Show TOE COUNCIL ACTS the standard congratulates the city council in having at last legally au Ihori zed tha streets of ogden to be sprinkled for three months the mayor baa used ids best to secure some legal and proper action authorizing the sprinkling to be done it required four communications from tho mayor to bring about this action councilman powers stated last night that in six years while lie served as councilman no resolution was ever passed authorizing the sprinkling to be done we presume the sprinkling just ran itself either that or everybody who felt so disposed took a turn at it Is there any wonder why the sprinkling of our streets in the past has been so poor Is there i more reckless method that could be pursued than that outlined by councilman rowers as tha action of the past it is only fair to say that Council mca J C nye and F W chambers all along lave favored proper action by the coun ail but were outvoted councilman craig also started out last night as if he meant business when ho took the stand that the mayor simply wanted the council to do business in a business way the standard is pleased to icahn who the public hereafter are to hold responsible for the sprinkling the entire matter now is referred to the L of each ward therefore the public when dissatisfied with the sprinkling will now please register their kicks with the councilmen before coming to the mayor of course if the councilmen will not act then the mayor will have to take a hand in the sprinkling but first please exhaust all the of your vocabulary on the councilmen the whole trouble with a majority of the councilmen seems to be a desire for election reelection re to office we believe some of the councilmen desire to use the patronage of the sprinkling business to build their fences they hesi bated authorizing the sprinkling by contract for fear some person unfriendly to their election reelection re would be alic lowest bidder the county lets its sprinkling contract for 65 per month the city refuses to ask for bid sand pays per month for the same work ten teams at per month amounts to 1030 per month the county has tle same work done for month and for five months the countes coun tys plan would save the city 2000 all this to feather the nests of certain councilmen for election reelection re elections ejections Eject ions of councilmen come high but the taxpayers must have them |