The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-27

T HE city counciImen OF salt Lake
were shown the handwriting on
the wall last night at the mass
! meeting Of citizens which was helo al
| the Grand theatre to protest against
the granting Of a franchise extension -
! the Utah Light & Railway company
| Nor is the handwriting any inolSunCL
! scrawi. Ii stands out plainly, a re-
uinder to the council that representa-
! tive citizens of Salt Lake would rathe-
not chance the present lighting and
railway service for the coming century
( BY adopting resolutions presented ny
/ Thomas Homer, president ol the SdlJ
| Lake Real Estate association, the Sai Ia
! erinS went on record as ueeunlug any
| councilman who votes to extend the
/ franchise unworthy OF further h"n"fS
} OF trust at the hands Of the public
| More than good speech-ma>lnE and
the adoption of resolutions, the feeling
/ of need for Immediate action was shown
( by the appointment of the AboNe-ualilcb
I committee of 100 citizens. with Judge
! -. w Powers as chairman, to use
every means of preventing the franchise
grab
Despite the forbiddiuE weather
/ fairly large audience greeted the speak
- crs The meeting was called To order
! about $50 o'clock by Thomas HoWCr-
. ! who briefly outlined its purpose M
/ Homer then introduced Judge o. W
+ Powers ass the presiding officer OF the
| evening I'm the intervals between th"
1 speeches which followed musical So
Iectious were given by the Grand or
Z / chCStTa-
Judge Powers Speaks
judge Powers Chronological tho light
3 / cplnpauy's requests as IAN astounding
p | proposition" He declared that the poo
, | pie We're paying more now than tbF}
y / ought to- pay. and at that were getting
- unsatisfactory service lie thought that
70 1 am invest cation Of the company s claim
T. ! To- certain water rights would prove
. profitable Even though II should DC
+ / veIop on such inves: iEstioU that the
D company actually held title, the speak
2 / or thought IT far better To- lose the Va
ter system contemplated I'm the city s.
q plans than that the citizens should 10,
ID held UP as they had been in the past
r. Go anywhere Judge Powers said,
- con any street and see how many there
70 are who would grant even = tcn-yTar
extension Of the franchise The CoUu-
ciImcn should put their ears 10 me
ground and hear what the people wish
If the proposition were put 10 \. vote
30 per cent Of the people would oppose
j. the extension II there are any IN the
! council who do not propose 10 serve the
people the people should Sive them o.
r. understand that they are the servants
s. and not the masters
2. Judge Powers pointed out wherein the
q franchise asked by the Utah Light \
he Railway company partOok % blanket
3f features. and was designed TO shut on
l. competition.
= Judge Varian is Severe.
r Judge G. -. Variau scored the leG1sIa
"a lures of this and previous years duriu'
ID his address. He showed how the orig
" inaI franchise giving the railway com
Tt pany a life of twenty years had SroW
until after various consultations an,
f council amendments the Utah Light
G. Railway company is asking that it
ne period Of existence be made almost
D. century.
It, He referred to the ''inSidious method
I'd of striking out matters adVanlaSeou
Of | to the public wherever they Occufre
! in the franchises under which the cor
pOratiOn existed. He declared that tn
D present proposition was 10 tie II
n | hands Of the generations to come, L
( still their voices. to say what was bes
G for those who were to be here forty o
/ fifty years hence
In referring to the recent bit of cor
a poratiOn legislation by the sixth Ieg1s
of IarIre whereby the consolidation of til
of light and power companies is VALIDATED
on or sought to be validated, Judge y aria
C said that il was against public polio
to combine public utilities foreign j
their purposes.
ia state NOT only to grant but to apprOZ
to the union he said They asked til
aw legislature to ratify the act and the
at got what they asked"
y
,r- various amendments to the origins
'or franchise under which the liSht an
PC power companies operated He declare
M that the company was asking the pc,
Elk pie to bear the burden of iuJudiciOl
pm purchases and transactions ON the pa
as OF the corporations management
Id What Councilman Black Said
Councilman T. r Black was inJr'
duced as zone councilman who Is Do
afraid to state where he stands T.
said, in part.
N Il do rot think there is single pc
son present tonight who does not knU
my position on this franchise eNtcTSlC
en- and while I may have legal night
taN vote to extend IL. I do not believe ] ma
lhS any moral right to tie NJ the prlvileg
an Of the future generations for nine
uld Years. and as this not a meeting CALI
de- for the benefit Of trimmers and dodgeI
lc- I feel IL my dUty as a representative
lily the people 10 speak plainly and Wituo
reservation i'm CoDdemuing any corpOr
OF | tiou which already has o franchise III