Show I ALVESToN IDEA TO Of BE il fOR SAlT lAK I t It Benner X Smiths Smith s Bills Unanimously Approved by Senate Committee and i 4 S Full Salt Lake Delegation i j t i iN N New ew Law aw to Go I Into nto Effect on January 1 i tl Police Bill to Follow i j ti Salt Lak ator Jan 1 1308 be governed 1 b by it a bO of oC trustees after the Galveston idea The Benn r X Smith bills providing for the b by r Salt Lake of the idea of municipal nt t were unan mon mouthed for fol passage e by bJ the tho joint senate committees on judiciary and city and county corporations Ions yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon The SnIt Lake m members rs of the so senate ate ateI I and hous in caucus yesterday agreed to stand b by the SmIth bill Sand an the I members will undoubtedly ac accede accede cede to their wishes The s nate is expected to pass the measure promptly and the house it is ed follow suit without de delay delay lay Speaker Joseph Josoph will champion the bill in the house The governor Is un understood to be not averse to signing the bill bUl bUlA billA A board of three trustees s elected from the cit city at large will therefore next Januar January assume all the duties powers Dowers anti and prerogatives no now possessed b by the mayor City ity council and board ot of public works rhe report of the senate committee be made today when the bills will willbe be read for the second time The third I reading will take pla e tomorrow w when the final vote Yote will be taken The sell sen seni ate seems to be unanimous in its ad advocacy i of the measures Is Favorable t Up to recently it has been expected that serious opposition would be forth forthcoming coming when the bills r reached ached the hou house e but the warring factions were cOl at caucuses of the Salt Lake county delegation held Tuesday Tuesa afternoon and again yesterday morn mornIng lag Ing wh n the whole qu question was dig dis cussed and It was unanimously agreed to stand b by T the Smith bills blUs The coun members are arc to vote feir as It does not affect them In th the least the agreement reached by bv the Salt Lake m members be ta taken k ken n b them to mean menh that the p people ople of the Utah metropolis want the change made Asked whether he thought the house would approve ot of his bills Senator Ben Benner Bennor nor ner X Smith said saidI eel I am positive that they will pass nass the r house houseS S This would indicate that everything but the mEre routine or of passing the I cut and dried the tho yesterday all were enthusiastic over the idea idoa of bettering the government of Salt Lake Senator Gardner or of Spanish Fork For said In reference to It I only wish we could have that form of govern government meat ment In i our town I hope that the he measures go through and that Salt Lake will as a result become a model municipality l Walton F tors It S Wesley K Walton was equally enthusiastic U Municipal go got should be centralized and di divorced from politics as much as pos possible possible sible he said and I believe that tills this scheme will be more effective towards towar s that end than anything else that could be done I am glad the salaries or of the trustees s ar are fix fixed d at a year for this will insure securing good men and will also insure better and more thith alth rul ful work for a man with a big salary will ivill not be so inclined to graft and play pIny favorites because hl hi Im ws that the people will wUl rise against him and he will be out of a job at the next election Senator of Ogden although favoring the measures wanted to as assure assure sure himself that they did not apply to Ogden before lie he gave his consent We dont need any change In Ogden h saId ald but If the Salt Lake delegation ion tion wants to change the government here I wont object to the bill in the least As a matter of fact I think It Itan itan an excellent one Explained e by Smith At the meting meeting Senator Benner X Smith explained In detail the prowls provis provisIons Ions of his measures In the first place the mayor city councilmen members or of the board of public works and all other city officials will be legislated out of office At the fall faU election the people will elect three trustees and an auditor from the city at large These I officials take office the first Mon MonI Monday I da day In January 1908 and assume all the powers now exercised by bj those In charge or of municipal affairs The trus trustees tees lees will appoint a city attorney e city recorder an and all ll oth othOr r necessary off officials I dais They will make aU all contracts and in ever every manner carr carry out the functions of government vested In the thema ma mayor 01 city council and board of pub lIe works by the harter If a vacancy occurs In their number they have the power to fill the term If this is not done Within thirty days the auditor the only oth other r official elected by hi the people will act as ac the third member and thus nn election ITt In th the ease case of oC It a deadlock P Ik Tile auditor Is to audit all 11 the books II i t of the cit city and and Is to be li n a of ai 11 t f chock ou on the trustees s HIS lr will willbe Ii f be 2100 while the trustees will r re I it p r year each h In ad addition 1 4 S Smith commented s 1 J Centralization Measure t The uThe object of these measures Js Is to II I Ian Ute the municipal government nt an and throw the responsibility in a deli leet I nite place where J i can be located by bythe the Ule people The only hope that this j r f rm of administering municipal i 15 th that t the people will grasp the op opportunity to place good and efficient men In office The salary attached Is It a 11 j sufficient Inducement and It IS up to t tUt Ut to make the government i t i good or bad as they see tit fit I believe l lin lIn in the tho people and believe bellee thAt if they t tare are given half n a chance as they would t I Ibe he be it if m my measures pass they will do j I II I the right thing S 1 The scheme a advocated In my bills t k kLas I h Las as worked e well In io f i t Memphis and Galveston Ot Of course I understand that It is a 1 11 sudden udden and radical move but I anyone any one who has haA studied the question will believe that It will be for the ul II t tin goo good of the city And will result in making out our g government II a model for tor i other othel cities to follow III i There has been some talk or 1 I r lag the number 0 of commissioners to 1 five fhe and making each represent a mu municipal ward but who have bavO nd ad 1 d this m in we wd have either been supprEssed or have come corne to the realization i tion that the fa fact t that flint the trustees are aro i ito to be bc only three In number and arc areto to tobe I Ibe be elected at large Is the only r thin thing that makes th the proposed method much 11 of an improvement o over er the present I IWard Ward Tard councilmen are always laboring for the tho Interests of their O own section and Ignoring the interests of the city as a whole wh It they were elected at large and to look to every for support tl they Y would treat each portion as equitably as pos possible sible sibie There will be offered in the house o oa oday day a a fire Ire and police DoUce commission bill j for for Salt Lake This It Is claimed will I t 1 not conflict with the Galveston plan but the m are not ilot committed to tn it as fully as to the Smith bills anti It will simplY tal take Its chances along wIth other Uon 4 It is claimed that the fire and police departments should be put on a nonpartisan basis and that the pro r bill will Ill merely strengthen the tho G Galveston eston plan L S |