Show indecorous CONDUCT OF THE COUNCIL THE situation f the city council is becoming a subject for comment among the people the municipal government pren ento a spectacle of combined incapacity recklessness and belligerency that does not afford comfort or edification to the observant onlooker among the more recent eccentricities of the council was waa the pump passage ot an ordinance abolishing a portion of the public easement on the central avenue running north and south through the original plat of the city cemetery the ordinance provides that tha a single tier of burial lots be platted on the centre of the street in question along its entire length no provision is made for cutting through the line of these lots at he intersections of streets skeets running east and west the result to is that a literal construction of the ordinance means the shutting abutting out of direct thoroughfare across the grounds except by turning north or south to either terminus of the new plat which wa established for revenue only such a measure could hardly be called statesmanship A later exhibition of the kind of brilliancy bril lancy exhibited by those who ought to be ow our city fathers 1 was the definite action taken on the issuance of a liquor license to the variety theatre concern and then taking another and similar action on the same question afterwards without any vote to reconsider the first decision if the eod action had differed from the first fint the question would have arisen as to which was binding the first or second probably the first would have taken precedence as it would not have been impaired by any notion action for reconsideration rAde ration looking to its being rescinded egregious blunders may be pardonable able although their frequent recurrence in the proceedings of men mea in responsible Ve public positions to is to be deeply deplored but there can be no excuse for turning the legislative de apartment of this city into IL ft bear garden conveying the impression that the council is partly composed compo eed of burly Ruf ruffians flans instead of refined and intelli intelligent gentlemen when men leap to their feet assume a pugilistic attitude and exclaim to a follow fellow member do you mean to call me a liar air as did councilman anderson And ereon to mr hall on friday evening the council is brought into further cn contempt tempt we use me the word further advisedly because there must necessarily nece marily be a large degree of that sentiment ordinarily prevailing towards a body two fifths of whose members were never elected to the seats they usurped and retain in de defiance flance of law and a judicial decision of a competent aou court rt one of the non elected sex mr pembroke probably carries more weight in the council on account of his pugilistic proclivities than bemuse because of the atty of his mental acumen he has already secured a reputation in the line by knocking a fellow councilman mr james overa chair some time since he arose in the majesty of the inflation which resulted from this victory over one who is from his standpoint a hostile 21 and threw down the gauntlet to the whole council including we presume the mild mannered mayor he exclaimed while his eye rolled ina in a fine ph renzy 1 1 I may not be truthful and I 1 may not be straight but I 1 am ready to fight at the first intimation offered to that effect 11 1 1 or words substantially of that import we have observed since then that there has been small disposition on the part of the members generally to call forth the exercise of mr Pem brokes knockdown arguments the people of th this Is city have not only a right to demand of the municipal government that those who compose it shall use their official positions for the general good but that they shall preserve in their deliberations a commensurate degree of decorum the impression should not go out that the council is only semi civilized lost lest the idea prevail that they are the representatives of a community composed of barbaris barbaria ns no |