Show CITY COUNCIL the east part of the city to be drained INTEREST IN THE CAUSES A SPAT resulting in the appointment of an investigating committee the regular monthly session of the city council waa held last night with mayor in alie chair for the first time fora long period there djs u full attendance the business transacted was the filling up of the vacancies in the standing committees of the council occasioned through the resignation of dunn driggs and talmage since the appointing of the committees after the election and qualification of the present council alderman brown presented a petition signed by G E ll asmussen and others asking for the erection of alaon bridge across what is known as the old distillery creek at the junction of E and I 1 eleventh streets referred to the corn cittee en streets and alleys with authority to act in the premises the following communication was read by the mayor to the mayor and city conwil of provo city at a meeting of citizens of this city held on the ultimo the undersigner undersigned under signed were appointed a committee to confer with your honorable body and ask that provo city sell the west portion 0 one 21 commonly known as the square for the erection of business houses at the present timo the business of aliis city is principally confined to the north side of seventh estand extends thereon for a distance of about half a mila for the last three years the greater portion of business seems to have cen tred to within one block of the first national bank building block sixty six lying immediately on the south is occupied for tabernacle and meetinghouse meeting house purposes and is unavailable thus shutting out any possibility of occupancy for business purposes immediately in that direction block twenty eight plata adjoining the bank block en the east is principally owned by the brigham young academy with its title in such a condition as to render it also unavailable for occupancy in a business sense from these fait it must be apparent to every one that there is no ground contiguous to the present business centre that is available to any one who may desire to invest means in building up our city and thus help it to keep pace cities of tins territory when our courthouse Court bouse was erected on one quarter of tins block with its jails and surroundings the original design to make of it a public park must certainly have been abandoned by those who placed the building thereon as for that ue it is now impracticable if not impossible besides it is very seldom that cities have their public parks at or near their business bentres centres cen tres it is believed that the sale of eight or nine rods from the w est part of this block will enable the city to construct a city hall which is anich needed at the present time besides putting upon the ground now used for roiling weeds business building which when occupied would bring into the city treasury thousands of dollars by the in crease of taxable property while our sister city and county of salt lake contemplate operating cooperating co in building a courthouse and city hall thus putting in near proximity the place for all public business we believe the convenience of such an arrangement has been demonstrated in this present courthouse to such an extent that the joining to or near this present building on its west with proper architectural design another buldini for city purposes would borove far more economical ornamental and convenient for the citizens than the building of a city hall at a distance from this building hoping your honorable body will soe the advisability of disposing of the portion of ground named as we believe greatly to the interest of tho city we are very respectfully W X GEO F W C councilor farrer moved its considers con sidera tion to the committee on public grounds and city property alderman moved to amend by re ferrins it to the committee of the whole remarking that it was something for the council to look into councilor farrer opposed the amendment he did not it advisable L could be referred to the committee of the whole afterwards alderman holdaway could not see any benefit to bo gained by referring the communication lo 10 the committee on public grounds and city property first alderman brown moved to amend the by postponing further action until the next session of the council thi motion met with no and mr scotts motion was put and carried the caty presented a petition asking remittances of city taxes of sundry for various causes granted on motion of alderman hoda dav the report of the recorder for licen pes collected showing a total of during the anth of january as referred to the committee on li bense the report of the street supervisor showing the amount of collected n taxes during january and spent in labor was accepted the report of the city marshal for ra nunry showing fifteen arrears ar and collected in fines wag accepted the report of tie quarantine physician up to january assuring the council that there was not an acutt case of diphtheria in tho city and that he had away as much as he charged the city was read the report chows dhows an expense af having been accrued in treating diphtheria case lurins ohp time specified the clain was referred to the committee on quarantine alie report of the city sexton farm march 30 to january 31 showing 1 total of deaths was rad and accepted the treasurer was ill the next meeting of the council to make bia annual report the time for complaints and correcting errors n the Water masters report of assessment was fixed for monday the dinst at 7 when petitions for remittances and abate inputs etc will be heard by the council the compensation of the was then fixed at the rate of per lay and his deputies per day the next matter was the flying of the rate af water tax for the year on motion of alderman scott the fum of per city lot was fixed and 60 cents for each acre of farming land bene fitted by irrigation furnished by the city councilor farrer reported in behalf of the joint committee on irrigation and streets and alleys appointed to consider the advisability of draining the east side of the ciar the report says to the city council city GEST LEMEy we your joint committees on irrigation and streets and alleys to whom was referred the petition of john C feric et al also the petition of T E et al asking the city to drain tho cast side of the city report that in the opinion of your committee the