Show A FAIR PROPOSITION AT last eve evenings evening's evening ipg's s session of the City Council the Hydraulic Canal Company submitted a statement in refer reference nce to the obtaining by the city from the County Court of a deed to a sixth one-sixth interest in the Jordan dam and its iti storage capacity rhe The recitation of facts is clear and lI k i OJ straightforward It is presumed that what the statement embodies was understood by the Council commit commit- committee committee committee tee who investigated the subject and J c made the proposition to the Hydraulic Hydraulic Hydraulic lic Canal Company and aud by the Council itself headed Clear-headed busi busi- business business business ness men do not enter upon such transactions without due 8 scrutiny of i the facts and equities involved Alle Alleged ed aspersions cast by one or more members of the Council In the direction of this transaction have It appears induced the company to to- recite the facts and make makEr the pro pro- proposition proposition pro proposition position which which concludes the docu docu- document document document ment Had it not been for the un- un unprecedented unprecedented un unprecedented drouth of the present and last year perhaps there would c have been no such reflections In- In indulged in indulged i in But be this as it may here is presented an opportunity for forthe z I Ithe the city to extricate itself from a position in which it was placed by f its own act Let the Council pro pro- prof proceed pro proceed iJ accordingly |