Show FOR foil BID city councilor and str sirce el supervisor li hansen ansen win A it havi charge of the feeding r rf the be city chiy teai te Y beut ent to the east coop co op and ether i vi 11 inquire what they could get s and they were told that aada w r s s ding t in the market for wid hard to get at that figure fidure in samall himli buu aties irvine irvina and barney offered chelli about two thousand po pounds ds at ence being the cheapest est oala nals could 1 find d they contracted for them and the bill was presented to the council dispatch they could tave lave got cheaper oats if the city had bad advertised for bids ms as has been customary until the present canneil assumed control the stores store are getting all te cie oats they want at and per hundred we received reca ived oats on subscription last wee kand the farmer let us ua have them for the same price as what he be said the stores were paying slid per hundred if the city has been pay ng for buying from as aa the democratic oraa borgaa says ik has all that we me care to say eay is that tho the city has been paying too much for oats this same thing is true trae in to other affairs of the city if the public printing and publishing of ordinances were allowed to be bid on there would be a saying earing of forty and sometimes seventy five per cent the ordinances are being ravishes ravished ravi raTi shed or g going 0 to bo be which may cost tho tha eity city a thousand dollars two or three hundred might be saved on this job if bids bida were call called ad for instead of the council letting the work as in the past to the organ argau of which a number of the councilors councillors Counci lors are ara stockholders it is this estem system of extravagance that that anz objects to and we do so BO in the interest of the taxpayers we believe that public crork should be let at publio contract its as far as practicable |