The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-07
CITY FATHERS To
Be BUSY TONIGHT
Large Amount of New Business
and Several Old Matters TO
Confront Them.
TO MEET AS COMMITTEE
OF WHOLE THIS AFTERNOON
Purchasing Agent May Pass, but
License Department May
Be Contested.

There Will be plenty OF business be-
fore the city council at It's regular meet
ing tonight. notwithstanding the fact
that the committees did little business
last Thursday night. There viii be
large amount OF new business TO come
before The meeting and several old mat
ters laid over from last Monday night Will
DC threshed out again. The council will
meet a committee OF the whole this
afternoon at . o'clock with Mayor Brans-
ford and talk over the various recommen-
datIons In tho mayors annual message
With view TO taking some action upon
them.
Among the matters TO he considered by
the committee OF the whole is the ordi-
nance creating the office OF purchasing
agent for the city and also the creating
Of q license department from the city
auditors s office. II is likely that the pur
chasing agent ordinance Will be reported
upon fINoTably but there is some question
about the license department matter.
Should the committee conclude its work
this afternoon some report Will be made
10 the council tonight.
Nothing on Franchises.
There will be nothing done in regard
To the three intcrUTbau franchises, rs
they have been referred TO n special com
each of the five wards OF the city, Prcsi
dent Ferry has not named the members
OF this committee. SO nothing has been
done IN the franchise matters at all The
committee viii probably be named at the
meeting OF the council tonight,
From all indications there will be Il
strong effort made by some members Of
The council to have reconsidcrcd the re
port OF tho public grounds and water
ways committee denying tho petition of
Strange & Mcguire for permission to con-
sfT A.
CANYON. Tho report was adopted by the
council last Monday night but notice
OF reconsideration was given and the mat
ter VIII bc fought out again. The report
denied the Strange & Mcguire petition
and also recommended that +. j. Moran
he compelled TO remove his asphalt plant
from the canyon by the FIRST Of next
year,
Saving Is Contention.
II is coutcuded by some Of the coun-
cilmen that the placing Of the plants in
tho canyon win be tho means OF n great
saving 10 the taxpayers or the city in
regard 10 the payment OF special paving
taxes. as the contractors will be able to
secure material ~ smaller cost and there
fore can do the paving at n cheaper rate
than II compelled 10 locate in some other
part Of the city and have to haul all their
material 10 their plants.
The matter Of CancelinE the lease OF
II. :. Marectts on the gravel pit near
the Warm springs again will come be
fore the council tonight. as the report
of the committee was laid over from
last week. IL was recomme ndod by the
committee last Monday night that the
Margetts lease be Cancelled because of
his encroachnent upon city property out
side the bounds of his lease and also that
the city refuse 10 sell him its rock crush
q. II is not likely that the report viii he
defeated, as the matter has been con-
sidcrcd In caucus. and it has been de-
cIded by majority of the council that
the report should he adopted.