| Show RAILROAD FRANCHISE For the Utah Pacific Improvement Improve-ment Company PRESENTED IN THE COUNCIL 1flatL I ACTION WAS lIItIIRRCI I I FOR OE WCEIC Wnltcr AVIlllnms Appointed Pnrk Iteirr Ilnrt Ti c > Kookledcp niitlillnK Inspector Snlc of Chg II nrullfn FP piloc Conrt Clerk I The Seer Sjslcni Iloniinc MILl i ter I i I I The meeting of the city council last I night was ouiet comnnrprt with the I preceding sessions A large amount of I important business was transacted however and an ordinance to grant the Ulan and Pacific Improvement c < nipany a franchise through certain streets wes introduced but laid over oiie week for final action 1 members were present J except Councilman Dale Councilman Mulveys desk was app ap-p draped in green in honor I of the day as well as the arrival in his household yesterday of a tenpound Irish patriot i I THE MASONIC CEREMONIES 1 i Upon the desk of each number was I an invitation from the Masonic Ins ternity to attend the public reception I I at its new hal and this was accepted Wlth thanks later on in the proceed I lags pree i OLD FORT SQUARE ACCEPTED I following The first matter to come up was the I I To the Honorable Mayor and CLty Council of Salt Lake City tendemenVe have the honor to inform you that the bjard of directors of the Utah and Pacific Improvement company has this day adopted tihe a lowing resolution towit Be it resolved uiat this corpora tion hereby accepts the grant and do I nation of block 48 in plat A of Sat Lake City survey made by the city i council of Salt Lake City en th llth 1th j I day of March 1896 by resolution en titled A resolution granting Pioneer I square t the Utah and Pacific Improvement I Im-provement company for railroad depot j J purposes which was approved by the mayor pro tern of said city March 12 1S96 upon terms and conditions named in said resolution and th president and secretary of the company ere hereby authorized and directed to execute exe-cute and deliver immedately to the city recorder of Salt Lake City theI companys acceptance of the samp I j In puisuance of said resolution you I I are hereby notified that the Utah and Pacific Improvement company accepts the grant seed donation of block 48 in I plat A of Salt Lake City survey upon the terms and conditions named in the souution passed by the city council of Salt Lake City on the llth day of March 189G and approved by the t nrayur thereof on the 12th day of March 1896 entitled A resolution I granting Pioneer square to the Utah I and Pacific Improvement company for lailroid depo purposes By order of the board of Directors Utah and Pacific Improvement Company Com-pany panyBy GEORGE Q CANNON President ABRAHAM H CANNON Secretary FOR A FRANCHISE The reading of the above was CJ wa 11 lowed by a petition for a franchise as fjllows ITo I-To the honorable mayor and members I of the Salt Lake City council Gentlemen The Utah and Pacific Improvement Im-provement company respectfully peti tons your honorable body to grant pt franchise fcr the term of twentyfive years to construct and operate by cable electric steam C other motive power a single or double track standard guage I railroad on the following streets of Salt Lake City towlt Commencing on South Temple street I at a point about 200 feet west of the vest side of Fourth West street and run I nlng l thence southeasterly on about an j eighteen le degree curve e the centre of I Fourth West street thence south to I I Third South street thence east on Third 1rh South street to Third West street thence I southeasterly into block 4 S plan A of i Salt Lake City survey Very respectfully TAI PACIFIC IMPROVEMENT I COIP AXY By Geo O Cannon Prcsdent A II Cannon Secretary Councilman Le Prohon moved that both communications be referred to the committee on streets Mr OMeaja moved that they be placed on file inasmuch as the ordinance ordi-nance before the council granting the franchise would be discussed This carried Le Prohon alone dissenting PARK KEEPER The mayor notified the council that the term of F W Benson as ark I Keeper having expired he had appointed appoint-ed Mr Walter Williams to fill the vacancy va-cancy Referred to the committee on I public grounds I Ilhll Srund9 BUILDING INSPECTOR I I A second communication from the mayor announced that T C Rooklidge had been appointed to fill the vacancy I created by the expiration of H B Fol I soms term i as building Inspector Also referred 1 SALE OF CIGARETTES City Attorney McKay submitted an oMnion that the ordinance introduced at the last meeting by Councilman El liott to regulate the license and pro hibit the sale of cigarettes would be in valid if enacted for the reason that it imposes a tax on the sale of cigarettes and is not a license in the proper lgarettes sense of the term It is invalid I as a tax for the reason that the city has no ct3 power under Its charter to single out pwer tain article artcle of merchandise and Impose a tax upon i Taxation must be both equal and uniform The report was adopted and thus I this proposed cigarette legislation is knocked legislaton in the head FROM THE AUDITOR I audited City Auditor the books Swan rrported having aul of the x > llce court and found lc curt ad that 51219 had been od collected in fines clect and fnes forfeJtures which amounts had been turned over ta him by Assist ant slst City Attorney Hernpstead Accompanying I the report is a list shoin lst showing against whom the fines assessed In regard to the item were due regr te Iem of 10 from John Walker who aker was fined 30 a February 6 and discharged InC I dischare up on the payment of 20 Mr Swan stated the item has been collected and eol was in cud d in the amount L On February 24 Mr Swan renorns I tnai jamcs Marsden was fined 10 but J this the asslmat cry attorney states that amount was returned to by the desk Ij Morsdim dek sergeant upon repres ° upc represen tattlon of the Officer There rpre Ofce Ther are aLso three items he states on February 1 I vz cash 5 tabor 40 and Febrar the desk