Show MAJORITY IN CITY COUNCIL PROMISE ISE TO DEFEAT GRAB GRA Eight Members Line Up Against Utah Light Rail Railway Railway way VI y Franchise F r a n G his e in Present Pre s e n t Form Fur m Dean Goes On Record In Opposition and Gives His Reasons Rea ons Corporations Corporation s Lawyer Proposes to Draw Ordinance in Accordance With His Own Views H M M 4 The rh Utah Light A Railway franchise will not be jammed jamm d through the t city council tonight A majority of the councilmen are opposed to the measure as it passed pa ed the committee Monday afternoon They will not 4 vote for fOI it ft until radical modifications have been beer made The scheme of 4 the corporation agents both Inside and outside the council was W lS to rush the measure lI through before the opposition had time lime to rally ran its forces 3 The rhe scheme will fall HI because the conscience con of oC members of the council stood in the way If rf the test comes conies tonight on the franchise as it left J ft the committee Monday afternoon Hobday and Martin of the First precinct Wood and Dean of C the Second Hartenstein of or the Fourth and und Black A J Davis and n of oC the Fifth have uwe promised to votes vot against it Hewlett of if the First FIrM of the Second Fernstrom Barnes and Davis of the Third sid and Tuddenham and of the Fourth are ure expected to vote K for the franchise In n almost any form it comes conies up iii II 4 t D 1 DJ AN one of the mem mern members hers heM from the he t Second Se Jud ward war wa rd has haB haBu Iia been u subjected to all HU kinds of pres pr Ir ii ll to tn bring him into Int line for the f i grab gra The be pressure been bee i III Ii vain Mr Dean will be found stand in 11 i up UI for tor the rights ri of his constituents con v w ii n the test although he lie is ising l lety ing very ety little I e to stand sta nd for what whitt t in is ini i 1 i ht Mr jUr Dean Deat said last lest night hi in us iM c lIs ing the situation situa lion That is what hilt I J have tried to do 10 up to this time and andI I 1 mi too old now no to change I 1 have TIt tint Till attended the of the corn coin f e lately because e I was sva disgusted I 1 Irand Young wants ants everything in lit ht and at the same ante time tries trieM to toT toa T ate a te the im Hei sion that he is con on great reat favors on the city Not Quite All Al the Earth l I 1 dont believe in giving the I company compau the earth Mi Mt II Dean DeHn continued I am ani in r rIf or If f giving the company fair lair treatment p ause use of the interests Involved but taut butt tV t l franchise that came caine from the com commit mit tee Monday afternoon is not ac 1 to th a s majority of the th members 1 of the council I am glad they in iii inserted fT ted a forfeiture clause It would I have hae ha ve been silly for or the city to accept Anything 1 else elate i 4 There is le another point that will iII be fought to a s finish That is inc exten extension sion of time The majority of or the theIs council is 18 opposed OI to a fifty year ear franchise fra e If It the gets gt hc all of it i franchise extended to May 2 T j 1917 UNi when wh the longest Ionest one ono now in existence expires it should be IKS well satisfied I It t know that Mr dr Ir Wells VelIs r lIs is saying that the ny may not Hot accept a year franchise e even n but we W know how to tot tike t ke all such talk b y this th time t i bluff pure and simple Another point that wilt will be contested is l the purchase of the power right in Big Cot Cottonwood ton wood without wit bout the right of the city eft to use ulle power after it has ha bought it If Jr I had my n way ay about it itI 1 I Fd tl 1 go wj there and condemn that t prop property property erty Ity and let Jet the company whistle It Itis ItIs itis is holding that tha t proposition over oer our heads as a club dub It is blocking the work on or the tIe water wat r and sewer improvements v hile hundreds of men who expected to tu work on those improvements t are idle idl 1 Dean Kept in the Dark I 1 fought this thi thing thin when hen the water proportion was wa up Mr r Dean Deau said TV warming arming up but I i was kept in the dark as a to what the real situation was WIlS h L J I city was to be given this iK power right and amI all the land it desired d In the can canyon canyon canyon yon free Now we e are expected to pay pa pad dearly d for the power r right and we are aN areto aNto aretO to get no land hand except a narrow strip niong the conduit The city efty should S have Ita ve all aU the land hand it wants ants in the can an canyon anon r yon on for reservoirs re elo lS for conduits and for J I other legitimate purposes et I will not agree to anything lea lew leaI I Councilman Dean Dt alt is not a voluble talker and for this reason what bat he has hasto hasto to say at this time is doubly significant RUt cant n nt The position he takes in iu the matter makes t it certain that the J franchise e must mu t be modified radically before It can be saddled upon the city it |