Show FRANCHISE GRAB I I STILL SULL H LD bO BACK BACKi Light and i Railway Ordinance e Not MotI I F For the pt Council COUROn REQUEST GOES OVER CORRESPONDENCE SHOWS NO TROUBLE OVER WATER The ordinance granting the Utah Light Railway company an au al extension of its franchises hl until Jan 1 1856 did not come up at the meeting of oC the tile city coUncil councH last night owing to the fact that the company was not ready to have it acted on Councilman Fern Fernstrom Fernstrom Fernstrom strom Is ia authority for the statement that it will be introduced at the the meet ing big to be held next Monday night On motion of Councilman Fernstrom the ordinance granting grunting to the Rio Grande Crande Western Vestern Railway company a franchise to construct and maintain for years a spur across acoss a portion of or Sixth West Vest street between n South Tem Tern Temple Temple pie and First South streets and across South Temple between Fifth West Vest I and Sixth West Yest streets was taken I from the joint committee to which it was referred at a previous meeting I composed of the municipal laws Ians and andI 1 I streets committees I An effort was made by Councilman I Fernstrom and amid others to pass the ordinance under suspension of or the I rules but Councilmen Wells E B H Davis and Barnes objected After con considerable le discussion it was referred I back to the committees ana the city attorney with instructions to report at atan atan an adjourned meeting to be held to tonight tonight night Letters on Water Bonds In response to a resolution intro introduced Introduced introduced by Councilman A J T Davis at atthe atI I I the previous meeting ot of ne council all allI the correspondence bearing on the sale j I of the issue of water and sewer bonds was submitted to the council by Mayor lra orR R P Morris This J correspondence was rad by b City Re Recorder Recorder Recorder corder J T S Critchlow It showed that i while the officials and the attorneys s of I the Mutual Life Insurance company of j New York the purchaser of the bonds II are making inquiries as to the legality I of or the Issue there is nothing to Indi Indicate cate clite that the company will refuse to j i I take ta the bonds and d pay pa for them I I i I the reading of the correspond correspondence ence once was finished a 11 motion made by Councilman Wells Veils that the communication communication tion of the mayor be received and filed and that the letters be returned to him with the thanks of or the council was adopted Councilmen Fernstrom and Wells said the situation showed no alarming features as the insurance company was simply resorting to ordinary precautionary measures in satisfying itself as to the legality of th the bond issue President Frank J Hewlett vacated the chair to which he lIe called Council Councilman Councilman Councilman I man Martin long enough to get an ani i appropriation for 2000 to defray the cost of laying Jt tL mile of macadam on I one side of State Stata The macadam is to be laid on the west side of the time I street and Is is s to be e in itt a strip twenty feet wide On motion of Councilman A J 1 Davis the president of the council ap appointed appointed a pointed painted the following committee of or members of the council to help enter entertain tain tam the merchants when they arrive in Salt Lake on their excursion A J T Davis E B A Hartenstein E B H Davis L J T Wood and F J T Hewlett H Gift to Woodmen Vetoed Mayor Morris orris submitted vetoes of the resolutions re of the council offering to sell slI for 1 l to the Women of Wood Woodcraft Woodcraft craft a lot on Fourth South S uth street as a site for its proposed headquarters and anda a ft L resolution r on granting the King Hard Hardware Hardware Hardware ware Stove company permission to extend the front of its building twelve inches incItes beyond the property line Con Consideration Consideration of or these documents was de forted for one weOkA A letter New Newhouse house an nu announcing that he was ready to have 0 INte I the council take up and act on his ap pp application for tor a lighting and pow r franchise was read and placed on file m The Time contract with P P Ford of Den Denver DenVel vet ver for the construction of water at 1 mains which wag wa let by the time board of public works two weeks ago was ap proved by a vote of 12 1 ayes to 0 noes Those objecting were A J pavis Davis E H reo and ce The council appropriated 1 Q to give the plumbing inspector a u trip to ast erf er cities clU 11 tt ln Investigate g tr traps ii and to Jef hv to do with them thein o The Tife shine me amount was printed to send the chief of police to the national convention of chiefs chef of ot police to be held at Washington Washl D C May Mity lI 22 |