Show CONDUIT GRAB ORAB ClUBBED t THROUGH CITY COUNCIL American Party Caucus Whips Re calc it rants Into Line for Contractor tor Morans Bill By 9 a strict party varty vote the Ameri American can leaders in the city administration put Dut their conduit grab through the council last night The caucus V hip was resorted to yesterday morn kg and three AmerIcan councilmen iho ho were to the ran grab were forced into line by their colleagues r When the grab went through last lasi night not an American made a a speech in defense of It AU All sat still In their seats while Councilmen Fern Fernstrom Fernstrom strom and Tuddenham vigorously as assailed assailed sailed the proposition and the Amer American Amerlean lean ican star chamber methods and then voted as a unit on roll roU call Later the th council refused to Increase the salary of the woman nurse at the pest house from rom Th 75 to a month although she has Ims to care for over t enty patients at the present time Mulvey and Martin DeSsert Desert Contractor P J Moran controlled the American caucus yesterday forenoon because Councilmen L D DMartin Martin MarUn and M K E Mulvey both of horn have posed as opponents of the grab suddenly lined up in the Mo Moran Moran ran column CT C J Crabtree another American who has hinted that he might oppose the grab also lined up with Mr Moran The caucus was held in Mayor TJ office and the mayor was there to see that the Moran grab went through So were City Engineer Kel Kelsey Kelsey sey and AssIstant Attorney Th There re was a three hours discussion and ad according to councilmen present t the e was as follows I IFor I For tire the Crabtree Martir Mar MarI tm tir Mulvey PresIdent Against the Ferry The three AmerIcan opponents of the grab submitted to caucus dicta dictatiOn tiOn and voted with the others In open council last ast night Tuddenham Denounces It When the order of unfinished bus business Thess iness was reached in the council last night Black the Amer American Amerlean lean ican leader moved that the of the city engineer in ta fa favor vor or of the Pt Ja n from the wa Wat t committee co RUt md pl oed be f fre rp the council The motion carried ut objection nd then Mr Black by Mr Crabtree moved that fA ut z recommendation of the engineer f I be concurred in and that the expendi expenditure ture b authorIzed 1 Tuddenham spoke vIgorously in op opposition position There Is no necessity to Increase the thi thickness of the walls walIs he saId It may be necessary to thicken them Jr ir places but to say that over should be spent sent to thicken them the entire distance of the conduit is ab absurd absurd surd Under Tinder the specifications as they stand the engineer is empowered to thicken them where necessary Touches Up Martin Th Then n Mr Tuddenham took a shot at Martin who had deserted to the Moran side after taking a contrary position po position In a interview Mr Martin told me last Saturday said Tuddenham that he Wits as op opposed posed to plastering the inside of the C ci I know and every Practical Than man knows that to the con conduit dult duit is utterly Mr closed by inc int as u for No N American attempted at tempted to reply to hUn although Mulvey at the meeting a week ago last night declared emphatically that he would be guided by Mr judgment in the mattEr because he regarded him as a man who understood con conduIt dult duIt work Fernstrom in Opposition Fernstrom began his speech in opposition opposition by saying that when the work as first projected under tIle the last administration ad ministration n it was known that 1 be spent on the C The old council however had taken into consideration the fact that the west st side was demanding a Sf and that other public Improve ImprovemEnts rients mEnts were necessary and had cut cuttle the tle garment according to the cloth ThE conduit as planned Fornstrom Fernstrom de ared was good and would EO be by any ny practical and unprejudIced than man who might examIne It Fernstrom charged that Engineer Kelsey Helsey had misrepresented the facts ben he saId the leakage In the con conduit dull duit under the old plan would be I gallons a day According to own Om figures he poInted out it would be less than gallons aday a aday day before the slIt silt stopped up the pores In tIle the conduit Mr Fernstrom declared that the people of Salt Lake would never stand for such an expenditure unless corn com Jt tent and unprejudIced engineers In to It Con i were called D pass SS upon UDon I suIting Engineer A F Doremus Doremus he heI poInted out had condemned the bill for or extras and their necessity rested upon the tho bare opinion of Engineer Kelsey Helsey Scores Caucus Rule up to his work Mr