Show M MEASURE ASURE WAS i r J i I hv I JUGGLED WITH WITHLaw Law Which Threatens to Hold HoldUp HoldUp HoldUp Up Improvements Was Amended HOLLINGSWORTH DID IT PASSED UNNOTICED IN RUSH AT CLOSE OF SESSION Senator Benner X Smith is not responsible responsible respOnsible sible for the provision In Jn the now famous senate bill No Xo 1ST Ui introduced bv by b him which threatens to tie up all the city im improvement improvement provement work The bill in Its original form provided simply simp that when public improvements are made the contract must first be bo let and the amount assessed each Individual piece of property should not exceed the proportionate share of that tract It also alo provided that no assessments should be levied until the improvements were com corn completed completed It was a measure to protect prop property property property erty owners against exorbitant assess assessments assessments ments and to prevent the assessments be bc being being ing collected and kept by b the city for a period before the work Is even started The measure came Iame up tip in the senate along alon with a large grist of oC bills the lay day I before the session closed It was unanimously recommended by b the judiciary committee and passed without discussion The obnoxious clause clatie which provides that bids for the doing doln of all an work contemplated I I ed by b such sich special improvements shall be separately solicited and a separate con contract contract contract tract be let therefore was introduced fd as asan asan I I an amendment by b Senator Charles R It Hollingsworth of Ogden Oden Apparently Apparent no noone noone noone I one paid any an attention to it and it was WS allowed to go in with the bill The meas mess measure measure I ure ore also passed the house in this form on the last day without discussion I I At the time of its passage in the senate neither Senator Lawrence chairman of the judiciary committee nor Senator Wil Williams hams liams was present according to the jour journal journal journal nal |