Show I COUNCIL LIKElY TO OPPOSE AlFF City License Department May MayBe MayBe Be Taken Out of Au Auditors Auditors Hands FOR IMPROVING THE CANAL APPROPRIATION OF WILL PROBABLY BE AVAILABLE Two fights hath both against the city audi auditors auditors tors office are expected to crop out tonight at the meeting of th the city coun counciL counciL ciL One is to take the license depart department meat ment from the auditor and create a spec specIal fat Ial license department of the city gov govern government rn ment and the other Is directed against Clarence B Stevens deputy auditor Some of the councilmen led by Council Councilman man Mark are after the scalp of Stevens on the ground that he be has shown Incompetency during the last tour four years They want Henry C Gaw as the next deputy All of City Auditor Rudolph ap appointments both In his own office and In Inthe Inthe the license department were held up a week ago by toe the council but at commit committee tee meetings Thursday night the license men under Frank B Kimball Kimbal were ap approved approved proved by the committee Councilman however has been busy other members of the new council and he i will have enough support to pu put up a tight fight on Stev Stevens ns and his name may be withdrawn Auditor Alff it Is said promised not to send In the name ot of Stev Stevens Stevens ens but now may stick with him and fight It out It If this is done the are that Stevens will bu be the deputy for another two years Efforts are arc now being made to pull Councilman off aU fa for the good of the party and this may stop any open fight in the council meeting tonight To Enlarge Canal CanalAs As a commIttee of the whole the coun council council cil voted to spend last Thursday night for the enlarging of the surplus canal from the Jordan river to Great Snit Salt Lake to take part of the flood waters in inthe inthe the Jordan during the spring floods The council will most certainly approve this action tonight in which event street Su Supervisor Supervisor Jake T Raleigh will start Tues Tuesday Tuesday day morning working upon the canal The purpose Is to enlarge the surplus canal by deepenIng it about three feet and widening It 2 20 or SO 30 feet Under the present plan the canal will wUl be made to carry 1400 second feet of water instead of as at the present time Just how many teams will be put to work Is not known now but this will be figured out before the week is over It is planned to have hav the whole job finished within sixty days The board of estimate and apportion apportionment mont ment Is due to meet this afternoon to tomake tomake make up the budget for the year The meeting was to have been held last week but the tho city auditors books were not In shape and he could not report to the I council just how much they would have to spend for the year The board con consists consists of the mayor the finance commit committee tee and the city auditor Ono One more appointment Is due for tor to tonight tonight night and that Is from Dr Samuel G GPaul GPaul Paul city health commissioner The ap appointment will be that of H J Schultz as clerk of the board of health to take the place of F L Hansing the change to take effect on February 1 This practically practically completes the list ot of appointments In the board of health as the others will remain as they have been for several weeks past Annex More Territory A report Is expected tonight from the streets committee and committee on mu municipal law in regard to the franchise for forthe I Ithe the Salt Lake Los Angeles Railway company otherwise known as the Saltair road Officers of the company took mem members members bers of the council over the proposed route last Saturday with the result that thata a report Is expected tonight It Is being urged upon the council that some action be taken at once owing to the fact that the managers of the company want to go ahead with the work of electrifying and the road from Salt Lake to Saltair this summer Even after the trIp of the councilmen over the road there are several matters to be taken up and It may be that more time will be asked by the committee before reporting In regard to the proposed franchise The annexation of a large larg piece of ground including some of Sugar House and other unsettled ground to the south southeast southeast east will come before the council tonight with the positive assurance that It will be betaken betaken taken Into the city It if corrected plats plate are tiled filed In the office of the city engineer some time today The plats plate will be tiled filed It Is said and most of the members of at atthe the council have given their promise to annex the land |