| Show DUTY OF THE COU COUNCiL CIL Mayor vetoed the city council resolution authorizing the city commissIoner to em employ employ ploy such as are needed in his d and thus the effort to place the public health at the merc mercy of Incompetent tent scores an another another other temporary advantage In his e efort ef effort fort to present pl plausible grounds upon which to base his veto eto the mayor to have discovered an intent upon the part of the coun n to evade ead j the provisions of the statutes This is isa i a flimey quibble and it Is quite apparent apparent ent that the mayor goes outside the record for the purpose of avoiding a I direct statement of his motives and I purposes The public s should understand that a 1 controversy Is being waged between 1 the health commissioner of the city hocked hacked by a majority of the council i and the Republican mayor to tG deter determine j I mIne whether the shall I be forced to operate his department with Incompetent assistants chisen by bythe the mayor without reference to fitness I hut but with sole regard to their partisan or whether the commissioner I shall be given authority to select his own assistants Surely the sensible I view would be that the co commissioner Inasmuch as he Is held responsible for forI forthe I the proper administration of his de deI department should be vested with au I to run that department Such al authority has been conferred upon him by the council by the resolution which the mayor has just vetoed I There can be no Questions more im imI important I than those hose concerning the pub public pubic lic l ic health and at this season the n of Is affected In very grent g reat by sanitary conditIons I H I t is a vital subject of concern to t o every Inhabitant ot of the the e will perform a public ser service vice If it ft overrides the may mayors rs veto and pla es the preservation of public health In the th hands of competent of L |
