The Lambertville record., 1899-02-22

Regular meeting of Council, Mon
day evening, Feb. 9th, adjourned to
meet Wednesday evening, Feb 10th.
What for? YOU ask. Simply because
there was no money with which to
| pay bills. There being no other bust
ness it was thought advisable to nd
| journ until the 18th inst, when by
reason of two licenses to sell liquor
having been granted, the FREQ Silver
combination of tax raisers would have
$500 90 with which to do business. Is
it not humiliating. The tax rate in
creased, nothing to show for it, and
adiourning a regular meeting of Coun-
Gil because thore were no funds Wo
think the citizens will ut the coming
Municipal election change this stun
tion. Even the blizzard of the pnst
week showed the utter incapacity of
this Council, or at lcnst that part of
the Council dominated by the billinnt
and giantminded Big Silver Three.
Witness the brilliancy of their pro-
ceedings at the special meeting of
council held Tuesday evening, l4th
inst for the purpose of taking action
on the cleaning of snow. With the
wisdom of Solomonan the dcterm inn
ton of Napoleon depicted upon their
countenances they did solcmnly Reso-
lutte that the Chief OF Police should, on
the following day lWedncsdny) sally
forth and notify the owner or lcssecs
Of every house and lot III the city that
tho snow should be cleaned from his
sidewalks, from the lot limo to the
curb, md that the ordinance with re
ference thereto Bhould be read by the
Chief to each and every householder
in the city. This is wisdom with II
vengeance. Verify they must have
thought our Chief Of Police was n
"globc trotter And this wasnot all.
Every person not complying with the
provisions of the said ordnance by
Thusday noon UGth inst should be
reported to tho Street Committee by
tho Chief Now all this looks very
nice to these statesmen. In their self
complacency, they imogine that they
will be looked upon as bcnefactors
OF their race. They forget that the
average citizen knows the difference
between passing resolution, the
carrying out Of which was physically
! impossible and action such action,
for instance rs that taken by our Re-
publican Mayor and our very efficient
Republican Chief Of Fire Department,
| in securing horses for our steamers
during the storm. These two officials
the Mayor and tho Chief of Fire De
partment that it was time
for action, and they acted. Hasten,
oh hasten tho day whom our city may
be blessed with an acting majority in
Council rather than with ono Of re-
soluting.
! Apropos Of our remarks last week
concerning tho location Of the post
Office, one Of or city officials was
heard during the past week depreca-
ting the ax grinding propensities OF
persons in connection Herewith,
while he tho ofiicialD expressed his
preference for the location at corner
Of Coryell and Union Streets. The
manner in which this city offlci made
these remarks seemed to indicate 9
personal disinterestedness. ("Oh
consistency thou art iewell", In
vestigation showed that one of the re
latiyes Of this very disinterested city
official is doing business in very close
proximity to the site preferred by this
city official
Uncle Sam, ii you want to stop ax
grinding, gness you will have tC
build us post office building.
MORE T. FOLLOW.