Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-13

the majority party want to caucus in
secret over the distribution Of Jobs.
but when II comes To doing business
that involves the city's financial in
tcrcsts II Is an outrage that ii should
be done In secret
~ know there are members Of this
council who viii vote for this grab
tonight who iu their secret hearts are
opposed 10 H. but because caucus
has decided H. they VIII violate their
conscienccs which God has given
them. tell you gentlemen, when YOU
do that YOU violate your oaths of Of
fee"
Tie then cited the statutes wien
provide that the meetings Of the coun-
Gil shall be public and open and that
u shall keep a journal of It's proceed
ings.
FIVE MEN CONTROLLED.
Continuing he stated that i've men,
only one-third OF the council. could
control caucus and In this instance
the public Is treated 10 the spectacle
OF hvo councilmen transacting the busl-
ness of the city and expendlng $4,000
Of the cty's money Such manner
of conducting the ciiy's financial bust
ness, he declared, Is vicious one aud
VIII only result In trouble. In his
judgment the expenditure OF money
In this manner was iust the same as
stealing It from the treasury and It
might as we'll be thrown into the Jor-
dan river az spent IN these needless
extras on the conduit
Fernstrom then referred 10 the con-
versation had with Councilman Carter
few days ago In which the latter said
that reinforcement bars would make
the conduit as strong as Increasing the
thickness OF the walls TO ~ inches
without the reinforcements. BY In
creaslng the thickness of the walls and
changing the forms so as 10 make the
roof curved instead OF fiat, he said
that the council was simply paying for
tad as the water would pot aqueal
no matter what shape the conduit Is.
GOOD ENGINEER OPPOSED n
He said that there is one good engi-
neer on the board Of public works and
| that he opposed the extras and the
board considered the matter in his alb
| sence and adopted the recommends lions
! and thus left the impression that II was
unanimous vote IN closing he said
| that the majority had to go behind
closed doors and whip the rebellious
members into line and that n II had
been left to their individual consciences
| II would never be forced through the
! council. He then moved as an amend
ment to Blacks motion that the mat
ter be laid over until an unpretndiccd
engineer could be employed TO go over
the matter and report. His amendment
Vas lost by n straight party vote
Tuddenham then wanted to know
! what the council proposed to do With
the portion OF the conduit already com
pleted He inquired II they intended
to tear e down. Black remarked that
they would Jet II stand as a horrible ex-
! ample. CITY Engineer Kelsey answered
Tuddcnham's question by stating that
they intended TO plaster II and let II
| stand.
you think It will stand all right. do
you?" inquired Tuddenham.
Yes; part of II WILL" was the adms-
sion of the engineer.
"I'll admit that part Of II should be
torn down as II was poorly done and
should never have been accepted by the
inspectors" was the closing remark of
Mr. Tuddenham,
GRAB GOES THROUGH.
| As there was no disposition on the
part OF the other members TO furthe,
discuss the matter, the previous ques-
tion was called for and a vote was TAX
en- on the grab and II was approved by
the vote given above.
The expenditures thus authorized are
as follows: Plasterng the conduit It's
entire distance $l7,6is.59; covering th'
conduit with dirt where exposed, s24,ls6
increasing the thickness Of the walls
changing the line and the forms, SSSss3