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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE
May 7/84
And now Councilman Wusthoff files his written answers
to said report, which are as follows, to wit:
In the matter of the accusation of the Honorable U. M. Rasin against
F. W. Wusthoff member of the Common Council of the City of Seattle
Said F. W. Wusthoff comes by his Attorneys Jacobs & Jenner and
for answer to the accusations made against him and which were
referred to this Honorable Committee for examination and report, says:
First. That the first and second accusations contain no matter or
charges which can subject this defendant to examination by a Committee
of the Common Council.
Secondly. That they are privileged communications and that he violated
no law, ordinance or usage of the Common Council of the City of Seattle
in making the same.
Thirdly. He denies the right of the City Council or a Committee of the
came to call him to an account for such declarations as are contained
in the first and second accusations made against him.
As to the Third accusation he answers.
First. That on the occasion referred to in the accusation he did not
mention the Mayor personally by name or officially by the term - des-
cribing his Office.
Secondly. What he did say was founded on a misapprehension of the
facts of the case - in this to wit: The original draft of the Ordinance which
was shown to him and which he supposed passed the Council had
certain pencil interlineations regarding salaries to which he was un-
alterably opposed, and which were left out of the Ordinance as pub-
lished and as he honestly supposed from the information furnished him
under a misapprehension of dates, was changed in the meeting on
Sunday in the Mayors Office And
Thirdly. Believing that the Mayor had no right to make
such changes - and from the information he had - honestly believing
that such changes had been made on said consulting Sunday, without
mentioning the Mayor by name or by his title he denounced the
principle as improper and dangerous. He is happy to know that he
misapprehended the information conveyed to him and which he at the
[?] deemed reliable, and that our honored Mayor did not attempt
to do or do anything that he denounced