The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
Bargains in real estate, page
LIVING ISSUES NOT A NEWSPAPER
COMMISSIONERS HALL STILL FA-
voRs ILLEGAL METHODS.
His Colleague Contends For the
Right and Security For the
County-Publication Unsettled.

County Commissioner Hall was again
unsuccessful yesterday in his endeavor
to give the contract to Warren Fosters
Living Issues for the publication of the
delinquent tax list. Commissioner Raw
Inns negatived every chimerical propo-
sition of his colleague. and fortunately
nothing in the dangerous line urged
by Mr.. Hall could be accomplished.
Neither was Mr.. Hall disposed to con-
cur in the reasonable and consistent
motions of his contender, and through
sheer necessity the Whole matter went
over till Monday afternoon, when, if
Chairman Armstrong has returned
from his Idaho ranch and is present, it
is probable that the question of letting
the important publication contract will
come to decisive issue.
Mr. Hall was so eager for the accept
ance of the Populist publishers bid
that he essayed to caJole Mr. Rawlins
| into acquiescence. Failing in this he
lost his temper Then threats and in
suits were offered his colleague, but
Commissioner RaWlins was immovable
from what he conceived to be right.
AS if to disarnl suspicion of his ap-
parent undue solicitation for the con-
Germ of Mr.. Foster, Commissioner Hall
assumed the high moral. ground of con-
serving the interests of the poor de-
| linquent taxpayers. All that had been
! said by the Typographical union pro-
testing against the acceptance of the
obscure sheets secret bid, and every
citation of law and fact demonstrating
that the publication of notice Of de-
linquency and sale in Living Issues
would be illegal and void. failed to
make any impression on the Populist
commissioner.
Commissioner RaWlins at yesterday S
fruitless meeting proposed that it first
be decided whether to make the Off
cial publication in weekly paper or
in daily once week, or in either a
Salt Lake daily or semi weekly for the
full ten-day period, and then when that
question had been determined to solicit
| bids anew on whatever basis of kind of
publication had been resolved upon. In
support of his motion Mr.. RawlinS as
serted the belief that the county would
! profit by the new proposals, none of
which would be as high as Mr.. Eos
! ter's, for once a week publication.
But Mr.. Hall would consent to moth
| ing except closing a contract with the
publisher of Living Issues at the rate
! of II cents per name and description.
! Supplementing his remarks, Commits
sioner RaWlinS declared he had in
| quired into the matter of the extent
| of circulation of Living Issues. At the
postoffice in Mill Creek, Murray, Sandy
and other towns in the county his in
vestigations proved that the limit of
subscribers was one, two or three,
never more than the latter figure while
! in many of the towns not a single copy
circulated. In these same places Her
! aids, Tribunes and the News circulated
| by the scores and the hundreds. If
| the same conditions, relatively, pre-
vailed in Salt Lake City, and he had
no reason to feel in doubt, the compar-
isons were so disproportionate that il
amounted to folly to think of giving
wide publicity to the notice of tax de-
| linquency and sale through the columns
of Living Issues.
From the legal advice and other in
formation Commissioner Rawlins had
! obtained, he had concluded that publ
| cation in the Populist paper would be
| illegal and void, because the sheet is
not in any sense a newspaper of gen
eral circulation in the county. The
statute contemplated giving the widest
publicity possible to the delinquent tau
! notice, and he declared he would not be
a party to any scheme that would re-
! suit in jeopardizing the state, county
city and school tax revenues to the ex-
tent of $250,000 and imminent yeXatious
litigation, as thel consequences would
surely be if Mr.. Halls preposterous
plan should prevail. In closing, Mr.
Rawlins declared that all newspapers
in the county should have an equal OPP
opportunity to bid for the work, ant
everything should be done to prevent
a precipitation of any dangerous lega
flaws in so important a matter.
In rage Commissioner Hall said his
colleague had upset the whole founda.
ton of business, presumably his bust
ness, and at that the seance adjourned
until Monday afternoon.
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