Show ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT ne development in connection with the conduit job which the city engineer and Contractor Moran have attempted i to put through the council en encouraging 1 The effort has shown that some of the AmerIcan councilmen who had b been en counted on to vote for forthe fori i the plan to add to the cost of the conduit are determined to protect the Interests of the ers in spite of the pressure brought to 1 bear on them by Moran Black Davis DavIs scheme to grab the conduit grab and its perquisites for himself was wasI I 50 O transparent that Mulvey the mayor 1 and others who might have been e to st stand nd for the extras refused to Lo sa the Davis and the resolution to tUrn over the lob ob to a special commIttee appoint 1 by Di Davis vis i For so ho mui u h Mulvey Mu an a the m mayor mayorI r rr r I I are entitled to full r dit The Kelsey Moran grab was bad enough i In its original original inal form but to turn It over oyer to Davis and such m mOn n as he would name to Work with him would have been little less than a civic calamity ty It sounds harsh yet it Is a safe assertion that no large business concern In this city would let Davis administer a fund run running ning into the hUndreds of thousands for It and to let him mix In such an Important matter as the water fund disbursements would be like turning wolves loose in a flock of sheep politically speaking The truth Is that the decent honest men of the American party In the council realIze they have some mem members born bers who cannot be trusted with the expenditure of funds In any capacity they know too by this time that the proposal to add to Morans con contract contract tract Is only another arrangement to add to the profits on the contract by adding unnecessary work If the AmerIcan party Is looking for a chance to commit hart karl kari by the shortest rOute it need only vote to pile on the tra n |