Show A DIFFERENCE Circumstances make a difference in the estimation of the city council as to the legal le-gal ability of the city attorney I ho reports re-ports that the city is entitled to certain moueys the council without division or hesitation declare his decision to be sound law l and that the attorney is a worthy pillar in the support of the great structure of jurisprudence I he reports that the city has no right to acquire money in some of the devious ways attempted by the council coun-cil his report is at once brushed aside as unsound in doctrine and disagreeable in practice The citizens well remember the mammoth mam-moth petition signed by taxpayers representing repre-senting three fourths of the property in this city which was presented to tho council coun-cil praying for a reduction in the rate of tax The attorney reported that the council coun-cil had no authority to change the rate of tax after it had once been fixed by the assessor and the council adopted that view without debate or division People secretly rejoiced upon learning this that the assessor had not increased the tax tenor L ten-or twenty times instead of only three I times But when tho attorney reported that the I city could not bargain away Pioneer square in the interest of a private speculator specu-lator the council had no use for the report What does the council have an attorney for Simply to aid and not to hinder them in their occupation of plundering the taxpayers tax-payers |