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Show IlPOLiCE COMMITTEE FAILS 10 REPORT j bfo One Yet Selected for Position j - of Desk Sergeant; Council Business. I Si clal to The Tribune. OGDEX. Dec. 2S. The police commlt- I .teo of the council gracefully sidestepped I 'the matter of the appointment of Bon I kernes as desk sergeant tonight by fall- I ling to mako a report, as anticipated. The I -situation appears to bo a case of too imany applicants for ono position. While a majority of tho raombcra are not averse Ho reinstating Tomes on the police force, I thev nor the chief of police, are willing to Vcmovo either of the desk sergeants I to mako room for Torncs, although the I latter held the ofllco for some time and I -was acting In thnt capacity when dis charged last summer, if Ternes Is appointed ap-pointed one of tho present desk sergeants will bo made a regular patrolman, but neither Is willing to voluntarily resign. The complexity of tho situation would I have been removed tonight had Sergeant I Critchlow received tho appointment as I clerk of tho municipal court, as was gen erally expected. Although an applicant for tho position, along with a number of others, Judge Murphy sent In the name of Jeaac Fuller, and tho appointment was confirmed. , Thlrty-llvo saloons, ono brewery, and two wholesale liquor nouses were granted I irenewals of tho licenses. An exception. I i however, was made to tne application of I Grolner & Son. Councilman Dickson as- certaJncd from Chief of Pollco Browning that a member of tho firm is a mlnjr. and tho matter was held up pending a 'report from the license committee. A resolution was passed Instructing the payment of $30,400 to the Ogden Waterworks Water-works company on tho contract for tho purchase of the waterworks system. In addition to this amount, tho city already has paid $75,000 on the purchase price. I A petition signed by .7. C. Nye was presented, asking the city to construct a bridge across Weber river on Thirty-first Thirty-first street, for the convenience of the residents In that portion of tho city. Tho petition was referred to the street committee. com-mittee. Councilman Dana called attention to tho condition of West Twenty-fourth street, which Is said to be badly in need (Of repalre, and the matter was passed up to the railroad and street committees commit-tees for Investigation. |