The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-21
BIKE ORDINANCE UP
Council Has Long Discussion
Over Measure.
NO RESULTS OBTAINED
BUCKLE PLAN KILLED AND NEW
ONE OFFERED.

canning was shut OF on question of
personal privilege. Otherwise the agony
would have been longer drawn out than
1t was il seems hardly necessary to say
that the above has reference to last
nlSit s m setting of the common council
1t was Buckles bicycle ordinance, the
measure that Papa Buckle has been Iy-
Ing awake nights getting up, that caused
the delay in receiving the returns When
the rest OF the council got through with
that ordinance, its papa didn't recognize
II at all Originally The proposed law was
spreading like the green b8y tree of an
Gent song and story
Killed by Amendments.
TIA most .stunted dr that grows near
the snow line OF any Utah mountain
would have been a T0rest giant by com
paflSOn when the agony was over.
Amendment aIteT amendment was tackled
onto H. 1t was cTisS-cr0ssed its center
was Duckeds runs were made around its
eIlQSs 4 was heid down tor downs time
after time and finally its hide was tackled
on the barn door when a motion to strike
out the enacJing cIause was adopted.
After Canning had been laid low on his
quesuon OF personal privilege, the CORY
qetafis OF which appear elsewhere in this
issue, the Buckle ordinance came up I'M
ger a suspension OF the rules. Then en-
SUED gab-1est OF more than two hours
dufation- Everybody made what is
known as an ''impassIoned' speech either
Tor or against the measure At the out
set IL looked as il the ordinance would
become a law
Majority Died Away.
It's friends apparently had enough to
pass Il, but words fell as thickly in. the
council chamber as fell the snow flakes
outside, Every body wanted 70 be suited
AT last EdSar Howe moved the decapi-
tatlon or the endcting clause. The mo-
ton was adopted and the same council
men proposed another measure. 1t cut
out All the features OF Buckles PROPOSE
uQn except the one throwing open Ger
tain streets TO Wheelmen from Nov. 1 to
April 30. Some more talk followed with
the result that the new ordinance went
over for a week
The streets proposed to be thrown open
between the dates named are the south
side OF South Temple street all the way
ana the north side east Of + street, First
South east of State and west of First
West, Second and Third South east of
Stat and all of Fourth South.
Kaighn on Pauper Dead.
M- NJ. Kaighn in a communication call
ed attention to the controversies that
arise between the city and the county
relative to the burial of pauper dead
He cited the case Of Patrick J. Mcmahon
an old soldier who was buried at public
Maxwell post, G. A. r, paid $50. leaving
balance of SO which has not yet been
satisfied. Colonel Kaighn asked for an
appropriation covering the amount last
named. The matter went to the munfci-
al laws committee.
c. Z. Pace asked for a lease of 944 acres
of land in City Creek canyon from Dec.
TO May 30. for $3.50. He was referred to
the committee on public grounds.
RICHARDS & NaT1an presented a bill for
S56a5O for services and expenses in con-
nection with the Pariey's canyon cor 7uit
suit The amount was ordered paid.
The Salt Lake City Brewing company s
protest against the muddy condition Of
Parley's water was referred to the water
works committee.