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Show THE CITY COUNCIL. A Brief IHscnsslon or the Street Railway Rail-way Question Hud Last Evening. TWO RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED. Washington." Park to ba Improved A ' Toll to be Levied on All (Jor-porations. (Jor-porations. The city council held n session last night, the principal feature of which was iia briefness. A baker's dozen of the city dads responded to the calling of the roll, after winch tho minutes were road and with one slight correction approved. ap-proved. Under the head of petitions a document docu-ment signed by J. B. Jack, John Don-nellnn, Don-nellnn, J. A. Morehmd & Son, W. Jones, M. J. Grey, F. E. Gregg, Henry J. Dieter, Die-ter, Wendell Benson, John A. Blythe, Angus M. Cannon and a great uiauy others asked that tho Bapid Transit company be granted a franchise on First East street. Tho communication was placed ou file. Immediately following came a similar document signed by P. Wellerbeck, C. W. Clayton, J. W. Jen-ings Jen-ings mid several other people asking tnat tho Salt Lake City railway company com-pany be permitted to onjoy the same privilege ntlo 1110 reading was in progress, Councilman Hall inquired for the date on the document. docu-ment. During the tinio consumed by tho clerk in looking for it (.tho date) a representative of tho company volunteered volun-teered the cheerful information that all the names had been placed on the sheet yesterday. Tho petition was referred to the cominitteo on sireets, after which the first petition tiled was similarly disposed dis-posed of. John W. Jenings naked for nnd obtained ob-tained permission to pile building material ma-terial on Fourth street, between Fifth and Sixth East. A petition from u number of. property owners protecting against the granting of a franchise to any street railway company com-pany in East Boulevard nt tho southwest south-west corner of Liberty Park was ro-torrod ro-torrod to the cominitteo on streets, succeeding suc-ceeding which came a notice from residents resi-dents on Second West to t':e offeet that the street railway company has left tho ntroot tilmust impassible and that sonio-thing sonio-thing should be done instanter. Tho committee on stroets will likewise consider con-sider this matter. The city surveyor was authorized to submit n plan for tho improvement of Washington park, nnd then came a calm before the storm. Tho shower broke a moment lifter in tho shape of n ros lu-lion lu-lion by Anderson, which provides that all corporations obtaining franchises from tho city be compelled to pay a part of their groos earnings into the city trensurj. James uniended by including all companies to which franchises had been granted, and tho resolution passed. Then trie city attorney wns Instructed to look up the law nnd see whether or not tho council could do it, litter which Pembroke moved n roeoiiHi(lurntioi), which was lost. The city's counsel was also instructed to furninh lin opinion regarding tho right of tho stroet railway company to occupy First East btroet, lifter which tho council coun-cil adjourned. |