The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-03
FIERY OUTBURS1
FROM FERNSTR0M
elders Quorum Leader Hands
in Minority Report on Gre
matory Contract.
SEEKS FURTHER DELAY, BUT
ORDINANCE Is PASSED
Fernstrom Says Councilmen
Soon VIII Be in Jail if
improvements Go On.

One Fernie Fernstrom made the
report Of the Finance Committee to the
City Council on Monday evening, rec
ommopdinc the awarding of contract
10 build the mucb.needed extension to
The crematory The occasion OF an At
tack on the city administration lie
submitted minority report covering
TWO lengthy typewrittcu pages lnVelgh-
iuc against the work and stating that
the city was about TO become bankrupt
because the administration was doing
100 much in the way of making city
Improvements.
fhe committee recommended that the
contract for the extension be gwen TO
he loves, bidder, the Dixon Engineer
ng and Construction company of To
gdo. Ohio. the cost TO he $3.50. The
)attor has been before the Council and
: committees for a long time and
'snstrom has secured many delays,
Councilman Fernstrom then insisted
,pon the reading of a minority report.
his condemned the extension as un-
.ecessarv. insisted on his former sland
nTs shown bv DR.. NJ. n. Stewart, Health
Commissioner. al former meetings as
being untrue. lt stated that the pres
nnt plant was sufficient for the city S
needs. that the men handling 1t were
not competent, and that tho present
plaUi was big enough for Salt Lake for
eve wears To- come. The city, he stated,
cannot stand The additional expense
FOR the handling Of garbage, which as
ne lguTed il viii amount TO S3l4J.3O.
ne added here some additional infor,
nation concerning the city's finances.
The contingent fund is already over
dlavn $50 200 over and above last
wear ; income, he said, and on June the
oycTdTsft viii amount 10 Sl24 900. and
On July / from $3.50 to $4,000.
With the tax on the contingent fund
he Ggured that the administration would
he in debt this year TO the extent of
s2l2 coo and of that amount $lTj,000
would be incurred in the first six
months leaving Only $4,000 for the
coming six mo1ths
These extravagant figures on paper
were NOT enough for the doughty cham.
Won OF the Mormon church. the rail
WAY interests and a few other things in
the Council, nut be followed it by an
iucuheront speech IN which he was heard
10 charge felony on the part of the ad-
ministration and TO make some other
only half ineligible charges, He
threa tened the Council that il it con-
timed TO make improvements at the
rate the administration was doing the
members would find themselves 10 Jail.
No particular notice was taken Of
Fernstrom s imtemperante outburst. but
the improvement and extension to the
crematory was carried by strictly
party vote. all the Mormon quorum Of
elders showing their approval by voting
with him. The vote stood TO 6.
The extension TO the cematory to be
made viii double the present capacity
Of the plant, though it viii cost much
less than the FIRST cost Of the outfit
II has been one Of the difficulties with
which the Health Department has had
50 contend that there have been no
proper facilities for the disposal of gar
bage. This will put Salt Lake in line
with modern cities in the matter Of dis
posal Of its objectiona BILE refuse