Chief; K'orns ; " Uses Strong Language. I Futile attempts lo remove from office KmllS. Lamd, building Inspector, al tlio city commission mooting yesterday morn- ins piwoked ono of the most acrimonious tills that lias ever arisen in the city's governing body slnco Its creation. Uackcd by a formidable array of Instances In-stances In which It was charged that .I.und had allowed the building ordinances ordi-nances to be openly violated. George D. Kcyser. commissioner of parks and public property. Introduced a resolution calling Jar the linmorllHtn disrlmrgo of the building build-ing Iti.spectQr for . neglect of duly. A healed discussion folowcd and Hid resolution resolu-tion vas defeated overwhelmingly. ICovscr alone -v fitiiiu- aye. liclleviug&liiit at leust twtl of tho rom-. rom-. UilsMoners Wore behind him In Ins resolution, reso-lution, Commissioner Kcypcr received the vote with wide-eyed nmaacmont. Imme-dalely Imme-dalely ho accused Commissioner V. IT. Konm of having pone back on his agreement agree-ment to must Lund. Commissioners Angry. KoriiH ca plained across tho table thaL be had changed his mind ovor night. He said IiIh only objection to Lund was based on the invt. that the other commissioners commission-ers had persNtcnth refused to stand behind be-hind the building Inspector when Issuck Inv.ih big. his actions hod arisen and (hat uo long as the commissioners would oup-. oup-. Port Ijiitul. he for ono would not. sanction the removal. . r0w minutes earlier tho eonnnlHKloti hail approved the action of l.und in regard to a certain minor building build-ing mailer. Is have the right to change my mind and ou are not hot nt 1n,i f0r t Iia t. arc yotiV" l-rii8 exclaimed to Keysor. "I couldn't get hot a I a piece of muih. on ii Id I?" rejoined Keyscr, thoroughly nngeted al what he termed the desertion ; or the v.ater commissioner. , full membership was present nl the meeting. Friends of I,und. knowing thai his removal was to bo attempt ed, had persuaded Commissioner Henry W, Lawrence, Law-rence, a launch 8inpfirtor of the building build-ing inspector, to rise from a sjek bed f.iiil go to .lie mccilng in an automobile. automo-bile. I.ate Wednesday night it was generally conceded thai i:und W1U3 doomed;' Coin-mlsnfoner Coin-mlsnfoner Keysor declaring that two other oth-er fonnnlfiionfri-- were In favor of thy lemoval. Commissioner ICorns'.s sudden, change of ,-ittltude, however, broke up the-Plans of the pari; commissioner and the third supporter of tho resolution originally. orig-inally. If th-re was such, did not show bin band when a vote was called for. I Uses Strong Language. After the meeting Commissioner Koms declared in I he mayor' office with great emphasis that any one who doubted his consistency or hi sincerity In the Lund controversy wsa "a d liar." ICeyper rushed to his own office, pulled on his hat and coat and stamped out of the building, falling to attend the executive execu-tive flcHfllun in tin: mayor's offieo and an-nouneing an-nouneing that ho was 'through with it i The latter expression gave rise to Tu mor? that lie would reaign from the com-niiiwjlon. com-niiiwjlon. Asked concerning the report. Keyser declared yesterday afternoon that ho wouldn't resign Tor a million dollars. dol-lars. ' '''lie mailer of Inspector Lund's alleged remissness was brought before the coin-mission coin-mission by the presentation of a letter from lflro Chief W. II. Hyivater In which t.und was accused of having violated the building ordinance by permitting the Alcazar Al-cazar theater on Main strcel to erect a wooden skylight on its building. Many oilier Instances wcrn referred lo by tho Jh" chief, who "declared Hint If sueli violations vio-lations were lo be .sanctioned by the building Inspector then the Tire department depart-ment might as well give up trying to protect the eily. Lund Raps Bywater. Lund -explained that wherever it might appear that he had violated the law It wan because eonformllv to the law in certain Instances was imt possible. As In the ease of th0 Alca7.nr theater, he said, the building was a wooden ttruc-tur.- anyway and a brick or slecl skylight could not have been built. "Are yon In tit habit. Inspector Lamd. of allowing tho ordinance to be violated at your own. discretion'.'" asked Commissioner Com-missioner Kryner. "I try to conform to (lie law wherever it covers tin- situation and where ili does not i use my own discretion, based on my mnnv years of experiences in building mn tier." replied Lund. Koplylng to the. charge of flic fire chief Lund declared heatedly that the chief had countermanded some of his orders ns buliging inspector and by so doing, "in one jPjStance. bad actually Jeopardized human Chief Hy water entered a denial and another exchange of n n pi caaan tries Impended. Im-pended. At this point Commissioner Morris colled for a vole on the resolution. resolu-tion. ''Well r hat are we going to vole on the' qu'otlou of removing Inupector Lund or removing Chief ByivaterV Commln-Moner Commln-Moner Lawrence asked, "ft appears lo me that "thin Is merely a question of a difference of opinion betwen the two"." "Ton can remove mo right now if you want," uhoutcd tho tire chief aprlng-Inc aprlng-Inc angrily to It in feet and offering himself him-self as a. sacrifice. "I don't want to remove vou any mor thiui 7 want to remove Lund," said Law-f Law-f retire. The vofe wa then taken. Laat night Commissioner Morns denied that he had wild lie "changed his mind overnight." "That Is what Is said of me and it Isn't true," ho concluded. |
