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Show Ml'LTirUCATION 01' 1NSPEC-TOItMlirS. 1NSPEC-TOItMlirS. At latt Tuetday'e teaaloq of tho City Council, one of the raembert of that body Introduced a motion to retjuett cvrtalubeada of department! toriort aa to tho men employed under them and the aruounlapald thtm aa talarlet, Tho Mayor, from the chair, eihlbfted auiagonlam totho motion. lilt oppo-tltlon oppo-tltlon Wat offered otteutlbly on the ground that the reporte were auperflu-oua, auperflu-oua, becaute the Information could be obtained from the auditor by tkoae dralrlng It. Haalog that, fioni the character of the motion, the Couucil were Ignorant on the tubject of the propoard inquiry, why would not auch reperta have been eminently proper, In place of It being neceaaary for the metnbera who wlahed to bo Informed, to make a pertonal application ap-plication to tile auditor! Iletldrt, the I ubllo bavo tome lntrrett In the matter, tho people having tofurnlah the money for the payment of the aalarlel. It la not unlikely that publicity la exactly what the Mayor and a majority of the "Liberal" councllmen do not wauton tul Jeila of thla character. The motion, which related to rrqolrlng the board ef publlo worka to makenrrort waapaaaed, but, evidently evident-ly on acoount of the oppoaltlou of the Mayor, waa recooaklered and killed. A motion lueklog a rtqulrement for a report from the watermaater lu regard to employea and aalarlet did not carry. Thetltuatlonaeemt to be that the board 6f publlo worka are a aort of Independent In-dependent attachment to the city government. gov-ernment. They teem to be "piddling their uwn canoe," and may not be Interfered with lu their ojwratlona to any appreciable extent. Faite point that way, fiometlmealuce the board notified the Council that Ibey had appointed Percy II. Itauadrnlniiector of retaining retain-ing walla couttructlon onHtate atreet notably on the block running from riouth Tomplo to Pint Houtlt alreet. They alto tent In a notification to the eflect that they bad appointed Jaraea Auttln Inapector of al lewalk conatruc-Moil conatruc-Moil for pttvlng dlalrlota aeven and right. They b-il alao II i.J Ibu eala-rleeof eala-rleeof Ibeae appolntera at $100 a mouth each. Aa,a matter of fact, the board bad olil) att them to work. They aaked Ihe Council to conllrm the appolut-menta. appolut-menta. Tbcan appolntmenta they had no rltlit to malir. much la to tot the In. (umbcutacf thuofllna they created to wink. In doing thla thvy aiaumcd txtraordinary powera and fuuctlout. It will be observed that we (peak advlaudly when weaay that thla board are an attachment of the city government govern-ment which operate largely Independent Inde-pendent of tho Council. They ere-atel ere-atel two new offlcea, filled by thelrown aipolotruent, prracrlbed the amount of their aalarlet, aetthem to work, Having to the Council tbo bare privilege of en-dortlng en-dortlng the action and appropriates the amount of money needed to jay the cxpentce thua Incurred. At Ihe tame time, theru la at much nerd for there new ofllcera aa there la for a fifth wheel to a wagon. For lotlancr, of what uae It It to have a man go around to Hlale Street and lake an occatlonal iqulnt at the little retaining retain-ing wallt made necetaary by quel-tlonable quel-tlonable methoda of the city engineer? The walla are being put up by contract- If the contractor la not under Imndt to do work according it vfcl flcatlona ha ought to (be. And if he la, all that It needful la to have the work accepted, by the appropriate detriment official, aa according to agreement; or, If not aatlafaclory, to-Jecled. to-Jecled. Hraldea theae two officiate of alio-creation, alio-creation, there are two othere of a almllar character In tho tame department. depart-ment. One la A.M. Wood, inapectorof Hlate ttreet. Thla official aeema to have a geoeral aupervlaton of that ttreet, but aatothe naluro of hla duller, which are paid for at Ihe rate or ilODa month, no Information baa lren obtained. The other la It. O, Cbaury, Inapectorof Farley' canyon conduit ,employrd at aalmllaraalarj. There apeara to be no limit to the Inapectorthlr connected with the city government. They are evidently )lltlcat barnaclre. They arlae out of the operation of the doctrine of awarda for "Liberal" par-tlaan par-tlaan political work. It la not agreeable agree-able to the lionet of that party for theae mattera to come couapltiioutly tie'ore tho utile; hence tbo killing of tho inotlont calling for apeclal reporta Irotn the beada of dr artmenta. |