The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-18
RECORD IS MADE
BY CITY SOLQNS
One Hundred and Eight Conf
mittee Reports Are Acted
Upon.
TABLE IS CLEAR FIRST
TIME IN MANY WEEKS
Little Business of Importance,
However. Actually Trans
acted.

With only eight members present.
which are necessary TO constitute quo
rum, the city council N ADJOURNED srs-
sion Thursday evening disposed OF
total of. los committee reports in nddi~
tion 10 acting upon Il variety of othcr
matters IL business, This is tla!ineI
To be the largest number or voll Gll-
tee reports ever acted Gpor 0N lne C't!
council at single session, Also. II may
he said that ioi the Hrst Time In
number of weeks the table was conplcsr-
ly cleared and 10 unfinished business il'
before the body when IL udJHUrnvu
After q short discussion 't Ia" new
ordinance prepared by Tie city attorneys
Office. the west side vIaduci matter went
over for one week Iu give the lacSlhers
n chance to examine the ordinance. How
ever. II Is now agree that the couhc'!
will instruct the Denver sio lTrahcc
Railroad company 10 place rladucts over
beth Fifth South and seventh So9th
streets within the next two years, whlch
the company has practically agreed 10
do. There was some discussion US l"
the percentage Cf the grade OF The ar-
proachcs. but it Is now pretty ccTtai;,
that they will be per cent. which VII
make travel over the vtaGuct2 com
paratigely easy
The Utah Light & Railway company's
application for 4 franchise 10 onnsNuct
q street car line from It's Thirteenth lEaS'
street kne east on Ninth South 10 Mtcni
gan avenue. rhence southeast on Mirh',
gan avenue to Fifteenth East street ana
thence south on Fifteenth East stree! "a
Twelfth South street was granted On lnc
recon mendation of the municipal laws
committee. Tie ordinance declarntory ol
the frnnchisc however. has not yet tecn
drawn This Will be presented later,
Application Goes Over.
The application for street car line
TO the site of the new capitol bGildlnS
evening, August "a. when the interested
property owners are Invited TO meet WIN
The municipal laws committee TO discuss
tho question In detail
Telephone company for tho release ol
IT'S s25 900 bond went over until Inc hrst
Monday in September. when all matters
pertaining 10 the telephone companies
will come mp for consideration Three OF
Councilman J. w. McKinneys resolu-
tions. relative 10 the franchises of the
companies and the transfers. followed Inc
Councilman ] w NcKlnneys proposed
ordinance providing for the closing Of al
saloons al II O'Clock instead OF IL
later with Councilman +. ;. fernstron
proposed ordinance covering the Prov
sions Of the new state liquor law enact
ed by the last legislature
that the petition of the Utah state FAR
association TO MI up the CID EscvenIn
West street canal. between North Temple
and Second North streets for proposed
improvements nj tho fair grounds be
granted. However some dispute arose
as to whether or not the city might want
the canal In the future. as 1t has IN INC
past been used as an overflow canal Tor
tho CITY creek conduit on North Temple
street and the council authorized the
street supervisor to stop the canal from
being filed up until the matter can be
investiga ted.
Must Remove Magazines.
The petition OF the Western Powder
company 10 he permitted TO leave Its
powder magazines In the vicinity OF
Beck's Hot Springs was denied and the
city attorney was instructed 10 notify the
petitioners 10 remove the magazines at
once The council recently passed reso-
luton removing alI powder magazines
from that vicinity.
Councilman G. II Reed introduced n
resolution providing that $4,000 be appro-
priated to defray the expenses OF the
chief of the fire department, w. II. Glore.
TO attend the convention OF fire chiefs TO
be held at Milwaukee. Wis, setember 10
To 22. The matter went over for one
week.
That II might be ascertanod whether
or not the voting machines can be used
al the primary and general elections. as
provided under the new commission bill
passed by the last state legislature. Coun-
Gilman +. s. Fernsrom introduced reso-
Iution providing for the repeating OF the
resolution passed by the city council May
4 1906. which provides for the use of the
voting machines and that the ballot be
used instead The resolution went over
one week,