Show ADOPTS PROTEST AGAINST PROPOSED MONOPOLY GRAB GRA 4 f Peoples Protective Committee Points Out Where e 1 Utah Light and Railway Ordinance Should Shou IdE Be Changed in Publics Interest cor Coronation pra ion Makes Make Mat es Effort to Pack the Meeting and Su i II l r Getting Endorsement of Term Which Adherents Call Calla a Victory t f i DEMANDS MADE IN PEOPLES INTEREST I t 1 i 4 The rho five points which the committee comm of lawyers lawyer of or the Peoples pro PlO II 4 t tIe committee insisted should be b f e incorporated in n any franchise te tO be t 4 granted the Utah Light Railway company compan at this time and around i which the struggle was wa fought last are arc 1 The 1 e franchise should contain eonta conta in a forfeiture clause This would 4 make it possible for the city to punish pun ish the company for violation of Its 4 contract by b depriving it of Its franchise fro v I 2 The city must retain the thc right to mak reasonable regulations te 4 in regard to charges for light gas and street str t car ear transportation 3 The city must retain the right rl to establish a standard for the 4 quality of light and gas gs to be furnished furn also idso the right to chang the 4 standard from time to time 4 The city must reserve the right to use ue the water or electric en energy e t tr ergy r y to be b purchased fro the Utah Light and Railway company In fn Bj 4 Cottonwood canyon 5 No franchise to be e granted at this time to extend beyo beyond d the 4 of the longest lon e t franchise now in n existence ex May 27 1947 Th 6 provision 4 t but motion giving hiving It as a the T ANAS laid upon the table a 8 Avas wali wa adopted sense of the committee that no franchise be granted gT for a t 4 than for Cor fifty years from Jan 1 1905 l 5 4 t H I T r the meeting of the Peoples Pro Protective I A committee at the Commer Commercial cial ial club last evening the report or of the legal against the franchise anchise was as adopted on one I point the term tt nn of the franchise to be Slanted granted The rhe committee voted In fa faor fat t or of a franchise The attendance was wa not large Not Nott Nota a t five l l that the thet st t tr ft h b printed gr ii by the coun 1 d to t Mav Mi Ia 27 1947 was laid 01 th h t bIc In l iv u a ot nh I of 12 to 11 M on oni i 10 ot t or 1 F r I Ii H Following till thi vV Y V 1 I moed md that it he be beth th n of h that no fran franc thic c bo be granted for a longer period Jeriod than fifty years from last January On motion 1 oU n of J IT lJ l Eldredge this was as amended to w give the city the right ri ht to tott string tt ng wires wire wre on the pole I and in this form it wa was adopted Before this final vote was wat taken George porge M Cannon H S Tanner and andI I Daniel Harrington delivered eulogies on the the Utah Light Railway com coin company compau pany pau while Mien Allen T Sanford and Hen Hea Henry Hean ry n W Lawrence spoke with nl l spirit on the other side On mo me motion motion meS m I S tion of Judge Powers Chairman John JohnI I Dem Dern and Secretary Allen T SanfOrd S 4 were instructed to report port to the th eun II li th the action of tho committee Report of the S The report of the Committee te is I given i ih herewith h in full fun as i came caine from th the committee of lawyer lawer t lion Hon John Dern Chairman Citizens Pro Protective eUve tt Committee Dear DeRr Sir Your committee on law met Wednesday day evening April 12 I 1 and after aCtor a careful consideration of th the franchise pre prepared prepared pared in accordance with of or ofa ora a majority of the members of the coun council cil ii II committee having this matter under tinder consideration bogs begs leave loae to submit the 2 following as the unanimous report or of this committee I First The street railroad franchises fr l and anda m a n part of the electric light franchises I row ro ow have a Q forfeiture clause We Ye deem d em it jt of valid vallet Importance that wl w fran franc ran c hist may be granted the 1 T h ii Light t I Railway company the forfeiture clause be b ii retained It Is the only eff tuai means meane V of f compelling good and we do doj doI I j ot believe that this very Vcr important fua function tion should be delegated a the th police b I court of this city for under the provi I alone as ns contained in the proposed fran franchise franchise chise the rules ruins of criminal law would be bea applied a and it would be necessary nece ar to toI I prove proe beyond a reasonable doubt that the I company had failed faIl to o comply with the I provisions of ot IU Ita franchise and the pen penalty 1 alty aft would be bt only a fine t nt Excepting the thea 1 a waterworks no Dubli is of such sucha a i to the masses m of people as are areN N those operated by the th Utah Light Rail Rall RaUw 1 w wy way Y company and th public should not notI I delegate d or sUre t the right to compel compelI I 1 good grod service ervicE there dOes doos not nott t em to be any an teed tood reason ronson why wh a con contra tra IMle with md td for the benefit benent of the b city ud not zot reserve to the city the theS S right ll