Show THE WARM SPRINGS LEASE aie e proceedings of the city council relation elation to the warm springs lease a a specialty specially interesting episode at time to taxpayers particularly il whom it should have great ritt t the situation in brief is the vent nt lessees lessels of the warm springs aerts ty are under contract to pay city ty 1200 per year rental for nine arto to come an aggregate of complained that their business fallen off and asked a reduction ent to 50 per month for the rest the period of the lease y a throw off of then r asked an extension of the lease from 1906 at per ve e years ath this matter was referred to a tee and last tuesday evening taro rabie rable report was made on the alon n aw comes the point when the re of the committee was read it r brief and in such form that it balt be passed by one not alert for a on the city but as the report labout out to be voted on councilman abter er objected he wanted a hi 0 time to look into the matter iid not believe any business man sf donate to the lessees lessels un juch ch circumstances and did not eit at proper policy for the city to 60 if the lessees lessels were losing he was willing to be lenient 8 anted ranted time to look into the mat afore ore voting the peoples money on such a proposition council 0 ne took a similar position hade e a similar request but the was adopted four only voting idt it ahe action of callister Cal llster conmey has hed bad its effect it has atac attention to the matter it if two councilmen the only mem kl the present council nominated to won partisan ticket for re elec 1 and d typical of the entire nonn tic ticket et if these two council d not detected and resisted the it would have gone through i objection and the consequence coming up of the lease would een n to deprive the city treasury W these two gentlemen zent lemen only ft brief time to investigate and yere e but two others of the coun were willing to grant the ress among those who voted to re ithem m the opportunity for incesti 1 toy by deferring consideration of for one W week eek was the mern mem fabe the council who is now a candi or mayor on one of the partisan I 1 aff tit any reflection upon the lesh the warm springs it may be sat the cutting down of the rental tee years is one of the boldest of work that has been attempt attempted eJ present council of course the want to get the best terms they their sit if the present rental is ex the city may perhaps prop ce it but would any busti without a second thought proposed reduction a clear the he lessees lessels wanted the for five years more at rate their saving in interest thereon compounded aring the time when the rent cut in two would be close to the entire five years extension would cost hence they were to get the extension of five years for nothing and a bonus beside Is that good business policy can the city afford to conduct its operations on that line it might have been all right to reduce the rental for a year or so to see how the lessees lessels could make it but not to the extent of cutting it in two as proposed but it would be an outrage to reduce it fifty per cent for the entire period of the nine years and then give the lessees lessels another five years control no competent business man would think of such a policy in his own affairs As for the city it would be far better all around if the municipality should take the springs and run them at actual cost for baths that would be a benefit to the public not a scheme to fleece it this incident gives an illustration of the character of the nominees on the nonpartisan non partisan ticket and their active interest in promoting and caring for the public welfare and it is also an illustration of the loose not to say worse methods of some partisans in attempting to railroad a measure through the council without permitting it to be carefully scrutinized of course the proposition is not likely to prevail now it is exposed but the voters can all take a lesson as to where their interests are most carefully and efficiently preserved |