Show TO CONTRACTS fOR fOUR PAVING JOBS Council Orders Board of Works to o Appear Before It Today With Bids It Rejected Mayor Thompson Completely Defeated Will Leave Town and Let Acting Mayor Davis Sign Contracts Mayor Ezra hRS has surrendered horse foot and dragoons to Contractor PatrIck J Moran and it is framed up in inthe the inner councils of the American par party NIr ty that Moran shall hare bRe the four big street paving contracts which have BIe been beena Il a bone of contention for neRdy nearly months month Aa A a sign of his biB C capitulation on Mayor Th n last night notified the city that he intended to a absent nt him hini self from the city a few days following June 21 1 ThuN Thursday RY and asked the council to designate a mayor maor pro tern to act in his Ms absence The council promptly pro proceeded proceeded to designate its president A J Davis one of Morans most devoted fol followers lowers in the cit city government Ezra will attend the race meet at Den Denver ver vel for a few days and while he be ts is gone e Acting Mayor Davis under the direction of the city council which Moran owns as completely as he does one of his bis wheel will sign the four contracts awarding worth of paving con contracts tracts to Moran an advance of 03 three of the contracts over what the Barber Asphalt company bid on them themon on April 11 Thompson Thoroughly Whipped Moran has thoroughly whipped Mayor Thompson and the defeat is looked upon even by his h own friends as pitiable ble By terrorizing the AmerIcan p party Inner circles with threats of what he would do to them this fan fall if they did oot Mit ward award him the contracts Moran forced American leaders who are not connected with the elt city administration to Ulav down on Ezra and force him tO yield Vowing he would neer consent Ezra ted He asked only that he Be BeJOt hebe be JOt flOt m n l t 1 i to the point of personally signing the con contracts tracts On this point Moran was gracious and he consented that Ezra should leave town and that his great and good friend A J Davis who is supposed to have no political prospects should sign the contract in his stead Mayor layor Thompson it is said was almost overcome with gratitude for this conces concession zion sion of Moran Mora u Moran on a mountain top and has been pointing out to them the ferUle fertile valleys of political plunder and preferment belo below promising to bestow them up upon m the American par part party t ty in return for the contracts He has Pointed out that if he Is given the con contracts contracts tracts he be will have haye 1000 men at work for him when the county and legislative dee elec election deeton ton tion comes on this fall and has bas promised ed edI I that every een one of these thousand shall often as the ner jean ican county and legislative ticket Thompson Feared Effect From the beginning Mayor Ia or Thompson has been as anxious as an anybody bod to give the contracts to Moran but he has feared the political effect of throwing out the asphalt trusts low bid and giving Moran the work at a higher figure especially in view of the conduit grab which Moran tor m and the American administration leaders pulled polled off earlier In the year Moran loran however was not to be balked He boldly defied the mayor split the Amerlean party caucus and lined up a majority of tile the council in his behalf The first set of bids were rejected by bythe bythe the council by Thompsons ns direction r for r Thompson on was still fighting Moran then the board of public works rejected the second bids wherein Moran was the low lowest est eat bidder Ezra has been advised however that the board of public works had no legal au authority to do that that the council is final arbiter of the letting of aU all con contracts contracts tracts and that his board of public works was as bound to send the bids in to the council He knew that the moment the council got the bids Moran would be awarded the contracts and that Moran had enough nough votes to pass them over his veto if necessary This knowledge of his own weakness and impotency coupled with the pressure from American lead leaders leaders ers forc forced d him to capitulate to agree to run away to Denver and to te IeRNe save Davis as acting mayor to sip sign the contracts Resolution Is Passed It was expected that the paving mat matter matter ter an animated discussion in the city coundi last night but tt it because It became no noised about that Ezra wu was about to take to the tall Umber timber The following resolution offered by Councilman C J Crabtree an avowed Moran man was as unanimously adopted the city councilor of Salt Lake Lak City has ordered the board of public works to advertise for bids for street pa pay paying ing and nereS the board of public works work hu has complied with Uh said aid order and has received said bids for street t paving no now therefore be It Resolved that tb the council m meet t as PI a committee of the whole on June 19 1 l p m and that the said Rid board of public works be and hereby is rf re to attend said meeting and pro prod pr d duee the oie bids open opened at its last meeting and give reasons 8 why the same am were not referred to the city council for action May Not Attend It is rumored that to save the lace face of Cr Mayor Thompson and pt t up a that he js is stilt still n fighting bUn Moran MoraD the boat may ignore ore this invitation to meet t the f council this afternoon If that Is so the council will doubtless proceed to carry carryout carryout out the Moran either at a specially called meeting or at the regular meeting next Monday night and pass a resolution directing the board to Into a contract with Moran That reso resolution lution lutien Acting Mayor Davis will proceed to sign There was jubilation in the Moran mil m last Jast night His followers take real pleas plea pleasure UTe ure in the fact that chief has hal clubbed the nned and u an they tak pleasure In that fact alone outside or oraU aU all other considerations What Contracts Mean The PAving bids were first finK opened on three streets in question on April 11 At that time Ume the Barber Asphalt company was 13 the lowest bidder Its bid on th three jobs amounted to 30 At 1 Morans behest bebe t the city t council rejected d these bids and ordered the board to re When the new bids came in collusion between Moran and te asphalt trust wa apparent The trust s a new bids went t skyward while Moran bid a little lower than he did before but still 1 higher than the trusts trust previous bid This 1100 is the extra amount which th the affected property owners n will have bave to pa as a result of Morans absolute control or of the American party ma machinery bitle The tour four streets streeL and the amount or of Morans bid for a reinforced concrete pay pavin in lug with a guarantee together with the tbt asphalt paving are as follows Main street from Fourth South to N nt it 11 street 15 Fourth South from West Temple t Second East and State from Fourth to Seventh South sat First South from West Temple Temp to ThIril Thir 1 West Y South from Third to Tenth East S 6 contract was not in included eluded in the bids biM which were ere open opened d on April 11 Did the Trust Stand In InA A rumor r has pined gained strong that not only was the asphalt trust in col lusion with Moran In the last lam bidding but bur that it assisted him to have Its own blu of April 11 rejected jt eted it was waslow low 1091 The trust bid low it i is claimed Of he cause a representative o of the Cleveland land Trinidad Asphalt com company pan 0 of Cleveland 0 a concern with ith which the trust Is at war was Oft the ground round Fearing that this man would bid th the trust bid low The Cleveland concern at atthe the last moment decided not to bid and when the trust w this It is it was as anxious that its own bid be rejected in r that it might frnia a combine with Moran and share the profits of the high bid which Moran put PUI In J last st Friday |