if It it chooses upon fail failure failure failI I I ure nrc of or tilte th other I party to comply with the provision A r of or f Its contract as In the ao case ease of private parties Right tt Y t Regulate Charges I 5 Second to regulate charges t and nd rant r should be ex ox expressly pressly Mii ofee Ie e use uso of electricity I Is IB in II its ts is being belag I paulo made year ear by sui d ve e should reserve ht to give gt e to 10 he pulle p pi c the benefit of or the cheapening processes Th rate Is now proposed may ma be reasonable at the present time Ten years hence it may maybe m be exorbitant and we w should not U tl the hands of or posterity and compel them to pay exorbitant rates but rather rth r reserve for tor them Rl the power to fix the rates from time to tc t time Um upon a reasonable basis The legislature has empowered the city council to regulate the sale and use of gas electric and other lights the charges and the rent r nt of meters Section O paragraph pard raph 2 revised statutes Utah as amended am 1003 and we see no reason why the city elt should ignore this grant rant of I power even en If It can lawfully do so Third It Is well known that the elec electric trie lights for some seine time past have hae been I and now are very verr unsatisfactory This new nen w franchise should fix some standard b by which the lights shall be tested and we recommend r that competent comp tent electrical engineers enKin rs be consulted on this matter matterand matterand matterand and that th l be determined upon and J embodied l bodied in the franchise and that th right to dix new standards as may maybe ma maybe be proper with the advancement of the knowledge knowledg of electricity be reserved Fourth If the city acquires the waters nf f Big Bg Cottonwood stream we 1 believe there should hould be bf no restriction upon either t tH ie use liSt of th the water or the electrical energy generated d by b the power derived from the water Length of the Franchise Fifth franchise should not be ex e x d be beyond May 37 27 1947 that being bein the of tIe the longest franchise now b by Itah Light ft Railway com corn n The tendency of modern legisla ton Hon is that franchises franchisee should not be granted l for tor a long period and the tho outside idt it i Is er J e 9 be thirty us L The flie present nt holdings liol ln of or the tt l Light Railway of I Electric light and gas franchises S Street railway r franchises es 3 1 For the purpose of convenience we will segregate them and consider first the thet t et trie light franchises The four prin franchises es held by b it are the follow following following ing ig inga a arhe The Salt Lake Ogden Gas Elec Electric Electric Light company granted ranted May Ia 20 1891 b Robert M 11 Jones or Big Cottonwood Power company granted July Tuly Tul 25 2 5 ISOZ 1891 ci eS S F Talker Walker or Citizens Electric Light company granted Dec De 19 1893 td Pioneer Electric Power company compan granted May 27 7 1897 Each of the above franchises was granted for or a of oft t Ivl years and on Dec Dee 31 U 1903 1008 tach aeh c of them was extended for a period of tw years and in addition to toI tuo I ii then the n furnished the company agreed 1 e to give 10 to the city cit as a consideration tion tiun for said extension arc lights as follows After Atter May 19 1918 six Her lter July Jul 24 21 1818 six after Dec 18 IS 1918 1911 six after r May 17 1922 seven Consider Considering ing that the city cit will be b much larger In 1 J 20 than it is now flOw the consideration for fornis f nis n Is extension of years was wholly inadequate Also at that time Light Power company compan the pre e r of the Utah Light Railway com corn company company pany agreed to bury Its Us wires between I South Temple and Fourth South State I street and Vest AVest Temple beginning 1905 lWi and to be he completed within nine years Second The street railway franchises were UnKindly originally uri granted for a period of twenty years year In ISM IBM both the Salt Lake City railroad and the Rapid transit t com corn company company pany patty secured au sit amendment to their franchises so that all of them Ulm were wr con continued continued continued for or a period p of oC fifty CUt years from the 1st da day of January Since that time timea a new franchise has hils been heen granted grant but they the expire practically at the thc same time viz Iz Jan 1 1045 1945 your our committee believes bt li eS that se serious serious serious rious mistakes mistaken have been made in the past pastIn In bt extending these th f franchises eJ to unreason unreasonable unreasonable able ablo limits but as that cannot now be remedied and as one of or the light fran Cran ran extends until May lIa 27 21 1947 1017 If all the franchises held by hy the tha company co m pan be bo ex cx extended t x tended to that date we think the com cont company pany 10 can have no just cause for com corn complaint plaint Respectfully submitted O 0 W Yo POWERS Chairman C S VARIAN OGDEN HILES ES l lk W Vt 11 H KING D II il WENGER WILL ILI RAY RAYJ J H HALLEN MOYLE Y rE ALLEN T 1 SANFORD |