The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
COUNCILMAN HALL
VENTS HIS SPLEEN
Uses Council Chamber to De-
liver Bitter Attack Oh the
American Party.
SIGNS PROVOKE IRE OF
DEMOCRATIC CITY DAD
Important Resolution Looking
to Enlarging Of Jordan
Canal introduced.

The two large signs on the fence sur
rounding the building being erected of
former Senator Thomas kearns on Main
street. which show the wondcrlui lh
provemcnts made in the city under
American administration, seem Ia gratp
uuop the nerves of the councilInahiG
members of the church Republican ana
Citizens Democratic parties. count ~
man Hall at The meeting Of thh couheIl
Monday night made mn attack ulon
the American party because thC "i2ns
ave there, and attempted to pa Z. hrouEu
a resolution iustructing the street super
visor TO have them removed. 49,.
Mr.. Hall made the only poIitical
speech Of the session, aud nscd INC
presence of The signs ms the Theme OF
his talk, saving that The facts set fortn
on them arc having their effect upon
In. neoplc. and argued that ia; Amcr-
ican rarty is playing a sm3lS lrl"N op
the public bv having the sg!s III shch
q conspicuous place HIS ciior,S 10 nave
them removed were without ctl"ci,
| though his resolution WAS lAld owe. an
| Ii! the next meeting or ihi rouilch'
which will be November 5, u week atlcr
| the election.
The matter came up Unexpectedly m
! TIC consideration of the rcpor' oil tE"
committee recommending that ASpcr,
Noall l. Co. be permitted TO pu,d
| fence with sidewalk around III eight
feet out from the property bnc at lo9-
Ill South Main street. for the purpose
of pillug building material IN part
| of the street.
Who Is Wallace?
Mr. Rccdal declared i'll Joking
manner that that fence could be used
| bv Wallace for campaign purposes. MI.
| % inp,,irr1 IN who M r.
| Wallace Is, saying that he had never
| heard of such a man.
Mr.. Hall was on his feet III in in
| stant with tho declaration that MI
| Walacc is tho Democratic nominee Tor
mayor of Salt Lake City. He then
proceeded to score the Americans Tor
| having the two signs on the fence
aronpd the Kcarns building, and
charged that they had violated the
spirit of fhe ordinance, forbiddlug such
| signs on the street outside of the prop"
erty line, if they had not violated the
| letter nj the ordinance. ]tc declared
| that they had been very smart to put
| the signs Just inside The fence so they
would not he on the street. He accused
The party of playing a smart trick on
the citizens by Haunting such signs III
The faco of the people, and appealed
to tho council 10 Stand strictly by the
| ordinance aud forbid the use Of those
fences for any such purposes.
He then moved that the street super"
visor be instructed TO notify Mr..
kcarus TO have the signs removed.
Mr. Ferry said that the signs were
placed thcro by the Big Four Advcrtls-
ing company, under a special contract
| with the contractors ON the building
In order TO satisfy Mr.. Hall. he moved
that the AspcrN NooIl company be per
mittod to put mp signs on ITS fonre
requesting the public to vote for Mr.
Wallace.
| Mr.. Black said that he was sorry
! that Mr., Hall could not rent a place
to make his political speeches in, but
| had to use the city council chamber
| for that purpose, lie suggested that
a collection he taken for the purpose
of hiring Il hall for the councilman
| from thc Fourth, and offered TO donate
! s. TO that cause.
Look Good to People.
Councilman Martin said that those
signs certainly looked pretty nice to
tho majority Of the people of the city
! Mr.. Reedall remarked that Mr.. Hall 8
| motion was out of order, as 1T had moth
| ing whatever TO do with the commit
| ice report, which WAS under considcra-
| tion. Mr. Raybould, who was in the
| chair, ruled that Mr., Hall would have
TO put his motion in the form OF Il reso-
luton before 1t could bo considered.
| This was done by Mr.. Hall later III the
session, but it was, promptly laid over
| until the next meeting on motion OF
| Councilmcn Martin and Wood.
Mr.. Hall was heard from again dur
| ing tho meeting when the elections
committee recommended that the chief
of police he authorized To employ two
! special policemen for each voting dis
trlct i'll the city TO serve ON election day
at an estimated cost of 1924. Mr., Hall
| appeared TO be horror-slrcken ut the
thought Of the lawabldng citizens be-
ing imposed upon by policemen when
they went to the polls to vote. and de-
clared that 1t was useless expenditure
| of money. He said that there was no
| necessity for it, as there never had
| bccu any trouble at the polls which re-
CURED the presence of policemen, and
he could not see why the voters needed
| any police protection.
Mr.. Reedall explained that it was Just
as important to have special policemen
on duty at the polling places as it was
TO have deputy shcriifs on duty there,
as was done last year by the county
! officials.
Mr.. Murdoch voted with Mr.. Hall
against the adoption Of the report. As
they were the only two opposing it. the
repert was adopted and The chief au-
thVit-SN " cluIJpN lut SDetldl pluCtlSe
Important Resolution,
An important resolution was intro
dnced by President Davis, upon re-
quest of the special counsel employed
by the city IN its water litigation. The
resolution provided for the approval of
the city engineer plans, maps, profiles
and specifications for the enlargement
| Of the East Jordan canal from the Jor-
I da narrows TO Little Cottonwood creek
and thence to Parlcy's creek. and also
authorizing the bringing Of proper ac.
tions TO secure the additional water
rights and rights .of-way for the en-
| largement of the canal The resolution
was referred to the waterworks com
mittee and will be given due consider
alton.
The Utah Ligh 4 Railway company
submitted n franchise which grants the
company the privilege Of hauling freight
for the United States government over
It's lines TO Fort Douglas. Tho matter
was referred to the municipal laws and
streets committees for consideration
The municipal laws committee report.
ed against the application of W. f.
tlanpden for Il franchise to run sight
seeing cars TO Ensign peak and the re.