The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-26


art-S.
Nays-Buckle. Diehl, LIE Prohon,
Mulvey, O'Meara, Wiscomb and New
ell
This disposes of the retrenchment
problem for some little time at least.
Under the order of petitions tfa
clerk announced that he had received
| bids for the city printing from three
daily papers.
Mulvey made a motion to defer TAX
ing them up for one week. but am
amendment to have 1T so over to the
head of miscellaneous business car
riel.
A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
The following interesting protest
from Albert and Thomas M. Holt, sub
contractors on the gravity outlet
sewer, against the allowance of the
sewer contra ctors for extras, was read.
we, the undersigned, do hereby pc
tftion your honorable body to ignore
absolutely the bill for extras on the
gravity outlet sewer presented to you
by Morris, Hobson and Wilkinson dor
$28, 2S, for the following reasons;
I'm 1898 we sub-contracted all the
excavating and back filling of the
sewer from Houlahan, Griffith, Morris,
Hobson and Wilkerson. We paid these
men s., 29S for excess concrete mason
ry (When they had instructed us to dig
the trench an inch or two too wide,
and the engineers department Will
show that we averaged exactly an men
too wide on each side, and now they
are asking you to pay them again TINS
amount, on the ground that the trench
could not be dug exactly to specit1ca-
ton.
I'VE furnished and left in the trench
at a cost of $2,353.15, 19S,421 feet of
lumber, and now they come asking
you to pay them for this very same
lumber, on the ground that the lumber
is a support to the sewer and that 1t
could not be pulled out without injury
to the sewer.
I'VE furnished and paid for all extra
excavation and timbering under the
tracks north of Hot Springs, and now
they are asking you to pay them
again $1S9.37.
I'm your last appropriation you PAID
them for extra excavation, which we
did to the amount of over $4,000, and
we will never get a solitary cent
THE $4,000 loss we incurred through
taking warrants a former council ap-
propriated to them and we never re
ceived a dollar of the amount to heip
make good our losses.
"These people made $1S1.25 by buying
our time checks at q discount Wnen
moneys were due US and the full
amount was always charged against
us. 90 -,
Between stations 100 and 30 they
buried in the concrete $500 feet OF 4Xo'
6x6 and 2-inch plank, thus rob
hire the city of the proper
a e1r of concrete. at our ex-
pense. They refused to pay us tor
mis- lumber. If any of you doubt this
accusation we invite you to dig down
ut station 2O9x30 where you can hnd
Avs and 6xe buried in the concrete ana
between one to three feet from the
bottom on either side: also, at station
209x50 on east side of trench between
six inches and two feet from the DOT
tom. a4-ooo
'These contractors made over $l7,oOO
out of the work we did and now tney
come pleading at the seat of mercy
again for 81. 46O.52 more when we have
already paid them this amount
stCan YOU not see at a glance that
these men are a set Of schemers seek
ing gain at the expense of this city ana
s,lb-contractors. These men promised
us solennly that they would give US
orr proportion if the city allowed them
anv extras and they treated us with
contempt when we asked them for our
proportion of the extra excavation al
lowed them on the last estimate.
You may ask why we allowed them
to take such advantage over us We
contemplated suing them, but upon the
advice of our attorney, p. j.. Williams,
we concluded that they at that time
were released from their contract and
having no property here we had bet
ter get what we could and let the set
Element be made without suit.
'sThe contractors should not be al
lowed these extras which rightfully be-
long to us if they are allowed by the
city. therefore. in the name of fairness
we ask YOU to give this communication
your consideration.
1--WE stand ready to prove every as
sertion made herein and will be pleased
to meet you at any time and answer
any questions that may be put"
lie Prohon asked that the communi-
cation he referred to the sewer COM
mittee. but Callister demanded that it
be read, and this was done, after
which it went to the sewer committee.
AGAINST THE LAW
An effort to admit weekly papers
into competition for the city's printing
was made by LIE Prohon who offered
resolution in the shape of an amend
ment to the resolution calling for bids
passed at previous session of the
council 1t was found. however. that
such a move was not in order and
O'Meara came to LIE Phohon's rescue
by moving to receive and reject the
bids already in. The council could then
reconsider the former resolution and
extend the privilege to the weeklies.
a lengthy debate followed. Buckle,
however. ended it by pointing out
that many ordinances expressly provid-
ed for publication in daily papers, and
this attempt to play in with the
weekly sheets was plainly a gallery
play.
There was some talk about segregat-
ing the printing and allowing the
weeklies a whack at some of it, but
Dale characterized such talk the height
of folly. After a great deal of talk a
motion by Stewart to open the bids
passed. lie Phohon. Mulvey. Wiscomb
and Newell opposing it. The clerk
then opened the bids.
The Herald's bid was as follows:
One single column inch 90 days. per
inch per insertion. BIZ cents: one single
column inch 60 days. per inch per in
sertion, 30c.; one single column inch GO
days. per inch per insertion, 25c.; one