The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-03

% t0r the cn0lce o! Just eucn men.
IL Mr.. Pendleton being called upon
il remarked that it struck him the
each municipal ward should haV
the privilege of nominating
man from its ward and a residen
in the ward, aud tbst 8 distribution
Z; of the improvements made by the cit
! should be mase in each municipa
ward, according 10 the tax therefrom,
The Committee on credentials then
entered and submitted their report.
The report was received and
adopted.
The roll being called, permanent
organization was effected with The
election of Aurelius Miner as chair
J man, who, upon taking the chair,
thanked the convention for the honor
conferred upon him. He also ad.
verted on the object of the meeting,
remarking that in his judgment no
more important convention had ever
met in this city, and be promised the
delegates had been chosen on account
of their mature judgment and ability
TO select good men. The reason he
said this was the most important con-
vention was because OF the greater
population OF the city, It's more COM
plicsted business relations and IFS in
creased revenue.
Mr.. II. J. Grant was chosen per
manont secretary; B. Y. Hampton,
sereeant-At-Arms; Samuel 81. B.
Smith, doorksspsr. and Joseph E.
Taylor, chaplain.
Mr.. Cannon moved that the chair
appoint q committee Of five, one
member from each municipal ward,
to choose names for delegates, to be
acted upon by the convention, and
the motion was carried.
Upon reconsideration of the above
moSion, the chair was Instructed to
appoint two members from each mu-
nicipal ward, thus making the COM
mittee on nomination ten in number.
The chair thereupon appointed
Joseph McMurrin and VIM. Hart
from the First Municipal Ward;
Second, 4. n. Cannon and William
McLaughlin; Third. Alfred Solomon
and James W. PhippeD; Fourth,
Robert Patrick and Henry Puzey;
Filth, James 2. Freeze and Miner
Atwood. Mr.. Cannon, the mover,
was appointed chairman of the COM
mittee, which then retired.
The chair was called upon for
speech, but Alfred Isom arose and
stated that be snd his colleagues had
been instructed to endeaTor to select
= man from the north bench to repre-
sent that section Of the Fourth NUM-
cipal Ward, and that himself and as
sociates would not be fulfilling their
duty unlets they made vigorous
efforts to secure man from the
'bench" in the Eighteenth, TWEEN
tieth or Twenty-frst Wards.
Mr.. Pendleton said he thought that
was the wish of the citizens he repre-
scented.
Mr.. Miner then arose and spoke at
some length on the necessity of water
for the growth of the city, and on the
canal, and stated that The proposed
borrowing of $3.50, 600 would be sub
stantially a tax of $40 upon every
male, woman and child in the city.
This was a sort OF tax, bat the con-
sumner had to pay ii; the merchant
had to pay a license directly, but by
charging : little more for his mer-
chsndise the people had TO pay
the tax indirectly. It was ak
eo}utely necessary, however, that
water should be obtained, and IN his
mind, it was a most judicious move
that the $3.50, 600 be raised for this
purpose. Il would increase the value
of the property materially, and for the
next two years water would be the
! burden OF the song of the citizens. He
also referred to the expenditure OF the
money of the city in q ratio for each
district proportionste with the amount
Of tax received from that district; and
to the action of the County Court In
the expenditure of the funds, CRITICS
ing, and intimating that but little
satisfaction had been given, because,
in attempting to make Improvements
to please everyone, they had not been
nermanent, and therefore, we're, in a
short time, torn down and dead loss.
| So. with the municipal government,
the city could not make permanent
Improvements everywhere and at
once, and it was his mind that the
incoming City Council should make
sIl Improvements lasting, and such as
will not be ID constant need of repairs.
Mr.. a. J. Pendleton spoke On the
water question. He thought the pee
; pie of the ward be was from ought to
, have q representative in the Council,
who would contend for their rights.
At the time the bench lots were sold,
they we're purchased with the under
standing that they had no water
, rights, and the feeling Of the people
he represented was that those on the
tench should not manipulate the
water to the injury aud loss of the pee
pie in the lower portion Of the city.
, Mr.. Isom arose and said he had tht
! honor of representing 1.500 irhsbit
ants, all of whom lived above tn
!, water limits, who Only obtained waite
Il by carrying it there, and in winter a
/ 3 great expense and a great distance
u and he ard his associates were il
Il structed TO work for the nomination
O of man for that ward who is q res:
II dent above the water line, and he VS.
81 safe in saying that the greater porto
lii of the voters of that ward lived sboy
e, the water line. He thought SOM
b. thing should be done to Ameliorst
. the condition Of the people livir
there. They had desired the surpll
water, which, he thought, they cou
IN, have had nine months in the yea
ID but they had not h.. that privileg
nle They could not obtain wells ther
and for that reason they we're sore
. distressed. He was glad the CT
Council was Masking an attempt
secure water for all. He thought,
, at yieH of the instructions given by t
, tue bis ward, that it was his duty to ma
orn these remarks.
Mr.. Williams arose and made