The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-18
MAKES CHARGE
OF TRICKERY
Robertson Defeats First Precinct
Alleged Scheme.
cREMAT0RY SITE REJECTED
CONCESSIONS TO AGRICULTURAL
PARK FOR STATE FAIR.
CREMATORY SITE REJECTED

II was Councilman RobeTtsOn's
sweeping charge Of trickery alleged to
have been resorted &c in a plan to put
through the council an order for ex-
tension of q water pipe lateral in the
southeastern part of the city that was
responsible for a postponement of &C
tior last evening. A communication
from Treasurer Morris requesting di-
recuons as to whether or not to issue
scrip to the abutters on Eleventh East
street and Blaine and Wilson avenue,
as is usual, precipitated the discussion,
which at once became torrid.
a motion made by Robertson to
direct the treasurer to issue only non
transferable scrip and to notify the
board of public works that the water
pipe extension must not be laid until
at least tWO-thlrds of the tax is paid,
was met by an objection from Canning
that this procedure would work an in
justice TO the abuttsrs and was an in
noyation which he did not understand.
Robertson Is Suspicious.
Then Robertson had his inning by
stating that there was "a niger in
the Woodpile, and he proposed to
bring him out before the council acted
on the proposition.
Almost Immediately Robertson
changed his motion to defer action IN
til next meeting, when Chairman Da-
Wis of the WaterWOrks committee would
be present to verify his declarations
that the outlay of about $4,000 would
not net the city per cent annual in
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warmth the member from the Fifth
charged that this proposition was only
one Of the many tricky ways resOrted
to by some Of his colleagues to get
schemes through the council, without
caring for the consequences, which, he
said, would be in such instances as this
the turning in of thousands Of dollars
Of scrip. instead Of cash, for the main
tenance Of the waterworks system, ana
Tor protection Of the bonds, if trans
ferable scrip were issued.
Thomas in Defense
With abundant emphasis Thomas de-
Tended the action OF the committee in
reporting that the extension would
yield 8 per cent on the Investment
With equal warmth he denied that
there was any trickery or "a niger
in the WOOdpile,' as robertson had
charged Thomas further declared
that it was a matter of common JUS
uCe 20 the abutteTs to make a special
assessment on the property to be bene-
fitted and let them have scrip for the
taxes paid in The usual way without
restriction. for the reason that & mi
norlty of the property owners had OBJ
Jected to the extension OF the water
in NJ
If there is any niger it is in your
woodpile, was Canntng's shot at Rob
ertson.
Robertson's motion to defer action
on the proposition for a week was car
ried over the negative votes of the
three First precinct members and Can
ming.
No Site For CTematory.
Canning offered a resolution. reciting
that the old site for the garbage Gre
matory north Of the Warm springs is
the proper place for the erection OF the
new plant, and directing that the board
OF public works proceed at once to call
for bids for the construction work. The
negative votes of Beatty. Fernstrom,
Hartenstein, Reid, Robertson, Tudden-
ham and Buckle defeated the resolu-
and Thomas voted for it.
A resolution by Robertson was adopt
ed directing the mayor and the finance
COMMITTEES to negotiate with owners
of Parleys canyon ranch lands for the
purchase of their holdings al a price
of not exceeding 81, 800, or in event of
failure to make the purchase to in
sutUte condemnation proceedings for
the lands which are needed to carry
out the ditch flooding project on the
canyon benches.
Coded to State Fair Grounds.
By unanimous vote. resolution by
FernstrOm was adopte ceding to the
state iair association 1 e west half of
Ninth West street. from North Tenn
pie 10 Second North, and all of Elev-
errh West between the two streets
named, so as to enable the association
to construct a mile race track at Agri-
cultural park and to otherwise i'm
prove the state fair grounds.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
voted TO pay the purchase price Of Ex-
position square from the state fair as
ISOLATION, the money to be paid out of
the fund created last summer from
sale Of city lands.
TheOdOsius BOtkin, attorney for Ann
NJ shannon, presented a claim in the
sum of $1,000 to compensate her for
personal injuries alleged TO have been
received on the evening Of Nov 6.
when she fell into an uncovered and
unprotected culvert at the intersection
Of Second South and First West
streets. Vt was referred 70 the com
mittee on claims
a resolution by Cottrell was adopted
directing that a room in the fire head
quarters be fitted up for occupancy by
the police justice after Jan. ].