Show A FREE discussion engaged in by those bidding witcher jones was there the contract city council met last evening monday august 31 t in adjourned session mayor booth presiding llull called L S glazier absent on motion of councilor maiben the rules wera suspended md the council took up a bill to forfeit a franchise granted to witcher jonea passed june and executed june 1800 it was found investigation that tad city attorney had a copy of the bill and marshall brown was requested to find him and fecere his attendance while the council was for mr king mr liddiard chairman cf tha committee reported informally a of bida the COK cittee received in answer to the advertisement ti for bids for waterworks water works mr rhodes mad a proposition to th affect that his specifications slowed an estimate of for construction const a gallery but after further examination ha wa doubtful as to the practicability of a water supply in a gallery ia the place first decided upon and would credit the city on the and ast 1st tho city build its own gallery or would put in a set of filtering busina in caad the gallery prayed insufficient and let the contract romain as it is mr chodes adso wanted the privilege 0 of appointing his own of waterworks water works for one year after alio completion of the works tha time of his guarantee and tho of way for pipe lines mr jones had submitted a proposition to furnish a system of waterworks water works of cast iron and pipe for baah or 6 20 year bonds also a second proposition to put in a system of wood pipe and for G per cent 20 year bonds or 85 cash mr D J mccane proposed to ant in a system of lor payments to be made on the and of each month on a babis ot 85 per c it of the work completed alie balance 0 15 per cent to be diio n hen the worn wis accented mr system consists of 18 inch cement pipe and iron giue mr mccame anis addan ce tor his system that iho cement pipe can be mada here and this ft ill art a abw industry for t ie city cement pipe can also be used in system and the city will be enabled to put n a sewerage system at an earlier data by haying the cement bips pips works here mr made a second proposition to enter into the eenice of the fity as engineer and superintendent 0 and ane cita construct its 0 n by floating of orda to obtain money to pay for pipe and fiffi hydrants etc in this casa he anat a main supply pipe ba laid through the central portion of lt city and lay service pipes as the property owners required them to be paid by the property owners who were benefited benefi tad the sewerage system could be put in the same n ay the council hare adjourned to the court room up stairs and the city actor ncy arrived tt ith the bill to forfeit jonea franchise A motion that the bill pars its second reading was made mr geare sutherland attorney for and the provo co asked to be heard the bill H claimed that mr jones had always been willing and maioka to perform his part of tha contract and add noi done BO for the that the council had not complied inn the derais of the ho red horn the contract to show that it could bot be abet aside if the failure to completo tho arl in time specified RIS caused by adv neglect on iho part of the city tc fill its pat pa t of the contract mr sutherland claimed the city had rofu ed to spec i afy the number of hydrants it take and that mr jones could not order hi without great aca unless he kaew what material he woula need in the construction oc ohp councilor maiben replied that le acty hid agreed to take 50 st 75 per aad an extract i oai tho council minutes showing tins to uc so mr wanted the cita to ree to nice hydrants at 75 annually ana had flud ho could noi float th unless he wag guaranteed thic of revenue there had been said about guaranteeing siy anious for hydrants when the iran chiae was chanted cr anted hut alter mr joica received tho cacao this demand as acordi tion of hia fiig part of the and refused 0 o put in th system he had procured unless his dp mand haq conD lied with hut had offered to put in an inferior system in klaif af it which the council would not a cant air witcher jones replied vilh somo warmth that ho had always absen read to put in the and had beit 2500 in mauff eur veva but the council lad not shown a disposition to treat him fairly lie had put in another bid tiow ar d believed he the best bid the question was called and the bill pasted its second councilor stated abit mr jonca had told him he did not to mi ncy money out of the waterworks water works t and mr AIri iben it had cocoa intention to till the aih he found ho tras unable to bloat the bonds the council biad root him in a fair pint and had offered to euca number of h arants as the less than would do sir jones the bill passed its rea readus dug the connul otine ju motion of air dibou alie council went into committie commit tse of the whole to consider tho propositions for water works