Show TilE THE GOES ON O OThe If JI The sooner oon r the courts settle the que ue of t the power to mako Appoint In this municipality tho the better It ItI I t I I will be for t r all alt partita concealed Tho Th 11 4 City Council Rt at t Its Monday evening 11 i ic scebon lon tallest tailed to accomplish anything In irs j I that direction The ordinance o Intro Introduced in tro trot t il j by Mr WAS voted i I 11 down and a resolution Introduced by U n yay ay of ot retaliation by Mr 1 lr Dlack failed tailed i II IE a to receive rec he votes to pUg pae g It II j jj The Tho rejected ordinance KB U we havo i H lx already pointed out o ou t needed some lome amendments It Jt appeared to gIve tho the it K Mayor authority as ns to appointments ap and In excess of ot that which the statutes authorize In other re It voa cna a ft necessary measure be II ai as matters now no stand the tha le Ie allty of ot th the tha positions held MId by b n a largo large number sumber of ot appointees Is III gravely In J doubt The objectionable clauses of ot I 1 the ordinance could easily have hwe been I but no opportunity was liven given s j for tor debate All as s by a R strong partisan vote f i the clauso was AI ken out In obedience to the tho dictating power lower that runs tile th faction action which Is III I continually urged to stand tand pat and to act as I a partisan combination Irrespective ot of atthe 4 the needs of ot the municipally Tho The offered as al A meant means ot of balking the tho th Mayor Maor In the exercise of at atI I his official tights rights and duties barely ly es en escaped raped adoption It been merely an obstruction It If It U had hud pa ed edas as ai no resolution or ordinance will Mill stand In the tha way of ot a n a statutory provision i It 21 V was M devised d simply to obey ohey ole orders i which bleh are to resist every effort of at the Mayor to change the tho city and and hilt balk him when pOSe pos possible sible i The Tho law 14 Is II very plain In tn this matter 1 Tho The Mayor by hy and with the advice and nM consent content of or tho the City Council may op ape point till all Appointive Al and ag nU f that may be ba provided provide by b law iW l w or Di or orf f avid And In Ilk like manner nil oil all va among the uno I of at 18 D Dp p That ls Ic the provision In qua ques I lion With It Is tl I tho the provision that th tha Mayor with tho concurrence of ot tho ho City CIt Council may remove appointive See Revised Sec see 21 to deprive the City Coun Council cil of ot Its powers i is to appoint menta and removals removAl In conjunction with wills the Mayor find and to balk and ro re nut the Mayor MaJor In the of ot his Ills duties as to appointments and remove removals ala als I are equally e Wrong fong and to bo be can cou d Let every official 1 bo be supported In Ms his lawful aM acts aCI anti held up UI to pub Ha lie reprobation In unlawful doings and obstructions Tho Th Mayor of ot this city Is II authorised by law to make inako up They Th are ao to 10 be cots con l or otherwise O by hy tho the City Council nut Hut the tho council has hall isa been and ande l III e advised by a R factional orrun not only to t balk and Dna resist him but to tell him Im what ho Ito may do and what ho he may not no do tb in DOcKing backing use tha obstructive clique lIque of ot the council It says nays It offered A more than thams fair division of or tho the to the Mayor Tho The bra brazen n Impudence of t f the position The council may m re reo fue to confirm the tho Mayors appoint appointments ments but It liRA has ha no right to t offer him anything of ot tho the kind And AM th the Mayor be It t remembered has haR u tho power And nd the right to 10 refuse to sign Irn payrolls payroll II I for tor persons Illegally appointed I TM Th complete summersault which th thorgan the thorgan organ or the tho of any nn party has hal taken cn on this question Is but one oneat of at Its It II gymnastic exhibitions of at ground but not lofty lotty tumbling For aboUt four tour years It claimed In effect that the lh Mayor waR waa as everything the council nothing Now It assumes R that th the majority of at the council U Is the time directing appointing and supreme power and the tha h Mayor Maor Is la to submit to toe everything e that faction deigns to of at often ten ferl The Phe e proper course to pursue Is to tot concede t nce o to every city that which the law confers conten upon him lot Let tho th Mayor Dt his powers r and the tl e City CIt Council de that which Its 1111 mem memo r I hers b rs are authorized to lb perform pert rm There Is ii l no need for tor such luch a 0 conflict as us par V r than people and papers paper aim to provoke and continue It Is II simply disgraceful and end has Isas become patent to alt all observers And there Is I no need for tor It The Mayor hue has done nothing outside of at his hll lawful prerogatives BO sO far and wo we 0 hope he lie will not riot attempt to 10 do so The Council should pot not propose any anything an anything thing that seeks to rob the Mayor ot of othis othis his official rights or balk b lk or resist him In the exercise of at his duties Let the law take Its KB course and It If necessary necessary sary 1111 let lei the tho courts define denno Its it scope and signification Hut let us UI havo have peace or at any u y rato rate come somo degree of ot decency It d |