| Show TRIED 10 TO 0 PASS PARK GRANT I PLAN TO SETTLE QUESTION DE DB IN COUNCIL Advocates of Proposition to Ic Give Public Land to Railroad Sought Xo to Force Perce Oppositions Sand Rand RandAn An interesting thing about last nights nl council meeting was an at attempt attempt attempt tempt to call can up the Pioneer square grant Friends of 01 the proposition counted nose noses and saw they had bad enough enol b votes to give the park to the th Salt Lake Los La Angeles railway and they tried hard to push it through It waa was Thomas who broached th the matter maNer He proposed that the th ordinance ordinance nance vacating the tJ square as a public park be taken up and put on its final reading Canning entered a vigorous protest He think it was fair to the opponents of the measure to have it sprung and rushed through in such style Thomas Tho took exceptions to Cannings talk about the suddenness sud of or the movement He argued that the meet meeting meeting ing lug was adjourned for this purpose as much as to consider financial ques questions questions Other members m contended that I when the financial reports had been I disposed ed of nothing else could be con considered considered After some talk back and forth erth the minutes of Tuesday nights night a meeting w were ere sent for I They ney showed that the adjourned meeting was to be solely for the pur per pose ot of talking money President Buckle ruled that nothing else elt could be considered eon and announced a willingness to 0 entertain a motion to adjourn Then the opponents of the grant saw sawa a chance to put the councilmen who favor it in a hole C R H Howe moved that the council adjourn for far ten tea min minutes minutes mm utes aLes and then reconvene to consider the park donation The other side smelled a trap however and the mo motion motion tion was voted down It was Vaa said af at afterward afterward that if it Howes motion had carried canted and toe the grant Irant been Hen made a successful contest eon teat might have bare been in instituted against ogain t it in the courts |
