Show COMPANY GUM PANY t NOT SATISFIED Utah Light Railway Company De Demands Demands mands tore More from Committee RAISES ELECTRICITY PRICE EFFORT TO RETAIN FORFEITURE CLAUSES FAILS The new ordinance giving the Utah Light Railway company an aJl extension e of or its ts various lighting and street rail railway railway way franchises and making them ex expire expire pire uniformly at the end of fifty years from froni Jan 1 I 1905 was partially consid considered considered ered at a joint meeting of or the tho council municipal laws and special water com corn committees committees last night The committees will hold another Joint session this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon for the purpose of or further consid considering considering ering the ordinance Notwithstanding the fact that the or ordinance ordinance ordinance was as supposed to be a compro compromise mice mise measure acceptable ac to the Utah Light Railway company Judge Le LeGrand LeGrand LeGrand Grand Young counsel f for r the company com pan pano objected o to some seine of its provisions and members of the committees objected to other provisions The most important changes made were in the electric lighting schedules schedule The company compan offered at a previous meeting to furnish electrical energy at 1120 per kilowatt hour but subsequent subsequently sub quent ly objected object to the fraction of 20 cents on account of the extra e tra bookkeeping that it would Involve In the new ordinance ordinance nance it was as put at 11 cents per kilo kilowatt kilOwatt kilowatt watt hour At the request of or Judge Young the price was made 12 cents and it was agreed that to those who pay pa r their bills by the of each month the net price should be 10 cents per kil ku kilowatt kilowatt hour Minimum Is Reduced When the company introduced Its ts pe petition petition for the granting to it of a con consolidated consolidated franchise franchio for years ears per month morth was named as the minimum charge for electrical en energy energy ergy erg The company compan subsequently came down don to 1 per month Last night the joint committee decided to make a still further reduction to 75 cents upon mo motion motion motion tion of Councilman Hobday Judge Young protested protest d against this reduction saying that 1 was as low lowa a rate as the company could afford to tomake tomake make malte and Councilman Wells VeIls voted against the motion Councilman Hobday moved to extend the time of payment of electric lighting bills in which the net price of 10 cents per kilowatt hour could be obtained from the to the of the month following the month when the light was used He said many workingmen and others who are in receipt of month monthly ly wages do not get paid until the of the month and that they the would not have the money to pay their bills be before before before fore the or Judge Young agreed to an extension of oC the time to the and said he would if possible make the last date of payment in order to secure the tIle re reduction reduction the of each month When the second section extending all the compans franchises until Jan Tan TanI 1 I 1955 was read Councilman A J Da Davis DaIs vis Yb Is moved to amend by substituting for fifty years The motion was aas seconded by Councilman Hobday The motion was defeated Councilmen Davis and Hobday voting for it and I Councilmen Coun Fernstrom Wells VeIls and President Hewlett voting against It Councilman Dean Was as absent Would Retain Forfeiture Clause Then Ihen Councilman A J 1 Davis moved to strike out the third section repealing the forfeiture clauses contained in some of the franchises under which the company is h operating and imposing fines of ot from no 80 to 3 0 on the company for violations of ot any an of or the provisions of o the franchise that it Is proposed to give ghe the company The motion was seconded by Councilman Councilman Davis explained that he wanted the section stricken out so an another another another other section providing for a forfeiture of or the franchise might be inserted in its place When hen the motion was put but three of 01 the six members present voted Coun Councilmen Councilmen Davis vis and Hobday voted for it and Councilman Wells VeIls against it The motion is carried and the section Is I stricken out said Councilman A J JDa Davis Da Is Oh no it said Chairman Fern FernStrom Fernstrom Strom I L decide that the vote yote is a tie How do you OU make that out OLd asked Councilman Davis DRI Two to two Wells and me mo voting against the motion replied Chairman Fernstrom Judge Jud e Young then said he was glad the committee had decided not to strike the section out but s still till it was not hot as satis satisfactory satisfactory factory to the company as he had hoped it would be made ma e when he talked with City Attorney Dey D about drawing UD up the new ordinance He tie wanted the word willful inserted before the word mis misdemeanor misdemeanor demeanor so that the section would read that the company compan might be fined for a willful violation of the terms of ot the ordinance and for no other He also wanted the minimum fine made madeSt 1 and the maximum fine made and wanted eliminated the provision that each days das violation should be deemed a separate and distinct offense The Tile objections and demands of or Judge Young Youns in regard to the section were posed passed and will be up today toda Gas Price Is Fixed The candle power of manufactured gas for Illuminating purposes was fixed at atI 28 20 I and the price at which the company shall furnish it at 19 per 1000 cubic feet with a deduction Uon of 10 16 per pr cent where bills are paid on or before the of the month The price of or water gas or manufactured gas used for fuel purposes is to be and of natural gas gag if fur tur furnished fished 50 cents per l 1800 80 oo cubic feet Section 6 fixing the fares to be charged on the street railway lines and providing for selling books of tickets at reduced rates to adult patrons and school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children was discussed briefly brief and wa wat passed d until today tOO Judge Youn Young found fault with section 7 of ot the ordinance ordinanceS which requires the company compan to furnish free Cree to the city forty fort horse power of electrical energy to b bused be used by the city Ity for power purposes es He Hest said st d the company had agreed to furnish h but thirty horse power and that it ought not to be asked to furnish more in view of 01 the fact that the ordinance provides for tor lighting the isolation hospital free which the company did not agree to do While this matter was under discussion an adjournment was taken tak until p pm m lii today on motion of ot Councilmen A J JDa Davis Da vI and |