Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-31
WARM SESSION
OF CITY COUNCIL
MIXING Religion and Politics
Trouble Arose Over Reduc-
ton Of Police Force.
MRS. NELSON HANGS HERSELF
Dependency Leads to Awful Decd
Invalid Robbed in n Saloon--
Junction City News Briefs

ogden. March 3l.-For the first time
In the history of the city OF Ogden,
politics and religion were injected into
the meeting of the city council and were
freely discussed. The trouble which
arose over the action of the council
last Monday night came as a surprise
last night. All the business of the
session which had been an unusually
quiet one had been transacted and a
motion to adjourn made. Before the
motion could be seconded Thomas Of
The Third ward arose and moved that
the council reconsider the action of last
week,
This started the ball rolling and
for 40 minutes, religion, politics and
complimentary remarks between the
solons was passed. In bringing the
matter before the council Thomas said
that he would like to go on record as
being in favor of q RECONSIDERATION.
Powers of the Second was on his feet
in an instant and in one of his charac-
terlstic speeches, said that he as well
as the citizens wanted better police pro-
lection and that he was also in favor
of policemen working eight hours in
stead of TO- He said that three of the
best men on the force had been let out.
and that it developed that they were all
Catholics and the councils action had
placed the city in bad light.
Flygare of the Fourth amended the
motion to reconsider by having the
men that were dismissed given
preference when it was necessary to
hire more men. Humphris, chairman
of the police committee said that 1t was
an inopportune time to bring religion
into the council at this late hour as II
u. at La.
committee meeting a week before when
the action of reducing the police force
was discussed. He said at that time
there was no thought given as to what
religion the men possessed.
Mayor Brewer arose to address the
council but before he could say any
thing, Thomas made a motion that the
mayor ask the council for permission
10 address them. The question was
put and carried. The mayor said that
he had been given the credit for max
ing the change in the police depart
ment but that he had not suggested
the names of the men to be let out.
but that he had only asked for the
reducing of the force as IL was too
great an expense to the city.
While President Browning was
changing places with Austin whom he
had requested to take the chair, Pow
ers arose. Austin recognized Browning
and then Powers appealed to the de-
csion of the house, but this was not
necessary as Browning yielded the floor
TO him. At the conclusion of his re-
marks Powers said: I've gone into
the committee of the whole for the
last time and what | want to say in
the future l will say it in public in
here Che council chamber). Browning
said that as a member of the police
committee he had favored letting out
Mormon but that he had never
thought of religion. He said that he
would never let any official of his
church dictate to him in the matter
OF appointments.
During further discussion of the
question lemons" We're exchanged be-
tween Dickson and Austin and Thomas