Show MONOPOLY Y GRABS A LITTLE MORE Helps Itself Itel to Further Furher Concessions in i Proposed Ordinance Or anoe WOULD BAR COMPETITION SEEKS TO KEEP CITY FROM US USING USING USING ING POLES T r HE Utah Light L t Railway company I f made ud it plain p to to the th members mel of the th joint jint ali laws Is and a Ape special s cial cil water committee yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon nn that if its franchises are ex cx extended tended tende as proposed pr it intends prevent preventing ing in the th use uee u of its it tracks by any corn com competing co street railway company or com coin companies tret o cot during the entire entre fifty years that Its It franchisee will wil run rita made that the Utah It I was also als plain Uth Light Railway company copy does do not intend to furnish furni to Salt Sal Lake City any ay facility falty for developing or obtaining for other purposes lights municipal or X except such as the company agrees to furnish to the th city free fre and to sell sel the city at its own price pl As AB the me br of the committee concede iut d points to the th com company any pany its is arrogance aron Increases and n it i in insists Insist slats upon UIn concessions con 1 that were wert sup supposed posed to have ha been i abandoned by it itIn ItIn In Jim addition to Judge J Young and aud ant its engineers r and acting general genel manager r the company om ny Is is represented rep at the th committee meetings meeting by Council Councilman Counci man Rulon S Well VeIls V en who wh has h at every meeting of the joint committee that he has haK attended appeared in the role of or ofa ora a special pleader for the th Utah Light Railway company Another Meeting Today After spending two t o and a half hours yesterday afternoon reconstructing the compromise ordinance drafted by City Attorney C C Dey De at the time request reut of the time committee after au an understanding had been b n reached rache with Judge Young the committee adjourned until this thi afternoon In the time mean meantime men meantime time Judge Young will wi confer with wih Judge Dey Dy with wih a view to a 8 further compromise Just before the adjournment yester yesterday yesterday day afternoon Ju Judge Ege Young alter after a avain avain vain ain endeavor to have an essential provision of the time ordinance eliminated and another r provision inserted therein said aid id that he did dd not see s the ordinance before it i was Has submitted to the com corn committee Up Cp to that time it i was sup supposed supposed posed by the members of the commit committee tee that he h and Judge Dey had col eel collaborated on the ordinance That they the would do so s was waa the understanding when an adjournment of the commit committee tee was L tak n a week ago ao The committee committe at yesterdays meet meeting met ing lug considered the ordinance from the beginning of section sto 7 to the end el I of section s 11 but before doing doln so went back bek and made some changes change previous previously 1 1 ly dIscussed and partially agreed agre on One was wa making the price prie of midnight are a light service 75 5 instead ined of S 8 pr per the lamp i er r month Another Anther was striking out of ole teachers and ad the th in inserting i of o of 0 the public schools aft sf after af t tor er or students student hi in i section 6 where pro provision pr provision vision is made for selling books of fifty lift y tickets for 10 1 More For the Company In Iii section stin 7 at st th the insistence of Judge Young the candlepower of the thirty incandescent lamps lamp of the th pros pres present p pent ent standard that that the company agrees age to furnish furnis the th city ct was reduced from SO t to 38 3 Judge Young again a ain objected to the demand of the city embodied embi in the or ordinance ordinance that the th company furnish furnis forty horsepower of electrical energy for power per purposes He said sid the th com coin company compan Daily pany pan would not give more than thirty horsepower Oe ower unless the city eliminated the provision requiting requiring r the th company to light its it hospitals and other public offices or buildings and confined its Is demand to the half of the city ity and county building g the fire fre and po police p lice stations and the public library An agreement agre ment was not reached leache on this matter notwithstanding Council Councilman Counci man Wells Veis tried to induce his fellow feBo committeemen to take the same view of it as taken by Judge Young After much deliberation and long discussion and a conference with En Engineer Engineer Engineer R F P Heywood and Chief Clerk C rk D A Swan Judge Young announced that the company would sell sl the th city electrical power to be b used Ue hours hurs a day the tle hours hour from 5 i to S 8 Sp Sp p m Tn excluded at 1 cent per pr kilowatt hour and r If used u four hours hour houra a day da at 14 1 cents cent per pr kilowatt hour City Cf Engineer George W Yo Riter RitEr said si the city cit had made a contract with wih the t Telluride Power company to get gt dee elec electrical el energy ener at a lower rate rte Mr Swan Swami replied rele that the Telluride could furnish cheaper company energy than the Utah Light Railway corn com company cm patty pany because it It used water waler power 11 r exclusively whereas he s the Utah itah Uth Light Railway com any would have to use steam part rt of the tle time Seeks to Evade vade Taxes It I was insisted i iste by Judge Young Youn that the tile concluding paragraph of section sto S 5 be b stricken out This section provides provid But nothing herein l rein or in this thi ordinance ori nance nanee is or held to be b in lieu of any