Amonition No Longer Necessary
Is tabling the request of the Administrative Board that Police Justice Crutcl be admonished, coupling with that motion a pleasant little resolution of an excusatory nature, Council followed the wise course, under all the circumstances. However well known the facts on which the request was based may be, Council is officially ignorant of them. It certainly would not be justified in accepting the ex parte statement of the Administrative Board, or of any other body or individual, as evidence on which to base action.
Before any steps could be taken to remedy the conditions complained of, it would be necessary for Council to conduct an investigation, giving complaining officers and accused justice full opportunity to be heard. Such an investigation would, undoubtedly, establish the Police Justice's habit of ridiculing police and both officers to the detriment of the public service, but no more than that.
And a finding to that effect would hardly warrant more than a vote of censure, or a request to put an end to that particular form of conduct.
It is understood that the Police Justice has already heeded the request, though it has not been formally transmitted to him by Council. Therefore, as the object of the Administrative Board has been attained, an investigation would profit nothing. In this case, the easiest way out is the best way, and it is to be hoped that the venerable Police Justice will need no further warning.
Since the Senate committee began in discussing reducing the income.  Tax exemption, many patriots have discovered latent defects in the whole system. 