The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-18
At Instance of FernstrOm He Is
Allowed to Address the
City Council.
MEMBERS OF THE BODY
WILL MAKE INSPECTION
Several COuncilmen Decidedly
Opposed to Leaping Be-
fore Looking.

What some Of the members of the
City Council consider an attempt to
railroad through portion OF the pro-
posed new franchise for the Utah Light
IL Railway company, transpIred at n
brief meeting of the Council Thurs
day evening, called for the sole pur
pose Of passing tho payrolls for the half
month. The matter was introduced by
! Councilman Fernie Fernstrom, who
urged it with some heat.
After the city payrolls, amounting to
| Sll 1885 for the half month ending
May - were passed, Fernstrom asked
| that Parley L. Williams, attorney for
! the Utah Light and Railway company,
/ be heard on a matter of vital impor
! tancc.
Mr.. WilEmans then addressed the
Council, asking that n portion of tho
franchise now pending be passed, as it
was of Immediate Importance. The
! portions he wanted passed were those
| giving the company the right to lay
and operates tracks as follows;
On Fifth North street from Second
/ West TO Fourth West, thence north on
| Fourth West TO Ninth North and con-
! tluuIng thence to the country road,
I ,
property into the Oregon Short Line
] gravel pits.
Also. another line on Fifth South,
from Second West to Third West, to
connect with the Oregon Short Line.
Also TO locate its tracks on Fifth
South from the Oregon Short Line to
the block the company has purchased
I at Seventh East, at a sufficient width
to enable it to transport its material.
Urged by Farley Williams.
Mr.. Williams stated that this request
was made that the company might be
gin work at once. and to do track lay
ing ahead of it, and for this purpose
it was necessary to get this part of the
! ordinance passed, that the material
might be brought in, AS well as To get
material for p. j. Moran. city coutrac
tor The company, he said, had pur-
chased two electric engines and dozen
dump cars, and wanted the width of
certain parts of the streets to enable
them to work.
Councilman Mulvey opposed the pass.
ing of anything in this way. For his
part, he would have TO be shown before
he voted to give the railway company
any privileges. II WAS no way to get
anything to ask the Council 10 pass an
important measure without looking into
it thoroughly. He thought there had
DGSn 100 WUCN OF IDaG SOlJ OIL
done In the past.
Several of the other members agreed
with this, but Fernstrom, who was act
ing as advocate with Mr. Williams for
the street railway company, exploded
with virtuous Indignation that the
Council should question the matter. He
accused them, of attempting to delay,
and, IN an incoherent fashion, accused
the members of doing nothing but fill
btc, al
he was sick of it. He spoke several
times and repeated the word "filibust-
ering, a favorite expression. He said
the company had come IN good faith
and were asking to be allowed TO do
work that the city wanted done.
Mulvcy reiterated his objection, say
ing that he was surprised that Fern
of granting privileges should be looked
into well. He. for one, did not know
anything about ii and would not vote
for it, He asked Mr.. Williams if he
thought 1T was the duty Of the Council
to vote for such thing without know
ing what II was.
Mr.: Williams said that he had pro
cecded on the assumption, which APP
peared to he clearly wrong, that a City
Councilman should know something
about the streets of the city, and would
understand from the explanations what
was asked.
Reprimanded by Black.
For this he was at once sat upon by
T, Il. Black, who was in the chair, and
who requested him 10 hold his sarcasm
and confine himself to the matter under
discussion.
Mr.. Williams then offered, on behalf
of the company, to provide conveyances
and take the members over the ground
at any time they wished.
After a number OF motions were
made and withdrawn, this was agreed
TO, and the Council will go over the
lines on which the privileges are to
he granted tins morning at ten o. clock,
after which a special meeting will be
held to deal with the granting of the
part Of the franchise asked.
Mr.. Williams was asked by o Don
nell, why the company had not com
and sent in blue prints of the lines on
which the company now has rights, and
on which they ask them with the alb
stract of former franchises. These Mr.
Williams al once produced, and they
were referred to the Municipal Laws
and Street committees
Mr. Williams was informed by Chair /
man Black, in answer to statements that
the Council had had the matter of the !
franchise before it for several weeks. f,
that the committees met every Thurs. /
day evening, as everybody well knew, |
but on no occasion had any representa-
tive of the Utah Light and Railway !
company appeared to take up the docu- |
ments with the members The company /
only was responsible for any delay,
FORMER SALT LAKE MAN