The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-29


He desired to take exceptions also to
the language used by the city attor-
ney, intimating that the speaker or his
( clients had worked the city council.
1t is SANDER upon the intelligence
of this body and 1 resent it as an in
suit which upon reflection the city at
torney would never have uttered
Mr.. Williams then submitted a form
for receipt for the amount providing
that the contractors be not precluded
from claiming and prosecuting in the
courts or otherwise any further claims
they may have on account of the con-
struction of the sewer or for work and
supplies furnished in connection there
with
The bond was then accepted, all vot
ing in the affirmative except Stewart.
Absent, LeProhon.
Then came a long wrangle over the
form of receipt which after no end of
parleying was agreed upon as follows:
Received S. as per final esti-
mate eff city engineer"
Several wanted the form of receipt
submitted by the contractors attorney.
! O'Meara suggested that the city at
torney be heard from, but the other
members evidently thought they were
able to pass as intelligently upon the
1 form of receipt as the attorney and
several proceeded to introduce substi-
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many dollars ION account" but objec-
ton was raised to this form on the
i ground that the very face of it was
an admission that the city owed the
/ contractors an additional amount
which was the point all labored to
avoid and still they did not wish to
I deny the contractors the privilege to
file any claims for extra work on ac-
/ count Of the construction of the sewer,
which might be justly due them. And
I so after lengthy scrimmage the
above form was the result and the
/ gravity sewer problem is now put aside
until the contractors file their claims
for extra work, which it is said will be
done within the next few weeks.
MAYORS MESSAGE.
The mayors message was the next
| IN order and upon motion a commit
tee consisting of O'Meara and Diehl
was appointed to wait upon the chief
executive who, upon request, read the
document himself The reading of the
message was listened to with rapt at
tention, and upon the conclusion of the
reading, was referred to the committee
on enrolment to be segregated and re
ferred to it's proper committees.
FIRE AND POLICE BOARD.
Elliott introduced resolution provid-
ing that it be the sense of the council
that the original fire and police bill
be repealed, and also that an effort
be made to prevent the passage of the
bill now pending in the legislature.
Further, that the legislature be memo
rallied to allow the city to control
its own police and fire departments.
After some discussion the resolution
was lost on a tie vote, the ayes being
Diehl Elliott, Hayward, Mulvey, Stew
art, Wiscomb and Newell, while the
nays were Allen, Buckle, Callister,
Dale, Morris, O'Meara and Romney.
FIREMENs CLAIMS.
Powers, Straup & Lippman present
ed an amended claim on behalf of
I Gilbert, Clark, Mowers and McMullin,
the suspended firemen. The amended
claim includes tWenty-eig'ht days ad-
ditional time, and the amounts which
the men were compelled to pay for a
medical examination, which the su-
preme court held was useless. The
amended claim is for $5,222S5. Re
ferred to city attorney.
WOMAN'S HOME.
The committee on finance recon-
mended that the usual appropriation
of $50 per month to the Woman's Home
association for the use of rescuing fall
len women be continued at the pleas
ure of the council. Adopted.
STREET PAVING.
On recommendation of the street com
mittee the city recorder was, after
some discussion, ordered to advertise
the intention of paving Second South
street, between West Temple and First
West streets This order was made on
petition of a large number of AUDITING
properly holders along the street
named
The sewer committee reported favor
ably on the construction of latera
sewer on First South between Sixth
East and Twelfth East and the city
recorder was accordingly instructed t.
advertise the intention of making
such improvement.
On recommendation of the stree
committee the city attorney was in
structed to notify the West Side Raplt
Transit company that steps would bt
taken to revoke their franchise if bet
ter street car service was not rendered
Health Commissioner Daily petition
ed for an appropriation of 5000 to b.
used for ice analyses
A communication from the Citizens
Electric Light company stating the!
we're ready to furnish the city light
in accordance with the franchis
granted was referred to the COMMITTEE
on improvements.
RUBBER STAMPS.
The following resolution by O'Mear;
was adopted:
, whereas. as it seems to be TIL
custom among city officials and head
) of departments of the city when sign
ing official documents to sign the sam
with a rubber stamp of the said of
, hcial's signature, and
Whereas, the signature is lin
inf RI T1reOthpf fran,
and for future reference, and therefor
be 1t
Resolved, That all city officials an
: the heads of departments that may b
called upon for their signature in a.
official capacity, are hereby instructe
: that they must sign the same in per
son, and if signed otherwise the docu
| ment so signed is to be considere
! null and void, and the recorder
hereby instructed to send a copy of thi
resolution to all city officials and tn
heads of all departments.
PAY FOR YOUR WATER.
The following resolution offered b.
Mr.. Delhi caused some discussion:
, Resolved, That the treasurer
hereby authorized to shut ~the water Of
by February l, 1896, on all premise
where the water rates for the curren
r year have not been paid"
r O'Meara wanted it referred to tn
e committee on ways and means, holdin
e it was enforcing a hardship on tn
e consumers on such short notice.
t Delhi said the treasurer had airead
: given several notices to delinquent