The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-12
WHO SMOTHERED
POLICE REPORT?
No Report On Charges Against
Department.
QUARREL IN COUNCIL
OF COMMITTEE BLAME
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE BLAME
EACH OTHER.

last nights council meeting. 1t came
up as a side issue, but soon had the
floor all to itself.
CottreH started the ball by moving
that the special committee which was
appointed two weeks ago to investigate
and report a suitable site for the new
city jail be discharged and a committee
| appointed tina: would look after the
matter. Robertson. who is chairman
of the special committee, said that
many things had delayed the report
Several pieces Of property had been
1 looked at and the county commissioners
had been consulted With reference 70
securing rooms for the city court in the
basement of the joint building Rob-
ertson denied that the committee had
neglected its duty. 1T seems il-ad-
vised to me-" he concluded. that the
| chairman OF committee that has hung
up the report on the MARYLAND investi-
cation should charge another commit
/ tee with inattention to duty.
COttren replied that d number of
meetings had been held on the Mark
land matter and he was willing TO re
port at any time. bU' other members
of the committee had held him back.
We'll, I think that matter should be
reported on" said Thomas.
why, you are one of the men who
have been holding it up retorted Cot
treIl.
Denied By Thomas.
On. get out. SdlQ nOlnaS. sum
statements should be made very care
/ fully. 1 never hung up the report a
minute. You asked me once to wait
three days and ever since have been
expecting you to bring the question
up"
4 Hartensteiu, another member Of the
committee. likewise denied using any
] dilatory tactics and pushed the blame
I back toward CottreH- Here the motion
to discharge the prison site committee
I ut contention
went on with renewed vigor- Rising to
/ question OF personal privilege, Cot
/ trell said:
/ I have nothing whatever to retract
tonight. I still insist that the report
was held up at the request OF other
members of the committee.
And I want to reiterate, said
Thomas, warmly. that the report was
not held up at my request, as stated py
I the chairman.
Rooming House Ordinance.
( Another feature OF the meeting was
] the introduction of rooming house
ordinance by Fernstrom. Robertson
said he had offered an ordinance or
similar character some weeks ago and
he laughingly objected to what he des-
/ ignated as "Fernstrons atteinpI u
steal my thunder as a reformer.
1 The Fernstrom ordinance proposes TO
! require rooming house keepers to keep
! a register Of their dodgers. 1t torplcs
/ them TO allow men and women VINO are
not married to occupy single room, or
| to allow minors to frequent the houses
without the written consent of their
parents OF guardians.
/ The Rio Grande Western peutioned
/ for a rebate on it's paving assessment
on the ground that it is Impossible to
/ keep paving in repair when placed pc
tween railroad tracks. The road OF
fered to put boards between Its tracks
I where they crossed Second south street
I. Ito 1fvrug q raj .
was ordered
w A. stanton submitted claim for
$500 for damages done by. the bursting
I of a f1ume in front Of his residence, 00z
East South Temple street, during
rainstorm Aug - II went TO tue
street committed
The cftv recorder reported thirty
seven dogs killed during August an u
the dog tax collector was allowed Sle-9O
! for his services in destroying the AMI
Land and Water Commissioner West
/ erfield suggested that the road Whlch
/ leads over Little mountain, through
/ Mountain Dell and over Big mountain
/ he repaired. on motion of Robertson
| his request was referred to the county
| commissioners, as the road in question
! is outside the city limits
New Steamer Wanted.
Fire Chief Devine asked permission
/ In purchase a new steamer at COST
| of about 800. He said that the
| steamers now in use should be rebuilt
entirely or sent to thtEscrap pile. The
communication went to the fire COM
/ mittee.
Chairman Dolly of the board of pub
! lie works called attention to string
southern part Of the city which, ne
( said had not been put underground
/ because the property owners had not
/ paid their assessments for the extern
sion. The city treasurer was instruct
/ ed to notify the delinQuents that unless
! they pay up at once the order granting
/ the extension will be rescinded.
| Chief Hilton desired permission to
! appoint fifteen special policemen 70
! serve during the Elks' carnival Re
/ ferred to the police and prison commit
I tee with power to act.
J A report from the joint committee on
streets and municipal laws. directing
/ the city attorney to draw CONTRACT
! with w. s. Brown for the placing of
waste paper boxes on the streets for
twenty years, Brown agreeing 10 pay
so cents per box per year for the privi-
! lege, was received. After the time
! limit had been cut down to ten years
! the report was adopted
Canning offered resolution instruct
! ing the chairman OF the finance COM
mittee to make arrangements to take
the council. heads of departments in
terested and newspaper men through
ing to investigate reservoir sitesl The
date was amended to Sunday morning
! and the resolution adopted.
A claim for $3.50. presented by Marcus
! Schuman. for damages caused 10 his
! property at Eighth and K streets by
flooding from a defective city flume
was referred to the street committee
F. S. Luff directed the councils at
! tention to the alleged carpet cleaning
nuisance in his neighborhood. He
stated his intention of suing out an
/ injunction. but first wished to know
what the council proposed 10 do about
/ the matter. Referred to the committee
on sanitary.
Crematory Protest
Thomas w. Green and 307 other citi-
zens protested against locating the
new crematory on the corner of Fifth
South and Fifth West streets. They
] declared the proposed site was an I'M
wise and unjust selection. and that II
reflected on the common. sense Of the
council. Referred to the sanitary com
! mittee W tft
/ c. J. Dangerfield and others asked r
| a petition that further work on the
I proposed sewer extension on First
/ street between L and ~ streets be Gus
( pended. by reason of the fact that th,s
! residents there sre unable to, pay foY
it. The board of public works. on
Edgar Howe's motion, was instructed
TO hold Up the work until otherwise
ordered nv IN acOIIuCil