Show i AllUIT1i A OFFER REJECTED c ti Saloon Keepers Ask a Cut of Fifty Per Cent in license RYAN ON DEUCES CHARGES The Copper Plant Railway Franchise Amende and Passed liowell Thinks tho Crematory Should Bc Injured Acainst JTiro Tho Retrenchment Retrench-ment Moement Appears to Bo Dead t The Ousting of Bowman Confirmed All members but Folland and Karrick were present at the city council meeting last night ind President Loofbonrow presided TIe session was IODg and unanimously unani-mously harmonious The only approach to a ripple en the peaceful waters was when Mr Rich asserted that the necessity 4 for fire insurance on the crematory arose from the neglect of the employees and Mr Beardsley who takes all matters relating to gar and bage under his special consideration protection vehemently denies the insinuations insin-uations of Mr Rich The retrenchment c members were quiet a lambs and made no attempt to call the mater up and it now looks as lithe movement had gone to a premature grave Another conditional offer for the sale of city bonds was received re-ceived and promptly rejected t C Superintendent of Waterworks Ryan f rushed in with a demand for an investi i gation in the matter of the < 5harges pre I erred against him by Mr Drucs but the eauncirwsfe of the opinion that an inves fcigqtipn at t preBenfc time was not in order and his earnest request was not nranted5 S P The retail salbon men came forward L With a petition for the reduction of their licensei from O to f50 a quarter for tho next six months To t back their application they had the en I IL dorscneatoi thirteen prominent busi ness men among whom were several bankers and large real estate owners Councilman Moran said he tumbled to 1 < the racket and thought the best plan I vould be for the endorsers of the petition i So reduce the rents of the saloons which they let by about 60 per cent < and thus relieve theipoor oppressed saloon keepers The leportJofithe city and county building r build-ing reference t the ousting of Bow ansn ° and the opinion of the city attorney t on the some came up and were adopted The copper plant railway franchise was 1 read a second and third time and passed the only chance of importance made in 4 it was by adding a clause enabling the city to levy taxes on the gross earnings of I the company during the life of the franchise fran-chise instead of making an assessment on the cars as has hitherto been done with the stret car companies She Proceedings Tho CulraerJennings Paving company Pacific Paving ompany Honlahan Griffith fith Morris Hobson Wilkerson J C Watson Bro Burt J E Bamberger Metropolitan Stone company George A Lowe Mountain Stone company Salt Lake Gilsonlta company Wasatch As phaltnm company George M Scott Co and Bothwell ilcConaughy Bothwel represented repre-sented that they were large holders ol city warrants and in order that said warrants war-rants be made more negotiable asked the counci first to make the warrants interest in-terest bearing at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from time of issue second that they be made negotiable third that the city auditor be requested t split them I up into such denominations as the holders hold-ers may desire fourth that they be accepted I ac-cepted in payment of general city taxes and over other payments to the city Laid overMCELOUS PETITIONS George Morris asked to be allowed to work out his taves with his team he t having no other employment Committee on streets W E Yahcey petitioned that the sidewalk side-walk from Fifth West street to the J oran or-an river on Second South street in district dis-trict twentyone be laid as quickly as possible Granted on condition that the petitioners pay the full cost when the first payment is dueL due-L C Crossnmti petitioned that his sprinkling tax be remitted a the condition condi-tion of the streets Thirteenth Eat opposite block 3 plat F makes in impossible im-possible for the sprinkling cart to get over it Committee on sprinkling W J Banks asked that the license rate for Washburns circus which will exhibit in this city August 29 and 30t on Pioneer square be fixed at 50 per cay Committee on public grounds i DAMAGED BTf THE CITY Hamiltn G Park represented that the t city had pileo dirt and clay on his lane facing south on South Temple street be tw n ira and Becond West streets and pulled up the surveyors stakes and thrown them away and removed a bridge greatly t His loss and detriment He prays that thestakes hereplaced and the general condition of the laud made a gnera before Irrigation committee F H McGnrrin et ale asked that First street beyonfiP bo graded and put in passable condition Committee on streets U Lunderafcrom asked that a former petition made June 20 in reference lo extension of water mains to Superiorad 1 works dition be actedon Committee on water WA3OS Am i 1 JoneS petioaed for a refund of sprinkling tar on the ground that the premises taxed were not in tho sprinkling