mr bixon was called to the chair and the bidders were requested to explain their systems to mhd committee colonel stevenson representing mr jones explained carnely the of his vo tin aa to price and quantity of water delivered he referred to mr rhodes as inferior and char sir McUan nes system as a costein cv stein the colonel did not think provo wanted a second class j the council to submit the rans 1 to three engineers aan believed liia system would le approved by them mr rhodes asted the colotel co louel how it was that air 3 ones system crould deliver twice as banh water w the avs lmh proposed to put same B se of pipa this caused of plans and some with the that it lyns decided some mistake had baen asade in the figures mr M channe claimed a larger supply i of water fur his system than tho others but on account of not having had time to go over the grousd so thoroughly as his was unable to give the locations of his line 10 the satiation of the council below wo give the number of feat of different size pipe ane companies propose to furnish rhodes bros io feet 12 in feet 10 in 2425 feet 8 in feet C in lest 4 in witcher jones feet 14 in 4 feet 12 in 2500 feet 10 in feet 6 in feet 4 in mr was requested to give his opinion of ahe systems presented hb favored air Il hodes proposition and believed the system prepared by him prove satisfactory and advantage ous to the city the wooden pipe will last longer th an aa ordinary lii a time he had come here to bid on the work found he would by unable to get the material here and complete the i works within the specified time mr alien explained th durability of the different kinds of pipe and spoke f favorably of brothers tion sir rhodes had explain oJ his proposition to the council and had no further explanations to make he called attea tion to mr jones proposition and painted out that mr jones had not made any promises to build the gallery but if it was built the city would haye to build it besides cayia sir jones for aia system mr donaa objected to this and tried to point out chero the callery was mentioned in his specifications mr rhodes claimed that this was done in such a manner that it would be optional with mi jones whether he built or not this lead to some between the gentlemen attention was called to tha motion before the council at the last ro lating to the proposition of rhodes bros the motion was to consider the proposition favorably and recommending its acceptance councilor dann ws roady to antar into a contract tonight he wanted waterworks water works and wanted them at once tou much time had been iraa tei already aud he waa in favor of khoder bros proposition as he had faith in mr jones niter the experience in the past liddiard alip ex peri ence of the council with mr jonea over the ground very yul he aras in favor of accepting chodes broa proposition mayor booch reviewed the different systems of waterworks water works that had ban find also the conri 8 pursued by mr jones in his attempts to supply iia with waterworks water works mayor booth did not hink sir jones was entirely to alamo he thought the council was tr blame for not knowing that mr jones would corns in and aak for annual rent after having made a positive contract to put in the works for a certain price bufa tha council did not know 1 this and do not know noar what mr jones will do if he gets another contract he was in favor of giving the contract to chodes bros air jones mayor booth and offered to give sufficient bonds for the performance perlor mance of the contract hut mavor booth saw no advantage in ins is mr jones had given bonds before and had not dono the work councilor maiben referred to the great loss already sustained through the failure of mr jones to fill hie contract aad nas n in favor of accepting the proposition propos ilion of rhodes bros councilor henrichsen Henric haen spoke of tho just impatience of our citizens on the question and nas n as prepare to voto for the acceptance of mr rhodes proposition tha motion rhodes bros proposition wag put and carried the committee then reported to the council recommending the acceptance of rhodes arob proposition mr dixon called attention to a promise of mr rhodes to employ home 1 bor and use home material BO far as poa aible aud wanted thip provision included in the contract chich was agreed to the council then adopted report of the committee the city attorney was instructed to gel up a contract between provo city and rhodea bros on motion the mayor iras with the attorney in up the contact the council adjourned till 10 tuesday sept let when the contract will be presented for ita consideration uny council met in adjourned session today at 1 mayor baota presiding roll cille c ille I 1 absent dunn and id biad mayor booan stated the attorney had not been able to pet the contract between the cita and rhodes bros ready and a recess was taken till aso p m |