The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-03
ARBITRATORS TO
SETTLE A CLAIM
Big Bill Presented to Council
by P. ]. Moran to Be
Investigated.
RESOLUTION is PASSED
REPRESENTATIVE AGREES TO
ACTION OF CITY COUNCIL MEN.

ACTION OF CITY coUNcILMEN.
/ With but little oratory or attack, the
| claim of F. j. Moran for $50. 81 for en-
| casing a part of che wooden st9ve outlet
! sewer pipe with concrete was last night
/ referred to a board Of arbitration by the
/ city council at a special meeting. Ihe
/ amount settled upon by the arbitration
/ board viii be binding upon the city and
The disposition Of the claim was the re-
| suit of the following resolution by Coun-
| Gilman W Mont Ferry, as amended by
! Councilmen +. S. Fernstrom and j. D.
Resolved. That in the matter Of the
I bill of T., j. Moran against SAT- Lake
/ City, for repairing the wooden StaVe sew
er pipe line. the council refer the Dill 70
/ "a special arbitration board. consisting OF
| three members, one member appointed Dy
| the city, who shall be A. +. DOfemus1
who is hereby appointed one member
who shall be appointed by !, j. Moran
one member, who shall be a practical en-
! gineer, appointed by these two, and whose
COMPENSATION shall be fixed by them. Inc
borne Jointly by Salt Lake City and f. j;
Moran. The findings of this board snaI
| be final and binding upon both parties,
and settlement be made by the city on IIie
findings of the board: and that an afDl-
tration agreement be drawn by the clty
attorney, and that the mayor ana CITY
/ recorder be authorized TO sign the same
/ on behalf of the city
Every members of the council was pres
ent and al voted for the adoption OF the
/ Ferry resolution except COuncllmen JOhh
Holley, L. e. Hall and James D. Mur-
dOch The vote. when announced, STOOD
/ y to for the arbitration board
VIII Examine Work.
Following the adoption of the resolu-
/ ton. Councilman Murdoch put th Ie,lI5l
| another, calling upon the city repre-
| sentative to see to it that excavations OF
| the. concrete pipe are made and tnaI llle
| pipe be dug into for the purpose OF as
/ certaining the thickness of the pipe at
! different places and the distance the steel
/ reinforcing bars are placed from eaen
/ other Moran claims, he said, that tHele
I is eighteen inches Of concrete on the DOT
I tom and both sides of the wooden staNe
/ pipe and two feet on top. He also claimed
J that iron bands are placed WITHIN Two OF
three inches of each other Inc reports
/ of j. J. Williams, inspector for the bOaId
| Of works, was to the erect that tlie pIPe
| averages about nine inches OF concrete
around the wooden slaves and that the
/ iron bands are about eight or nine lIcnes
In spealzing to his resolution, W. Mont
Ferry said the city stood in rather Pc
CuIiar position as il was called upon 10
paw a bill and had no competent data
upon which to base an estimate. he saiu
the CITY had no way, SO far as ne knew,
of ascertaining whether the price asked
l7v Moran was fair or was excessive
though ne personally believed II 70 ne
more than the contractor ShOulu receive
He pointed out that the radicals on one
Side -nroducad figures and q line Of argu-
meut to show that the bill Of SzJ,VJV was
/ excessive, while those on the OJneI sIu5
had figures to show that Moran ; clalLl
was just and equitable.
"There must be some common SlOuAus
said Mr.. Ferry, upon which the city anu
Mr. Moran can meet. That the WCIh W.
| done there is no doubt, and that Mr. Mo
ran should be paid, and at once ,tne!e
| Is mo- dOubt But my personal opinion IS
/ that the city should not pay the claim
with the data at hand
/ II understand from Mr.. Moran that his
! vouchers and all evidence which ne ndQ
/ win he submitted to an arbitration board,
/ though this was withheld for some Iea-
! son from the special cOuhCl comm 'I9S'
/ I believe that a further lnVeSUgaIlOn'
| which would cost a few hundred GOiiars'
would establish the width and thickness
| of the concrete, the number OF DaliuS
/ used. and give us an estimate OF lHe az
/ prOximate cost. And when TINS daJa
/ comes before the council we can discuss
/ it intelligentIy and not base our conclu-
/ sions upon figures gathered at random
| by ourselves
Gowans Agrees.
Frank Gowans. representative Of P J;
| Moran was in attendance at the coulCu
meeting and told the members that II Ine
resolution made it binding upon the Guy
l to uav what the arbitration board deter
mined, that this agreement "ouiu NC
| agreeable to Mr.. Moran
/ James d. Murdoch, who made d care
full record of the evidence given py J. j:
Williams inspector for the board OF
/ works and Mr. Thomas, inspector for the
II city engineers office, during the mEesll~
cation by the special council colhnlIlet,
Tpcited data to the Couucu last iuSHJ. ne
/ nrpfaced his remarks by saying lndL ne
/ wished an members of the council to be
informed regarding the evidence taken oy
the special committee. ana IehtdLsSu
| some of the events which occurred curing
/ fho meeting of the special committee o.
siv THE conflicting figures between the
insDectOrs and those furnished in the es-
innate by ]. Moran were reIeIIeu TO-
showing marked differences IN every ltelil'
The fact that Mr.. Reed, one Oh Moran ,
/ ernDIOvas. and a witness whom the mem
hers Of the council tried 10 nave brOu5Ht
before them, refused to come Wheh Sent
for. was referred to Mr.. Murdoch 10 prove
that p J. Moran did not want the couh-
| cfI committee to get all OF the lnIofAla-
zion which he had in regard 10 the price
/ of materials, the amount put INTO tLl5 5
work and other facts which were wanted
yrt wa was mon the motion Of T. R. Black,
AR Murdoch said that the special com
/ rnittee agreed to reject the clam OF Mo
ran and file all Of the papers IN the case.
/ At this meeting. five or the slA ileIiLDelS
were present. +. S. Fernstrom alone De
ing absent. But when the matter came
before the CITY council the next Monda3y
nipht. he recalled. only the names or l. T.
Hall J. D. Murdoch and George II RAY
bouId were upon the report, and both
Councilmen r. r. Black and L. D. Mar
tin had refused TO sign it after agreeing
earlier to make this their report
soThese are the conditions said MT.
/ Murdoch eff it is the intention OF TINS
motion to have an impartial investigation
bv impartial men. then am not ,agalnlst
1T. ] want a square deal for SAT- Lax
is mat we should take the matter INTO
the courts and let the city and Mr.. MO
yan abide bv the decision of the court re-
garding the cost of the work
IWANDE2S ABOUT WITH
nan Git nM E0REHEhn