Show I MEUDERS OF the city council committee on sewerage declare that politics had nothing noth-ing to do with the removal of O W ZAXE and say that he was bounced because ho neglected his duties Vo fear the committeemen com-mitteemen in theIr eagerness to defend themselves protest too much They telli how ZANE has been grossly neglectful since I j last September frequently permitting I the pump to overflow the sewage coming to the surface through the manholes man-holes running into the river flooding the streets and so on They also say that all this time the machinery has been uucared for the pump station kept in a I filthy condition and that the engineer could i seldom be found at his post If what the councilmen now say is true would it not be proper for the mayor to request them to send in their resignations on the ground of neglect of duty in having failed to look after the interests of tho city t they having kept an incompetent man in a responsible position for eleven months after the Incom petency and neglect were known I TOE HERALD suggests that protest as they may they cannot overcome the fact that Police Judge LAXEr was apparently entirely satisfactory sat-isfactory to the council until he declared himself a Democrat when he was I unceremoniously bounced without a hearing hear-ing and that Engineer ZAXE was so far as he or the public were aware satisfactory satisfac-tory to the sewerage committee and tho council until his father declared in favor of the dissolution of the Liberal party a sentiment in which the young man ahared when it suddenly occurred to the council that the engineer was incompetent and neglectful ne-glectful and should be made to go TIIE HeRALD does not pretend to deny the cor j redness of tho explanations presented by j the councilmen through their organ but we cannot but think that these explanations explana-tions demand public censure of the officials who by their own confessions have been paying an incompetent man all these months I |