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Show tiii: stkeitckuhm; dispute. Tjie situation in nlation to the dispute lutwern the City Council and .Mr. Ikiskin regarding the grading grad-ing of Firtt North Street, opposite the front lino of his residence, a-prarsonthe a-prarsonthe surface to be in flatus quo. Tiiat coloring was given to the Mll'ect hy the latest action of tne Council on Tuesday night. After njecting. by a cjo.-e vote, a motion to reconsider the action formerly taken to go on with the grading according to the recent fur-vey, fur-vey, the siubjeii was return ctcd and the I'ounUl, as a body, decided to undertake toagaiii inspect the nork. This msrnlng e also visited the spot iu a body and fojnd the woik in progress. This is an indication that the Council pruposis to adhere to lis determination to fully consummate con-summate what Mr. IixsUn denounces denoun-ces a- a '"glaring outrage." We have no very exalted opluion of the gtutleman who raises tile compa:at of maltreatment. From oursAnJpoint he has bteu guilty of conduct toward others the majority ma-jority of the people of Utah which woulj caue, by comparison, the attitude of the City Council toward him to take ou the a.pcct of even-lianded even-lianded justice and respectability, tn the c-ijiacity of outrage the con-Juctof con-Juctof the Council as com(Mred to meof his doings vtould It a tly-pec'-i to a ni juutam. Fortunately most of his clTorts have been abor :ive,endiugin smoke, but that has act been hi? fault. The propositson if the Council, on tha other hand, is likely to carry. What iac ileeai to be the un- liulterated diabolism of Mr. Saskln cuts 1:0 figure in the ,,.. ..j - v.,.u of Salt Lake, and as Mich is eutitlxi j to fair treatawnt at the hauos of 1 the officers of the municipality. We , take the ground tint he ha not received It, aud, as in duty bound, contend that it should be accorded him. To convince one of the cor. rtitncssof this poaitlau requires 110 close inspection. A glance at the comparative gulch manufactured by the street graders under the new survey ouut to be enough. Having seen w itii our eye, we speak under-standingly, under-standingly, and U not hesitate to state that unless tho wrong Is remedied reme-died a gross injustice will be done to Mr. ItasMu. Tho sidewalk along the south liic of his lot looks like a du,j-3y on a side-hill. The sentence of death has Ihx-u pronounced pro-nounced upon a line of thrifty shade tree-., Mho-c roots are jur-tiaily jur-tiaily exposed to the breeze. If they are not soon removed a still" northern ulast will looen the e-arth and Iiy them over on the street. It Is presumable that the sidewalk will have Jo be lowered to conform to the street, which will, If jwssible, render Mr. llassiu's position still more ur.iiearable, as it will give him no entrance to the lane leading to the rear of his premise6, uuless he grades his private ground at a sharp incline to destroy the vertical line !hit will lie created. AstIiesidewalknowstauds,IicuId lieUted '-Liberals" leaving their club rooms in an uncertain Hate of tteaJiuera attempt to travel upon it, 3 false step might cause them to go over the brink, break their necks and thus diminish thcuarty vote. A ootemporary suggests that the position of the Council is probably Influenced by some of its members who iiapjien to mide on the side of the street rot detrimental! ' affected by the heroic grading no in progre-s. To meet this ungener ous insinuation i: may be said that 1 there is only oue ol the city f ithers i who is located in the place referred to, and he personally took no -.art in Ihecuutrover-y of Tuesday nigh!, declining to vote. Unless our co-teruporary co-teruporary has discovered that he had a proxy lea-shooterin the council coun-cil it should bold its t-acc. The position taken by Council-rns:iJauu3 Council-rns:iJauu3 at tlie session of Tuesday, on the street graling businiss in general and the llaskin infliction iu particular, was the sound one. Notwithstanding that the gentlt-mau gentlt-mau was speaking to a motion, Mr. Pembroke called him to order. It was the latter, however, who was out cf order, and not Mr. James. This error on the part of Mr. P. arose presumably froma failure on the part of that gentliman to remember re-member that lie was not the Mayor, nor Chairman of the Council. 3Iayor Scott refreshed him on tho-e points, however, and. In an appropriate appro-priate way, intimated to him that it w as the duty of the officer presiding I to call a member to order, and not j that of oue of the gtntleme-n on I the floor. The account of the ! discussion whieh appeand in the News throws a good deal cf light on U13 proceedings, and show Mr. James' position to be clearly right In regard to the kind of grading that should be done in this city, whose picturesque features will soon be destroyed unless a halt in I the present process is called. The I grading should, so far as prattle- ' able, conform to the contour of the laud. While the work of damaging the property or Mr. Baskin and liU nearest neighbors Is in progress, other streets that need attention are belug neglected, so that the situation situa-tion causes a general as well as a special hardship. i |