The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-07

HayDOulQ. The result has been that
Auditor Swan was of course allowed
his regular salary, and last night Mr..
Raybould put in claim of 500 for his
! services during the period Mr.. Swan
was confined TO his bed. AS might be
expected, the matter created almost a
! rumpus, during which personalities
were INDUCED in.
The finance committees report on the
matter was as follows: The attached
voucher of a. w. Raybould for ser
vices as acting auditor. your committee
on finance reluctantly approve. This
| sum could have been saved to the city
| upon the offer of the auditor, George
Swan, TO have the work done at his
| own expense during his illness, had
the mayor been willing to concede to
| him the right to name the acting au
ditor; but as the mayor appointed Mr..
Raybould and the council confirmed
the appointment, there would seem to
be no just course to pursue but TO pay
the bill
When the report was read Newell
desired to have his name erased from
the report. Romney, on the other hand,
said he wanted to let the public know
how the council was maintaining econ
Omy. The sum could well have been
saved the city.
Wiscomb wanted to strike every
thing out of the report except that por-
ton which referred TO the simple al
lowance of the claim. Dale interposed
vigorous objection to striking out
anything, and Newell left the chair to
explain that he had signed the report
without reading it.
O'Meara took the position that the
fight should have been made at the
proper time. The council had confirmed
the appointment and there was nothing
now to do but to pay the bill.
After a great deal of wrangling the
motion to strike out was lost by a
vote of 6 to Z, and the report as pre-
sented was placed on record and the
amount placed on the appropriation
list.
City Attorney Mckay asked for fur
Their time in which to report on the
construction of a new sidewalk at the
corner of Third South and State
streets, and it was granted.
FIFTH SOUTH STREET SEWER.
The city attorney also reported that
there was nothing Objectionable in the
sewer committees report on the COM
pletion of the Fifth South street sewer,
and further stated that the board of
public works could take the matter out
of Contractor Wilkerson's hands and
proceed to complete the sewer, if
to Mr.. Wilkerson's sureties. The re-
port of the attorney was filed and ac-
ton on the sewer committees report |
postponed for one week.
Answering the recorders commune /
cation as to whether the construction |
of the lateral sewer on the south side |
of Fifth South, between Main and West |
Temple streets, can be legally post
poned until June 1, next year, and |
Il, l. H.
comply with the application of ]. NJ. |
Stout for the construction of the |
sewer, the city attorney reported that |
the protest against its construction |
was received too late. The city cannot I
therefore be compelled to proceed with /
the work neither can it be held liable /
in damages if it refuses to proceed. /
(This upon the ground that the cons
tract has not been approved by the /
city council)
The question of proceeding against the
work precipitated another debate, but
the matter finally went over without
action.
The city engineer in a communica-
ton recommended that the telephone,
electric light and street railway COM
panies be required to use combination
poles on that portion of Second South
street now being paved.
STREET DEPARTMENT.
The street supervisor reported that
the expenses of his department for the
month of September were S1,475.S7, less
1884 chargeable to other departments,
and s4175O collected as poll tax, MAX
ing the net expenditure s924.S7.
WATERwORKs.
The total expenditure of the water
works department for the past month
was $4,2SS.03, chargeable as follows:
S1,5627S; assessing and
adjusting water rates, $47.50; construc-
ton, $2,1SS.22; improvements, s231.61
department accounts, S11O.42; individ-
1als and companies, S142.49.
POLICE COURT.
w. C. Shoup, police court clerk, pre-
sented his report covering a period
rom April l to September 81, 1896,
showing 1.164 cases had been disposed
IF during that time, while the amount
IF cash collected as fines was 81, $50. s.
The total amount of fines assessed was
81, 012.25, of which $3,24750 was paid in
abor.
The committee on sewer recommen-
led that the suit of w. w. Ritter and
'eventyfour others be compromised by !
he payment to the plaintiffs of S2,375.52
ind costs, as recommended by the city
IN sewer laterals on First South street,
between Second and Eighth East
streets. The report was adopted.
UTAH POWER COMPANY.
The Utah Power company sent in a
petition for a franchise to erect and
a pole line along the center
If South Temple street from the mill
airy reservation to midway between
second and Third East streets, for the :
purpose OF distributing electricity to
he different parts of the city. Re-
erred to the committees on laws,
streets and improvements.
O'Meara offered a resolution in
the superintendent of streets
o have the grade OF Second East I
treet. between South Temple and First '
south, brought to conform with the I
sidewalk, none being constructed
Passed. {
Callister offered a resolution to stop
I'll sprinkling outside of districts /, 2. !
and 5. after October 10. Referred to ,
he sprinkling committee. s
Contractor Frank Earrigan sent 10
asking that a commit I
ee be appointed to investigate and {
ind if some arrangements can be made s
whereby the city Will relinquish notes
leld in escrow by City Treasurer May 8
S a guarantee on the work done I'M
Ter Mr.. Harrigan's contract for sewer
york in 1898.
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CRITTENDEN IS CRITICIZED. Z
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 6.-Ex- r
iovernor T. T. Crittenden, consul gen G
raj to Mexico, who is in Kansas City I
n vacation. has received a note from ]
secretary of State Olney in which the :
onSul general is criticised for publish t