Show liOR VtO 3USAINED The Jones Franchise Sustains a Second Defeat I STEEET RAILWAY PAYING I Loofbonrow Introduces a Resolution on the Subject o A Protest from the JFire Laddies Reports from City Departments as to the Number o tlIeD Employed laborers la-borers Will Take Warrants The city council met last evening and transacted about the usual amount of business President Loofbourow presided pre-sided during a portion of the evening but subsequently called Councilman Beards I ley to the chair All members were present except Karrick THE PROCEEDINGS B L Roadcap and twenty others sent in a communication stating that they were dome street work that a majority of them had families to support and would be glad to continue work and take warrants war-rants therefor waiting until such time as the city has money to pay them with They also stated that they could buy food for their families and teams with warrants i allowed to continue work otherwise I they would be without any work whatever I what-ever Hence they asked to be allowed to i continue work and take their pay in warrants war-rants until the city has funds Laid over temporarily AN UNFAIR TAXI TAX-I communication was received from the lows Salt Lake City Railway company as fol GENTLEMEN We notice that at your last session a resolution was adopted requiring re-quiring the Salt Lake City Railway com yany to pay 25 on sixty cars as licensed for the year 1893 that being considered the total number of cars owned by said company In regard to said resolution we wish to say that we dont consider it fair for the following reasons In the first place the total number of cars owned by the company we find after a careful count is fiftyeight including six new open cars which have just been received and have never been used on our lines and which will be run during the summer months in place of six closed cars which are now being operated upon the lines As you are aware we oniy run open cars not more than six months in the year the remaining part of the year being too cold for their use While the company owns fiftyeight cars there has never been more than fortytwo operated at an3 one time that being the total 1 numberthat was used on the Fourth of July when the service was necessarily increased to accommodate the traffic Ordinarily we use during the summer I months thirtyfive carl and during the winter months less than thirty making the average for the year thirtytwo cars the surplus being required in the operating of electric roads to allow us to make repairs and to still cop up the service The open cars take tne place 01 ciosea cars in warm weather and the closed caratake the place of open cars in cold weather whch you will readily see is the reason that our total number of cars is so much greater than the average number cars in operation We would respectfully request your honorable hon-orable body to recdnsider the question of our license and to adjust same by placing the total number of cars to be paid for at thirtyfive which is a greater number than the average cars that are run for the year Very respectfully SALT LAKE CITY RAILWAY COMPANY lW P READ REA Superintendent Referred to committee on license John Miller et al stated that they had been damaged by jjihe alteration made in the City creek canal between Sixth and Seventh street the water having soaked through and killed a number ot fruit trees Referred to committee on claims A Nink and A L Williams each sent in bills for i100 for services as inspectors Neither of inspectors have as yet been put to work although appointed about a month ago and it is stated that they have been informed by an attorney that the sum can be Collected by law Referred Re-ferred board of public works F W Pitcher asked permission to pie building materialon Commercial street Referred to committee on fitrnnfs F Auerbach Bro called attention to the fact that theyTfad only ben credited with 79 cents per foot for curbing put in by them when they should have been credited with fl per foot and asked that the difference be allowed them on their next installment of paving tax Referred to board of public works James W Hoggan and ten others asked that they be not required to pay their tax for paving onFirst South street between Eighth and Ninth East streets urttil the I work has been done or at least begun Referred to the treasurer with instructions instruc-tions to delay collections for fifteen days E W Tatlock asked that East Seventh South street be put in proper condition Referred to committee on streets J E Paine stated that they were very tired of the smoke issuing from the Salt Lake City Street Railway company and wanted to know what they could do toward to-ward having the smoke ordinance enforced en-forced Referred to committee on municipal muni-cipal laws FIRE LADDIES KICK The members of the fire department sent in a communication protesting against the proposed reduction of their salaries on various grounds and offering to take onehalf of their salary in city warrants for the next three months until the city regains itself from the present financial embarrassment Laid over temporarily tem-porarily James Hughes asked that a regular ash + as-h 1 + 1 Cnnn UT ouau1wub UU 1CVACU UJLL H1JU 13CUIHJU Vt5b street sewer line from Second South to Fifth South streets as he had already paid 200 on the same and was anxious for the workto bo done as he was building a terrace on the corner of Third South and Second West Referred to the city engineer en-gineer for an estimate of cost ANOTHER VETO The following was received from the mayor C E Stanton City Itecorder cty DEAR SmI return again disapproved disap-proved the resolution granting certain privileges and franchises to Robert JL Jones for the reason that the amendment of the same by the city council does not meet my former objections which wore that the charges for lights permitted by and mentioned in said franchise are too mentoned high and thatno franchise of the nature of the one in question should be granted by the city without reserving the right to gulate and limit the charges which should be made Again I can see no good reason for the amendment made I seems to me that the only possible effect it can have is to diminish the saleable sale-able value of any plant which the grantee may erect also to render it impossible for him to bring to his aid outside capital by the formation of a company With such a limitation neither the stock or bonds of a company could be placed and I take it that an enterprise the magnitude contemplated