The record-union., 1899-04-06

ceipts; the franchise to be forfeited by
failure to make the payments stated
in the bid upon which the award may
be made; each bidder to file with his
bid a bond to the city Of Sacramento
with at least two good and sufficient
sureties to be approved 81 this board
in the sum of One Thousand Dollars
(S1, 900 conditioned that such bidder
shall we'll and truly observe, fulfill and
perform each and all the terms, cond1-
tons and obligations of such franchise
in case the same shall be awarded to
him, and that in case of any breach Of
condition of such bond, the whole
amount OF the penal sum therein named
shall be taken and deemed to be liqui-
dated damages, and shall be recovera-
BILE from the principal and sureties
upon said bond, and unless the bidder
file such bond with the said bid, no
award Of the proposed franchise or
privilege shall be made upon his bid
although the same may be the high
est, but the franchise may be awarded
to the next highest bidder who shall
have complied with this provision, or,
may be set aside and rejected and new
bids advertised for.
And the Clerk is hereby directed to
advertise this resolution, as required by
law.
THE PROPOSITION DISCUSSED.
Trustee Dolan, in opening the discus
sion, said several objections might be
raised against the resolutions, the first
of which was that it proposed to pro-
hibit all parties, except the crematory
company, from collecting garbage. He
moved that the words exclusive fran
chise and privilege be stricken out.
President Mckay said the resolution
had not yet been adopted, and Dolan
retorted that it never would be unless
the Objectionable features it contained
were eliminated
Trustee Paine said he could see no
harm in granting to a company the ex-
elusive right to gather garbage. He
thought the company to whom the
franchise was granted should have
some surety that their business would
be protected.
Trustee Dolan said that persons in
this city now hold garbage routes for
which they paid $500 or 5000, and he
thought their rights ought to be con-
sidered before their business was
slaughtered
Mr.. Northrup said that the crematory
plant would have to employ scavengers
to perform its work, and he intimated
that they would be better paid than
they at present are.
Trustee Dolan said that there might
be other bidders, and that the garbage
might be collected with a saving to
the city if they were given a chance to
compete.
THE company I represent" said Mr..
Northrup, "are bidding on exclusive
privileges for collecting, and unless that
exclusive privilege is granted, we will
put in no bid at ALL
Trustee Tebbets said ne believed the
city ought to have crematory, and
that it ought to be built in the most
economical manner possible which
would insure proper service fer the city
He thought Mr.. Northrup deserved the
thanks of the board for presenting the
resolution under consideration as it
gave something to work on. He thought
a committee ought to be appointed to
draft resolution advertising for bids
which would meet the views of the
members. He advised that such COM
mittee get advice from the Corporation
Counsel and said the board should not
act hastily in the matter.
Trustee DOlan believed in taking I'D
the resolution proposed by Mr. North
rup and considering it seriatim. Ac-
cording to his construction, it excluded
any company from bidding except the
Thackeray Incinerator Company
Mr.. Northrup said the line Of progress
was in the direction of incineration
plants, and that Sacramento would
have to come to it. He said that unless
company had the exclusive privilege
of collecting garbage there would be
no money in the business for them
Many scavengers would lamp two
cubic yards Of garbage into a cubic
yard measure, and his company. if it
shouldered the responsibility, meant to
shoulder it ALL
Trustee Dolan insisted that he would
vote to give no company an exclusive
right to gather garbage. He thought
the crefnatory might allow collectors
to dump at the plant by paying a spe-
cited amount per cubic yard
I'VE are in this business said Mr..
Northrup land we know what we want,
and If you won't come to our PROPOSE
ton We'll quit. You can't set any re-
form movement on foot without tramp
ing on somebody's toes. 1t would have
been as fair to say that the Record
Union of this city should pension it's
printers when it undertook the linotype
process Of printing, as to say that the
city should continue the employment
of its old corps of garbage collectors
after it had erected a crematory.''
We want a crematory," replied
Trustee Dolan, 'sbut in getting it we
don't want to antagonize three fourths
of the people in the city,
Trustee Kent said the first thing for
the board to do was to ascertain what
it wanted, and then get it. It should
determine what kind of a crematory
was desirable, and whether it was best
to give exclusive collecting privileges
to a company, and then act intelligent
ly. 1t ought to consider whether the
city or private corporation could best
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