The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-13
COUNCIL TURNS
LOOSE FLOOD OF
BILLINGSGATE
Murdoch EXhauStS His VOCab-
uIary in DenOunCing P. }.
MOran'S Bill.
STEWART ATTEMPTS
TO BRAND FERNSTR0M
MALICIOUS LIAR" AND "sKUNk"
AMONG BON MoTs EX-
CHANGED.
Outrageous
shameful

shameful
indecent
worst I ever saw in forty years OF
dealing with contractors
These We're only few Of the terms
which J. D. Murdoch, city councilman
from the First ward. applied TO the Dill
Of p. J. Moran of 500, $3.50 for stopping
the leaks in the intercepting sewer OUT
let pipe by coating about third OF II
with cement.
was sulphurous last evening. +. 5 Fern
strom, member for the Third, called J.
j. Stewart from the Fourth, ma
licious liar and Mr. Murdoch denounced
Mr.. FernstrOm as working for Pat Mo
ran" Mr.. Stewart politely retaliated with
a polite reference TO 'sEunks,' but mad
TO swallow the lie direct just the same.
In no case were any of these called 10
order. r. r. Black. who presided in the
absence of President a. }. Davis, smiled
all through il and RETAINED from use
of his gaveL
motion to reconsider the approval of Mo
rams bill He was successful in get
ting a reconsideration by a margin of
enc vote. several of the members favor
ing the paying of the bill while they vot-
ed to reconsider. Then the whole mat
ter went over a week and the board of
works was ordered 10 send in a report
on the bill.
Supreme Courut Decisions.
Nj Murdoch read extensive passages
rom supreme court DECISIONS UeIDTe max
ing his motion. to show that the council
could not approve an estimate which had
not previously been passed upon by the
board of works. There was some FESTIVE
ness among tda M mbers and he was
occasionally interrupted. lie then pre-
scented an estimate of his own for the
work i'm detail bringing the total amount
which he believed, from his experience
as an engineer, the work should cost 70
1886. including an allowance of 20 per
cent for supervision. II figured that the
whole work OF repairing the pipe had cost
slLS per linear foot. when in SO q foot
for any concrete work there was q liberal
margin of profit. Moran. he said, bid
ON the North Temple aqueduct for 5000
feet of concrete work which was feet 6
i1ches outside measurement in diameter
with excavation of 70 or Il feet. He was
willing TO take $40 q foot for building
that, but wanted Sl77S "a foot for cover
ins with cement wood stave pipe 2 inches
IN diameter.
In this matter" he said. It am only
working in the interests of Salt Lax
against a favored contractor"
Working for Pat Moran.
To Mr. Ferry he said ne had not con-
sidered the price Of valves put I'm. He
would not tolerate an interruption from
lhr. Fernstrom. however. who had mild
~ asked if leaks outside of the concrete
had not been stopped, but turned upon
him fIeTcsly with.
You. Tor one have always been work
Ing for Pat Moran. You have done so
ever since you wanted to give him his
$4,000 bill for extras on the Cottonwood
conduit"
Mr.. Fernstrom had nothing to say.
Mr. Murdoch thcn went on to argue
Ihat from the opinion OF the supreme
court al estimates must be naszed uDD7
by the board of works
Mr.. Stewart interrupted to agree with
this and to say that the call for the
meeting last Thursday, when the bill
was passed. was Illegal as It wrongly
stated the purpose Of the meeting Stew
arr believed that any taxpayer could en-
join che payment,
A few minutes after Mr.. Stewart got
a chance TO make a speech. and seized
the opportunity TO jump on Nj. Fern
strom- whom, he sald, he was glad to
see squel ched. He charged Fernstrnm
with Saying that the city was only Dig
enough Tor TWO contractors anyway,
Calls Him Malicious Liar.
Mr.. Ferrstrom retaliated fierceIv.
Neither Murdoch nor Stewart can
squelch me Yet. because neither of them
can be falr. Mr.. Stewart has maliCiOusIv
Iied IT, his statement. There was no JUS
ulcauon for it and he made it UP cut
OF whole cloth right here. 1 want 10 tel
nm now that he is a Iiar, and q maIi4aus
Iaf- 10 Mr- Murdoch [ Will say hat
am i'm no combination with Mr. NoTs,
put am not afraid 10 stand up FOR him
because he is the best cOntrector md
am not afraid 10 say it,"
1iI. FelnS from said he had believed the
Dill too high, but the work had been
agreed upon by a majority Of the council
and he believed In sticking by what had
Deen agreed. There was a CpmDIefe req
ord OF The work checked up by the inspec-
tors OF the board of works ard that BODY
must De held responsible. THAT body Is
on strike and the council must take hold
or this thing. If I was mayor the whole
lot would not last two minutes The
board Is merely taking revenge on Moran
Tor the Main street matter. The board of
works should have reported on this mat
ter and some of them have misIed MT.
Murdoch.
L d Martin spoke at length Of the long
delays which had led the members of the
council TO cut red tape and order the nine
fixed b. force account. He also pleaded
with the council TO indorse the action of
the majority as they had agreed.
Hall Pcurs OIL
After Mr.. Stewart had attempted to get
back at Mr., Fernstrom with an obscure
remark about skunkS. I. r. Hall tried to
apply a little oil. He had personally