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Show INTERSEGTiCN BILL ! Hearing Is Punctuated by Denunciations, Personal ! Tiffs and Applause, NO DECISION REACHED Matter Will Again Be Taken Ta-ken Up Some Time Next Week. Denunciations, one or two personal tiffs, Applause, charges that the hill was drawn to further certain private pri-vate interests and that its enactment would dispossess poor people of their homes, were among the things that marked the hearing on one of the in terseetiou paving hills in the chilly senate sen-ate chamber last night. W. II. Wilkins, speaking against the bill, declared some features were unconstitutional, un-constitutional, and drew the fire of W. E. Hubbard and one or two others by saying that 'the bill was drawn in the interests of paving contractors and real estate speculators. ' ' Where is the violation of a constitutional con-stitutional provision?"' demanded H. J. Dininny, Salt Lake City attorney, who drew one of the intersection bills before be-fore the legislature. Wilkins Is Sarcastic. " Your courtesy is extreme,'5 said .Mr. "Wilkin?, with sarcasm. "I didn't interrupt you."' Mr. Wilkins discussed the bill further, fur-ther, leading Addison Cain, who is lavorabte to the hill, to sugsest to Chairman D. O. Eideout that Mr. Wilkins Wil-kins was occupying too much time. "It's too late to call time now, after Mr. Dininnv took an hour to explain his bill, ' ' retorted Mr. Wilkins, amid loud applause from the opponents of the bili in the audience. Mrs. Daniel Letham, who said she was a widow, denounced the bill as one which would inflict a too heavy burden on poor people, already taxed beyond their means. "We cannot pay more," she said. ''If I am taxed any more I'll have to give up my home. 1 cannot pay. " W. E. Hubbard, who resented the thrust about real estate dealers and was uuiy applauded, suggested that ,the present bills be amended to permit people peo-ple who want paving and are willing to p;y for the intersections as well, to ha e the privilege of putting it down ic" a majority petition for it. This suggestion sug-gestion seemed to find some favor from both sides of the house. Telling Point Made. " Tt will take ninety-nine years to i avo this citv unless we have something like this,'' said Mr. Hubbard. '"The c ity c? n not keeD up with the growth of the community; it cannot provide JV.nds for paving all intersections in Ftrfetr! where the residents want paving. pav-ing. Many of us have petitioned for pears for paviug and haven't got it yet. Why can 't we have a law under which we can get it?'' Mr. Hubbara said many people had Wt Salt Lake and invested their money mon-ey elsewhere because of this condition. Thomas H. Burton, chairman of the legislation committee of the Municipal laiTue of Utah, comprising the smaller cities of the stat-3 nr?ed passage of the bill. "We want paving end other improvements im-provements in the little towns, " he paid. -'Because yon started on the wrong way of doing it in Salt Lake, we don't want to have to follow." ( '. L. Countryman, representing the Bingham Commercial club, spoke again.it Ul bill. Many Interruptions. M;:pv nf the speakers were inter-rnntpd, inter-rnntpd, principally by Harry H. Joseph, so the chair f in a Ily had to administer a rebuke and prohibit interruptions. ' I don "t mean to interrupt, ' ' interposed Mr. Joseph, "it -"a just a habit." Xo action on the bill was taken by the committee last night. The chairman chair-man said thyre would be another bear-Jug bear-Jug som" afternoon next week, and in the meantime it is believed that the authors of the bills will 6Uggest Home n mend men ts to temper the provisions so that the pmaller property owners will n"t find them so objectionable. Chief objections raisH last night were a gainst the- paving of intrr.wtionH by taxpayers and the placing of nil the cost, of grading nn thr property owners, instead of one-half, as now. |