Show MAYOR ECCLES an in at R ni 1 art rt of what ilia gu ali mi said mayor eccles met an ogden ilan ALD representative represent athe yesterday andetat and feat ed that a wrong construction hid had been put upon 1 remarks in lie tile council moet mooting ingon on inday friday evening eang in in reference to mr potters letter in consequence of said aid misconstruction sir mr I 1 I 1 le cl 1 33 claims lie was incorrectly reported in justice to tho the therefore we me give the following ofil cial report ol 01 what ho lie said dd when hen I 1 got home list last opening evening I 1 heard a good deal of the comments om ments in the ne new piper in in relation to my action milli reference to the letter sent to me ine by mr potter on the depot question clearing hit that sir mr adams 14 wan as here I 1 and ju lo igo 10 dee went ent down domin to the depot dellot to see tint that gentleman pent leinin I 1 explained eipl line 1 to mr adami adams he file rc aotis why 11 this letter war was not mado in ido public I 1 afo ufo showed linn him the letter which I 1 wrote to mr potter and also mr nir pot tors rel reply ly mr adams approved of the course u I 1 had taken anil anti said eai 1 that mr sir potters reply wits perfectly tor vor rt that the matter was now in fit ins his mr adama inia hands and that lie thought the matter could be ile adjusted and there would be a depot built he ile mid paid his ide idea was to form a etol stock coca coin pany he ile said for some reason reason or other gov oo 00 stanford ft as op awed to that in in ho ilia firt first puce place sir mr adini adain i had a conversation con creation with 1 crocker ler of tile C 1 in in regard to the matter anti that gentleman hid had stated that if mr air stanford had not riot of op it in ill it alio to ara 1 instant o lie he mr crocker would consent to a r tock company being a formed im im lut but since eineo sir stanford i had objected sir mr crocker t wanted to consult sir fc and arid see what his reasons of objection were mere afir jt mr crockers Cro kere consent coil boull d hie have been obtained sir adams said he could have sent east cast and anti had a stock coin any formed at onie once lie ile thought r ciny I 1 boever that it coull bo be done in lit about six eix week a at any rate ind arid in in lie tile meantime mein time sir air adams eaid said he lie would write and arid let me bno inov the result if not in fit that time me boull have to wait mait till they got through Ali their trouble then they would do something for ui I 1 understand that I 1 have had a good deal of censure I 1 an I 1 did not miu make tile letter fullme I 1 was w as acting as chai chairman aman of a committee of the city louneil und arid when A hen I 1 gota any i information jiin was the plate tor for me to re report rt it I 1 did not think it was w is my m lg place first art to report to th alio 0 public through ii the tile columns of lie the piper paper or through the th chamber of commerce tho the chamber of commerce had 4 it committee thereto I 1 linnet sea bea that any act of mina rains in in this regard has been detrimental to the uty city or the tile interests of the city if tim this letter had been tx cn given gnei to the put public lie ten days ao ago thero there would mould have been n BO so diduch inu h ad I 1 veme criticism of the com coTi pa piny 11 y that I 1 question whether the chamber of commerce or tile city council could hao have obtained a interview with sir mt adam As the matter stands the depot mav inay go on tins this summer it is in my V opinion that it will ill I 1 wish to state bt ite fur for the benefit of the representatives of the press that I 1 admit that I 1 am a public F ervant fervant arv ant at the same tune I 1 consider thill that I 1 am bilut i ut here to ulc my ju judgment and if 1 I do wrong I 1 will do it on my own judg ment not on lie tile judar judgment 01 an newspaper or chamber of I 1 hae have ju diment udra to ue ule and I 1 propof u e to mel af e it rightly ore paper eaid said the tile mayor should make his record fol toMel lie dictates of f the paper I 1 fuestion whether I 1 coil J d do to it I 1 i t think ink thia aa body N able to run the busin cs of this city tit m without the ne heaper or tile chain ler ber of commerce telling billiu us Is m what hat it to 0 do the file lias has recommended om mendel certain improvements here that would cott cot t nearly half a of dollars me have tho right according corling ao to liw law to borrow about 90 m we e haie hae borrowed ro ed t ta this leaves u us S with a capacity t y to borrow more aarfor I 1 for t one ex hect to wic my own 0 n judg anent in whit hat I 1 do to and I 1 think lie tile balance 11 of the council expert to do the tile hanle I 1 would mould like liUto to hear the of the balkco bal a co of the council in regard to my action in relation to the tetter letter |