Show REMINGTUN GOT WRATHY And Wanted to Jump on the Whole Police Force THE FEANCH1SES PASSED nUT THE ANNEX WILL GET A FIVE CENT FARE The Gravity Sewer Will Be Pushed to Completion V 3Iadsen For the Public AVorlcs TJie Copper Plant Property Committee Has Reported The city council met last night in regular session with all members but The Clawson and McCornik present most important business transacted was the passing of the two franchises granting to the street railway companies com-panies an extension of life for fifty years In these the people of the annex an-nex are given a victory as they obtain ob-tain 5cent fares The taxing of cars instead of fares is adopted The matter mat-ter of paving is settled Remington who has gained the unenviable reputation reputa-tion of being the champion kicker of the council presented a resolution designed to send his name thundering down the ages In i he criticises the action of the mayor and chief of police in taking the force to Ogden and asks that their offices be declared vacant va-cant The document is almost fanati cal It was determined to push the gravity sewer to completion A report re-port was presented from the committee commit-tee appointed to purchase 2000 worth of property for the city on account of the copper plant bonus recommending the acceptance of the offer of L D Kinney The mayor sent in the name of P W Madsen as successor of W P Noble to be u member of the board of public works The work was very light The proceedings were as follows PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICA-TIONS The Metropolitan Stone company presented pre-sented a bill for 15360 for blocking furnished for the street crossing on Fourth South and Second East Referred Re-ferred to the board of public works WORK FOR HOME WORKMEN A petition to which was annexed about two yards of signatures was presented pre-sented I reads as follows The undersigned citizens of Salt Lake city respectfully ask that so far as you legally and consistently can you provide in any cpntracts which you may hereafter let for public work that bona fide residents of Salt Lake city shall be employed on sudb work and at a fair rate of wages We urge this because of the dire need which exists in our midst Our workingmen are idle and their families I fami-lies are suffering I it is in your pow I ir we ask you to help them in the way we have suggested in this petition The names of the signers are well known in the business and labor circles cir-cles and it is a very strong document The number of signers is about 500 headed by Arthur L Thomas and C S Zane 00 motion of Bache the prayer of the petition was granted FOR CATTLE INSPECTION Robert Sherwood tendered to the city the free use of block 1 and land tributary tribu-tary thereto in Sherwood Forest addition I addi-tion for the inspection of stock The land is near Third South and Twelfth West and easily accessible Referred I to quarantine committee on sanitary rules I and I THE SELECTED PROPERTY I TJie following self explanatory communication com-munication was read I To the Honorable Mayor and City j Council of Salt Lake City Gentlemen Your committee appointed appoint-ed under resolution of the city council passed February 10 1S33 to purchase for the city real estate to the amount I of 125000 in accordance with your further fur-ther resolution of February 1 1S93 beg leave to report We have received four distinct propositions prop-ositions covering the amount named in the resolution copies of which proposl tons are hereto attiched After careful care-ful personal examination of these propositions we consider proposition No1 by L D Kinney very mudh the most desirable The 100 lots in Kinneys subdivision No 1 are well located are near the copper works are of excellent soil well watered and cultivated and are immediately imme-diately available as desirable homes for copper plant employees Block No1 of this proposition No1 containing some 10 acres adjoins the main copper plant works immediately on the north and lies within one block of the present and prospective business i center tha may be expected to grow up with the copper plant development I We are therefore of the opinion that said proposition No 1 covers fully thc spirit and intent of the aforesaid resolution res-olution and therefore recommend its aceptance THE COPPER PLANT We also examined the works being erected by the copper plant company t The works are larger than proposed by j the company are being built in a most permanent and substantial manner and I are being rapidly pushed to completion The present estimated output of the I plant In copper silver and gold is H 000000 per annum We are assured that the raw ores for this output are already in sight The substantial permanent and complete com-plete character of the works and the amount of money being expended upon them is an assurance to us that the projectors themselves believed they were right In above representations to f us that they were building to stay and the works gave promise of great material mate-rial and commercial value t our city and territory Respectfully submitted GEORGE A LOWE L C KARRICK J S CAMERON WILLIAM H ROW Laid over to come up under the head of miscellaneous business I was afterward af-terward taken up and referred to the committee on public grounds so the titles might be looked into A HAY PROTESTS PROTEST-S J Levy ct al protested against being compelled to sell baled hay by other than bag weight as they bought it by tax weight Referred to committee tee on markets A SPRINKLING KICK Watson Fox et al complained of the manner in which the sprinkling contract was let stating that their bid covered the entire work Referred to committee on sprinkling P W MADSEN APPOINTED A communication was received from the mayor appointing P W Madsen a member of the board of public works in place of W P Noble Referred to commit tee OP public works The city engineer recommended that E L T Harrjson J L Perkes and John N Pike be paid 100 each for their services in adjusting the plat E difficulty diffi-culty Adopted ENGINEERS REPORT The city