Show BASKIJS WONT LIKE IT riieCity Council Wants to Control the PoliceS Police-S Department The city council met as a board of revision re-vision last night and spent two hours on the chapter of the ordinances relating to the police department The paragraph vesting the control and direction of the police department I the mayor was the one discussed almost wholly S After a long and tiresome debate the mayor was stripped of this prerogative the council resolving to hereafter tako charge of and direct the wordings of the police force by resolutions of that body All matters pertaining to the police that have heretofore neon reported to and directed di-rected by the mayor will when the new ordinances go into effect be reported to and governed by the council by resolution or as they may otherwise decide |