Show LADIES MAKE YOUR Husbands and sweethearts happy by buying buy-ing them a fine meerschaum pipe or cigar holder I also have a tine Havana cigar which is in a fine Xmas box A hand some present at SAM LEVYS S 17 and 173 Main street ANOTHER STOVE STORE Opposite the temple south the Spencer Bywater company are selling hard coal stoves at reduced prices I will pay you to call and see them before buying elsewhere I else-where S DRUGS AT COSt Messrs Nelson St Lawson have bought the immense stock of drugs chemicals patent medicines toilet articles and holiday day goods in tho Palace drug store and formerly owned by H B Younger Son The entire stock must be closed out within the next sixty days and will be sold at cost The prescription department is in the exclusive charge of a thorough chemist and registered pharmacist of fifteen years experience Prescriptions will be accurately accur-ately compounded and sold at the actual cost of the drug NELSON LAwsoN S No 257 South Main street HEW CITY CHARTER I Provides for Two Branches of the Council A FIRE AND POLICE BOARD And Abolishes the Ofiices of City and County Assessors Adding Their Duties to Ihose of the Treasurers Some time ago a joint committee of the chamber of commerce ant the city council were appointed to prepare a bill which should be submitted to the coming legislature legisla-ture looking to a revision of the city charter char-ter of Salt Lake This committee is composed com-posed of the following On the part of the chamber of commerce Messrs Fred Simon exofficio chairman Colonel Don nellan Louis Cohn Mr Weeks and H t1 Wells on the part of the city council Mayor Scott who presides as chairman of both committees Councilmen Lyman Anderson An-derson Spafford R W Young and Fol land l landThere There have been several meetings of this committee held and a bill is now being prepared pre-pared which will be presented to the next legislature the principal features of which are as folowsTWO TWO BRANCHES The council will consist of two branches the upper house to be known as a board of aldermen six in number to be elected from tho city at large The lower house known as the board of delegates to consist of twelve members one from each ward the city to be reapportioned into twelve wards Each body to be presided over by its own chairman selected from its own body the I mayor having no control over the legisla I tive body excepting a lmited veto power Members of the lower house will be elected for two years and the upper house for two years but on alternate years TWO BOARDS There are two important boards created viz the hoard of public works which will have more powers than it has heretofore here-tofore had and a board of police and fire which will have power to remove as well as fill vacancies vacan-cies in each department These boards are to consist of three members each to be appointed ap-pointed by the mayor and confirmed by the upper house the chairmen of both boards to devote their entire time to city matters I for which they are to receive suitable compensation com-pensation ABOLISH BOTH ASSESSORS I provides for the abolishing of the office I of city assessor and collector the work performed by that office to be done by the I county assessor and collector The city treasurer is given power to make all spe i I cial assessments and collections The I council will meet once a month the two I houses during different weeks i I is not intended that the legislation will interfere with the coming February election elec-tion or that undue haste bo exercised in ton considering the bill It is also understood that the legislature will be asked to pass a i bill consolidating all elections except I j school elections so that they shall be held I on the first Tuesday after the first Monday I in November each year The city officials to be elected one year county and territorial terri-torial the next I is further understood that a bill will be presented abolishing the office of county collector and the county treasurer be empowered f I em-powered to collect all taxes and I pay the city portion over to the city ye treasurer Should these measures bo carried out it would follow that provision I would have to be made that the officers elected at the February election next would only hold until January 11S93 their successors being elected in November 1892 This in brief is the work of the joint committee thus far REFUSED TO TALK Mr F S Richards the attorney for the committee was asked to verify the provisions provi-sions above enumerated but he positively refused Not one line of the charter has as yet been adopted he declaired and it would be sheer folly for me to say anything any-thing about it The committee is deliberating deliber-ating but nothing is settled as yet not a thing And that is all tho counsel would say |