district and no sprinkling had actually been done Amount paid 2315 on premises corner Second South and Third West streets Committee on waterworks W Simpson et al asked for the extension exten-sion of water mains on Second South between be-tween Eighth and Ninth West and Kinth and Tenth West streets Committee on waterworks F J W Clark et al asked that water mains construction on Fourth street be I delayed till times are better Committee t on waterworks F C Gentsch requested that the council coun-cil proceed immediately to construe sewer on Sixth Eat street between South Temple over and First South street Lid DA2TGEEDUS SIDEWALKS L E Hall called attention t the dangerous condition of the sidewalk at the southeast corner of Main and First INorth street and on East First North street Committee on streets TA1 PLVLG POSTPONED J A Farnsworth fetal owners of real estate on East South Temple and Firs South streets asked that the time for laying sidewalks on the said streets be extended until the spring of 1S94 Committed Com-mitted on streets r ON PEDDLtES LICENSES Fred C Lyngberc et a asked that the amount of th3 license for wagon peddlers i be increased t catch the numerous Chinesa peddlers who are not paying city license Committee on lcense payng A f O JJAMAGE CLAIM F A Linderpresented a claim for dam Q ages in the sum of 15000 for injuries sustained sus-tained on April 681893 when the fence just west of the city ball fell upon him = He alleges negligence on the part of the city Committee on claims PAID AND WASTES WORK DONE Catherine Stumpp stated that she had paid ii for water main extension on PoD Po-D and Eighth Wet street and wished the t C work proceeded with Committee on water work ES HO PING I John W Don lan receiver of tho Beck Hot Springs property protested i against the action oJkthe soity in making v f a txmnel for the gravity sewer through a T B portion of tie property of which he is t1 w r Ft < 4 v < j receiver and stated that he would take legaL proceedings to prevent thework from being further prosecuted unless the work is stopped He also stated tnalrne diclnot recognize Mr Becks authority th male such an agreement with the city l Inferred 10 the city attorney SAO ilESS LICENSE 0 The retail liquor dealers by B J3 Vhittemore Fritz Riepen and John J Riley requested that in view of the d < 3 pressed condition of financial affairs thit the license tea be reduced to 150 per quarter for the two ensuing quarters immediately im-mediately succeeding the expiration of each present license Attention was called to the fact that in 1892 the retail liquor dealers paid into the city treasury 5109850 and for the six months ending June 30 1893 50950 The petition was endorsed by thirteen leading businessmen business-men of the city Frank Hoffman was granted permission to address the council on behalf of tile petitioners and said that it was impossible impossi-ble for the liquor dealers to continue their business unless some reduction was made Times were hard and there would be lots of vacant stores and rooms now occupied by saloons Rich inquired i the property owners had reduced the rents 5 per cent the same percentage as the petitioners asked the license to be reduced Moran said most of the endorsers of the petition were people who had rented to the saloon keepers and he thought they should begin by reducing rents 50 percent per-cent Wautland thought the merchants Wantaud licenses should be reduced as well as the saloon keepers The petition was referred re-ferred to tho committee on license ANOTHER BID FOR THE BONDS N W Harris aud Company and E H Jollins and Company made a proposi ton for the sale of the city bonds as follows fol-lows The city of Salt Lake to grant to said N W Harris Co and E H Rollins Sons the exclusive financial agency of said city for the purpose of disposing of the 27o000 6 per cent 1020 year city bonds The city to receive for all bonds sold by Messrs Harris Rollins par fatless fat-less a commission of 2X per cent and incase in-case these gentlemen succeed in selling any part of said bonds at a premium said I I premium shall be divided share and share alike between the city and Messrs Harris Rollins Rolns Messrs Harris Rollins to have tho exclusive financial agency for the bonds for n period of thirty days and in case Harris Rollins sell = 100000 of said bonds before the expiration of Sept 10 1893 then said agency shall be continued to Oct 151893 and in case another 100 000 of the bonds are sold on or before Oct 15 then said agency shall be continued for an additional period of thirty days from Oct 15 on the balence of the issue Wantland was in favor of doing some tning at once toward the sale of the bonds as the city would be greatly benefltted thereby and thought the council should consider the proposed agreement then and there M DE WITT TALK Privilege was then given the represen atives of the bond houses to say a few words ward and Mr M A Do Witt came for He said that