Show DENY CITIZENS I RIGHT TO TALK I Councilmen Black and Martin I Choke Off Protests of Prop Prope Property e erty ty Owners MORAN GETS CONTRACTS SECOND D SOUTH STREET T TAX TAXPAYERS AX PAYERS DENIED HEARING By Vote veta last ast night thE diy iy council approved the action ot of the Ct of public works in awarding four bg str street paving contracts aggregating o l to P J Moran The council i 1 fused to hear a 8 committee g gover over half ball the property owners affected L b the proposed ed paving of Second South street Councilmen Arthur F Barnes s al a aM M lL E Mulvey asked that the they be haid but It required unanimous consent an Councilmen T R Black and aDd L D Mar Martin Martin tin objected The committee was composed of Hen r Cohn Charles Crane CraBe and Isaac S Sears ar Had they been gIven the floor they would have requested that Second South street t be instead of being paved with asphalt Mr Barnes asked that Mr Cohn be allowed to speak The objection was made however because Mr Crane accompanied him Black and Martin have hale a lively recollection ot of the stinging which Mr Crane inflicted upon them when th the amendment to the Snow Darst gas franchise was pending and they were afraid to let the bars down 1 last st night for fear he be would give them a repetition of It S Says Moran Herds Them Mr 11 Cranes comment on the refusal of the council to give Mr Cohn the floor was characteristic Pat Moran is herding berding this council like a bunch of cattle he said The interests of this city seem to be absolutely in the hands bands of fifteen men most or of whom are entirely IrrE Irresponsible financially The board of public works sent in a communication asking that the Moran contracts be approved This communication tion set out in considerable de detail taU the history of the controversy On nio mo motion tion to approve the contracts every coun councilman dilman cilman present voted in the affirmative Councilmen C J Crabtree and Rulon S SWells SWells Wells were absent The mayor has five days to approve the contracts after morning Acting Mayor A T 3 Davis says sas he will not sign the contracts provided Ma Mayor or Thompson r returns front from Denver withIn the limit HUes Upholds Dininny City Attorney Ogden Hues sent to the council last night a written opinion up upholding upholdIng holding the previously rendered verbal opinion ot of his as assistant H J 3 Dininny to the effect that in the letting of con contracts contracts tracts the board of public works has the right to reject the bids and that the council cannot accept a bid and order a aCOR COR tract awarded after the board has re rejected rejected it Fhe opinion did not cover the point of whether the board has the right to for bids without authorization tion from the council to incur such ex expense pease pense This opinion of Judge e HUes was not read in the council coundI because President D Davis directed the recorder not to read it Mr D Davis vis explained this by saying saIng it was not to read it because it Was merely confirmatory or of what Mr lIr DL DI DIninny ninny had declared to be the law and further that the contracts had been let and there was now no demand for tor the opinion The council sustained the veto b by Mayor Thompson of the resolution directing the st street t supervisor to repair holes in the theP P paved ved streets Tile Thc veto was based on the round ground that it Was the duty of the board boar of pUblic works to have this work done The has awarded a contract to P J Moran oran to make the repairs out or of orthe the SOG appropriated for that purpose To Use Wooden Blocks Upon the recommendation of Ute street committee and the board Gf f public works the council decided to pave the Intersection intersection tion ot of Second South and Main streets with wooden blocks and to the following intersections with asphalt First South and Main First South and West Temple and Second cond South and West Temple No estimate has been made of what it will cost The council approved the contract with nith Hanley Ritchie for the macadamizing of Sixth East street for It con concurred concurred in the action of the board of pub public pubic lic ic works In rejecting the single bid for forthe forthe the Libe Liberty Park bandstand The coun elI cn appropriated to build it and W V B Black the only bid bidder er figured It at The council directed the board to solicit bids an 10 I 1 see if contractors could not DOt be found who would build it for a sum inside the appropriation the recommendation of Fire Chief C T or Vail A L Houston was confirmed as a member or of the tire department to fin fill a vacancy F L Hansing was con confirmed confirmed firmed as clerk of thE department to succeed W 11 G orrell resigned and J K Flynn was Wa confirmed as emergency AlaR for the health department To Regulate Automobiles On the recommendation of the public grounds S committee Chiet Chier of Police Sheets was Instructed to l keep ep automobiles from entering side drIves and pathways In LIb LIberty Liberty erty Park and to see to It that they are confined to the wide main driveways The chief of police pollee under a resolution introduced b by Councilman W T J Tuddenham ham bass was instructed to the or 01 a against dropping or otherwise tie de gravel vel on paved streets or from gravel vel at fire hydrants or else elsewhere elsewhere where on paved streets There has bas been much complaint or of late that this ordinance ordinance nance was being violated The Tuddenham Tuddenham ham resolution was amended so as to en enforce enforce force the ordinance against dropping coal on the paved streets Councilman Themas Hobday Introduced an ordinance reducing the license for pool and 00 billiard tables from 25 5 to iO 10 per an annum num and providing that such license shall be paid yearly instead of quarterly There was quite a discussion on the ordinance and it was finally laid over for a week To Paint Fire Hydrants Th The waterworks committee recommend recommended eti ed that the offer of John W Arnup to paint the fire hydrants all over Clver the cit city fo for r 36 35 cents each be accepted and the report was adopted There are nearly 1200 hydrants Th They y are to be painted 1 ed 0 and green |