| Show CHLOROFORMING CHLOROFORMING COMPETITION There are several ways of ot killing competition for city contracts besides owning the city council as the record attests aU est And Salt Lake has had an experimental experience with about every fery curve cuno known to the business Itce P J Moran became official con contractor contractor tractor for or the American adminis administration administration One of ot the common ways of oC discouraging discouraging aging competition is to enforce penalty pe alty clauses dauses for tor delay against an unde undesirable contractor Another way wa is to tomake tomake make It difficult for tor him to get grade stakes Still another Is to reject his material on inspection A third and usually last resort is to open en bids find out who Is low man and an l if IC the undo unde undesirable is Js the lowest reject all the bids and an advertise again This gives th favored one a chance to see how low he must go to get the work and it also means a loss los for or the man who had expected to keep his plant occupied with Ith the work In prospect All of ot these peculiar devices have hae been worked recently on one firm of ot contractors and a new ne wrinkle was added on Monday I day night when an n at attempt attempt tempt was made to enforce the penalty clause for Cor on them although Moran had had no difficulty In getting his hi estimates passed without any such enforcement when ji a larger amount was Involved The result Is to Keep Re p the undesirable concern out of or Its money while Moran gets his as he always s d des es Far be It from us to suggest that there Is anything crooked about such sucha a n game this a reform T R Black the whole works with Davis and others aa as aux auxiliary auxiliary reformers Could there possibly be any skullduggery In a lovely bunch of oC that type But and the suggestion Js made with timidity this reform movement seems to have crossed its wires somewhere so that councilmen who ought to be working for tor the peo t pie act a t as though they belonged on a contractors payroll I be noted In this connection that I Democratic councilman from the Third precinct seems to have got Into the wrong pew pen and In an absentminded moment to have joined the syndicate for tor the prevention of C com competition competition petition in public work |
