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Show Crnr Attohnby Meiikitt is to be congratulated con-gratulated upon his knocking out the proposed executive session of tho city council on last Tuesday evening. Tho days of subterranean, dark-lantern scs tsions of publio servants should como to en end. If anywhere, secret sessions of 1 tho senate of the United Slates are excusable. ex-cusable. Efforts, however, aro being inade to abolish thoin and throw open to the public gaze the action and doings of tho highest legislative assembly of 'the nation. .If the regular sessions of .lnuuicipal legislators iu New York city and other places, had been open to the .press and the public, many a successful scheme of corruption und robbery Would hate been impossible. ', 1 |