Show Seven Vote Vole For and 26 vs F Diesel Plant Pant For Bountiful Upwards of fifty rep representative citizens from Bountiful City ac- ac accepted accepted ac accepted the inv tn imitation of the Bountiful Bountiful ful City council extended to the general public in an ad nd in last weeks week's Clipper to meet at the coup coun council council cil room Mond Mond-iy e ening e to hear the mayor and councilmen explain their views in m regard regards to the city's s 's engaging in the power bu business Mayor lh or Stocks presided at the meeting and told what hat had been heen done Said that at a m meeting ehn held Friday night July 20 the vote car r reed to install a diesel el plant three of the council voting in m the affirmative affirmative and two in the ne negative atle e He also said ud the city attorney had written a clause in the coats that the they did not notice nobce at the time which had delayed in m the signing up of the contract as the attorney was out of town and Mi Todd would not accept the contract with this clause in m it as under cert m conditions this chuce provides pro Ides that tl-at a n petition could be bo circulated and if 15 0 of the voter signed It they could haven have in n election called so tint that the citizens could all vote ote on It it The said clause chuce also r that the city advertise for bids for the construction of the plant which is another feature that IS not suitable blE to the Todd plin pl-n as the bonds are all to be turned over to the bonding house or some one which or who will construct the plant like or similar to the a the wa the Bonne Bonneville Ille canal wis cis built Mr Todd talks bout ad adel advertising el for forbids forbids forbids bids but when the writes It into the contract he will aill III not it This clause referred t to accept IS called the Granger er act a somewhat ome hat mow ow piece of legislation The me method method method thod employed by Lehi Lehr in m netting their deal over which did not re rc require require qUire o so 0 much publicity seems to to suit Mr Todd the mayor and nd the members s of the council who ho wish to put this over better The attorney attorney- wrote into the contract the law he belie believed ed ed should be fol followed followed lowed and which Mr Todd had hadr hadr rf r cd ed to toY Y anous rlOu rious phases phaes of the proposed ed under by the city were ere ere- t-lk- t hIked ed ed over o When the buying of the Bountiful LI Light ht S Power Cos Co's Co s 's property for 60 GO which provid provides es 3 the distributing system even If the diesel plant is 11 built County CommiSSIoner E 0 Muir express express- expressed expressed ed himself as opposed to the city's s 's paYIng CO for the same con contending contending tending that fi figure ure was about too much When the 4 cent s special x t-x that thatis thatis thatis is likely to be added to the per gallon for fuer fuel for the diesel en engene engine gene me was as mentioned Moses L Hol Holbrook brook said it did not apply to stationery engines but since the theme me Pl n in told us that it does ip lj Jh ih Iv to stationary engines Hv 11 dro pl or steam turbines are the only methods of generating a constant con flow of electric current CUI rent said Mr l F W Ballard who s h-s had bad 20 tears ears active sen en service ice with mth the Bamberger Electric v lie He called attention to the fact it was vas as impossible to se- se secure se secure cure ure dependable operation of eke elec- electric elec electric se-I se clocks with vuth Ith diesel due Jue to the fact that th there rp is no accurate regulation and no master clock to control the operation Mayor Stocks s first called on n the two councilmen who ho hat hal vot voted d against the diesel plant n-mely n J A Taylor at aid ard d James P to give then reasons for being against the diesel installation which they did in m such an able manner that in m the final vote of those who were still in m the building when the mayor called for a standing standing stand standing ing vote 26 out of 33 voted against the diesel plant Each of the councilmen who ho had voted to build a n diesel plant name name- namely namely ly Graham and Burns then gave their convictions of why hy they thought it would be n a good thing for the city how v the plant would make money so that taxes could be lowered and the In- In Indebtedness In Indebtedness of the city paid off Those for and those against were heard beard before the final linal vote voto of 26 20 I against and 7 for was as taken Since the meeting referred to was rons held the state te tax commission has filed suit a against Lehr Lehl to col- col collect col lect ct a 2 cent sales tax which 1 Lehr hl and 20 other Utah municipalities I have refused to pay Lehr Lehl City is 18 the one picked for the test caseI case I An executive e session of the city council was held Thursday night during which Mayor Stocks stepped out in m the wasting waiting room and informed those present that the electric plant business would likely be again considered at the next regular meeting of the city council the second Wednesday in August |