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Show ' LANGUAGE OF MAYOR IS RESENTED BY COUNCIL j Veto of Purchase of Asphalt Mine Is Sustained, but ! Its Wording Is Rebuked. - f 4 5 By a vote of 7 to 5 the .Mayor's veto of 't the purchase of the Pope alphalt mine f was confirmed by the Counclt Monday night, and by a vote of 8 to 4 the commit- , tee of the whole voted to rebuke the wording of the Mayor's veto. The. matter is not yet settled, however, as no appropriation has been made for (the purchase of the Clark mine. "The matter of Investigating the asphalt ooaf was taken up by the Council In com-J, com-J, mil-tee of the whole. A. J. Davis being elected to the chair. W. G. Nebeker, who has been working In the Interests of the 1 purchase of the Clark mine, was asked by Councilman Black to state whether he ( had offered the Pope property to the spe- t-x ' cial committee for $1000. He said: "The night that Mr. Mahler and his at-i at-i ' torneys and others addressed the commit tee of the whole, asking for a franchise ' for his interurban road. I waited here till 11 o'clock. I then got the asphalt committee commit-tee together. They were in a hurry to catch the car. so I was as brief as -possible. At that meeting the Cl'trk proposition proposi-tion was acted upon favorably. I stated ( that If they wanted cheap asphalt, I Could nffer them a choice of lfio acres in the ! Book cliffs, which I was empowered to I offer for $1000. J "A few days previous to this. Mr. Popo was introduced to me by Jo Ray. He gave me to understand that he wanted to get Into my deal. The Inference that I drew was that if he Could get part of the money that was coming on the. Clark deal, he would not introduce his offer. I Introduced Intro-duced him to Mr. Clark, who refused to consider the proposition Mr. Pope made to him." "Isn't it a fact that you used this offer as an argument; that if we wanted cheap asphalt you could get us this, which you said was forty miles from the railroad?" asked Councilman Fernstrom. "No, sir." said Nebeker. "When I did so, it was at Pope's request.. Pops was present at the committee meeting at the time I made the offer." Councilman Fernstrom sserted that Pope's offer to sell his mine to the city for $4000 had been offered before that time. The offer, he said, was made October 10. and this was proved by the records of the Recorder. Nebeker then produced a newspaper of October 6. giving an account of the committee-meeting of October, four days before be-fore the Pope proposition1 was submitted to the Council. Councilman Hobday asked Nebeker what property Pope had authorized him to sell for $1000. Nebeker said It was a choice of Hi) acres in the Book cliffs. Pope, he said, told him to offer It for S1"0U and keep J.YHJ for a commission. Nebeker said that he told Pope he would offer it for $!000, as he wanted no commission. Nebeker sild he definitely stated the location lo-cation of the $1000 property. Councllmen Tuddenham and Fernstrom said they had heard the offer, but that no mention of the Book cliffs had been made. In rebuttal. Mr. Lawrence said, with emphasis: "I am Interested with Mr. Pope in his asphalt mine. Any offer he made 1 would know of. No offer made by him would be valid without my consent. I have never heard of any $1000 proposition proposi-tion in connection with our asphalt mine or any other $1000 proposition except the $4000 one. I would certainly have been consulted In case any such offer were to be made. Pope and I heard some talk of a mine being offered for $10U. As we understand un-derstand it. that was In a different section of the country from ours, one where Nebeker Neb-eker is Interested." Pope also presented an affidavit,' that he had never offered any asphalt property in which he was Interested for $1000 or for any other figure than $4000. Milo Clark said that Pope had made a proposition to him. Clark said: "He asked me to swell the price on my "property "prop-erty $1500 and throw In his property and give him the $13u0." Mr. Clark said'that he had refused to do so. and that Pope had then made another proposition to him, involving the selling t6 the city of the choice out of thirty claims that he owned. Mr. Clark alo refused to consider this offer, he sall. Mayor Morris tN-n spoke. He said that he had made no in nations, and had intended in-tended no sh i -i his veto, but that he saw no reasan , . lwnge a word in the veto message. Fernstrom objected, and said that the Council had been stigmatized. Black brought forward his resolution as 8 substitute motion. The Mayor's veto was then sustained and the committee report was adopted and ordered entered on the Council records. |