engineer filed his report for the quarter ending March 31 showing expenditures in the sum of 255893 Filed S Fied The city engineer reported that 62240 was disbursed by the sewerage department during the month of January Janu-ary Filed SIDEWALK PAVING A communication was received from the board of public works stating that Frank Harrigan was ready to proceed with the work of completing the sidewalk l side-walk pavement on First and Second I South streets between State and West Temple streets and asked that they be authorized to employ an inspector at a salary not to exceed 100 per month as the council might fix Referred to committee on streets and board of public pub-lic works SPRINKLING CONTRACT The city attorney presented the bond of J H Griffin in the sum of 5000 with J H Bacon as surety on his sprinkling contract with the city The bond and contract were approved and referred to the mayor AN AMENDED ESTIMATE The city engineer submitted an amended estimate of the cost of sidewalk sIde-walk pavement on both sides of Second East street from South Temple to Eighth South streets as follows cement ce-ment 17920 flagstone 31360 asphalt 17920 brick 13440 Adopted and recorder instructed to give notice by advertising of intention to laya sidewalks side-walks of cement six feet wide ANOTHER ESTIMATE The city engineer also submitted a preliminary estimate of the cost of paving the sidewalks on both sides of Fourth East street from South Temple Tem-ple to Second South street as follows I Flagstone 7840 cement 4480 asphalt as-phalt 4480 brick 3360 Adopted and recorder instructed to give notice I by advertising of intention to lay cement ce-ment walks six feet wide STREET SUPERVISOR T F Mulloy street supervisor submitted sub-mitted his report for the quarter ending end-Ing March 31 as follows Labor 451027 Material 1106 25 II I I Total 5616 52 STANTON RESIGNS W A Stanton tendered his resignation resigna-tion as fire inspector stating that he was appointed on April 19 1892 for two years Accepted B STREET GRADE The board of public works and city engineer recommended in the matter of the petition of John T Caine et al asking that the sidewalk on the westside west-side of B street be brought to grade between be-tween First and Second streets that the entire street be graded if the work petitioned for was done Referred to the committee on street REJECTED The city attorney and board of public pub-lic works submitted a report on the claim of the Pacific Paving company for 171760 for paving pitch erroneously errone-ously deducted from final estimates for paving West Temple and for 37 90 for paving pitch furnished and used on Commercial street It was recommended recommend-ed that these claims be rejected as the property owners of West Temple and not the contractors are entitled to the amounts Adopted THE OUSTED FIREMEN Fire Chief Devine submitted separate sepa-rate pay roll for B H Coulson James J Giles and Thomas Welsh for 5066 32 and 2133 respectively These were the men put In by the chief and beheaded be-headed by the district court when Montague and others were put back Referred to committee on finance PROPERTY EXCHANGED The committee on public grounds recommended rec-ommended that the mayor on approval ap-proval of the title to block 155 plat D by the city attorney be instructed to execute a warrantee deed to Mrs Kate St George Perinl of lots 1 and 4 block 13 plat J in exchange ex-change therefor Adopted and the abstract ab-stract on block 1S5 referred to attorney ney STREET RAILWAY FRANCHISES The committee on improvements and committee on streets submitted a joint report recommending that the two street railway companies be granted the fifty year franchise instead of twentyfive years The committees reported re-ported they had examined the subject carefully and found that in most of the large cities in this country the franchise to street railway companies are either perpetual or for long tferms of years Therefore the city would be doing nothing unusual in granting the i long term The committee had made some important changes in the franchises fran-chises among them being a provision for uniform passenger transportation so that the suburban residents may bo I able to reach the business portion of1 f the city cheaply and a provision to allow the council and board of public works to provide for the protection Oil citizens and property from danger from the use of electricity The statute regarding re-garding paving Is copied The report was adequate and the franchises were laid over to come up under the head I of miscellaneous business LIQUOR LICENSES I The committee on license recommended recommend-ed that licensees be granted to Con I Quinian Santa Davi M Fitzgerald Paul Blum and James Hilton THE GRAVITY SEWER I The committee on sewerage and committee com-mittee on public works reported that i it would cost 267210 to complete the gravity sewer to State and Fifth South streets including farm and settling The committee recommended that the sewer be completed Adopted I A HOT RESOLUTION Remington created a sensation by the Introduction of the following resolution resolu-tion tonYhcreas Whereas An net was passed by the last session ol the legislative assembly of the territory of Utah entitled An act to appoint ap-point a Board of Police and Fire Commissioners Commis-sioners In certain cities and to place the police and fire departments upon a nonpartisan non-partisan basis and Whereas Section 8 of said act reads as follows Sec 5 > The board hereby created creat-ed shall supervise and control said fire and police departments its officers members and employees subject to the ordinances I of the respective cities and laws or this territory and shall see that the officers members and employees thereof faithfully discharge their duties and that the laws orders and regulations relating thereto are earned into operation and effect and Whereas I has come to the knowledge of this council that the mayor and chief of police of this city did on the Sth day of April 1S9J without consulting with or authority from said commission authorize autorze