The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-11
Preceding quarter. 2,2S0 6
Committee on waterworks.
SEWER pitt EFT PURCHASED.
LICENSES Granted.


acre be offered for seventy-five acres
of the Croker tract.
Adopted.
LICENSES GRANTED.
The committee on license recommen-
ded that liquor licenses be granted
Wist e. Robinson, Santo Davis, Simp-
son & Co., c. H Riley, Paul Blinn,
Hasler & Good, James Hilton, J. w.
Elliott, p. T. Nystrom and Barnhardt
& Stahl- Adopted.
CLAIM ALLOWED.
The committee on claims recommen-
ded that ]. Z. Merritt be paid $55 for
a horse sod to the health department
in December, 1888.
Adopted.
NO RAPID TRANSIT FRANCHISE.
The committee on streets and inn
provements submitted lengthy re-
port upon the petition of the Salt Lake
Rapid Transit company for permission
/ to lay third track around block 20, in
which they recommended that the pc
tition be denied. They stated that they
believed that the interests of the pub
lie would best be subserved by not dis
turbing the existing rights and fran
chises of another company and also
called attention to the decision of the
supreme court of the territory in the
Rapid Transit company, which was the
result of the granting of a similar fran
chise by the committee.
The report was adopted.
C. P. MASON ELECTED.
Next in order came the matter of
electing a councilman to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignatio of w.
II. Remington, which was laid over at
the last meeting after c. P. Mason had
been placed in nomination, and the
name of a. c. BriXen placed before the
council as a substitute.
The vote was first taken upon Mr..
Brixen and resulted as follows: Yeas
Clawson, Hardy, Mccormick, Morris,
and Young-5; nays-Bache, Cheesman,
Cohn, Corum, Daily, Lynn, Newell,
OMeara and Watson-9 Lost.
The vote was then taken upon the
nomination Of Mr.. Mason as follows:
Yeas-Bache, Cheesman, Cohn, Corum,
DAILY, Lynn, Mccormick, Newell,
O'Meara and Watson-l0; nays-Ciaw-
son, Hardy, Morris and Young
MI. Mason was thereupon declared
elected.
WATER ORDINANCE.
Councilman Lynn offered a bill for
an ordinance amending the ordinance
in relation to waterworks, providing
that in all cases where there is but one
service pipe in any building the owner
of the building shall pay for all water
in the building. The ordinance gas
read three times and passed by a vote
Of IL to 3, Cheesman, O'Meara and Nc
Cornick voting no, the other members
yes.
ANOTHER MILK ORDINANCE.
Cohn presented a corrected milk or
dinance, clerical errors having been
found in the two ordinances on this
subject previously passed which rem
dered them illegal.
Referred to the committee on munic-
inal laws.
THE COPPER PLANT BONUS.
OMeara moved that the copper plant
bonus matter be taken up and finally
disposed of. Carried
Clawson moved that the majority re-
port of the special committee, recon-
mending that the Kimball block, ten ac-
res, be purchased for the S25, 90 bonds
now in the hands of the copper plant
committee with coupons detached 10
July l, 1894, he received and filed.
The majority report was signed by
Newell, O'Meara, Morris and Bache
Newell moved as an amendment that
the report be adopted.
Clawson called for the reading of
the minority report, which was signed
by the gentleman himself only. This
report stated that fair cash value for
the land in question was $4,000
Young called for the reading of the
original resolution of the old council,
providing for the purchase of the
$25, 600 worth of real estate The read
ing of the mayors veto of the appro-
priation was read after a good deal of
objection.
Young moved that the whole matter
lay on the table for sixty days.
Clawson opposed laying over and
thought the matter should be decided
at once.
Young said every member of the
council had no motive but TO do what
was right. They had no sinister ends
to serve in the matter.
The old council, many of the present
council thought, had placed the city
under moral obliga tons, but it was of
the utmost Importance that the copper
company carry out their share of the
bargain. Rumor had it that the COM
pany would never turn out copper mat
tie; that they were Offering $4,000 600
worth of their stock on the London
market, and that there was something
wrong with the company. He din't
know if there was any truth in these
rumors, but was of the opinion that as
the company had obtained an extern
sion of four months to complete the
until it was demonstrated that they
had done their share. He would amend
his motion to postpone consideration
for four months.
O'Meara said Mr.. Singer, who was
now at the head of the copper COM
pany, was a man whose standing was
above suspicion. He was well known
in Chicago, and his business standing
was of the best. There was nothing in
the rumOr that the works would not
be completed.
Lynn was of the opinion there was
something wrong with the copper COM
pany. 1t appeared to him they were
very little better than bunco steerers.
and it should be demonstrated that
contract before they got the $4,000.
The motion to lay over was put and
lost. seven voting on each side.
Young, in speaking to the question of
the adoption Of the majority report,
said on mature consideration he be-
lieved the mayors veto of the appro-
pria ton was right from a legal stand
point The veto was good, sound
document. Moreover, the land offered
was not worth $4,000. The owner
of it did not pretend that it was. Prob
ably it was worth $4,000. The city
would pay $25, 900 and the difference
would go TO the copper plant people.
He would vote against it first, last and
all the time.
Bache moved to reconsider the vote
to postpone action.
ClaWson vigorously opposed any post
ponement, and commenced reading an
opinion on the legality of the council
appropriating the city's funds for any
such purpose.
O'Meara objected to the gentleman
reading communications.
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