an license toH toB or o tax ta provided for tor forIn torIn forIn In said sid franchises or any of them or orin orin orin in the laws Jaw of Q Utah or 01 in the ordinances ori orin ordinances nances n e of said si city Judge Young said si the company would be b compelled to pay py a license of 25 on each ech of its Is cars e rs and aD that th it i ought not notto not to be b subjected 1 to o other licenses lens He Hedi did di not want to a he said si that the te city would have ve the right to pile up com coin company c pany to pay py Councilman Wells Wels moved moe to strike strikeout strikeout out the clause clau and in km I support of the motion motin worked himself up u to a high bight hi h pitch pich of admiration for the Utah Light Railway company which was WR doing more he said sid for the city than tan the time city ci was wa doing for fo the company Start Starting Starting Starting ing wih with the statement that the th clause caus was wai unreasonable J and that no such clause cau could be found in a a franchise granted in other city in the any th coun country countr country try tr he wound up by b asserting that it i was infamous Hobday Denounces Steal Councilman Holiday Hobday Hobay Insisted that the clause should remain in the ordinance orinace and then Councilman Fernstrom came cane cameto to the assistance of Councilman Wells Wels Then Councilman Hobday Hobay arose ar and relieved his feelings He ac accused accused accused Councilman Wells Wels of dispensing hot air iii hi wholesale quantities and said sid the whole scheme of the majority of the members of the te committee was to give the Utah Light Railway cm corn pany everything It I asked aske and time the peo people p pie of Salt Sat Lake Lk City Cf nothing Councilman Wels Wells assured a re Council Councilman Counci man Hobday that if he Wells Wels for a moment supposed suppose time the company was was asking anything to huh it was as not J Continued on oa Page 2 t MONOPOLY Y GRABS GRABS A LITTLE LITTLEMORE MORE I I Continued from froni Page 1 I led or ni O if I ha he he thought t the peOple I of o the city were about b ut to get the worst of it he would not vote to give gin the i i company what it i demanded But the company was wa in view of oC the fact that i Its is franchises anch es have Years to torun torun run treating the city munificently I Thi This statement put Councilman Hob Hobe down for the count but he got on I his feet again and insisted Insist that the city ci should get something Con on he said So far as a I can see seethe seethe i the company is getting it all al and the City getting a 8 damned thing I Councilman Wells Wels motion was adapted tU Would Head Off Use of Poles I After threshing thrEshing over various matters mater that have been ben considered at every 1 meeting of o the joint committee Judge j I Young asked as ed that a section be in ip j I In the ordinance providing that the city shall not use the coin com poles or cross arms for string stringing i ing Irig hiS wires for lighting purpose purposes nor make rules rutes or regulations for lighting other than those contained in the ordinance nor grant to any except a suburban railway company compan the right J to run Jun cars car S over the tracks of the Utah i Light Railway company compau I This provision was opposed by President President dent Hewlett and Councilmen and Hobday and was insisted on by b Judge Young Youn and Councilman Wells j while wh the Ute other members of the com coin committee mite remained noncommittal Judge Young Yo ng said Hie he want people who come to the city to get a franchise franchie and build a short piece of road running their cars over oer the com corn tracks President Hewlett said he be believe believe lieve Uee the owners of oC short pieces of tracks should have hae the right to use the entire entre system t stem of the Utah Light Railway company and suggested that a length of road that would en entitle entitle title tte an opposition company to make malte I use of 01 the tte compan s tracks traNts be put in inthe I tho the ordinance But Judge young Toung would not riot agree to this Councilman Wells VeIs again waxed elo eloquent I quent in extolling the Utah Light Railway company He said the com lom company pany pally was before the committee c because the committee had offered offered to give It a t a fifty ff years ears franchise and ails it should be b treated fairly fairy The Te company compan had water waterpower waterpower waterpower power and nd other property that the city needed ne ded and must have and the cons com company campan pany pan was willing to give the city these the things in return for practically noth nothing nothIng ing lug The city was being munificently paid for what it was proposing to give gle the company The company had hac voluntarily reduced d the prices of lights and ard as s offering o the oily olt property of df r incalculable value value I Judge Young Your gazed admiringly at Councilman Wells Well and smiled approvingly approvingly But the th efforts of the judge judg and td the councilman were unavailing at that tithe time l for Or th the Committee adjourned without adopting the judges proposed section j I The proposition to impose imp fines on the company instead of forfeiture of charter rights for f r violations vi of the ordinance the proposition to insert Inser the word wilful before b fore misdemeanor mI demeanor where fines are ae provided for Judge Youngs proposed new section and a number of other matters on which an agreement has not been reached reache are to tobe tobe tobe be considered by Judge Young Youn and i Judge Judg Dey tey this morning morIng and they will wi come up again at the meeting to be this afternoon 11 |