Show Wednesday night the president of the common council of Salt Lake City was arrested by a policeman for being drunk and disorderly and was taken to police headquarters and placed in the common Jail That this should have been necessary is a most disgraceful thing and puts the city and its people to shame If the president of the council coun-cil has any sense of decency and propriety pro-priety he will resign from his position as presiding officer and if he docs not the common council owes to the citizens citi-zens to summarily remove him The presidents conduct is the first occurrence occur-rence of the kind In the history of thin olty it should certainly be the last |