Show ECONOMY OUT OF STYLE two county commissioners commissioners make a present COUNTY LERK CLERK ASSISTED bids invited on an one basis for tho publication ot of the delinquent tax LS Li stand the contract awarded on an in altogether Dif different forent one in their anxiety to favor the herald armstrong and hall ignore nn an offer to bid less lesa it means an additional expense to the county the two democratic comon commissioners to ot of salt lake county auy ably assisted by county CI clerk rk dunbar made the glicr h ad I 1 bublis publishing ing company a present ot of several hundred dollars yesterday by their manipulation of oc the advertising ot of the delinquent tax list lierly in the reels the county clerk wrote letters letter toil to the dally daily papers ot of tho the city asking them to present bids for the publication of the list in the dally daily issues alone for ten days tile the bids were opened yesterday afternoon at tile board rooms the deseret news offered to print the list lint la in its ita dally daily for or ten consecutive days according accord ins to a mr dunmars Dun bars ficat tons at the rate of 1014 cents for each name and description the tribune bid 35 cents and asked ked the board to take into a account the circulation of the papers and make the aliard award on a basla baas 0 of so much per thousand copies of the paper actually printed and circulated the circulation cu to bo be attested by a sworn statement ta front from the publisher the tribune also offered to prove that its littlon to bons bona fide subscribers and buyers ups nas equal hotho combined circulation cul cu ot at the herald and news HAD DEEN BEEN then oame came the heralds bid in w alch M mr r Dun dunmars bars diplomatic hand appeared the herald offered to publish in the dally daily lit at the rate or of 10 cents per name or in the dally and semiweekly semi weekly at the rate ot of 15 cents centa per name it also offered to publish in lour four issues of 0 the semiweekly semi weekly at 9 cents per name the tribune find and news neus had been advised that the county clerk had bad arranged matters tor for the herald to get the job find and the sequence allowed that the arian arrangement gement was jas greased commissioner armstrong at once elaborated on the necessity or of having the list printed in the semiweekly semi weekly and precipitately moved that the contract contra et bf be fill added to tho the herald tor toe the dally daily and somi weekly mr Raw llna dins with avith equal agility made the some same plea tor for the hebald commissioner pall hall wanted to know N w hy the other p papers h had not been asked to bid on art the dally 7 1 v it and d som semiweekly semi I weekly also and called for the reading of 0 tile letter leiter from mr dunbar to the he publisher while this was going on it a representative of the news akad pet pel mission to make some remarks lie he sald paid it waa manifestly unfair to make art award or of the kind proposed without allowing the other papers to bid on the same proposition the news had a 0 elre circulation u la or of one third more than the ifer herald ald and would undoubtedly undoubted Ir offer to pi I 1 n t the list in AM all of its issues issue for much mu ll 11 less lebs that than the 1 13 cents asked by the c herald you are practically making the hebald it a cresent sent lie said when you give them 5 cents additional for PI inting matter malter in the semi semiweekly weekly they will bave no ila extra expense for composition or anything else except the white paper on which the list la Is paint ed they only have to in three thre additional issues and we think it would 00 oo be very unjust to do it that without no till giving us a L chance to bid we v will III undoubtedly bid less than the heralds offer it if allowed to do so ito at this mr armstrong gave an excellent exhibition of 0 lit his ability as it a comedian ite he lad suffered much lie he wild paid by tilds bids to he be opened and then modified or new bids brought in III by other people and he propose to have anything more of that eliat kind the news man suggested that tile papers who volto were ere being beaten out of business by an unfair hid bid hall had a right to object to such cuch methods bu but t at mr r armstrong went ahead and re repented his big motion to award to tho the herald mr all Itaw Raul lins fris seconded it and mr ale liall hall called for a roll call on the motion CLERK PLEA meanwhile Mean Mille mr dunmars Dun bars ariter hall had been read and the clrk liba himself self had made an address on behalf of at the herald which had no other re representative presenta tive present in tones that would mould have lubricated brica ted road roller he be explained that flint the blaid was not compelled to ask ahk for bids at all As aa a 0 mutter matter a of r courtesy the papers paper had been asked to put h lit bids tor for the dally daily anti and all had responded mr dunbar tailed failed however to explain how bow the herald had been put up to bidding on a proposition tor for there had been no up ap call and lit r which the other othe papers had bad no notice then be sat down to await the result tile the ou outcome acome was as as had been expected by everybody who knew aliat hat had been going on during tho the week and tile tho contra contract was mas givert to the herald ly by 2 armstrong and rawlins Ilaw lins mr hall voting in the negative in the routine business the board received a petition for aid in thi h construction of it a road etora fourteenth south ind and Rei wod to the point of at tile the vlas billed 11 1 1 S lo 10 love ve fley bey prevented ted a petition tor for ills li appointment no as county bee in inspector ettor I to the county attorney rimer nimer hill and sixteen others ethers naked asked tor for the appointment of william thompson o 0 oi i justice or tho tit at Bing Bl neham loarn kern red to the county attorney tile the illy city board ot at education was grain ted tha free use uie of live boxes for the coming school election A number of oc annual reports from road were read and referred refe ired to the floada committee and the bourd board adjourned |