Show I I THE SEWERPIPE WRANGLE f It was dlsc6ulngln to sec the Council take up so much time and give so much I of Its attention to The misunderstanding 011 the bid for sewer pipe It has been ovlderit all along that no good purpose could be served by rash talk and the Intimation In-timation of unprovable charges Nothing Noth-ing substantial could be shown ngains the City Engineer In fact it is almost a certainty that no change could have been made In tho bid whilst it was In his possession and the employee who made the reckonings based upon It acted undoubtedly un-doubtedly In good faith On the other hand the chairman of the Board of Public Vbrks Is not for a moment to be suspected of any wrongdoing wrong-doing he certainly acted in good faith the possibility that hq read or was understood un-derstood to resin the bid as 29v instead of liO cents for the sewer pipe Is a plausible explanation of the misunderstanding misunder-standing which could easily have governed gov-erned throughout with no close > scrutiny of lisa bid in the Engineers oflice The clerk of the Bonrd of Public Works is also evidently guiltless of any wions dong for he kept the hid in the official safe when It was not withdrawn for official of-ficial use His innocence is the more manifest In the fact that despite some illadvised antI blustering talk against iim 1 by ji member of the Council that ncmbor I shrank from making and refused re-fused lo make any I charge < of any I kind when the matter came up for disposition on Monday night when the clerk way p1esent It Isa perfectly clear case that the Council hasbut one course to pursue find that Is I to wipe the whole matter off the slate so far as this sewer pipe bids bid-s concerned I and call for new bids for Its supply In this way and this way only is the protection of the public rights made absolutely sure |