The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-07

ness to do the bidding Of his colleagues,
and a motion by Wallace was made, di-
recting him. as chairman protein of
the committee, to approve the roll,
and ordering the city auditor and pay
| master notified of the action. Only
Allen, Fernstrom and Barnes voted
against the motion.
Believing that Howe had defied the
council. Diehl moved that the chair
man of the police committee be re-
moved from his position as chairman.
Besides the mover, only Patrick, Rom
ney and Wallace favored the arbitrary
motion.
You may slur this side of the house
all you want" said Fernstrom, but
there will come a day when you will
regret your course"
President Barnes stopped another ex-
change of bitter personalities by de-
claring that all unkind insinuations
must cease, no matter from what
source they might emanate.
MORE PERvERSENESS
Romney and Howe of the committee
on claims recommended that the judg-
ment claim of the eight illegally deposed
policemen for salaries from May % to
Nov. %, in the sum of S4,092.50, be paid
It would like the report to go over
one week" said Callister, the other
member of the committee, $50 that I
can have opportunity to answer 1t.
The request was granted.
Howe Fernstrom and Allen of the
police committee, reporting on the re-
quest of Chief Pratt for an increase in
the force by employing another patrol
man and by re-creating and refilling
the office of captain, recommended that
it be not granted. The recommendation
was adopted.
Buckle and Robertson, the minority
of the police committee, reporting on
the petition of citizens residing on the
west side for additional police protec-
ton, recommended that the ordinance
be amended so as to permit of the ap-
pointment of two more patrolmen. I'm
der the rules the report was laid over
until the next meeting.
The police committee unanimously
recommended the granting of the Pc
tition of Mrs. DR.. Plummer and other
prominent ladies for an increase in the
city's allowance toward the mainten-
anace expenses of the Woman's home,
by making the monthly appropriation
SIS. 1t was also recommended that an
ordinance be enacted authorizing the
chief of police, in his judgment, to send
hayward girls to the reformatory, in
stead of to the city jail, after sentence
in the police court. The committees
Romney voting in the negative.
The majority of the joint committee
on municipal laws and license reported
in favor of the proposed ordinance
levying a license tax on the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company at
the rate of 80 cents yearly on each tele-
phone instrument in use.
Callister and Fernstrom secured a
weeks postponement of action for the
Of n n
minority recommendation for 81 rate.
Bids for furnishing $40 tons of soft
lump coal, 200 tons mine slack and n
tons anthracite for the several city de-
partments from date to Dec. 81, 1899,
were received from the Pleasant Valley
Coal company, the Diamond Coal &
Coke company, the Kemmerer Coal
Dany. The bids were at the rate of
$3.75, S2.25 and $3.50 per ton, delivered
in carload lots, according to class of
coal, and all were referred to a special
committee, consisting of Councilmen
Robertson, Siddoway and Allen.
A communication from ]. G. Sawyer,
successor in interest to the Mountain
Ice company, directed attention to the
fact that he was not receiving two
thirds of the water from Parley's can
yon, in accordance with the district
courts decree adjudging that his prede-
cessor is entitled thereto from Nov. Is
to March 1 each year, for ice-making
purposes, the city receiving the other
third of the stream through the con-
duit
Councilman Callister claimed that the
| ice-makers were already getting more
than their share of the scity's water,
and favored having another fight in
court to prove the point.
Judge A. B. Sawyer was given the
privilege of the floor to explain the sit
uation, and his proposition to bear half
the cost of constructing a measuring
weir, not to exceed $50, however. was
| accepted.
]. R. Walker and other owners of
property abutting on Main street, from
Ninth to Tenth South. who coded suf-
ficient land to the city to permit of the
opening and improvement of said
street, with the understanding that
said thoroughfare be lighted with arc
! lights, asked that the lights be now
erected. Referred to the committee on
improvements.
Stephen Tyne protested against the
consideration of a bid from David E.
Fullmer for roughening slippery cement
sidewalks, after his proposal in due
form, at the rate of Az cents a square
! foot had been rejected. The protest
was fled.
The preliminary proposal of David
E. Fullmer to roughen slippery cement
| sidewalks by bush-hammering in spots,
at the rate of 21a cents a square foot,
or cents for thorough work, was re-
ferred to the committee on streets.
Clerk Diehl Of the police court report
ed that during November 152 cases had
been tried yielding the sum of 1920 IN
| fines and forfeitures.