The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-11
COUNCIL SUSTAINS
THE MAYORS VETO
But Councilman Canning'S Son
Was Turned Down.
HELD A LIVELY SESSION
RoBERTsoN's FIGHT AGAINST
YOUNG MR.. CANNING.

The story of last nights session of the
council may be summed up in three
words, brief. but breezy" The insur-
gents lacked two votes of the majority
necessary to turn down the MAYORS veto
or the watermaster ordinance but ohey
succeeded in bamping the appointment Of
street sprinkling. with some strenuous
ness Young Mr.. Canning was bowled
over without regard TO his or the mayors
1eenngs, and his papa, the councilman
or two.
Every member who is in the city was
present, the list of absentees containing
the names of only Beatty and Davis. At
ter the minutes had been read Edgar
Howe moved that the rules be suspended
and that the first order of business be
communications from city officers. This
cleared the decks for some of the mayors
state papers. The first taken up was the
veto of the watermaster measure.
Veto is Sustained.
1t viii be remembered that some weeks
ago the council passed an ordinance tax
ing the distribution of Irrigation water
out of the hands of the street slIDerviso~
and turning il over to the city engineer.
Mayor ThompSon'S CHER reason for dis
approving the proposed law was that the
to perform
The veto message was read by Re-
corder Nystrom, and. without any pre-
hminary debate, President Buckle put the
question; shall the ordinance be passed
Notwithstanding the objections of the
was reached on the roll call he made
the only rernasks upon the proposition.
L vote aye because / believe that ordi-
nance 10 be an absolute necessity" said
he Even the mayor in his veto doesn't
GispQte the TACT that the man now NIL
ing the position of watermaster is in
competent. His objection is that the city
engineer now has plenty to do I believe
II ne was directed to distribute the water
in addition to his other duties he could
secure competent help and accomplish the
work to the entire satisfaction of all
citizens.
Our people have been imposed on; this
council has been imposed on by the pres
ent Watermaster. We were told that the
reason there was no irrigating water was
because there was no water in the canal.
Today there is plenty of water in the
canal, and yet We have none for irriga-
ton This shows that the watermaster IL
incompetent; think the mayor is wrong
in his veto"
The result of the vote showed eight in
favor OF passing the ordinance over the
veto OF the mayor and five against it, or
two votes short of the constitutional two
thirds majority. Those voting aye were
FernstrOm, Hartenstein, G. r. Howe, Ed
gar Howe. Reid, Robertson, Tuddenham,
Buckle; the negatives were Canning, Cot
trell, Hewlett. Thomas and Whittemore.
Canning Turned Down.
Next a communication from the mayor
appointing George Cannon, jr-," as day
inspector of street sprinkling was read.
polntee was supposed to be the son OF
Councilman Canning. Here the recorder
announced that he had just received a
telephone message from the mayor. in
structing him to change Cannon 10
Canning Then, after CottreH had
moved the confirmation of the appoint
ment and Canning had seconded the mo-
ton, Robertson said few things
I am opposed to this notion he be-
gan. Some months ago we passed a
resolution authorizing the appointment of
night and day fOTemen of the Sprinkling
department in the nope that we might i'm
prove the conditions that then existed.
At that time young Mr.. Canning was a
foreman 1t doesn't seem probable that
we could improve the system with him
as foreman.
But am opposed to his confirmation
for another reason very seriously OBJ
ject to the son of any councilman hold
ing position in the city government.
Especially do I object in this case. for II
is very generally understood that the
father is well off in this worlds goods
and amply able to take care of himself
and his son, too. if necessary.
The roll call Tas ordered and proceeded
without explanation until President
Buckles name, the last on the list was
reached. Il vote no" said he, because
I have always opposed nepotism in pub
lie affairs, and / think IL should be dis
couraged at all times"
The vote was five in favor of confirm
ing the appointment and eight against it.
The affirms tives were Canning. COttrell.
Hewlett Thomas and WhittemOre; the
negatives. Fernstrom, HartenStein, Q. r.
Howe, Edgar Howe, Reid, Robertson,
Tuddenham Buckle.
Y The appointment of Russell G. Schulder
as clerk of the police court, vice DiehI,
appointed judge, was now taken up and
Hartenstein, and the council adjourned to
meet tonight at 7.30 o'clock
1t was expected that Chief of Police
Hilton would be heard before the com
mittee of the whole on the Sunday clos
ing question last night, but the council
men were more interested in the bicycle
races The chief was there and said he
was ready to go ahead, but the hearing
was postponed until tonight.