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Show H AIIMIIO.N AM) UMiELSEF. B ON WednecJay last the NEWS BBJ e'ioL-J, beyond the possibility of BJH tuccttv-rful dispute, that the "ljiber-1 BBBJ al" city council iiad in killing, by I BBlj Note, the ordinance prjvid ing that j BBf public work should b- dons by con j BBfl tractawardeJ to the iiweit bidder j BBf repudiated the plank of the platform j BOB of tile party tie voted tj that subject. BBf That pJbli- wjri should be done BBf in the way indicated by the assas- BBJ slnated ordinance was an election BBJ war cry, the "Liberal" canipaign- BBV -rs at-ertin that any other method flflflflffi. meant corrupUon au I j b':ry. of w hicli, according to their logi-, the Couuii! now stands convicted. Althou;h the "corn" is no. ac- knouledged In a whol-3ouled, but BBb. merely nimby pain by, way by the BftH chief "Liberal"' organ, it is in s BBV manner admitted, as will lie ob- BHc tcrved by tiie follWlng quotation BBflf from this morning's Is-ue: BBb "We think ths complaints made by BBl tbo Mormon organ) against the reo- BBj lution of the Council regarding work BBflj in the city is jus-. We think they BBV have a right to complain. We think BBS the Council mule a mistake. Wo BBJ think on careful consideration they BBJ ought to retrace their step. Oin of HBj oar war cries UH winter, oarchiefest BBJ one. was that public work Hbonld be BBJ done bytheke-t responsible bidders BBS an I that Salt Lake work should be BBj done by Salt Lake workingmon. We BBfl do not think the City Coan-:l has any H right to do anything which looks like H rejHidtation of thit slogaa. We think H tbe resolution was carrietl in a ino- B men', of inadverteoee, and when th BBJ gentlenien who supported it look it it BBB in nil its bearm; tbey will bo glad to BBB reverie its work." BBflJ We are pleaded to give our ortlm- BB arily unscrupulous cotemoorarv BBB credit for this exhibition of the uu BBV txpectetl tendency towa-i frank- BBB ne-s inauifested in the foregim;. It BBj- seemed, heWLver, to have been BBB seized n Itli a paug of rem j?.-e for BBBJ having allowed itself to be impreg- BBB natcd with even a slight symptom BBB of honesty. This revuMon of sent!- BBJ ment is shown by a refusal to lie- BBBJ lievcafait that lias lieeu demon- BBBJ strated, and which is beond the BBBJ reach of successful contradiction. BBBJ I Wc ijuote further: BBBJ J "The JVn eharges that one mm BBBJ ber of the Council uses his p'aca in BBBJ tbeCouneil to further his private bu- BBBJ ness. We do not belisve the charge BBBJ 1 That was another eainpaign cry with BBBJ A BBj Jp- Herelswliat IheXKWSdiddoand BBBjr. fray on the subject It quoted tlie BBB following, section 10, of article VI B of Amendments to the charier of BBH Salt LaVe City HHh 'o cflcsr thall be directly or Indl- j rcctly Interested la any contract work, I or business of tho city, or the selling of any article, the capenc, price, or consideration of which is raid from the treasury, or by any assessment levied iiy any act or ordinance. ?or in tbe purchase of any real esato. or other property belonging to the corporation cor-poration or w hi h shtU la hold fur tbe taxes or assessments or by t irtne of lesal process sX the suit of ala' ooriotaliuti, mayor or other officer of the city." The New b fol'owed the jiubllca-tionof jiubllca-tionof the foregoing section of the law by this statement: "There isan alleged memlierof the City Council wha occupies a seat iu that body wno neer wastk-cted to it, and who is more or less a continuous breaker of tho foregoing clause, lie does a certain cla- of work for the cily and, occupying a seat iu hat body to v-hiih he is not legally entitled, takes art in appropriating iiublii; funds to Iilm-self. Iilm-self. The lulauce of the Council are al-o thus cither Ignorant or tlie law, or wilfully guilty of breaking it." Our unbelieving eoteniporary re-fu-es to believe tins charge. Tills i' a sad commeuUry uiion the re liability of its own rejwrts of the proceedings of the City Council. If it is open to conviction let its own coiumusbe examined, aud it will there Le found recorded that on sundry aim divers occasions appropriations appro-priations of public molK' a ha e been made to one Pembroke in a ment for city work done by him. Said Pembroke oc-up.es a seal in tlie City Council to which lie has no legal right, never haiug btcn I elected live other "Liberal--" are in the same situation in that regard. I The Tribune can hardly take ti c grojiiil that lie is not a member of Hie Council, seeing that that llir, after the February campaign vas over, described this alleged Councilman Council-man as a rising young iuau, which was correct. He has risen H;eral I times before the public, but lias sat don u again, so to speak, n.ore suddenly sud-denly tlian he got up. We do not see why tho "Liberal" organ should so stubbornly refu-o lo believe that there i one alleged member of the Council w ho-y olll-clal olll-clal conduct is not square w ith the Ian, In lew of its former assertion that there were at least '-four bad men" In that public body. |