Fern Fernstrom Fernstrom strom vigorously denounced caucus rule I 1 suppose that it Is no use to talk he said We are Informed bY the evenIng papers that the majorIty par party party ty has held a caucus and determined to adopt thIs plan It is the first time in the history ot of thIs city that the Itys C bUSiness has haa been done don e behind I locked doors and as a member ot of this 1 I protest against it n Mr Fernstrom read the lw law which I requires the council to hole hold onen sos ses sessions and to keep a journal of Its pro proceedings S I have no objection he said ii if members of the majority Party Darty want to caucus in secret over the distribution dIstribution tion of jobs but when it comes to do doing doing ing business that involves the financial interests it Is an outrage that it should be done in secret Violating Their Oaths I know there are members of this thir I council will vote for this grab grah i who in theIr secret hearts are I opposed to t but because a caucus has decreed It they will violate their which God has given them I tell teIl you gentlemen when you dp that YOU violate your oaths of of office flee fice 5 Mr Fernstrom pointed out that five men of the councIl were sufficient to dominate a caucus and declared th that t the spectacle of five men runnIng the business of the city coun council cil was a vIcious one Then return returning returning ing to the proposed expenditure he de declared dared To vote for thIs grab amounts to stealing this money out of the city treasury You might just as well throw it in the Jordan rIver H His is Respects to Carter Mr F then declared that Councilman C Carter who was whipped Into line by the caucus had told him hima a few days ago that concrete properly reinforced with steel was as strong as concrete which was not reInforced He declared that the cost would be instead of before the extras were fin finished finished By this time Black and Mulvey were makIng elaborate pretenses of going to sleep but everybody else in the coun council cli cil chamber was sitting up and takIng notice Fernstrom continued that part of the engineers estimate provided for changing the shape of the to top of the conduit which he said would cost I for new forms whIch the cIty would have to pay to the contractor j This is simply wasting for a fad he declared Water wont squeal no matter what shape of a conduit you ou run it through Brands It As Insult Returning to the secret caucus Mr Ir Fernstrom declared that such a method of doIng the business was ivan an in insult suit sult to the In the council You had to go behind closed he saId to whip whiD rebellious members into line Une If this had been left to the individual consciences of the members of this council It would never go through meet this thing on every street corner comer if you adopt It The one engineer on the board of public works Fernstrom charged had never been consulted about the proposed extras lie He closed by moving moving ing that action be deferred until an un unprejudIced Unprejudiced prejudIced engineer could be called in inand Inand and Tuddenham seconded the motion It was defeated bY a party vote Tuddenham Wants Light Mr Tuddenham then aSked what would be done with the finished potion of the conduit wm Will you t tear ar It out he demanded No well let it as a horrible example replied Councilman Black Mr Ir Tuddenham insisted on a serious answer to his question and Mr Kel Kelsey Kelsey sey replied that it would be covered up and patched up Ill confess declared Mr Tuddenham Tuddenham ham that part of it might to be torn out because it was put in poorly oes Councilman Martin demanded the previous question and the grab went through by the following vote Carter Crabtree Ferry Martin Mulvey ODonnell President DavisS Na Fernstrom Holle Holley The affirmative votes were all cast by Americans and the negative votes by Democrats Barnes Democrat In explaining l his vote said every al man whom he had consulted about the matter was opposed to the extras Mr Hohley said that councilmen were beIng forced to vote agaInst their better judgment After the vote was taken there was an Impromptu inthe In Inthe the office of Mayor Thompson which adjoins the chamber chambe The mayor was there and Contractor was an spectator throughout the entire proceedings watching his men do o his bis win will What the Extras Are The extras r recommended Commended by bv En Engineer Engineer Kelsey and approved b by the council wore were as follows plasterIng the inside of the with cements plaster 17 coverIng the conduit at atall atall all exposed places wIth earth Increasing the thickness of the walls waIls which includes changing the shape of the top |