health and i prosperity of the city requires that measures be taken to drain the east side of the city alao that immediately east of it that the lest location for said drain would be from the west along the north side of south the west side of 0 street to a point about five rods south of third street the said drain should be constructed ted according to the profile herewith submitted that it be culvert gd and that alio lverts culverts cu ba inide of red pine plank the eaid drain shall icae not ies fian ten feet fall and of sufficient capac it to convey all the stir that may at tiny time be delivered into it the approximate of such a drain would be about thousand dollars and we le commend that the work be proceeded with immediately considerable discussion ensued a to what kind of pipe would be profitable to be used in the carrying off the water on motion of mr farrer alie report was adopted the committee on police and city prisons to whom was referred alie matter of increasing the compensation of wm chesley as night watchman recommended that wm chesley be added to the police force and eliat he attend to the cites interests in its property the committee on public pounds and 1 city property reported on the matter of fixing up the basement of the county courthouse for justices purposes that they had met the county court and that the coulty had agreed to bear two thirds of the expense in fixing the basement up mr moved the report be adopted and the committee instructed to proceed with the work several opposed the idea as the basement way not a fit place for judicial purposes and that it would be only money thrown away as at some future day provo would have a building for its exclusive use mr scott moved that the report be laid on the table wanted to know if tho city was entitled to the ue of any part of the courthouse it was true chev owned one sixth of the building and paid one third for all the improvements made but when it came to the use of the building they certainly did not seem to have any the upstairs was rented for district court purposes jury rooms commissioner court district court clerks bince from the rents of ft ach alie city had never received one cent remuneration even the council chamber was occupied by the counte court and partly by county clerk if the city had any rights in the building he would like to know it ue was not in favor of fixing up the basement for the benefit of the county that is what it would amount to the mayor here stated that so far as he knew the county had never in trenched upon the rights af the city mr brown thought if the city onnel one sixth of the building and the county had routed tho upper portion to the for 1200 ft year the city should receive one sixth of that amount as the city certainly did not occupy more than one sixth of the room below he was in favor of the upper portion of the city jail bein used for the benefi of the police justice it would not cost much and would be far more preferable than the basement of the courthouse mr hansen was in favor of the adoption of the report and the basement being fitted up it would hut entail an expenditure of thirty five dollars mr holdaway thought that the chares made that the city did not receive justice from the county in the matter of alie use of the building were unfounded and beine a member of the county court as well as a member of the city council he did not to sit and hear unfounded charges against the county there were no grounds for alie accusations they were unwarranted and were doubtless the result of jealousy on the part of those making them mr brown repudiated any feeling of jealousy as being the cause of the charge being made that the city did not receive its rights in the benefits of the courthouse the city was entitled to cne siah of the rent from tha upper portion of the house and should have it the mayor wanted to know if the members were making rash statements or were they weighing well their words if the present arrangements were not satisfactory let a committee be appointed and have an investigation he did not want to hear any more about it mr maiben here called the attention of the mayor to the fact that four years ago the city had a room for a justices court now they had none the mayor remarked that the subject was getting threadbare especially when members made remarks of which they knew nothing let matter be investigated vesti gated and borovor settle the talk mr alexander had nothing to do with the quarrel but he was certainly interested te in the matter he was in dav or of alie upper portion of the city jail being used for justices purposes and the aid board fence around the jail being removed as well as sundry other improvements being effected the motion of mr scott that the report lie on the table was then put and carried the committee on judiciary to whom was referred the bill establishing fire limits for provo reported back the bill with amendee its alderman holdaway moved the adoption of alie report carried the same commit tta reported on tho petition of bupt supt W H bancroft of alie D R G presenting a bill to correct the evil of fruit peddlers on the trains the report was adopted the mayor here requested that the council appoint a committee to investigate into the real condition of provo cites interests in the county courthouse mr pasman moved the chair appoint a special committee of tarpa for this purpose adopted the mayor appointed W K H pasman john A brown and henra J maiben mr desired to decline serving he was perfectly satisfied with the way things were aud he would rather ee same of the dissatisfied ones appointed after a good deal of suggestions tins in bulged in by the members mr alexander was appointed in the place of mr ali following claims were then al lo leej ej J W turner police service board of prisoners supervisor of streets 14 S jatinen Jt inen ringing curlew bell 4 P L jl B Co coal the claim of J C jones for ine service was referred to the ee on quarantine alie application of S M bugging for cense as retail liquor dealer for three months haq granted the application of R S hines for license was referred back for correction on motion of alderman holdaway the follow ing committee of were appointed to supervise the work of draining the east portion of the city holdaway farrer and daniels the recorder was instructed 0 o pro printed cards of standing committees the council then adjourned till monday next at 7 p m |