Show THAT PROPOSED TRIP the gentlemen who make and unmake the rules and regulations by which we are controlled in a municipal way have decided upon an expenditure ot of 1000 1000 to send bend a committee to so bau francisco that is IB not a great deal ot of money for to r a city as large and prosperous BB 88 this to spend when the object is the of a use ful purpose and an enormous amount when nothing gothing more Is in to be done than kive a few men a pleasure trip with such incidental ev oi dental business busanet s as could as well be attended to without extra expense on the be one hand let it be considered what is to be galled by the proposed philandering and see whether or not we had bad better spend anything at an all ou on it the cites accounts current are aft severe on the taxpayers and times while not nearly prostrate te nor as an hard as many try to lu make out are far from br iskand money Is lain in 0 bengt sc active we must havo have improvements ot of course and thou then more me improvements this bis is a municipal condition which grows by whai it Is leeds on and being inevitable we must bear it but this only makes it the tee more needful to consider well before acting ln in a tr involving considerable sid erable expenditure otherwise in a word let us u put the expected the money required to attain them theia and see it one comes anywhere near equaling the other it is proposed it if we are correctly informed ed to inspect underground biff the more improved systems ol of paving ng and to look into the newest anu and best beat plans lang ot of these rhese on their fa face are desiderata before any more wires are contributed to the general disfigurement of the city lot let us determine whether or not this thin is altogether let no more paving be put down dow 11 until it is in established beyond a doubt tuat it is the best and most permanent that can be had under the circumstances so that later on and perhaps within a short time we will not have to undergo the expense aud and annoyance of doing it again and the joint public building should abdula have every sale safeguard guard against fire or other destructive agency that science has devised or a reasonable expenditure pend iture can procure so should every other building public or private in the city for that matter but the question arises Is it altogether necessary that personal inspection of these things must be bad in order to dt determine ermine their utility and desirability this is an age of swift accurate and comprehensive communication by means meana of which intelligence is acquired almost as readily at a distance as at home we can know all about improved systems improved machinery advanced adva adv iced arced methods and new scientific develop developments meats without an actual in spec tion and can transact business at a distance as accurately and almost as an readily as on the ground in answer to this it is held by the council that can be saved the city in the one item relating to the joint building this coming from authority of 4 the most ur unquestionable questionable character and that it would otherwise be a measure ot of economy to make the trip as a personal inspection by would be more satisfying to them and their associates and thus to the people generally because cutting off much exporting 11 reporting dickering procrastination and doing what ought to be done expeditiously and with no other expense to the public than that named there are arguments for and against the I 1 ro position and probably no one who already has an opinion on the subject will be q hanged changed by any of them meantime a quietus for the nonce was put up on the proposed trip by mayor baskin last evening he be having sent in a veto vet he announces himself opposed to junkets at public expense although as he be sententiously expressed it no doubt they will go anyhow we shall see |