The Ann Arbor city officers have issned ...

The Ann Arbor city officers have issned tbree remarkable public documents wirbin tbe past few weeks. The first ame in the sbape of the annual report of the board of punlic works. part of whioh was au admirable piece of work and done with a great deal of oare af ter mach labor. The report was spoiled however by a laboree! atternpt to show that the board was not possessed of the full powers and jurisdiction which its members believed it shonld havo, with a covett attaok upon the council. Of course this was matter entirely oatside of wbat is contemplated in the annnal report, but still it was the official report of the board and as snch might well have been published in the conncil prooeedings as ordinary reports of the board are published. The board, however, ■would not be content with this regular pnblication, and asked for $50 to pnbJish it in pamphlet forro for general distribntion. The counoil at first refn&ed, evidently on the ground that it wa a campaign document bnt finally by a cloie vote decided to appropriate the $50. Then carne the second remarkable official document in the form of the mayor's veto of the $50 appropriation. If the mayor had oonfined himself simply to a veto of a useless expense on the ground that all who were interested oould see the report without making a handbill distribución of it, and that ench reports had not hitherto been published in such form in this city, he would have occupied a position above critiüism. But he went farther and entered into a lengthy attaok on the report itself, which, as the report had not been pnblished, seemed to be taking an advantage of the board in getting one side printed and made it look to outsiders as if the report was not published for fear of the people. This produced the third, and the most astonnding of all the official ntteranoes, in the form of a long resolution by the tx)ard published in their official proceedings and also giveu in another column of íhe Argus. One has bnt to read this resolution to see that its anthor had lost his temper and was not posessed, at least when the resolution was written, of those powers of judgmect and discretion, which the original report had argued should be conferred apon the board. The resolution was entirely outside of the province of the board of public works which has abBolutely no business to attaok the mayor of this city by resolution becanse of a Teto. The " resolution is only one in form and not in f act. In f act it is a message to the people telling them that they have elected a mayor who uses "unjust, misleading and nntrue" langnage and denouncing his statements as "the false, malieious statements of the advisers of the mayor," andfurther they "commiserate the misfortune of the mayor" in falling into such hands. The board owes it to itself t o expunge this eshibition of temper from its inmutes at its next meeting, and if it refnses so to do then the members of the board should be themselves expunged from office. As the Argus has hitherto remarked the people are hearcily sick and tired of this quarrel. They want honest, earn■ est and efficiënt city administration. Bickerings and quarrels are or should be beneath the dignity of tbe men who shonld hold the reins of city governinent. The mass of the people do not take sides. They would be simply glad to wipe out both sides and put in men in office, who can fnlfill the duties of their offices without regard to private feelings, who would not be demanding powers bolonging to others under the harter and who should work together for the city's interests. It would save money and secure better work. We have hitherto taken occasion to refer to the evident desire on the part of the board of public works to make a board of estimates out of the eouncil while they were acting as couacil and board in one. On reading the recent resolution of the board found on our first page, we find the board is also poesessed of the desire to be mayor and ■write messages, 'Well, the whole thing might as well be given over to them so that we rnay know where to place respon si bility for things done. Col. Wattersou in the Looisville Courier Journal in speaking of Tillman's tirade in the United States' Senate, does uot minee words. He says that the South bows her head in shame because this seat made illustrious by the incunibenoy of John C. CalhouB is desecrated by"a foul-inouthed rnffian aud oommou slauderer, " aud reinarks ihat Tillman combines the" ; ]y contradiotory oharacters of a vulgar tyrant and a blataut anarchist." The republicau Congress huve at least admitted their inability to pass legislation, althoagh they have amajoiity in both houses. The do-nothing congress has doue considerable ralking j bnt nothing else, and have uow fallen to oriminations and recrirninatious I ainong themselves. If it keeps od, (hese changes and counter changeB will be as bad as betweea the board of public works in this city aud the oouncil, and about as bad f or the pubiio welfare. The Hillsdale Leader, strongly republican as it is, joius Gov. Lnce and says : "The state taxes tbis year are higher than there is any reasonable or justifiuble excuse fpr. ' ' The Ypsilantiau and the Ann Arbor Courier, who have attempted to justify the three million dollar state tax, should take notice.