The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-20


Treasurer, $4,000 per annun.
Police Justice $1,000 per annum.
Respectfully submitted,
SPENCER CLAWSON.
rs. J. LYNN,
LIE GRAND YOUNG"
Mr.. Mccormick was willing to sign
the minority report except as to treas
urer-
Mr.. Clawson moved that the minor
ity report be adopted, and gave a
hard times talk, and denied tEat he
was a village alderman or squire.
Mr.. O'Meara replied to Mr. Clawson.
The following is the ordinance
drafted:
Section /. Be it ordained by the city
council of Salt Lake city, territory of
Utah, that the salaries of elective Off
GERS of said city be, and the same here
by are. fixed as follows for the term Of
office to which they may have been
elected. to-wit:
Mayor of city, $4,000 per year.
Councilmen, $1,000 per year
Recorder, $500 per year.
Treasurer, S1.S00 per year.
Police justice, $1,000 per year.
Section q All ordinances and parts Of
ordinances in conflict with this or
dinance is hereby repealed.
D.
feet after its approval and publication.
Mr.. O'Meara, spoke at great length
on the general condition of the city in
the past, present and future, and was
anxious to get out of the calf pasture
period Of Salt Lake. He roasted Mayor
Baskin for wanting to walk in mud in
stead of on paYements.
Mr. Clawson closed with an answer
to the gentlemisa from the Fifth. He
MIR h,,rV ,1,,b
lie spendthrift; that if he was COM
PEELED to get office on merits he would
not be in the position Of a councilman.
Mr.. Clawson was fiery in his TRADE
against official robbing. Let council
men consult the interests of the tax
payers and they will vote with me-
Mr.. O'Meara jumped to his feet to
reply to the personal attack by Claw
son, and said he did not inherit or
marry what he had in the city, but had
worked for it, and was a taxpayer and
paid between $500 and $1,000 a year
taxes. Mr.. Clawson appealed to the
chair to silence Mr.. O'A1eara, but the
chair did not see that it was cutting
any freeze" for him, so Mr.. O'Meara
only stopped when he said all
he wanted to say, which was
not complimentary to MI. Clawson.
Finally both gentlemen subsidized, and
stitute of the minority report which
was lost by vote of to 4. The ma
jority report was adopted by vote
of to 5.
Mr.. Clawson then called for the read
ing of the new ordinance ON salary for
special meetings of counc!lmen. 1t was
voted down to be brought up in fu-
ture.
Next came the consideration OF the
49, o,,1y How, ,rrror,
claim Mr.. Clawson spoke and read
at great length in behalf of and sus-
tanning the mayor in the position he
has taken.
Mr.. o'Meara replied 81 am glad am
Mr.. Clawson's bugbear for wise man
may some times change his mind but
fool never" and then went on to eX-
plain that Mr.. Clawson talked about
enc report and he had voted on an
other. He closed his remarks by
strong refbuke of Mr. Clawson for
attacking the members of the city
council styling it as Shameful and
ungentlemanly.
The question was then raised as to
whether Harrigan was ever notified by
the ClaWson letter, and all the COM
,nItteemen replied to President Nc
Cornick that Harrigan was never noti-
fed in time to stop his work before it
was virtually finished. The question
on the passage of the claim over the
mayors veto was as follows:
For the appropriation were all
the councilmen except Mr.. Clawson.
Against the appropriation was Mr.
Ciawson alone, Mr.. Watson being ajo-
sent and sick.
The veto on the Farrell appropria-
ton was next taken up. Mr.. Mason
asked a, privilege to reply to the
attacks upon him, Wfsn in
truth he was only acting as q stake
holder, or so between according to
mutual agreement to see that Mr..
Farrell gets So per cent and his credi-
tors get 90 per cent. that was all.
Mr.. Newell was in favor of passing
over the veto.
Mr.. Cohen had not heard much in
that voice of thunder OF the mayor,
anu hoped that the matter be passed
over the old veto"
Mr.. Mccormick was willing to allow
$4,000.
Mr.. Hardy spoke in favor of Mr..
Farrall's claim.
Mr.. O'Meara said if Farrell was al
lowed the interest due him it would
add $1,000 to his account.
sir >nn s. med his old position
and "bucked the BILL" admitting that
he knew nothing about the claim AMI
thought no one else did and he would
vote to sustain the veto.
Mr. O'Meara buried Mr. Lynn's az
gument and while agreeing with
Lynn's statement that all the council !
men are fools, and he one of them.
that Farrell haG been held UP and was
now being robbed. Mr.. O'Meara dis
closed some state secrets which burnt
Mr.. Lynn's fingers.
On the question of passing the appro-
priation over the mayor veto it was
passed by a vote of nine ayes to four