The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-14
MONOPOLY CRABS
A LITTLE MORE
Helps Itself to Further Concessions
in Proposed Ordinance.
WOULD BAR COMPETITION
SEEKS TO KEEP CITY FROM U.s.
ING POLES.

= HE Utah Light & Railway company
made it plain to the members OF
the joint municipal laws and spe-
ciaI water committee yesterday after
noon that if its franchises are eN-
tended as proposed. it intends prevent
ing the use of its tracks by any com
peting street railway company or com
panies during the entire fifty years
that its franchises Will rum
II was also made plain that the titan
Light & Railway company does not
intend TO furnish to Salt Lake City any
facility for developing or obtaining
lights for municipal or other purposes
except such as the company agrees 10
furnish To the city free and to sell
the city at its own price
As the members of the committee
CouCede disputed points TO the COM
pany its arrogance increases and 1T In
SiSts upon concessions that were sup
posed to have been abandoned by it,
In addition to Judge LeCfraHd Young
aud its engineers and acting general
manager. the company * represented
at the committee meetings by Council
man Rulou = Wells who has at every
meeting of the joint committee that he
has attended appeared in the role Of
a special pIeader for the Utah Light
& Railway company.
Another Meeting Today
After spending two and a half hours
yesterday afternoon recOnStruCting the
compromise ordinance drafted by City
Attorney c. c Dey at the request of
the committee after an understanding
had been reached with Judge Young.
the committee adjourned until $50
o'clock this afternoon In the mean
time Judge Young viii confer with
Judge Dey with a view to a further
compromise
Just before the adjournment y5ster-
day afternoon Judge Young, after 4
vain endeavor to have an essential
provision of the ordinance eliminated
and another provision inserted therein
said that he did not see the ordinance
before il was submitted To the com
( mittee- 10 to that time II was sup
posed by the members of the commit
tee that he and Judge Dey had col
/ labOrated on the ordinance That they
would do 50 was the understanding
when an adjournment of the commit
tee was taken a week ago
The committee. at yesterdays meet
ing. considered the ordinance from the
beginning of section Z to the end OF
section II. but before doing 50 went
| back and made some changes previous
/ " discussed and partially agreed on.
/ one was making the price of midnight
arc light service $3.50 instead of s. per
/ lamp per month Another was the
/ SlIlk1n2 out OF teachers ana the t4l-
/ Serting of -Of the public schools aft
/ er students. i'm section 8. where pro
vision is made for selling books of fifty
! tickets for Size
More For the Company.
I'm section Z. at tn insistence of
Judge Young. the candle-pOWer of the
/ thirty iucandescent lamps of the pres
/ ent standard that the company agrees
| To furnish the city was reduced from
90 TO 30
/ Judge Young again objected TO the
I demand of the city embodied in the or
! diuance that the company furnish
I forty horsepower of electrical energy
. for power purposes. He said the COM
/ pany would not give more than thirty
/ horsepower unless the city eliminated
/ the provision requiring the company
. to light its hospitals and other public
! offices or buildings. and confined its
/ demand to the city's half of the city
/ and county building the fire and pO-
: lice stations and the public library.
An agreement was not reached on
! this matter. Notwithstanding Council
: man Wells tried to induce his fellow
/ committeeman TO take the same view
1 of it as taken by Judge Young
I After much elaboration and long
/ discussion. and a conference with En-
I gineer r F Haywood and CHIEF Clerk
{ d. A. Swan. Judge Young announced
/ that the company would sell the city
/ electrical power TO be used tWenty-One
/ hours a day, the hours from , to S
I p m excluded at I cent per kilOwatt
{ hour. and if used JWeuty-fOur hours
/ a day at Ia cents per kiloWatt hour
City Engineer George w. Ritter said
I the city had made q contract with the
Telluride Power company TO get cleo
! tricaI energy at a lower rate
Mr. Swan replied that the Telluride
/ company could furnish energy cheaper
than the Utah Light q Railway com
/ pany. because it used water power
/ exclusively. whereas the Utah Light &
. Railway company would have TO use
! steam part of the time
Seeks to Evade Taxes.
1t was insisted by Judge Young that
the concluding paragraph OF section S
! be stricken out This section provides;
/ nance. is or shall be held to be in lieu
of any license toll or tax provided fOI
. in said franchises. or any of them OF
/ in the laws of Utah, OF in the Ordi-
{ nanCes of said city"
Judge Young said the company would
be compelled to pay a license of So or
| each of its cars, and that it ought not
/ to be subjected 20 other licenses lie
! did not want to admit. he said. that the
city would have the right to pile ur
taxes and multiply licenses for the com
/ pany to pay
Councilman Wells moved TO strik,
! out the clause. and I'm support Of tn,
motion worked himself UD 20 hieI
pitch of admiration for the Utah Ligh
& Railway company. which was dOins
more. he said. for the city than thu
/ city was doing for the company. Start
ing with the statement that the CLAUSE
! was unreasonable and that no SucI
clause could be found in a franchis,
granted in any other city i'm the cOun
try. ne wound UP by asserting that i
! was Infamous"
Holiday Denounces Steal.
| Councilman HOLIDAY insisted that tn
| clause should remain in the ordinance
| and then Councilman Fernstrom cam
| to the assistance of Councilman Wells
Then Councilman Holiday arose an,
| relieved his pent-Up feelings. He &C
| cused Councilman Wells of dispensinl
hot air i'm wholesale quantities and sal
the whole scheme of the mai Ority o
| the mem hers of the committee WAS n