The daily gazette., 1883-05-08
DotluA Gdzette
WILslINoTos, TUESDAY, MAY 8.
ConnciI and enc Wnter Uon1nlseion.

Council and the water COMMISSION
The Water Commission held another
meeting Last night, and because the Finance
Committee of City Council was not present,
an attempt Is being made in certain quarters
to construe their absence into q snub or in
suit to the commission. Such, we are happy
to learn from the Chairman of the Finance
Committee, is not the case, as the absence of
the committee from the com mission meeting
was due to q press of city business that de-
manded immediate and careful attention.
That there will be hitch between the City
Council and the Water Commission in rela-
ton to the transfer of the Water Depart
ment to the control of the latter there is no
doubt, but the dispute will be conducted
openly and fairly, and not through the
medium of snubs or insults. The City
Council, or at least the majority members OF
that body, object to the right of the Com
mission to take sole charge OF the Water
Department, and claim that Important de-
fects in the law creating the Commission
will enable them to sustain the position they
feel inclined to take. They propose to seek
legal advice in regard to the matter, and to
be governed by the opinion of the en-
inent counsel they have consulted. This
opinion, it is expected, will be sent in at
Thursday nights meeting, after which there
will be definite developments in relation to
the contro ersy
1t cannot be denied that the Commission
Jaw makes the transfer of the Water Depart
ment at very awkward time. The bulk
of the revenues of the department have al
ready been received by the city and expended
for current expenses, and the city cannot
make any appropriation for the department
that will be available before the first OF
July. There is bound to be some sort Of a
mutual agreement between the Council and
tie Commission before a satisfactory and
amieable arrangement can be effected, and
charges of snubbing or insults will
not tend to hasten general under
standing of the matter, As far
as the ordinary operations of the Water De
partment are concerned, delay will work
noinjury, as it is generally conceded thai
the demand for Water Commission spranl
more from the necessity of having the i'm
portant Improvements aud additions effected
By an independent body than from a desr
to remove the regular management
of the department from the hand
of City Council. 1t is even probable tina
the controversy will end by resort to tn
courts, if Council receives favorable opln
ion and decides to stand by what are con
sidered the rights of that body, but there II
no use at this time In trying to engendel
personal feelings 10y charging Council oi
any of its committees with attempting tC
belittle the Commission or to contemptu
ously ignore its powers under the law.
FROM REPORTS RECENTLY issued by tn
Government it is learned that very thriv
carried on in South America From Mon
tevidio, Rosario and other parts of Urugua
and the Argentine Republic thousands q
tons are exported yearly. Over one thou
sand cattle are killed daily throughout th
season in many Of the saladeros or slaught
houses. The mode of dIspatching tn
animals is by puncturing the spinal cord a
the back of the head The task requires SON
expertness aud usually one man is employe
for the purpose, and it is surprising, say
the report, to note the tremendous herd tn,
one band can slay In day. After the an
mails have been dressed the flesh is cut up
long strips and piled in huge heaps wit
layers of salt between This part of the wor
is done by semi-naked sayages, half Bosqu
half Indian, who have a peculiar kuac
of causing the flesh to detach itself in fax
from the bone by giving it stroke wit
their broad, cutlaSs like knives. In eve
department of the process wonderful quic
ness and dextcrity are exhibited but the bu
ness as a whole is said to form one
most disgusting spectacles imaginabl
Mixed with black beans and iarna
carseva meal, jerked beef forms the stap
food of the lower classes throughout Il
coast of South aud Central America, al
large quantities of it are exported to vario
other countries.
THE MOTIVES that actuate Jury verdic
are past all understanding, but the obviot
meaning of the acquittal of officer Raymol
by jury in our county court yesterday,
that If merchant happens to stop polio
man on the street and ask him for 'tlitt
bill, the offending creditor max
himself liable to instant arrest
assault aud battery. At least IL
was the sole offence OF which the wort
citizen who prosecuted officer Raymond W
gull y, and the acquittal of the policem
who arrested him is an assurance to t
members of the force that they can prompt
repudiate all Little bills they owe and arr,
every creditor who dases ask them to set
their accounts
IT Is CHARGED that the effort to def,
Mr. Kyue for reelection to the Board
Education went to the extent of illegal VI
ing, and that several of the ballots deposit
against him were cast by men W
voted upon fraudulent tax receipts. T
matter is being looked into. T
foolishness Of al attempt to be
Mr.. Kyne by such means is intensif
by the fact that had there been a
danger OF defeat he could have read
stirred up many more citizens OF the ward
the point of going to the polls and casti
their ballots iu his favor.
MASSACHUSETTS has "vindicated" Oal
Ames, and asks Congress to do likewi
When It is considered how long it took 81
ator Benton to secure the expungement
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