Show FRANCHISE FIGHT IS Determined Element Lined Up in Opposition to Utah Light Railway Co IS COMPLICATED I LIGHTING AND STREET RAILWAY ISSUES ARE JOINED The final efforts of ot a certain element clement In hi the council to defeat the Utah Light Railway franchise and sidetrack the lightIng proposition are scheduled for this evenings eV council meeting Led by Patriot Black this contin contingent gent Jent whIch has nas among its members Other Important t Mutters Matters Crabtree and Assistant Patriot Martin is expected to make f a most terrible attack on the prostrate form of corporate greed When hen n the he council committee of the whole i i adjourned last Friday evening it left the franchise and lighting problems in the same condition as it found them If It the city wishes to take tako advantage of the reduced lighting rates GO a year ear for arc lamps it must do so this evening ac according according according cording to the communication received from the company compan by the fran chiBe without amendment This makes the me propositions Proposition hinge upon each other and complicates the problem before the council to no small degree deree Doing Campaign Work It is understood that the councilmen al ready named have hae framed a campaign to delay matters as long as possible and have secured the support sup ort of Councilmen Carter rand and HObday day On the other hand the v balance of the council seem inclined to pass the franchise accept the light ing lug proposition made by the company compan and if it is I h possible to do so they will endeavor avor to put It through this evening Councilman Martin first assistant to Patriot Black seems likely to cause causo the most trouble He insists that he has not been fairly treated J by bJ the special lighting committee and that as chairman of the Improvements committee he should have hae been allowed to participate in their deliberations He disagrees with the light I Jug ing report in that It makes no provision for lor or gas lighting He Hc would have at least one street lighted In this manner Opposed to As s far as the franchise is concerned the council seems willing to allow allo the company compan to make the desired extensions but there Is considerable opposition to re reaffirming reaffirming reaffirming affirming the 1006 1 franchise This is be because because because cause of the action brought by b Thomas Homer two years ago in the district court to have that franchise declared il II legal because several officials of the Mormon church voted for it and the church at that time owned the company This suit is still pending and If the pres prea est council reaffirms the 1905 1906 franchise there will be no grounds for pressing it That the company desires this reaffirm ance is acknowledged by Joseph S Wells general Jeneral manager who stated last Fri day evening that a franchise only on I grant ing the extensions asked for would not be accepted The fight tonight is sure to be a bitter one unless there is a decided change in inthe inthe inthe the situation today Mayor Brans Bransford ford and President Davis of the council are at atI I work trying to conciliate the obstruction 4 but so far they have had but little success They may however succeed today and thus put a stop to the expected squabble p |