| Show HOTH sums S SWe We give ghe place today to the communication communication communication cation made mado by the lie City Engineer to the City Council In dissent sent to tho the new form of at contract proposal by J tho the hoard Board of Public Puttie Works which was adopted by hy bythe hyth bythe the th City Council on Friday night We Wedo Wedo Wedo do this because a summery summary such nuch an as has hall ha been published In other papers paper would 1 not do full tull Justice to ti the In HU HI HIpo position po ought to f Mirl placed before the public Ills 1118 side de of ot the question ought to be presented as ns well as the theother theother other othet And It appears to be hu In the 11 pub lub public public lic lIe Interest nod and not fur for any an private pur purpose purpose pose or for lor the benefit of ot any In company or scheme I With the controversy between the En Fn and Ind Chairman of oC the thc Hoard It artl we wel e l have nothing to do Nor or do we care 1 to enter upon the matter of the 41 agreement between him and some mom mem members 1 bUR bets of the City CIl Council who ho seem Ie om to be Lw 5 with everything he lie dove dos or ort t says Whatever may ma b be the he cause tue rou or 1 HUMS s of ot these antipathies we Jelle i the is II conscientious In fl hit lIlt I r anu ir II ne JI Oo s not flU make m ke friends friend by his hIM manner banner of ot expression he Intends bi to do hn hk hi duty thil ut as he understands It 1 t The f r rm tin of ul contract now under con eon I I over oer which h so se I much feeling I has hal he 1 ho n displayed I Is ii I now nol before the M i ocr r for far t ir his hili decision We Wo are Rrt re of I tim o OJ 0 ion in that the lie proposition of ot the it tty ily Attorney should hould have keen been adopt adopted ed 11 1 by the Council on a question that thal I so 0 deeply dle ly concerns the city sad and ht In which the r ought to t be loe con suited A with th iii Attorney 1 i and r would have ii b been n likely to arrive lve at a n Just ut 1 sion dona as a to the form bt t adapted to the 4 situation nn th s Interest 1 It Jt should be V ft In m mind I the th public that hat It Is III g and nd net nt the th contractors any In for tor or er work tv that t nt should hould bo be beI ber I r the thu flat rrt conIdi In the tho mutter POW now In III controversy contro r It It II I verv vei v gen W orally hUh lint this IIi la Is tho of the tho spirit ut of f th lii the now form of ot f n tract adopted That may bo be 1 0 a Q nil take I hut there In Is u It among the people that Hint contract sro are permitted to pass pu slang In the interest t tot of ot contractor rather titan thin of or the tha and the lie Morrin r contract Is olt cited 1 a 0 an one olio ot of the tho lie which has hag ha not been enforced according to 10 itH It and ond till the made when tho Ih bonds election was WOI In la progress it Is feared that tho ho new plan will 1111 rather than remedy the of ot otWe We Se make inho no tin charges es lI the tho present Ille ent proposition I or 01 HH Its Promoters They may b be oil nil that t If Is proper un uno under tier der existing requirements All Alt wo ask usk a k klor for lor Is a n square deal Lot hath both sides shies of ot the tho argument be he heard hen Ill and on II talus fairly weighed Let Lei It be ho understood that lint tho citizens Are looking oil on with grave crave In erect and that anything done dono against the tIIt hit public welfare will rebound on Oil thA who promote It Wo We should look to 10 the future us liS well veIl ns os to tho the present anti and nothing should ah be don done either by way ln of oC personal against a 11 public or In iii tin till In Interest crest terest t of at nn plan or Individuals or ot 0 that Is not lot primarily and eventually for tor the tile benefit of tho the municipalIty |
