Show ABSURD CITY ordinances THE city council passed a sanitary ordinance last night the provisions ef which are difficult to comprehend we doubt very much if the members themselves can explain fully its mean ing and intent As it stands it is a mass massof of absurdities and if carried out according to its language it will in crease the evil which we suppose it to is designed to remedy we hope the mayor will carefully examine this thin ordinance before he rives gives it his official sanction we need an ordinance regulating the disposition of waste matter in this city but it should be one which every sane person can understand and with which every decent citizen can comply we are of the opinion that it will need some modifications and corrections at least before he can consistently append to it his signature it to is an improvement in some respects on the ridiculous thing for which it is a substitute to which we drew attention some time ago the city attorney is not a signal success in drafting ordinances and either needs some assistance or a vacation we are informed that he privately pronounced illegal the detective ordinance di nance narice which was killed last night and which he framed for the council jae fie heard it disc discussed umed but it is said never uttered a word officially against its legality another vote in its favor last night would have secured its passage and yet believing it to be illegal lie framed it and allowed it to go upon its passage and we are told offard as an excuse that he would draft any ordinance orJi nance the council wants whether ille illegal al or not it is the duty of the city attorney not only to frame ordinances but to act as the legal adviser of the council and one of the chief objects in employing him to draft bills for ordinances is to have them found in law and con in language an attorney who will frame an ordinance that is illegal no matter by whose orders without expressing sing officially his bis opinion as to its illegality is a poor legal adviser and in our opinion is unfit to be a public officer |