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Show B GIVE US A CITY GOVERNMENT. fl The present legislature should not adjourn B without providing for a government for Salt Lake B City on new lines. When the Mayor possessed great power the people murmured and when most B of those powers were delegated to the council, B the people, after a few months' trial, were ready B to take to the woods. B The truth is that the business of the city has B become immense, it is going to vastly Increase B in the near future, It needs the very finest busi- M ness sagacity and a council elected at random H and serving, practically, without salaries, lacks j first, the capacity to do the needed work, and H fondly, it cannot afford the necessary time to the work. If the number could be decreased three-fourths then the number with the Mayor eoulti be a board to direct things and each one JH 8ien charge of certain departments subject to the approval of the full board to which each one would have to report weekly, and salaries be paid to enable the members to give all their time to their official work, the result would surely be most satisfactory. i ' , : |