Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-05-01
MUNICIPAL MATTERS,
Electric Light Ordinance Repealed b?
Tho City Council.
THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS H.
The Lights viii b, Iaid for from 'h'
Gcnotal Fund,-COmmillco To
Entertain silver Delegates.

The City Council met In regular
session last night President MeloI.
nick In the chair aud sl mumuuI0
present except COMEDIAN Mason
PETITIONS
Geo. Pyper, Frank rIorce, Sheridan
Smith, Kelley a. Gillespie, asked Tor
relief from tax fa.rs. Granted.
Sven Olsen, that he De regmiiiel 10
remain ou city land IN par.oJ Do canyon
or that the city pay him 'or improve
mcnis. Committee ON public grounds
stevens estate, Tor rU'uud on wstcf
rates. Comnlit.o On watorw0Tka
Seymour b. YOUNG, that iu c1uaiI'
euu0u Of his rsliupuishing parioi bic
property for sheep Trail the Ci,y CDua'
oil erect fence 10 protect tho co.
maIndUr COMMITTEE ON public gr9uuds.
Hiram j.. Booth, f.f extension OF
water mains ON Second Noriu. Com.
mite on watcrw0tks.
rwoaly.inlfI Ward Water c3mpnuY
Tor right OF way fUg walUr maluH aud
privilege uf driving ilyWiug wells 1u
Fun North between Second uud
Third WeBt. Cowmltto0 uu siroetr.
Buu Whiiiom0re, nadiug fora rrlur-
tl1u iu liquor license st Bnrk's Hot
Springs 10 $50 pot month. Committee
On license.
Charles Miller and others, asking
the Council Co appropriate ~ 900 iUf a
Fourth Oi July celebration. Commit
tee on hnaucr.
SPECIAL TAN REPEALED.
The committee on improvements
presented the following rUp3r3
Your commiiloo on improvements, To
whom was fuforfyl 70 petition NJ Joseph
70. walker H. Auofhuuh IS Bro. T., %.
Waterman and othOrH, requesting tho
Guy Council 90 pay Cor mo lighting of
tho streets Uf SALT Lake uut OF thu gen.
oral funds, bog leave tu report that lhuy
have given this matter lhu attention that
IT, magnitude would Justify, and h0ru-
with return briefly thor y|yws upon this
Important question.
Il rs hardly necessary 60 go fully into
tho history OF this lighting matter, but
members that when the present city
Council came into power thUy found that
the corporation of salt Lake CITY was
paying about 10000 por year, or sl2.lnu
lamp pOr month Tor 300 lights The
contract ended uu tho alst uf December,
l-lL shortly aiipr tho Council reduced
the number of lights from lll 60 100. and
by agreement with tho company IL was
temporarily arranged % have the lights
furnished ~ slna lamp por month, That
nior repeated efforts your committee
succeeded with your assistance aud ap.
pfuNal, ln making contract with thU
electric light company On furnish lights
for tho ensuing year nt l- 20 per month
Tor each lamp. ~ reduction OF about ono.
third ~ tho original rusf, thuTUhy getting
so lights Tor about $4,000 per year.
Tho noxt question was how to get the
money Your committee believed thou,
~ II believes now, that tho lighting WIS q
local benefit and should DO paid Tor by
local assessment That no person should
Dc required tU give greater compensation
Tor the light received than tho absolute
cost 10 furnish H. Added o. this tho
then apparent necessity of raising means
Immediately g. pay Tor lighting mppllod
your committee Co recommend 90 this
honorable body thonlnptlUuottho system
VI special local taxation Co support this
public measure. Tho matter was referred
ioU commission duly appointed undortho
law; and they, with tito aid NJ tho attor.
uuy OF salt Lake city, hayH maiu their
report tu tho Council, with which yuur
honorable body arc familiar lly Fufrr.
encO Co ihn report 10 viii ND seen that
your committees ideas, as vol a8 iho
tuuuCi'Hf that tho taxation should 10
borne by those Tor whUHn hnuuu. 10 was
made la exact proportion 90 thO cost
thereof, had not boon carried out, aud,
from what conversation your committee
had with tho commission, and with tha
attorney Tor tho city, DO FUHma impossible
under The statute under which they Oh.
Grated, 90 mako tho assessment otherwise
than thuy have done.
After looking into tho assessment as
iar ~ has been practicable, your com.
mlliyO arc satisfied that tho same ts -umI.
uunlly fulp tAkon nom tho basis ON which
tho commission deemed 10 necessary 90
Dpomtoi but 10 ~ none tho loss 10 dIsap.
pliutmUut 20 your committee aud 90 %
majority NJ this Council, and, boo ,hG ro-
sult ~ things, is about tho same tn tho
taxpayers o. u taken from tho general
fund.-.
An view of those facts, aud tho nIll.
tloual tact that nom tho frnusurer's ~.
port DO HOums tho city will ha lu funds
until uolI.y about tho timH Tor tHu pay
mont uf tax usi aud tlH further fact that
tho Electric Light company signifies I'd
Willingness 20 give necessary time 90 nav
iur lIgHluEi aud, stlIl further, and most
ui 900, TINT this special stuu4
very unpopular, and very unsatisfactory
CO. iAr c.uxuuz AZ largo, whose servants
tHH members OF thu cts Council ARC.
your committee Us constrained On T.uHm-
munl that tho ordinance mailing u
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