The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-23
Charge and Counter Charge of Sell
fish Dealings.
EXPENSES AND REVENUES
C CONTENTION OVER RENTAL OF
QUARTERS FOR LEGISLATURE.
The City Council Refuses to 'Divvy7
$500 With the County-The E1e-
vator Expense Affords Excuse For
the Claim-State Will Rent Else
where If More Is Asked.

A nice little quarrel is brewing between
the city council and the board of county
commissioners over questions pertaining
to the maintenance expenses and rental
revenues of the joint city and county
building. Periodically one side or the
other charges that it is getting the worst
of the deal, and each denial is usually
coupled with a counter allegation of I'M
fair treatment. But, unlike private
families, who find that one house cannot
long hold two aggregationS Of souls in
peace and harmony the official families
Will have to make the best of it. for the
contract which binds them together is ir-
reYocable until the end of time.
The disagreement between the city and
county administrations received attention
at the council meeting last evening. when
Mayor Clark and Councilmen SlddOway
ana Fernstrom, the city members of the
committee on control of building req
ported that they had closed negotiations
with the state board of examiners for the
rental OF quarters on the city side OF the
DullGlng Tor the use of the approaching
session of the legislature The report
stated that for the use of session and
committee rooms, lighted, heated and kept
IN order by janftors, the sum of 81 600
for the siXty-day period had been agreed
upon, the county to receive $500 of said
sum for the extra expense it would have
to bear.
The mention of the proposition to
'idivvy up $500 with the county was the
signal for Councilman Buckle, who form
erly served on the joint committee to
announce protest. He showed how the
operation of the county's passenger ele-
vator had been repeatedly put forward
as an excuse for the other side of the
mouse to impose on the municipal fathers
for concession after concession. The
county receives $4,000 a year in rentals
from the state, and the extra cost Of fuel
and other items of maintenance expense
We're created by the county, whereas the
city bears half the expense and receives
no pecuniary benefit.
Councilman Callister supplemented
Buckles assertions of how the county is
getting the best of the city
1t was explained by Councilman Siddo-
way that a careful computation demon
strated the county would only be equit-
ably REIN bursed by giving it three-tenthS
of the legislative rental. He added that
the city had no extra furniture and the
equipment of the house of representa-
uVeS quarters would have to come from
the county.
Councilman Romney followed with a
brusque declaration that Councilman
S1ddoway, from his employment by the
county, was evidently prone to see the
city s interests suffer for the cOuntyS
benefit.
This charge brought the injured coun-
Gilman to his feet trembling with indigna-
ton. In a CheSterfeldian manner he in
ttnated with sarcastic emphasis that he
was not a plutocrat. He added that IN
fortunately for him, he was compelled to-
earn his living. but wherever his lot had(
been cast he had always done his dut, {
cOnSCientiOusly.
Mr.. Romney said no more
Inc clause proposing to share the s1-O0n
with the county to the extent of $500 was,
by vote, ordered stricken out.
As amended, the committees report on
renting legislative quarters on the terms
stated. was adopted, and the city attor-
ney was directed to draw up the lease
with the state board of examiners.
Secretary of State Hammond stated last
evening that if the county now insisted
on being paid $500 additional or any part
of that sum by the state. the board Of
tiers for the Legislature in some one of the
available and suitable buildings in the
business district