sergeant states were reported I in the reprted account for January 1S96 The report a adopted WATER RATES I Tihe committee on water wrks watr 1Is re ported in regard to the petition from 1e the county that the water rates for t sprinkling and fountain en the court tys side of the grounds C deducted The report was Adopted reuct J the amount prayed for On rec3inmendationof the committee j L on public grounds James Burt was granted exclusive us ° of the ravel I beds at the head of I street at a isntal I of J60 per year payable yearly in ad I nce t The same committee reported favorably I favor-ably on the petition of Glen Miller to I purchase a perSon of a lot adjoining his property for a consideration of I s00 This WAS also adopted David F Walker in a communication called the councils attention to the condition of the pavement on Second South in front of the Atlas block and asked that It be repaired The Salt Lake City Brewing comna ny asked for a sewer sfr on Fifth reservation South street east to the government Several taxpayers asked that the road of Fifth South street north of White lake b graded for a short distance dis-tance TO EXHIBIT A PUMP The Anderson Double Water Pump company through its president G G Bywater asked for privilege to tempo rarlly erect a > pumping plant on Cap itol hill on the grounds belonging to the city together with pipe line connection con-nection with City creek for the purpose pose of giving a public exhibition of anew a-new and novel invention for pumping I water I is the companys intention to have the exhibition during the April I conference Granted I Liquor licenses were granted as follows fol-lows James Stevenson 167 South Main Oscar Youngberg 51 East Second Sec-ond South Hogle Bros 17 Main Jonathan I Jon-athan Rae Valley house Stevenson Carlson 158 West South Temple R I Cathug 143 1 Main R M Gurnsey 16 Bast First South F Werner Ec Co I Warm Springs and as manufacturer for malt liquors A Fisher Brewing I company i I POLICE COURT CLERK I Councilman Stewart Introduced an ordinance creating the office of police court clerk The appointment is to be made by the mayor subject to the confirmation of the council The salary is fixed at 75 per month and the clerk must be a member of the bar He must also furnish a bond of 2500 and must keep a correct account ac-count and turn all moneys over to the city treasury semimonthly A motion to suspend the rules and pass the ordinance failed 9 to 5 and the proposed measure must take its regular course Another ordinance was introduced increasing in-creasing the police force by one man THE SEWER SYSTEM i The following resolution was then j I I introduced by Councilman Buckle i Whereas To insure a complete I I success of the sewer system of this city it is an imperative necessity that there be an unlimited supply of wacer for flushing purposes which can be obtained ob-tained from the Jordan canal on Ninth East and Fifth South street therefore be it itResolved Resolved By the city council of Sal Lake city be and is hereby instructed i in-structed to notify the board o public I woiks to Immediately advertise forbids I for-bids for the construction of a main I sewer on Fifth South street from the sewer terminal on said Fifth South and Second East east on Fifth South I to Fifth East street in conformity with the estimate of the cite omrinecr marked estimate No 2 plans for the sewer to be furnished by the city I engineer juie i solution raised considerable I discussion there being some question whether there was sufficient water In the Jordan canal for such purposes Mr Buckle maintained it was a very serious matter especially for the residents resi-dents in that locality He urged the passage of the resolution The same views were taken by Mulvey and others Mr OMeara did not want a postponement post-ponement The board of public works would not meet probably for a week and in the meantime the committee on Jordan canal could Investigate the matter and i found Inexpedient report council re-port at the next meeting of the city A motion to refer the matter to the Jordan canal committee was lost and I the resolution then passed Stewart alone voting negatively Following this Mr Buckle moved for a suspension of the rules and that this ordinance be read the second and third time and placed upon its final passage When Mr Buckle made the motion he held in his hand an ordinance ordi-nance introduced during the early part of the evening by OMeara providing for the granting of a franchise to the Utah and Pacific Improvement company com-pany The motion carried without oh jeo lon and the clerk was ordered to read the ordinance The clerk proceeded to read when a storm of protests came from several members who all declared that they were under the apprehension that they voted upon the Buckle resolution re lative to the Jordan canal matter The chair thought so too and said the vote was illegal OMeara raised the point that the I chairs ruling counted for nothing and asked that the clerk read the minutes I Deputy Clerk Hull explained that Mr Buckle in his motion did not give the 1 j I title of the ordinance but as he iHM the franchise measure in his hand the clerk thought the mover referred to It and embodied it in the records so I that they showed the railroad ordinance ordi-nance was referred to In Mr Buckles I m i nfat I The fat councilman from the Third jumped up and said he did not know what he had voted on which statement I state-ment caused no surprise among the other members Stewart Diehl Callister and Romney I also stated they thought the Jordan I I canal resolution was referred to by Mr Buckle A long wrangling followed foloweI but as neither Mr OMeara or Buckle desired to take any advantage of the point the matter was finally settled by referring it over for one wepk and In the meantime have the city attorney prepare a opinion on the validity of the ordinance valdity After passing the appropriation list amounting to about 1000 the body adjourned for one week |
