The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-08
THE COUNCIL TONIGHT
SEVERAL APPOINTMENT BY
THE MAYOR ARE EXPECTED.
Among Them Chief of Police, Street
Supervisor and Superintendent of
Neutrality-suspicious. That
Will Be Confirmed

Unless all signs fail, Mayor Clark
will submit to the city council this
evening appointments of supervisor of
streets and irrigation. superintendent Of
waterwOrks, sanitary inspector. license
inspector, building inspector. police
court clerk, deputy recorder and chief
of police. Another week will elapse be-
fore a fire chief is appointed, under the
proposed new fire ordinance. Members
of the police force will be named then.
and the rank and file in the fire de-
partment will receive attention shortly
after the confirmation of the head of
this department. The same conditions.
relatively, will apply to subordinate po-
sitions in other departments. in accord
ance with the limitations of the new
salary schedule.
THE END OF THE PRATT CASE.
AS a matter of course the greatest
interest certers around the mayors
probable action relative to the police
chieftaincy. Among conservative think
ers and in official haunts the opinion
still prevails that his honor viii not
persist in antagonizing the council by
resubmitting the name of Arthur
Pratt. Every supporter of this senti-
ment, almost without exception, recog-
nizes the fact that Mr.. Pratts friends
are making a last desperate effort in
his behalf. No candidate for appoint
ment to any office yet to be filled has
escaped the Establishments Of Mr..
Pratt's friends, who have striven with
out avail to convince these aspirantS
that their only chance of securing APP
pointment and confirmation is by in
ducing their councilmanic support to
come to the relief of the rejected chief.
The gauzinesS of this vile has been
exceeded only by the effort to induce
certain councilmen to believe that Mr..
Pratt needed only one vote more 10
make positive his confirmation. As
matter of fact. he is generally regard
ed to have only five supporters in the
council, and it is believed that no
amount of persuasion could induce any
of the nine or ten. who voted to return
his name Enacted upon to the mayor,
to stultify themselves by voting now
to- confirm the appointment, although
the eX-chiefs friends are anxious to
promise anything and negotiate any
deal that would favor this prOtege.
Mayor Clark is not telling his inten-
lions as to whom he will appoint in
place of the rejected chief. but I'M
doubtedly he will name one who Will
be satisfactory to the council and the
great majority of the people.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS d.
LENIMA.
Pending the passage of an ordinance
reorganiZing the board of public works
by making the city engineer chairman
and the heads of the street and water
works department and two citizen
members. no appointment of city en-
gineer will be made. In this cOnnec-
ton it is related that City Attorney
Hall. who has been directed TO draft the
bill. will report that in his judgment
the proposed ordinance cannot be made
legally effective until the terms of
office of all the members of the board
expire, which will be about a year and
a half hence Inasmuch as the salary
of the members has been cut to S25
each per year. and the chairman'S 10
5000. it is not improbable that the board
as now constituted will resign. In
such an event the plan of reorganiza
ton could be speedily made effective.
At this evenings session of the coun-
ell the mayors appointments Of Rich
ard w Young for assistant city attOr
ney and William J. Bateman for dep
uty treasurer, will be confirmed on fav-
orable recommendations from the COM
mittees. The appointment of DR.. keOgh
as health commissioner will not be re-
ported on for another week.
The ordinance recognizing the fire
department and also the anti-expectO-
ration ordinance are scheduled for pas
sage.