cannot be carried out and is not intended carred to be so done by undivided capital Infer I-nfer that the object of the amendment was to prevent combinations with com eting companies by which a monopoly might be secured The amendment will not prevent this This end can only be ttained extortion can only be successfully fully preventedby the reserving of the right to fix the charges which shall be made to continue within reasonable limits In dealing with this matter the fact should not be lost sight of I that charges which are reasonable today are liable by reason of constantly changing chang-ing conditions and the discovery and use of cheaper and better appliances are likely to become exhorbitant by lapse of time The proposed franchise runs for wentyfive years R N BASKIN Mayor In connection with the mayors veto a jetition was received from Mr Jones tatincr that the franchise as it was originally passed by the council was satisfactory sat-isfactory to him and would have provided much cheaper lights for the residents of the city He then called attention to the amendment made at the last meeting vith reference to certain provisions which would prevent him from selling out without the permission of the coun cii and asked that the amendment be stricken out so that the franchise could be restored to him as originally passed Otherwise he would be unable to incor porte issue bonds and execute the work as formerly intended A tiresome agument followed the reading read-ing of the communications but no changes were made and upon the question ion Shall the franchise pass notwithstanding standing the objection of the mayor the veto was sustained by the following vote YeasBeardsley Bell Evans Fol land Horn Looibourow Moran and Rich 8 Nays Heiss Kelly Lawson Si mondi and Wantland After the vote had been announced Mr Moran asked that he be allowed to change his vote fromyes to no and was allowed to do so DEPARTMENT REPORTS The superintendent of sewers submitted his quarterly report for the quarter ending end-ing June 30 The amount expended was 501828 Referred to committee on sewers sew-ers The street supervisor filed a similar report re-port showing expenditures in the sum of 2222811 and deducting what is due from other departments and persons leaves the amount at 2133202 Referred to committee on streets The superintendent of water works protested tested against the crowning of streets with dirt from the sides of the streets and ftlt 3 offoMfinri tn fVia tnann T in whinh V v Y y the CUUIU sanitarium tU has been putting in its pipes Referred to the city engineer for report The assessor and collector of water rates i asked that an amendment suggested In his annual report be made to the ordinance ordi-nance relating to waterworks Referred to committee on waterworks The superintendent of waterworks called attention to the condition of the caled attenton Capitol hill reservoir which is out of repair re-pair Referred to city engineer The assessor and collector of water rates I reported thathe had two men in his employ I em-ploy each drawing a salary of 75 per month the report being called for in connection con-nection with the report of the retrench mfmt committee Laid over The city engineer reported that he had fifteen men in his employ drawing total salaries in the amount 1498 per month Laid over The water master reported that he was employing twenty men atvarious salaries Laid over The superintendent of water works reported re-ported that he employed 106 men at various vari-ous salaries Laid over The sanitary inspector reported that he employed in the sanitary department 13 teams and 10 men in the crematory department de-partment four men Laid over The street supervisor reported seventy four men and twentyfive teams Laid over The park keeper reported seven men employed Laid over The chief of police reported fiftyone employes Laid over The city sexton reported eight employes Laid over The superintendent of sowers reported eighteen men and two teams Laid over The committee on streets recommended tnt thc lnnni on Seventh East street be tween Second and Third streets be covered cov-ered i lumber can be secured from other works so that new lumber will not have to be purchased Adopted Folland offered a resolution to the effect that the president appoint a member of the city council to sit with the county board of equalization which meets on August 5 Adopted and Heiss appointed STREET RAILWAY TRACK PAVING Loofbourouw introduced the following resolution Whereas The Salt Lake City Railway I way company and the Salt Lake Rapid Transit railway company have failed to pave the space between the rails and I tracks and the space two feet wide outside out-side of the outside rails of the outside tracks on East Temple street between South Temple street and Fourth South on West Temple between South Temple and Fourth South on First South street I between State and West Temple streets and on Second South street between State I and West Temple streets as required by the provision of section 2 chapter 41 of thelaws of Utah passed at the twenty ninth session of the legislative assembly therefore be it I I Resolved That said railway companies com-panies are hereby requested to at once proceed with the work of paving their respective re-spective portions of the above named I streets as the law requires And on the event of the refusal of the said companies or either of them to pave as above re o L a I quired mat WIt mty piuueeu tu uu inc same and to collect the cost thereof from said companies in the manner provided for in section three of chapter fortyone of the twentyninth session laws of the legislative assembly of the territory of Utah I Referred to a special committee of five with instructions to confer with the companies com-panies and report next Tuesdayevening APPROPRIATIONS Appropriations were made as follows P L Williams J36250 A Cltneu 1 5 Eagle Foundry and Machine Co 1 25 D J O Maboney H 50 Mason Co 2291 I Sierra Neveds LumberCo 5 5 J M Secrist uuuu 17 i4 I Wodtenhohn Horrid 4o 25 I T C Armstrong 3 O G M Scott Co 4382 George A Lowe 36 2 Salt Luke Hardware company 27 9 BothwellMcConaughy 4 61 Consumers Trading company 3 45 Union Pacific railway 132 Union Pacflc railway 248 0 Union Pacltlc railway S1G C Grant Bros 500 Grant Bros Ii 0 T C Arstronsnu 190 Sierra Nevada Lumber Co u 6 0 InterMountain Electric Co h 75 A W CalnoCo 7 65 5 00 Neder Celand h 0 Folland moved to take up the report of the retrenchment committee buta motion mo-tion ried to adjourn was interposed and car |