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Show COME USDEK TUE L.VW. , It Is perhaps not InapproprWIo to once.moro direct attention to the following, section 10, of article VI, of Amendments to the charter of Salt I-ake City: "So officer tball bo directly or Indirectly Indi-rectly Interested hi any contract work, or business of the city, or tlio selling of any article, the expense, rncc, or consideration of which Is paid from the treasury, or by any assessment levied by any act or ordinance. Nor in the purchase of any real estate, or ether proierty belonging to tho corporation, cor-poration, or whieJi shall bo held for the taxes or asaesmects or by i irtue of legal process at the suit of said eorporatiou, Mayor or other officer of the dty."' There is an nlleged member of the City Council, who occupies a seal iu that body ho never was elected to it, and who Is more or le&s a cnntinuousoreakerof the foregoing claue. He lioaa a certain cia-s oi uork for the city au.I, occupying a M.-at in that body to which he i.-not i.-not legally entitled, takes part in appropriating ixibllc funds to him-eelf. him-eelf. Tho balance, of the Council are also thus either iguoraut of tin law, or wilfully guilty of breakine it. There is only one theory be sides that of ignorance under whlcl they could possibly aet unites wil ful lawle-iHMbe admitted thati-, mithellrmtliM lltnt tio.-nt!Am .ti referred to is not a member of tin Council at all, Judgu Ztue, in tin Third District Court, liavin,: de cided by a judicial decision that s candidate of the Penple'ii I'arty wa elected U the oftlce which he nou fraudulently hol.b. He not belli, legitimately a tuumber of the Muni dial Council, it is barely, but hardly, inh-ible that he and tin members of tint body may hold tha-he tha-he can contract for and do city wort, wltltout coming uuder the ban oi the law. ltat surh a "Liberal" theory woukl be somewhat awk ward, tossy the least, in some other of its aspavU, as the lublic bu-ines.-transacted UHciilly by tliuallrget oounciiman and the live other "Idb eraU"' iu the same position, so far a the title to seats is concerned, would be thus admitted to be of question-able question-able legality. If the claim exists thtt the coun-cilmvi coun-cilmvi who p-Tformt city work aim votes mouey to himself is really a member of that boJy to which lit apwars to belong, then there is in. reason why, on the same liyotIie-sh, liyotIie-sh, any other member miy not grIe the streets, lay water and Hcrpijie, contract for the erection erec-tion of the oaaibltit! I cxinty and citybuildiii; alter Mr. Anwnyi i. worn out by lou waiting for that work to be lieguu. Sieln; that the ordiu-iuce providine that city work should be awarded to tlie lowest resjwnsible bidder was killed by being voted down by the Council, what is to hinder a monopoly of public work withlu the limits of the "Liberal" ring, e Iecially as the law does not seem to be, iu any decree, a deterrent. We say, "Come within the law." That is all w e liave ever a Aud oi the "Liberal?." A nitreprouii-e to "obey thclavt"asit exi-ts on the .-talute books ami as "construed b the ciurto" will not do; pretentions preten-tions from that quirter are nit Mriclly reliable. When men become a law unti them'elves they are a menace to tills ileimblic, and the elective franchise should be stricken from their aliwu bauds |
