The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-02
MALICIOUS ATTACKS ON THE
COUNCIL.


The Tribune has been very malicious
in its attacks on the city council. Sat
urday morning it was particularly bit
| ter and malicious, terming the members
''hold-ups and grabbers." In the course
! of the article in which it so termed
the members, it said:
We do not recall any case of such
sustained idiocy and transparent hum
/ bug and hollow pretense in any coun-
| ell as we have in the present one Its
members are to a considerable extent
made up of men whose chief aim seems
to be TO get for themselves and their
! relatives pickings from the city Thus.
we are told that one member has Sc
cured places for a dozen or more mem
bers Of his family in the waterworks
department; and there are others.
We ask the Tribune from whom
these appointments in the waterworks
the question it replied, Monday morn
ing:
The organ, in reply to our informa-
ton as 10 a member of the council
having packed a dozen or more of his
relatives in the waterworks depart
ment, wants 10 know by whose author
Algs anu d. tNS II II AoS QOlE
the mayor. Not at all; but through
the superintendent of the waterworks.
and the idea is to fill as many positions
as possible, ignoring the mayor, and
then hold these appointees in place by
the same sort OF obstructive and hold
up tactics as those already used. And
still the councilmen want a business
like administration"
Here is a direct and positive charge
that superintendent Wallace was fill
ing up his department with the men,
bers of one councilman's family. it be-
ing intended to convey the impression
that Mr.. Wallace was to benefit by this
course, as well as the members of the
councilman's family Yesterday morn
ing the Tribune made this further con-
tribution to the question:
Colonel H. G Wallace, superintend
ent of waterwOrks, explains that the
report of men oeiug added TO The force
in his department must have grown
out of the employment of laborers dur
ing and in consequence of the recent
cold snap, when a good many were put
on the force to dig up and relay pipes
etc. That employment has now ceased,
and the added force thus put TO work
has been let out. The men hired were
selected from the standpoint of their
need of employment, and the work was
divided so as to give as wide relief as
possible to the needy, by alternating
the force. In order to arrive at the
reality of the need, Superintendent
Wallace required the applicants TO OBJ
tain and show letters from councilmen
in their precincts as to the fact of their |
condition. and the councilmen, with |
few exceptions, gave such letters. That |
emergency, however, is now past, and |
the force is reduced to the regular |
number. which has neither been added |
to nor decreased, but remains at the |
normal standard, all being men of tried |
and faithful capacity. But one change |
has been made, the transfer of two |
men, by which a son of Councilman |
Alien has been made a valve-man in |
stead of service man. No doubt our |
information was based on the state OF |
facts as given by Superintendent Wal |
lace, and we are glad to make the ex-
PLANTATION, and to know that the in |
crease was but temporary. and for an |
emergency.
How does the editorial of Tuesday |
comport with those Of Saturday and
Monday? In its editorials Of Saturday !