instruct anti command thirty police offi > ers of this city to proceed to the city of Ogden and that said thirty police officers did I in obedience to said authority instrucclons and command absent themselves from their postaof duty as such police officers in this Pity and that by reason of said action on the part of the mayor and chief of police this city was left with a greatly decreased police protection at a time and under conditions which demanded extraordinary extra-ordinary vigilance on the part of the police force in this city and Whereas The mayor and chief of police of this city did without color of polce authority of law authorize direct and command said thirty police officers to desert de-sert and abandon their posts as such officers offi-cers and Whereas Section 4 of said act above re formed to provides as follows SeE 4 The police department of cities of 12000 or more inhabitants of this territory shall consist of a board hereby created a chief and a captain of police and such other officers and men a the city council of said cities shall direct therefore be i Resolved First that Mayor R N Bas lila and Chief of Police Arthur Pratt by so authorizing directing and commanding said police officers to leave their posts of duty in this city acted inadvisedly arbitrarily i arbi-trarily and without authority of law thereby usurping the power expressly conferred con-ferred by section 8 of the aforesaid statute upon the Board of Police and Fire Commission Com-mission Second that the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of this city are here by requested to thoroughly investigate the power of the mayor and chief of police to so control the police department of this city and alto their power to impose upon this city the expense of affording police protection t other cities in this territory tory and report fully to this council fuly Third that It is the sense of this council that the expense incurred by the aforesaid afore-said illegal act should not be paid by tills city and be it further furter Resolved That perfect peace quiet and safety having been conserved by the > police orce on duty during the absence from the city and duty of thirty members of the regular force it has been demonstrated that protection thereby adequate police does not require the number of police officers cons nov employed and that under section sec-tion r of i fl act the police ol this city Is hereby reduced to fifteen men Referred to the police and fire board REJECTED OMeara introduced the following resolution res-olution Resolved That the superintendent of streets have the south side of East South Temple street repaired ana placed in proper condition at once Rejected TH STREET RAILWAY EXTENSION EXTEN-SION The ordinance granting the City Railway Rail-way company a franchise for fifty instead in-stead of twentyfive years was taken up and read Remington said he wanted the matter mat-ter laid over for one week until the company would give the city security for the payment of the amount already paid out by the city for paving between be-tween the tracks of the road He presented pre-sented a resolution t that effect but as Cohn and other members of the committee felt assured that this would be arranged before the ordinance was signed by the mayor this was loot on a close vote The franchise was then passed by an unanimous vote FIVE CENT FARES I provides that there San be no more than 5 cents charged for fares within the city limits as they now are or hereafter may be extended S TAXES Instead of time tax of 114 mills on every fare collected it is provided that the company shall pay 25 per car every year for the average number of cars operated in addition to the regu lar taxes PAVING In relation to paving it is provided that said company shall be required to pave or repave at its own expense and cost all space between its different rails or tracks and also a space two feet wide on the outside of the rails of the outside tracks and the tracks herein referred to shall Include not only the main tracks but also the side tracks crossings and turnouts used by said company Such paving or re paving by the said railroad company shall be at the same time and shall be of the same material and character as are proper for the repaving of the streets or alleys on which said railroad rail-road track or tracks are paved and located unless other material be specially spe-cially ordered by the board of public works Provided that where the said company has double tracks on the same street and It be required for the accommodation ac-commodation of some other corporation corpora-tion or person to lay its tracks a greater distance apart than it would be required to do but for the accommodation accom-modation of such other corporation or person then in that event the said railroad company shall not he liable for or required to pave said additional distance RAPID TRANSIT EXTENSION The ordinance granting the fifty year franchise to the Rapid Transit was taken up This Is identical with the previous one except that the company com-pany will be allowed to charge more than 5 cents on the military reservation reserva-tion The franchise was passed unanimously unani-mously Remington presented tho following resolution Resolved That his honor the mayor be and is hereby requested to not affix his signature approving this the city railway ordinance until after the said Salt Lake City Railway company com-pany have executed such notes and nice ellen oonas as security ror tne faithful payment of the sums of money now due this city for paving between said railway companys tracks and should they decline or fall to furnish the said necessary good and sufficient security within one week then we ask his honor the mayor to veto the said ordinance LostAPPROPRIATIONS APPROPRIATIONS The following appropriations were made E L T Harrison lOG 00 J L Perkes 100 CO John N Pike 10000 Bruce Miller 04 4S E S Little 7750 Sewer refund 90S 41 S L Litho Co 500 Pacific Paving company 3817 Joint City and County building hills 2 > 153 51 An adjournment was taken for one week |