Show OBJECTS TO WORK ON SURPlUS CANAl Councilman M E Mulvey Sees Chance for City to Lose Money THE MATTER IS HELD UP COUNCIL DISPOSES OF MANY ROUTINE MATTERS I 1 am opposed to this esol Uon and If It passes this council tonight I tell you now that I will enjoin the city from spending a cent of the money said Councilman Martin Mulvey last night re referring referring ferring to the osea expenditure ot of for the and deepening of the surplus canal canalI I 1 will not ote for a thing of this kind for It Is simply throwing the money away There will be no more sink holes for two years ears if I can stop them con continued continued Mulvey This money will hO be nothing and it is just the start of an outlay of or Councilmen Mulvey succeeded In hold holding holding ing up the resolution for a week and declared after the meeting that he would see that the contract for the work Is let through the board of public works Mark signed the resolution which b en adopted b the committee of the whole Thursday night calling for the ex expenditure expenditure of for the enlargement of the surplus canal and placing the work under the direction of Jake P 1 Raleigh street supervisor without plans or specifications It was thought the matter would go through without a protest and the pro prote protest te test from Mulvey brought the matter to toa toa a standstill Mayor John S Bransford said this was an emergency job and could not wait to be advertised and con contracted contracted for in the regular way City At Attorney Attorney torney H J 3 Dininny said It was his opinion that the council had the right to go ahead wim the work as this was an emergency case He will be required to put his opinIon In writing and submit it to the council next Monday night City Engineer George F McGonagle said the Improvement maae with the 5 would be permanent and not be lost but that the city would need to spend about ultimately before the surplus canal would be large enough to carry oft off the water of the Jordan river The resolution was then held up for Do a week and members of the council or others of the administration were invited to go over the ground this week Act on Recommendation The first of the mayors recommendations was acted upon last night when a resolution was passed calling upon the board of estimate and to consider the establishment of the of purchasing agent and for the city at attorney attorney torney to draw an ordinance cr creating the theoffice theoffice office All members of the Salt Lake police pollee force foree will have to pass a physical ex cx at once and all special officers officers cers will have to apply to the chief ot of police for permits to arrest All old badges will be called in and the chief of police pollee will know in the future the men who are asking to have police power All of these too will have to pass a ph phy l examination by the city health corn com commissioner missioner A resolution from J B Moreton in increasing increasing creasing wages of all men receivIng a day to a day and old men inca from to a day went to the board of estimate and apportionment The auditor was Instructed to advertise notice of intention to pave anon road between Second and Third avenues See Sec Second ond West from South Temple to Warm Springs and Fifth East from Third South to Ninth South streets The plan to place the garbage hauling under the street department Instead or of orthe the board of health went over for a week The plans to pay the garbage haulters 50 a day instead of by weight also went over Councilman L E B Hall made an earnest plea for a park extension fund for all moneys received for the sale of city land urging the need for more parks but the matter went over a week More Appointments An ordinance creating the license depart department ment will be drawn at once At the same time all of the appointments ot of City Au RUdolph AUf ir h the license department of his office were approved These had been held up a week Auditor Al sent In another letter say sayIng saying Ing he had appointed C B Stevens deputy ty auditor E B t Bock bookkeeper and Charles A Weaver and J J Acomb clerks but the appointments were held up another week by Mark Several property owners on First West street between South Temple and First South streets protested against running an electric line In front of their prop property property erty Payrolls for the first half of January amounting to were allowed The mayor major appointed Francis R liar Har Hardie die as a probation officer of the juvenile court to fill a Fire thief W H Glore named Wll Wil Ilam B Morrison as of fire alarms C W Young as engineer and Benjamin Thompson and A N Fos Foster Fostar tar ter as firemen and these went to the fire committee |