The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-26

and also a batch OF new ones,
amounting to about $5.SS5, for pay
rolls, etc.
Cheesman moved that the amounts
be placed on the appropriation list.
Exception was again taken by
O'Meara to $1.674 for fountains for the
grounds. O'Meara asked if the sum
included the cement as well as the la
Dor.
Cheesrnan replied that it did and that
it was the last of those bills.
McCornick-Well, if it is the last, for
Gods sake let us pay it.
The item of $500 to the Intermoun-
tain Electric company was also objec-
ted to by O'Meara; not, he said, on the
ground of fraud or anything of the
kind. but because he thought the COM
mittee had exceeded their authority in
letting the contract.
Cohn and Newell said the committee
undoubtedly had authority to let the
contract and the bill would have to be
paid, and might as well be paid at
once.
DAILY wanted to wait till the quality
of the work done had been tested be-
fore paying the bills.
On motion of O'Meara the matter
was laid over for a week..
REDUCING THE FIRE DEPART
MENT.
Councilman Young submitted a bill
for an ordinance providing that the fire
department shall consist of a chief of
the department. assistant chief and
such other officers and men as the
chief shall deem necessary, but in no
case shall the number of permanent
men exceed twenty-five or fall below
twenty, the members to receive such
compensation as may be fixed by the
council.
Cohn moved that the words ''or fall
below twenty" be stricken out. Mo
ton prevailed.
LeGrand Young said the ordinance
was introduced at the request of Chief
Devine, as he found it impossible to
keep Abe expenses of the department
within the $500 per month allowed by
the council unless he reduced the force,
and that he could not do Nnder the
present ordinance. There are twenty
six permanent men now on the depart
ment, and reduction to possibly TWEEN
ty will be necessary. The new ordin-
ance gives the chief power to employ
any number he sees fit not to exceed
twenty-five.
dinance read three times and passed.
REQUISITIONS FOR SUPPLIES.
O'Meara offered the following:
Resolved, That the recorder is here
by instructed to notify the heads of all
departments to send a requisftion to
this council at its next meeting for all
supplies that they may need for the
three months ending December 81, 1854,
and the heads of all departments are
hereby instructed not. to purchase any
supplies unless ordered Big the council"
Bache said the resolution was simrly
a repetition of a resolution passed some
yhat
it would accomplish mora thaa its IRE
deceSSor had done
ClawSon-I think tl1iSa very proper
resolution and | shall vote for IT The
heads of departments must be storIed
from mourning -zeedless liabilities
which the council has to provide for.
Thousands of dollars have been wasted
in that way.
Cohn-I deny that there is extrava-
gance on the part of the heads of the
departments. Each and all of them
work in the most economical way 1t
is not there the money has gone. Thou
sands OF dollars have been spent on the
Joint city and county building, which
ought to have been saved.
The resolution was carried on a vote
of to 5-Clawson, Cohn, Corum, DAILY,
Hardy, Mccormick, Mason and OMeara
voting aye; Bache, Cheesman, Newell
Watson and Young, no.
MEAT ORDINANCE AMENDMENT.
Bache introduced an ordinance
amending an ordinance to regulate
licenses, restrain and prohibit slaughter
ers, butchers and dealers in fresh meats.
approved August 6. The amendment
provided that any firm regularly en-
gagged In the meat trade may run
wagons and sell meats from said
wagons.
pafarraJ RI +to oo,.,.,;t4.-
pal laws.
PENALTY REDUCED.
O'Meara submitted an ordinance re-
dUcing the minimum penalty for tying
horses to fire hydrants from a fine of
$40 TO 81 which was read three times and
passed.
COTTONWOOD POWER FRAN
CHISE
1t having been discovered that the
resolution extending the time to the
Big Cottonwood Power company to get
equal to 1000 horse power of electric
power into the city to October /. 1895,
passed at the previous meeting of the
council was illegal because it should
have been treated as an ordinance and
not as resolution, the matter was
taken up again and the amendment
read three times as an ordinance should
be and passed.
BICYCLE ORDINANCE
Young called up the bicycle ordinance,
which has been on the table for some
time, prohibiting the riding of bicycles
on the sidewalks, and the same was
referred to the committee on municipal
laws with the city attorney associated.
DEPARTMENT HEADS INVITED.
Clawson said he had observed that
the city attorney, city engineer and
chairman of the board of public works
had absented themselves from the
meetings of the council and he under
stood that their absence was due to the
fact that by orders of a member of the
council the sergeant at arms
had forbidden the city engineer to
come within the rail defining the por-
ton of the council chamber set apart
for the members of the council He
though this was entirely wrong, and
submitted a resolution instructing the
recorder to invite the city engineer,
city attorney, chairman of the board of
public works and the heads of all other
departments to attend the sessions of
the council when they so desired.
O'Meara moved the adoption of the
resolution, and stated that he objected
to the heads of departments lobbying
in the council, and in fact, acting as
! if they were members of the council,
and that for that reason he had asked
the sergeant-at-arms to keep order, but
had never forbidden any of the city
officials to come within the bar.
The resolution inviting the officers to
attend. the meetings was passed unani-
mously.
APPROPRIATIONS.
| Appropriations amounting to 4,325.07
were passed.