The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-12
LIGHTING CONTRACT VETOED
MAYOR THOMPSON SUGGESTS
SEVERAL CHANGES.
Also Vetoes The Council Resolution
Limiting the Number of Saloons
Would Have No Effect.


Mayor Thompson yesterday filed with
the city recorder his disapproval of the
councils action last Tuesday evening
in making a renewal contract with the
Utah Light & Power company for
lighting the streets for a period of six
years. The executives veto will come
before the council this evening for con-
sideratiOn, and the probabilities are
the contract VIII be modified to meet
the suggestions of his honor.
The first objection stated by the may
or is that the contract runs for too
long period Instead of six years,
the mayor submits that the life of the
contract should be three years, from
Sept Is last, with the privilege of re-
neWing II at the end of that term.
In order to give the street lighting
inspector opportunity to determine out
ages Cor deduction from the monthly
bill, Mayor Thompson recommends that
a clause be added to section 6 requiring
the company to furnish reports OF
lamp trimmers and meter tests. The
veto message also advises that 3 cents
per lamp per hour be the basis of de-
auctions for Outages.
Another strong reason for Directing
to the form of the renewal contract is
with reference to the clause designat-
ing that the arc lamps shall be kept
gong at their fun power from dusk
until dawn Upon this point the may
Ors veto message states: 4 think
the words from dusk until dawn are
too indefinite and susceptible of too
much latitude of construction. The
section further contemplates what is
generally known as the moonlight
schedule Such a schedule proved very
unsatisfactory to the city council sew
eral years ago"
In Dlace of this section in the new
contract the mayor recommends that
section 10 of the old contract be substi-
tuted so that it viii read: THE lamps
shall be kept burning at their full pow
er from thirty minutes after sunset I'M
I'll thirty minutes before sunrise every
night during the term of this con-
tract
A final modification to the contract
suggested Is the proviSO that if the al
ternatlng current carbon arc lamps do
not produce light equally as satisfac-
tory TO the city as the direct current
lamps, the alternating circuit lamps
shall be substituted bv the direct cur
rent lamps.
Another action of the city council
undOne yesterday by the mayor was
II his disapprovaI Of the resolution Of
Tered by Councilman Thomas and
adopted, limiting the number of IL
censed saloons to those now in exist
ence, SeVenty-nine. and declaring that
no more new saloon licenses snail be
granted Mayor ThOmpsOn'S objections
TO this resolution are based upon an
opinion fnOm City Attorney Stephens,
holding that the resolution has no le-
gal effect whatever"
In his opinion the city attorney states
that the resolution can only be taken
20 be an expression of the council
intentions, but it would require an or
dinance to make that intention effect
i've. From court rulings however. the
city's legal adviser holds to the view
that it would probably be of no legal
effect to limit the number of saloons in
the city, because such an action would
be construed as faVOritiSm and con
ducive to a monopoly of the saloon
business.