Show RESE DELAYED Construction of First South Street Basin Postponed t T POLITICS IN ic COUNCIL I t SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO TtY CONSID CONSIDER C ER EB TRACK REMOVAL 1 t After Long rong Discussion City Council By Strict Party Vote Decides to Again Advertise For Bids to Con Construct Construct Construct Proposed Read Head of First ErSt South Street 4 There Is going to be b delay d lay in inthe inthe Inthe the construction of oe the new reservoir at the head of First South street et The city council decided last night by a strict party vote and after a discussion on which promised to become acrimonious that bids would be advertised for again by the board of public works The matter came up on OD the motion of Fernstrom to accept the i lowest bid for the work and have Con fon Construction begin at once There were two bids which h hod been received by the board and r reported ported to the council with the recommendation that they be rejected They were A AG AG G Giauque for and arid P J Moran for The lowest of these was between and above the coSt coot of the reservoir as estimated t by y the city engineer Mr Fernstrom advocated the accept acceptance acceptance ance of the lower l bid All the other Democrats fell in line and made speeches in favor of the adoption of his motion while almost every Republican R opposed it Councilman Gemmel charged that there was evidently a combination be between between between tween the two bidders to keep up the price I dont believe in m being held up by contractors in this way wa he lie exclaimed ll Whittemore and Hartenstein spoke the one in opposition to and the other for the motion Tuddenham favored ft It Dr Beatty thought that if it was necessary to have the reservoir this summer he did not believe was too much to pay for it Fernstrom who demanded his right to close the discussion maintained m that if the was not let now nov the work could not be done this summer summer while there was waa a great necessity for water W ter He said that it was worth more than the extra cost to o have the reser reservoir reservoir reservoir voir at once Pays Respects R to Kelsey Then Ihen he paid his hiB compliments to City Engineer Kelsey Kelse declaring that his re requirements reqUirements were so 50 technical that con contractors contractors contractors tractors did not want to bid on public works So long as we have him v we e must ex cx expect expect to pay 25 per er cent more for con contracts contracts contracts tracts said he There have been no bids for the sidewalk in front of the city hall and we e have only two bid for this reservoir There will be a strike of ot contractors and we wont have any bids at all Its unfortunate that in this work vork we cant give the lowest lovest bidder the dhe job because he is a Dem DematHe at atHe He feared that the Republicans want wanted wanted wanted ed to put the work over until the No November November vember ember election so they might have for foreign foreign foreign eign contractors come coine in with hobos to vote the ticket Councilman moved the two bids be rejected and the board of ot public works toe Ibe to advertise for more bids His motion carried carrie Beatty eatty Canning Cottrell Gemmell Robertson Thomas Thomos Whittemore and Buckle voting for it while Fernstrom Hartenstein Hart C CR CR CB R B Howe Edgar Howe Reid Held and Tuddenham Tuddenham denham voted against it The statement was made that the ad advertising advertising advertising could be done in two weeks and the contracts let letA letA letA A report of the committee on public lands recommending a lease of pf prop property property property erty near the isolation hospital l to C CM M lf Madsen for per year raised some discussion The committee said that 25 had t been een accepted on account Robertson pointed out that this lease seemed Beem d to include the ice ponds in the southern part of the city and he op opposed opposed opposed posed it He declared that no one had been authorized to receive money from Madsen The matter was waa referred to i ithe the committee Water M ter Debate A request of the superintendent of cf waterworks that he be authorized to water meters brought more discussion Robertson motion to adopt by motion to refer to the t e board of pub works and ani he read an opinion from Attorney Stephens declaring that the purchase was in the nature of improvement it should be so re referred Whittemore care very mu h the opinion of the city attorney and he want the matter referred Robertson thereupon spoke of himas him as General Whittemore and nd he blushed at the compliment Aft After r the meeting he maintained that he mean to question Mr Stephens ion i on of the law Jaw However the purchase was referred and the board was in instructed instructed s to consult the superintendent f streets and the committee on water waterworks waterworks waterworks works before purchasing the meters The appointment of George Sheets by Chief of Police Hilton to the position of detective was w confirmed But his ap appointment appointment of John B Furster and Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph W Bush to be policemen was re referred to the committee on prison and police on oat motion of Cottrell Furster is Chief Hiltons These two men are to guard the residents of the city jail jall while they toy with the new boulevard A special committee of five was ap appointed pointed to consider the removal of the Rio Grande Western tracks on Eighth and Ninth South and In the southeast southeastern ern em part of the city Many residents had petitioned for the removal ing the trains in that part of the city dangerous The chair appointed Thomas Robertson Fernstrom denham with himself to consult with the Rio Grande Western officials and the residents who complain of the dan danger danger ger Petitions Read Bead and Eef Referred erred petitions were read and re to committees The petition of Thomas H Morrison offering for a apart apart apart part of lot 10 plat pint A near the Warm Wann Springs was read and referred to the committee on public grounds Residents of Third and Fourth streets petitioned for a connection be tween two dead ends of water mains one coming down Canyon road ro d and theother the theother theother other on Third street As it now no is there is no water during the summer r time from 8 S and 9 in the morn mom ing until 10 and 11 at night This connection it is js declared would make a better system s tem The petition was referred r to the committee on waterworks Residents of Ninth North asked that the city rebuild or repair the old darn dam damon darnon darnon on the Jordan river at Ninth North be fore June 1900 1000 They declare that this was destroyed by the city in 1897 and I unless it is rebuilt or repaired rep ired great eat damage from lack l ck of Irrigation irrl will wilt re result r rC suIt sult The petition was referred to the committee on irrigation A petition to t open and grade Tenth East street from Young YounS street to the intersection of Spruce was referred to the committee on streets A petition of Secretary Murphy of the th Salt Palace Exhibition company for an amusement license for f rab about t four months beginning b June 4 was referred r to the committee on CD licenses es t in instructions to tore reTt rt ext Tuesday George G C fr T l fn r n t to i show shw sh ow samples of ot water meters under understanding standing sta that the city was about to purchase pu meters The communication communications was wa s referred to the e committee on waterworks wa Dr D r Beatty offered two resolutions concerning co the Society for the Prevention Pre n tion tio n of Cruelty to Animals One was was an instruction to the police polke department to prosecute cases of cruelty and it Its was wa s carried The other provided that t fine fin e collected in these prosecutions should sh be paid to the society But on motion mo tion of Edgar HOwe H we the resolution resolutions was wa s referred ta to the city attorney for an aninion opinion op upon the legality of he prop proposition proposition tion |