he and Mr Penhale for their houses had expected that they would be able to make a bona fide bid forte for-te bonds but during the afternoon received re-ceived a telegram from their firms stating stat-ing that they were unwilling to assume further obligations just now but believed that they could dispose of 159000 worth of them in fifteen days I Loofbourow was opposed to the arrangement 9 ar-rangement and stated that the bonds would never be made to bear 6 per cent interest with his consent He was also of the opinion that i would be foolish to throw the issue on the market at such a time and favored communicating with 1 eastern moneyed institutions relative to the matter I It was then moved that the matter be referred to the mayor and the finance committee but the motion was lost Rich moved tbat the proposition be rejected re-jected Carried SAL LE SANITARIUM COMPANY The Salt Laka Hot Springs Sanitarium company asked permission to connect f threeinch pipe from the Hot Springs Sanitarium building on Third street with the city water mains Said pipe to bused b-used for fire protection and the water from it to be used only in case of fire There will oe three different hose attachments attach-ments The sanitarium is about completed com-pleted and it is desirable to have the fire prevention in as soon as apparatus a possible pos-sible Committee on water works THE SPBUfKLING TAX Treasurer Duke notified the council to send the right party to attend the Third district court on Saturday August 12th to show cause why the injunction restraining re-straining the collection of sprinkling taxes for 1893 should not be issued Referred Re-ferred to the city attorney THE CITY J COUNTY BUILDING City Attorney Raga submitted his opinion regarding the status of the contract con-tract between Contractor Bowman and the city and county building committee and specially as tp the power of the committee com-mittee to put an end to the contract and take the further work on the building into their own hands The attorney points out that section 9 of the Bowman contract provides that should the contractor con-tractor at any time refuse or neglect to supply proper skilled workmen materials materi-als of the proper quality or fail in any respect to prosecute the work with promptness and diligence or fail ifn the performance of any of the agreements such refusal failure being certified by the architects or by tho inspectors the parties of the first part the committee shal be liberty after three days written writ-ten flotice to the contractor to provide any such labor or material and to deduct tho cost thereof from any money then due or to become due anI the architects or inspectors shall certify that such refusal neglect or failure is sufficient ground for such action the parties of the first part will also be at liberty to terminate the employment of the party of the second part for said work and to enter upon the premises and to take possession of said building and all material etc This gives the committee power to act in the matter and the committee was justified in terminating the contract M COAD SPEAKS FOR BOWMAN I A F Coad attorney for Mr Bowan was given permission to speak in relation II to the matter and stated that he was confident con-fident that the facts in the premises would appear in a very different light when carefully investigated He Etatec that the plans and specifications which were given the contractor at the time he began work wero not tho proper ones and that the mistake cost Bowman 14000 This he considered was a glaring glar-ing error which Mr Bowman was not responsible for and which was made by the architect oi the joint city and county building cammittee The real plans and specifications were at that time on file in the countycourt Tae reports of the committee and the attorney were adopted SO SIT AS EQUALIZERS The city recorder called attention to the importance the council sitting as aboard a-board of equalization and review on sewerage on Sixth East street extension between South Temple and First South street Filed RYAN WANTS AN INVESTIGATION ToeoUowing was received from W H Ryan superintendent ot waterworks 1 GENTLEMEN On June 16 ordered i E Shafer to go up City Creek canyon to clean up the road aud stream and to repair re-pair tunnel when necessary and t remove re-move debris that had been washed down the canyon causing water to back up and when the dams would break the water would rush down with such force that it kept washing banks which caused the water to be very muddy at times While doing this work Mr Shaffer did some work after working hours on what is kn work thollognl mining claim WD Druce whom Mr Shafer hired with rny consent makes grave charges against myself charginc me with ordering work done on the mining claim and paying for the same by returning time on the weekly payrolls pay-rolls of the waterworks 4The first that knew of the charge was Tuesday < August 1 He came into the