| Show I 1 MUST WE LOSE FOR SAKE OF ATTORNEYS FEE the keynote of the water users meeting in tile the bonneville Ir rigs tion lion district F held in tile the bountiful Ta tabernacle bernac le wednesday even ill ff kilm aug L 22 was that if the re winning ii jiin 1 2500 retainer and fund due was not e expense forth coming 0 in the very near car fu duj besent attorneys attorney ra raya lure anre the pi present rawlins lins will cease to work for the di district strict thereby causing a loss to tile district through failure to oppose the demands of the bond holders made in the suits which tile they have filed in the bourt millions of dollars of perhaps C this would surely be penny wise and pound foolish we ive are all filled with the horror of the terrible damage that was vas done to property in davia and box elder counties comi ties in the recent flood which at the most amounted to but this in comparison to the loss that the i t people of the bonneville kirrigin tion district will tv ill suffer if the de mands of the bond holders are chanted cr anted is but a shadow if there ever was a time tha thay anyone residing in this legally i blighted locality should feel gen erous it is now f attorney Rat Rail lins representing his law firm explained to the large audience what had been ac V complis hed lied since his firm had i been employed ite he said that the i wheeler suit had been filed prior lr to their employment in the feder al court and that time was press ing ina to file an ans when they were r engaged gayed en 0 that they immediately fil I 1 ed an ans in in the case and care 1 fully eared cared for the districts in interests in said suit i ile he said that the wheeler suit was in reality the angelo london k paris national bank however 1 they had bad selected wheeler on account of his being one of the bond holders as the principal to make tile the test ai 1 discussing l cl 1 r al 11 the e demands of fisl iv ete bond li holders oh 1 ers in in the wheeler suit mr rawlins said that they asked that the court declare this indebtedness a blanket cortage mor tage which would make all property in in tile the district liable for the debt if so interpreted by the court also that the court make an order corn com the directors of the irrigation oli district to make a definite t lev levy y in their bud budget budet et to cover all phases of the indebtedness that alic bonds he bp declared valid and that hat an all order be made restraining the directors from discouraging rr the water vater users of the district from paying 0 their assessments mr rawlins explained that in in a similar case in ill the federal district court in colorado the court held that it was a blanket mor tage and whereas the federal c ourt court here that is trying the mh wheeler eeler suit would have to abide by the decision of the colorado court in the absence of a ruling in ing from the utah state supreme court coveting cov covering efing this question pere acre being no ruling on oil this stai sta Z tite ale iu in the utah supreme court a suit has been instituted to test this point of our statute hoping hopin that our court will declare this a special tax if it is so declared by our supreme court then he said the federal court frying V the wheeler suit will ill have to accept the utah state supreme court ruling arguments have been met and briefs ailed sled in the state supreme p reme court and a decision is confidently fi expected inside of three weeks mr air rawlins said speaking of the validity of the i bonds mr air rawlins explained I 1 that hat everything 0 pointed to tile the fact that the bonds were obtained I 1 by the angelo london paris national ba bank from the shattuck construction company at such a figure that they made a profit r when they sold them I 1 lc m to the barlic bank at seventy cent 0 on n the dollar and that the bank ba ik made a profit when they sold them for ninety five cents to their clients but lie he bi bj difficult to to said it might very prove these transactions tax payers had hd asked him mr rawlins said that if it were shown that the canals pumping plant and equipment did not bot cost a and nol were not worth or orth andiliere near the sum of 0 money that the tax payers were required to pay whether the courts would fix fin the rist of tile the dyste i and compel bom pel tile the parties in the tr ns cation to refund the excessive excessive charges for constructing the system aej aal the materials to which he replied there was no hope hole of any such modification ile he sa a 1 I the bonds would either be declared valid or rv alid in regard to the f the plaintiff in the whee wheeler ier action asking that the ili directors rectors of the district be compelled each year to cover all phases of th tha e indebtedness mr air rawlins explained that the directors in maldia up their budget this season had complied with the law but the law did not require them specifically lv tf include in their lev lew y every ev cry phase of the so s to both comply with the law ar and the wish es of the tax payers the directors made the tax as light as thoy could on the dl district strict which without pumping th this is year will any way amount to 1 12 2 an acre au all acre foot an and d if the courts declare the indebtedness a blanket ano mortgage t a ge in another year the levy may inay be per acre foot and from crom then on it will pyramid hig high gh 1 er and higher sir air rawlins report reported ed that the rearing hearing on the wheeler case will probably be had about the of october or near I 1 that date jn the course of his talk mr air rawlins said the reason the an aln london paris national bank in the bond holder the thep jr inte interest resty was because it is a large banking eon concern that deals extensively in bonds and it hurts their business to sell anything that does not investment they prove a good will be very anxious to have the court rule th that at the bonds are valid to show thear clients that they are not selling worthless paper if the bonds I 1 are declared valid they will probably have but little further i interest ri terest in the matter sir mr rawlins said that his law firm had done all they could in 1 the discharge of their duties since they had been employed and would continue to d do 0 so as long as they are in the employ of the district but impressed upon the water users the jact fact that they I 1 would have to b bej paid for their services or assure assured of their r fee imme immediately diat ely ile he aid if the ca eab 3 now pending 0 are finally adjudicated in the court where they are now filed the cost will not exceed with the atra 1000 or at least a part of it for tr traveling avelin it if taken to a expenses etc an anc higher tribunal t c cost would not mot exceed 7 was his opinion sir rawlins so sajid 1 I his firm had been helping the armors of murray a and nd vicinity ight fight the amel for twenty years wi without losing a case ase all banks in ane ie district are asked to receive funds to prosecute this suit an am it is hoped that all water users in n the district who have no n pa d their assess t i in merit it it of per acre foot would immediately p pay up |
