Show FOR FOB BENEFIT city may think to la the exaltation of their heir wisdom that newspapers have no BO right to comment upon or what appears to be an improper appropriation of public won mone 3 but so 10 far as aa the is IB concerned I 1 we desire to announce the intention of doing that very thing at every ble opportunity lot let the beneficiary and hla his friends be whom they may macj the harigan sidewalk eie walk claim for something over four hundred dollars has already been discussed in these theme columns anti ana we reasons given why way it should be disallowed the in or mation which led to wo this conclusion was waa obtained irom from official a I 1 documents belonging to the city and k irom from personal conversation oi 01 the writer with members of the city council and of the board of public works the claim was shown by busee q documents document ato to have beu been unfavorably reported zep upon several timeo and sud by them hew sod aud by the abe members rei referred erred to lo to be a claim ought bot to le paid since that time we mayor ot of too the city who is not given to hasty conclusions in hi hia s official actions has ban sent to lo the council ilia veto ol of the appropriation with walh the best beat of reasons laai la the veto was wake and the couvall by nearly a naDi vote decided again that the money should be paid now there way may be some reasons why mr hir harigan to ie legally entitled to this bu it ao any are they not it way may be that mat previous oua deports of council cou acil committees and of the board of publio public works should be at this late day bud aud in this sup omary manner brushed baide sod aud the mguey muary be voted out of the public treasury trea iury it way may be that the magove objections are untenable and tuat the state meat anent ot of the ease was unjust but until some proof of the tact fact shall be gi gideo R a groat great many m an y people 0 will refuse to bo be lieve that iu in this the latest action the council has baa done we regard it 11 as a duty to call the matter to public attention ald aid in lit that no budy body of men elected as aa too servants ot of abe people are so au bigi anti and mighty wat that they POO can afford to refuse auy proper Inform atlow which the people their masters demand arde NEWS happens to know that a great lauy ma uy thousand thoua aud reside ta of this oily city are deai every year to pay the he city part 01 0 their taze taxes that hat these resi douts are to the easy aau at timea extravagant outlay u of he money which has cost them BO 80 much to pay 10 that they are particularly lt it MAJAS at tho the Ps pa wout ment of claims where the contract and stipulations have not been complied compiled with and where no legal leal right of domand demand exists they hold that the municipality has much better uses for its ito money than to fritter it away or make anybody a present of it and in all things the NEWS agreda with them As AB to councilmen Coun oilmen who object to their colleagues giving in formation that the public has ha a right to have we submit wat that their notions of propriety are open to amendment and we move to amend accordingly the correaa idea Is not that public officials official not be criticised criticized but that their bourise in every case must be so open just juat and consistent an aa to be at as all times above criticism |