| Show MR IB FAKE PROTESTS 5 To the Editor of r The f e Herald An incident occurred at the council meeting last evening which I would wo like to call attention to At a Ii recent meet meetIng meetIng Ing lug of oC the council coupell the matter r Of provid providing providing ing the necessary records legal I forms and blanks blanka for fOt the J court was discussed and Anally Jt ly referred to the corn com committee on laws Three bids bid for Cor the cleri clerical clerical den dencal cal work involved in la the preparation of these th records etc ete were submitted to tha th committee the bids being made by Ity Boreman BONman and my myself rn m self Horemans proposition was for Hollingsworth 1 and aM my bid was The committee after aher deliberation recommended in their report the ac no acceptance of ot my bid it being the lowest whereupon that brilliant legal luminary Mr Howell recently elected Judge of or orthe the municipal court C urt appeared upon the scene and was forthwith accorded the privileges of the floor doer I am informed that he expressed himself Mime as 88 being hor horrified rifted rifled at the t e thought of the councils per permitting permitting permitting his political opponent to prepare the records etc of the municipal court especially the one who had conducted such a campaign against him as the writer He H Also volunteered the information Information information tion that the work thus prepared if it should be awarded to me lae would not be bein beIn bein in legal form and that he be would be un us under under der the necessity of doing it over again This disparagement di of the writers legal ability is Ic l very distressing coming as it does from the innocent simplicity of boyhood The writer however takes tas some consolation cons in the reflection that the learned JudgeS judge observed that even een he himself might not the ability commensurate with the magnitude of the enterprise proposed Md This latter 1 most admission adR will be unanimous unanimously ly acquiesced In by the members of the legal fraternity into the t e sacred creel precincts of whose WhOM brotherhood be he has in some som mysterious and aad unaccountable manner been admitted Suddenly in an uncontrollable outburst of patriotism and in a spirit of surprising ing lug magnanimity he be offers otters to do this work free of charge chars except the actual costs involved the amount of o 0 which he was unprepared to state I 1 desire to call can the tile attention of the council as the t settlement of the matter was deferred for foi one week to the motives that actuated actU ted the opposition of oC this un unfinished finished 1 product p of the e laboratory of le legal science His motives were not that the writer does doe not possess s ability requisite for the work W rk proposed as he said saM not that he had bad any real interest in savin saving the city from freni expense for had there been any prospect of the Job being awarded to my competitors in tile the contest he would have remained silent but the motive was a II selfish and personal one otie that it would not only be distasteful but humiliating for him to be compelled to accept forms of procedure prepared by his hS political opponent Think of the thema magnanimity ma and ness of such an attitude He sa en y that he will pre pro prepare prepare pare the records at cost What is there thereto th re reto to protect the people from the payment of an t amount under such a Ii proposition it Is absolutely indefinite My Iy bid was for and the work can cannot cannot cannot not be reasonably performed under that figure The council should consider the motives that actuated Mr Howells op opposition opPOSItion opposition position to his hb political opponent and andI if I they do I think they will wilt decline to gratify any such propensities ELIJAH FARR Ogden Dee Dec 4 1901 1991 |
