Show COUNCIL TO VOTE ON APPOINTMENT I Mayors Mayor's Letter Giving Devine Post of Fire Firc Chief to I I. I IJ j i 1 Be Read X I t HE WILL BE CONFIRMED f Little Else of Importance to I t Come Before City t i. i J I.-J u j- j I I Solons f tit S fj f j that there thel It Il is confidently expected i will bo be doings at the meeting of or th the 4 10 city council this e evening Every er day a t 5 for or the past week weel caucuses have ha been S. S held not of or the mayor an and council but buto o or of those who would woul seek seel to control them At these thebe caucuses all manner of ut argument has been used usell to In induce ucc tho the mayor to abandon on his manhood I and allow himself to be go governed b by byS bythe S the few rather than re represent resent those S 5 who elected him i The Tho members of or tho tito council who have stood by br the mayor have hao come como comein in for fOl all sorts soils of abuse from the persuaders They Tho have o been threat- threat ened with political al annihilation and andS andover S S over O their theil heads s has lias been h held l the tho 5 club of oC a dirt ht bedaubing e by br the morn- morn lug Jug Kearn Thou Though h there may have o been eon soma somo 5 weakening weakenIng- enough of the members member have havo stood b by their g guna gena n to make mal almost certain th the appointment ol or I James D Devine o. o as chief of or tho the Salt Sail X Lake City fire fare department t t Will Bo Confirmed s t The ma mayors mayor's ors letter of or appointment will go to the time council and tho the appointment appointment ap ap- ap t will bo bu confirmed as mailers matS mat mai S lers tel'S stan stand at present Xo No o officious mcm member cl of the time council will bo ho al allowed al- al lowed to o purloin it with the time sanction sanctionS S o the thc recorder S Those of oC the time Americans lined lIne up with the mayor in of or Devine are Ferry and who have gl given tho mayor their word ord and are expected ex cx- p peeLed to JJ by It Martin who was ono one no of or tho the committee with Avith the mayor maor to tu o otTer offer I tho the appointment to Devine Devinc an and possibly ODonnell who has never ne made O an expression lon of ot opinion am and who was away ayay when therow tho the row 10 started The Tho members of or the council in opposition opposition op op- op position to the tho a administration aro are expected to a man to vote oto for fOl con con- of ot the time appointment Davis cs to Woods President ent A. A J J. Davis is Daisho who ho was the theS S first to suggest as lire fire chief ehler an and who went wont with tho the ma mayor or to offer offerS S him the ap appointment has taken to tho the woo woods s an and will not be a at the tho meeting Some there are who will remember that when there thero wa was a crisis in the council four yearn tal ago an and Mayor lUchard P. P Morris Murris dl dismissed ml ed Devine on admittedly political grounds Davis was wa ah alto also o absent aUsent an and dl did not Vote on either the dismissal or time the appointment ot of Bywater Dwater AI Also o ho P j. j has as b ben absent oth other t ticklish lIsh matters have hare come tome up T 1 Little EI the o to Come Up There seems to tie be c little else of or Im ImS Importance Importance Im- Im S to come before the council Tho The new franchise franchise- prepared b by tho the assi assistant tant city attorney for tho the Rocky Mountain Telephone company In line with the settlement made by the license committee in lieu licu of tax ma may I receive Its first reading if iC Councilman Stewart does dOts not manage e to hold hol it up again l In Stewart does doc not consider cl that he ho was sufficiently consulted in the making of ot the arrangement whereby where y the company compan agrees to pa pay into the city treasury one per cent of its Us gross city earnings an and has announced that he it ought to be more He has therefore held up tho the or ordinance for tor somo some weeks S Xo No 0 Bcd J Light TaU Talk The Time l' l red light removal petitions will wilt not hot be ue taken up In tho the council the theS S councilmen declaring that they can canS S take tako no official cognizance of or tho the scheme an and that tho the mayor and nud chief of ot police are alone alono responsible S There Thero was wa a good crowd d at the tho council cham chamber er last week expecting a row and it will probably bo larger largel S t tonight It Is possible however that tho the confirmation of Devine will be made sullenly an and without debate |