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Show O'SECESSAJir EXPENSE. Undeb tbe auspices and at tbe expense ex-pense of tho general government, tbe Inhabitants of this city will be counted next month. Why, then, should tho City Council appoint enumerators to do the same thing at substantially tbo same time? It is necessary to check tliegovemment's count? Cannot United States census marshals be relied upon to give correct figures? -If a carpenter were to plane the under tide or a barn floor, the exiicssc of the extra labor would be deemed a useless outlay. out-lay. This is about tho light In which taxpayers might properly view the $30 to S? per dy to be paid to the enumerators appointed by the City Council on Tuesday evening. That is tho range of wages the government pays, and probably the citv will rv no lcsn City Attorney Merritt, in speaking speak-ing upon the subject of improving the Tenth Ward Square, expressed, in the same breath, the opinion that the conditions of the trust by which the city parted with the property had been complied wiih, but that a bill In equity would lie to secure Its reversion back to the city. This may be good law to lawyers, but laymen will wonder how equity can step in to dissolve a contract, admitted to bo legal in its inception and provisions, exeiy stipulation of which has been complied, with. There is something said in the Constitution Con-stitution about impairing the obli gations of contracts, but laymen seem now-a-days to bo more familiar fam-iliar with that law tlian courts, lawyers or law-makers are. There is a suspicion that somo workers for "Liberal" success wanted want-ed their pay; hence the enumerators. enumera-tors. There Is also another suggestion sugges-tion that a legal fight over 513,000 worth ofproiierty would yield some fat legal fees. Those who expected that unnecessary unneces-sary expenwi would be avoided by tho present city administration seem doomed to disappointment. |