I I r 9 p < I waterworks office and insisted on having work or he would have the whole waterworks water-works employees discharged n I was hot M tVt office at the tie but was notified on my return I met Mr Druce on the qorner of FirstSouth and Commercial street and I i told him if he had any such charges to 1 I make he had better make them before a notary public and send them to the council He made this affidavit and I understand gave it to Mr Rich and the Jeseiet Heirs although the council held I a session the same evening I hare put the mater into the hands of the court and respectfully ask the council to appoint a committee to investigate these cuargesin justice to myself and the public Very respectfully WH RYAN It was moved that a committee of five be appointed to investigate the charges made as above Moran thought i was useless to investigate inves-tigate when the matter was in the courts and would be fullv vpnfilntfiri Simondi said there wert no charges before be-fore the house They had nothing but newspaper talk Horn didnt like newspapers He had lke had some experience in investigations which was not satisfactory ME Ryan was in too much of a hurry When charges came properly before the house he would get all the investigation he wanted i The motion was ost Beardeley Evans Horn Kelly Lawson Moran and Si mondi voting no and Bell Hardy Heiss Loofbourow Rich and Wantland aye GRADES ESTABLISABD The city engineer reported that he had established grades on Peach street between be-tween Center and First West streets as petitioned for by the board of education Referred to committee on streets RELIEF FROM TAX SALE The city attorney recommended that the petition of Sarah Pearson for relief from a tax sale be granted Adopted EXPENSIVE GRADING I The city engineer reported on the petition ition of Cnlmer Bros er al relative to fixing grades and lowering surfaces of alleys and asking instructions as the cost of establishing the grades would be about S25 and the cost of cutting down or grading would be 1000 more Referred to superintendent of streets THE CHURCH GOES FREE I The bill for establishing the corners 1 and the grades of the site for the new Christian church was ordered credited to I the city engineer the council having agreed to grant free grades to the church INSURE THE CREMATORY Sanitary Inspector Showell called attention at-tention to the fact that the crematory should be insured against fire Mr Rich said the man who is supposed to operate the crematory at night fills it up and goes home and that on one occasion while he was away the wooden beams of the building caught fire and hence this request re-quest ior insurance He understood the man had been discharged Beardsley said only one man had been discharged and that was at the instance of retrenchment committee All the I crematory men did their duty well Committee Com-mittee on improvements A PLUME WANTED The street supervisor recommended that a flame be put on First North and Main street at their intersection to prevent the water from running into the street Referred Re-ferred to irrigation committee TO PAVE ON THE STREET RAILROAD 4 TRACKS I The street bupervisor recommended that I the board of public works be instructed I to pave between the rails of the street railway tracks at the intersection of Second Sec-ond South and Main streets and called attention the fact that thework bainc done now would ave the eipense filling the excavations with earth whichWoulc subsequently have to be removed Referred nty ve ferred t6 the board of public works with power to act T POLICE JUSTICES REPORT The report of the police justice for July showed < Fib s assessed 2447 CO Olafines cash z i iri 5 00 Territorial r cases < 3ShJ 400 Aotal q k 56 o i TTines paid inlabor y S 70 00 FineS lppealedun < 100 00 Cash paid Treasurer Duke 16500 45 0 Ffld AIJ > WAURANTS WILL BEAR INTEREST 1EAR Under a suspension of the rules Loof bourows resolution I providing that warrants war-rants shall draw interest at the rate Qf eight per cent per annum from date of presentation was taken upand passed THE COPPER PLANT RAILWAY FRANCHISE The Stallman and Estes franchise was taken up read a second and third time and passed The franchise gives permission per-mission to the grantees to lay a line of railway to provide transportation from Salt Lake city to the new copper works the road to be completed within ten months from date of granting the franchise fran-chise Mr Loofbourow moved to add a clause enabling the city to levy a tax on the gross earnings of the road from year to year said tax to be > s per cent for the first five years 1 per cent for the I second five and l > i for succeeding fifteen i fif-teen years Adopted APPROPRIATIONS Appropriations were made as follows Pacific Pavicg company 505833 CuinjerJennings Pivm company uu I03BO r Houlahan Griffith A Morris 2T18G 31 C 11 Dull h 42 lieathiCo h 2 0 Mount Griffin 3781 10 Total 17028 K Adjourned till Friday evening |