' The Register, this week, reiterates th...

' The Register, this week, reiterates the oíd ref rain about "the people who elected Mayor Thompson " demanding "the enforcement of existing laws and ordinances." True, quite true ! All laws should be enforced, laws which suit the Register and laws which do not suit the Register. But the Register Publishing Co., is not a law abiding corporation. For two years it has violated a state law. It has not suited that Corporation to give to the public the names of its stockholders, and its has not filed its annual report, which the law requires it to file in January. lts officers are subject to a fine for not doing it. There is a demand that the law be enforced, and the Register should be made to do what it preaches. Aid. Prettyman went out of his J way in the council meeting the other night to denounce the bids of the Argus, Courier and Times for - printing the Council proceedings as trickery because the papers did not bid on paraphlets for the council, ' bids on which were not asked for. If there was any fault to be found with the bids it was because they fully complied with Aid. Prettymans resolutions. When bids on one thing only are asked, it is not usually to bid on two things. The bids were like those always received by the council for printing. The Argus, for one, will not bid, where its motives for bidding are to be impugned. The printing was bid down to cost, so that the paper which prints the proceedings will gain nothing. There was no thought of trickery behind them. If the council wanted to publish the proceedings in only one paper, the Times made the lowest bid. If they wanted to publish them in two papers, the joint bids of the Courier and Argus and the Register and Democrat were exactly the same. The council should have taken its choice. If two papers were chosen the advantage of publishing in the Courier and Argus over publishing in the Register and Democrat is that of publishing in the leading party papers instead of in two papers without standing in their parties.