The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-18

WEIGHMASTER RELEASED.
! City Weighmaster Gilmore again
! rendered his resignation with the re-
quest that it be accepted.
/ On motion of O'Meara the gentleman
was released.
DISAPPROVED PAY ROLL.
The committee on finance refused to
| approve the pay roll of the water
masters department for two weeks
ending July Is, for the reason that in
the First precinct there are on the roll
two laborers at $1.75 day and two
| foremen at S2.25 a day. The committee
were of the opinion that the foremen
should receive, in this case, no more
pay than the laborers and then all the
men in the department can be foremen.
Laid over.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
LIQUOR licenses We're granted to
Barney c. Harvey, James O'Reilly
The Onyx Bank Company and
Bechtol 81 Sands
FEEDING CITY PRISONERS.
The committee on prisons reported,
in the matter of the petition of S. H
Goodburn asking to be allowed to bid
for the contract for feeding the city
prisoners. that the party now in charge
is giving satisfaction and thought it
was not wise to change but recommend
ed that the price be reduced from 12c
to Zoe. per meal.
Adopted.
THE TANNERY A NUISANCE.
The committee on sanitary rules and
quarantine recommended that the
proprietors of the tannery on Fourth
North and Second West street be re-
CURED to remove said tannery within.
thirty days as it was a great nuisance
and gives rise to great offence to sur
rounding residents, and that in the
meantime they be required to abate the
nuisance.
Adopted.
GRANTED.
The committee on sewerage recon-
mended that the petition of A. F. Hold
en- to connect his premises with the
sewer on D street be granted.
Adopted.
FREE WATER FOR ST MARKS.
The committaa on waterworks recon-
mended that the petition of St. Marks
hospital for free water be not granted
and that the similar privileges now ac-
corded to st. Mary's hospital be dis
continued.
O'Meara. Bache and Newell thought
this was carrying economy too far, the
hospitals were in a great degree CHART
able institutions.
Young and Lynn thought it was not
Just to the tax payers to donate even
to the hospitals.
A motion by O'Meara to amend the
report by granting the request of the
hospital was LOST to 5-after which
further consideration was laid over
for one week to allow time to investi-
gate to what extent the hospital was
charitable institution.
TAX LEVY ORDINANCE
O'Meara introduced bill for an or
dinance for levying the tax on the as
sessed value of the taxable property
for the year 1894, in pursuance of the
resolution fixing the levy at 61a mills.
The ordinance was read three times
and passed.
AN ELECTRICIAN.
O'Meara offered the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved. That the committee on
fire and police select a man in the
fire department to be known as an cleo
trician. He is to do all the electrical
work in the police and fire department
and to inspect the lighting of the city,
and any negligence he may find on
the part of the Electric Light COM
pany he report the same to the chair
man of the above committee and for
his services he be allowed an addition
al salary of $50 per month.
Reported to the committee on fire
and police.
THE JOINT BUILDING.
J. J. DAILY offered the following:
Whereas. 1t has come to the atten-
ton of this council through the public
press that a contract has been let for
two fountains to be placed in what is
Ia We I'd II
also a clock to be placed in the Joint
city and county building, and as the
contracts have not been approved by
the council and as the majority of the
council are not in favor of spending
the city's money in this way at this
give work to the unemployed; there
fore be it
Resolved, That the city recorder is
hereby authorized to notify the con-
tractors for the above articles that
the city will not be responsible for the
payment of said contract until the
contracts have been approved by the
council"
O'Meara supported the resolution, ex-
pressing the opinion that the commit
tee had no power to let the contracts
referred to without having them con-
firmed by the council.
Cheesman and Newell held that the
power had been delegated to the COM
mittee by the council and they could
not now cancel the contract.
Daily urged that the resolution pass.
and said it was only the beginning of
similar resolutions which he would in
troduce in reference to the joint build
ing.
Young didn't like the idea of humiliat-
ing the committee by sending such
message, and asked them to take
some steps themselves to cancel the
contract. He was doubtful as to
whether the council had delegated pur-
chasing power to the committee or
not.
O'Meara thought expenses on the
building should be stopped. He had
heard that bust of George M. Scott
and others were TO be put in the
building, which he thought was all
wrong. 1t would be a grand deed for
someone to take an ak and smash the
mugs" already supposed to ornament
the building.
Cheesman said the clock had been
ordered and part of it was on the
way.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
President Mccormick called Young to
the chair and took the floor in favor
Of retrenchment in the matter of the
Joint city and county building. He
thought the city committee mad been
deceived by the enterprising county
members. In the matter of the con-
tract for the furniture which was let
for $4,000 he thought it was excess
sively high. Andrews & Co. had kept
a man boarding at the Knutsford hotel
for five months during which time he
Yves dispensing liquor and cigars to
parties who were supposed to have in
fiuence with the committee and who
would recommend that the contract be
let to Andrews q Co. This agent OF