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Show THE CITY CIRCUS. Another Unsuccessful Exhibition of Spleen Last Night. ELLSWORTH VINS IN A CANTER And Compels Councilten to Listen to Home l'npleant Truth About Tnemselve He Also Force Them to Accept Ills Resignation As Deputy Dep-uty Jiecorder The Ordinance Comedy Com-edy Concludes An Interesting Performance. Per-formance. Judging from the proceedings last night of that delectable aggregation knowu as the city council, that body barked up the wrong tree when it made its unwarrantable attack on Deputy Recorder Ellsworth Wednesday night. The greater part of the session was devoted to trying to prevent the assailed official from making a defense, and had it not been for Messrs. Siraondi, Karrick and Kelly, gag law would have prevailed. As it was, Ellsworth completely turned the them to listen to a communication which ho had honored them by preparing and to cap the climax made them accept his resignation, although a motion not to accept ac-cept had been put and carried. The communication from the deputy arosed the couneilraamc ire of Folland and Lawson, who poured hot shot, at the writer in season and out of season, but always received re-ceived a Roland for their Oliver in return. On the whole Ellsworth came out of the ordeal or-deal a winner, while the councilman well, they have the consolation of knowing that it is not the first time they have made them-i them-i selves ridiculous. I The communication which caused the ruction is as follows. . T o the Honorable City Council: Gentlemen: I beg leave to tor.dir to yenr honorable body my resignation as deputy city recorder. In this cornectiou I desire to state that I deny tha etiarae which has been made apainst me in th s council to the effect thtt my work has not been properly done, ana oa the contrary alleae that my in dividual allotment or work in the recorder re-corder g office Is ihe only one which is up to date. I admit that I have from time to time employed the mnyor's clerk to atsiet me with the license work, snd often two men are necessary to do it, especially the indexing of licenses which mut be done heveral times each month. Lately I have been unable to uee any of the roguisr force to assist me in this way. It is not true, however, as Mr. Folland i reported to have said, that this er- : vice ha" c.-t tha city anything, as 1 have paid it out of my own pocket. ' 1 desiro tr state further thr.t my conduct in the recorder ofSce has been uniform from month to month, the last being the same as the first, and it has never b?en intimated to me that my way of doing has not been acceptable. As for i!r. Kich"s remarks as report.! in one of the papers, he assured me today that he was utterly misrepresented and did not intend to convey con-vey any of the meaning attributed to him. As for my non-attendance at the meeting last nisht, i will state that I certaialy did not understand under-stand that there wag to be a me. t ng then, and the ftenogrspber understood it ia the same way. la fact, if either of us had thought the adjournment adjourn-ment was nntil lust night we would have explained ex-plained to the council that it would bo impossible to furnish the minutes or properly prepare the business, as Mr. Vondenbergo has been summoned sum-moned to Ogclen to attand the Allred trial on the following day. If the meetinc: was to be. as we understood it, for revision only, then 1 supposed, and in fact had been instructed, that my presenco was not necessary. The council is probably aware of the fact that Mr. Stanton did not attend snch meetings. In regard to the charge made by Mr. Kvans to the effect that I bad held certain members of the council up to ridicule, I desire to say that I must decline to be deprived of a privilege which has been so freely and fully enjoyed by a majority of citizens. I ai-k that yon immediately accept my resignation. resigna-tion. Respectfully submitted, iii.Miia A. Ellsworth, Deputy Recorder. ORDINANCES REVISED. After the war cloud had blown over, the solons tackled the revision of the ordinances, accomplishing the following: An amendment to chapter 54, relating to wards, adding the recently annexed territory terri-tory to the First precinct, was adopted. An amendment adding Popperton place to the Fourth precinct was referred to the city attorney and the city engineer for an opinion opin-ion upon the legal status of that section. |