The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-25

The city council last night appropri-
ated $11, 900 in final settlement with the
gravity sewer contractors, talked about
| granting the franchise to the Utah and
Pacific Improvement company without
taking final action. and discussed other
matters that prolonged the session I'm
til midnight.
The sewer committee got togethar
| yesterday and after a great deal of
elaboration agreed ON a report which
was presented TO the council, and is as
| follows:
SEWER SETTLEMENT.
| 1--WE, your committee on sewers, to
whom was referred the claim of ex-
tras of Messrs. Hobson & Wilkinson,
sewer contractors, beg leave to report
| that we have devoted a great deal of
time in hearing these claims argued,
both by the contractors and their rep
reSentativeS on the one side and the
agents of the city on the other, and
after giving the matter mature DELHI
Grafton, have arrived ait the following
conclusions, which we unanimously
recommend to this council for adop-
| ton:
"First-That the contractors named
|
payment of all claims against the city
of Salt Lake under their contract.
"Second-That all sub-eontractors
who have furnished either material CIR
labor in the construction of the grav-
| ity outlet sewer, having claims against
the city under the contract shall first
| be paid out of this sum mentioned in
the first recommendation as the con-
tract provides.
,,;,.1 hot Z l1o,
paid to the interested parties On the
order of the city engineer in compli-
ance with the foregoing recommends
ton; provided, that if any differences
arise between the city engineer and
the contractors in this settlement, the
same shall be referred to the commit
! tee on sewers, whose decision shall be
| final.
"Fourth-That The gravity outlet
sewer contractors shall sign a form of
receipt to be prepared by the city at
,torney, waving all further claims
against the city and also indemnifying
the city against any claims wtGatSo-
ever under the contract of the gravity
outlet sewer contractors named above"
Councilman Wfscomb moved that this
report be adopted and THAT the city
attorney be instructed to draw up
receipt under the restrictions set forth
in the report.
O'Meara wanted to know from the
chairman how the amount was ar
| rived at, and Chairman Buckle of the
sewer committee explained that they
had considered the claims in the pres
ence of the contractors as we'll as the
city engineer. During the course of
the consideration of the claims the con-
tractors submitted a proposition to
se,,tle with the city in full for $4,000,
io1
promise.
Dale wanted to know what had been
done in the matter of Holt & Sons,
sub-contractors, who protested against
allowing the extra claims for the rea-
son that the contractors had been paid
for the work previously.
Mr.. Buckle explained that a receipt
was shown to the committee wherein
Holt & Sons had receipted for settle
ment in full to the gravity sewer con-
tractors. Following this up Mr.. Buckle
read the items as allowed in the fol-
lowing order.
Excavation and back filing S 1915 62
Shortage in fragments upon /
to Z concrete and plaster> on
same. ....... 1899 So
Plaster on l to 7 concrete, 2,25S 10
Stone work under R r. tracks Isl 80
Taking out and replacing work
improperly condemned. 2,219 06
Error in measurement of plas-
Ter. ......... 49,. 1853 As
Bill Elk III 81
Lumber left in the work $3.50. $3.50 90
Total .$11, 1894 92
In reading off the different items Mr..
Buckle explained how the amounts
were arrived at; in all cases the rec
concentrations of the city's agents
oh aH Nv nIrt
After considerable discussion as to
the form of the committees report,
which several claimed did not cover
the cost properly, Mr.. Dale moved to
recommit the report to the committee
on sewers.
This met with objections from all
the members of the committee, who
claimed they had spent sufficient time
and taken enough evidence to turn
their heads gray in arriving at the re-
port.
MI. Romney, a member of the COM
mittee, urged that the appropriation
be passed at once. The work had been
performed and the contractors should
receive their pay.
Mr. Dale objected to having the city
engineer act as a distributor of the
money. and the reason he wanted to
refer the matter back to the commit
tee, was on account of the language
of the report.
O'Meara came forward with an
amendment to the report as follows:
All amounts claimed by sub-contrac-
tors or other claimants shall be de-
Quoted from the amount by the treas
urer and the balance be paid to the
above contractors. and all claims ac-
knowledged by the contractors be paid
to such claimants by the treasurer
and all disputed claims be referred to
the sewer committee, and they report
to this council their findings for final
actions
The resolution failed of a second.
The amendment to recommit was
then put and lost by the following
vote:
Ayes-Callister, Dale, Elliott, Hay
ward and Stewart.
hon, Morris, Mulvey. OMeara, Rom
ney, Wiscomb and Newell.-10.
Before the final question was put
Mr. Dale spoke against allowing the
claim 1t was not proper one for
the council to consider. With all due
respect to the members of the sewer
committee there was only one member
of that committee who was competent
to pass on such claim. The contrac-
tors should be invited to enter suit to
recover the amount through a regular
court
Mr.. Romney hotly objected to the re-
fections cast upon the committee by
Mr.. Dale. The speaker had done mil
lions of dollars worth of work in the
city and though he was not an en-
gineer he understood business. If the
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