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Show cilman Wantland suggested that as there was a lot of business to be attended to the council adjourn until Thursday at 3 o'clock. This motion was amended by a Times reporter to make it 2 o'clock. The amendment prevailed, pre-vailed, much to the disgust of the reporters on the daybreak journals who have no other show of getting a "scoop" except by designating desig-nating a council meeting as such. The council then adjourned. THE MAYOR'S YETO. . SOPHISTRY INSTEAD OF JUSTICE 4 ME BURDEN OF HIS EPISTLE. Upon Motion of SEoran it is lentil Over Until the Xext Meeting Proceedings Proceed-ings of 5iat Sight's Session ofthe City Solon Three Xew Policemen A Iarge 1'ist or Appropriations Made A Communication From the Halt Lake)U uaranty and Trust ( om-; om-; pauy. i The hands on the clock in the council chamber pointed to 8 o'clock last night when Councilman Horn arose and, gazing into the faces of Messrs. Folland, Ileiss, Rich, Bell, Evans, Lawson, Moran and Hardy, said: "In the absence of our chairman, chair-man, I move that Mr. Hardy act as presiding presid-ing officer." Recorder Stanton put the question and Mr. Hardy was selected by an unanimous vote. He was about to take the chair when President Loofbourow entered. Tho minutes were read and approved, succeeding suc-ceeding which the veto of the eight hour bill by the mayor was read, as follows: THE VETO. To C. E. Stanton, City Hecorder'. Sir: I herewith return, unapproved, bill 220, entitled '"A bill for au ordinance making eight hours a leeiU days work on all public contract work"' for the following reasons: Every man should be left sb free and nntram-mellsd nntram-mellsd in making contrse'a for tlie disposal of his services as he is in the disposal of his chattels or bis land. If any laborer desires to work more tnan eiht hours per day, he should not he interfered inter-fered with in making ou arransrpinent with his employer so tr do. To prevent this ly arbitrary legislation is to(take from him a natural rviit which the legislative powtr cannot in justice do In the execution of contracts, especially for the construction of sewer", water works ami paving, unexpected emergencies frequently arise of such Tirgency as can only he prartically met by working the regular force on extra time, in each of such emergencies, if met as prac tically as it only can be, te contractor under this bill would Le subject to the unjust forfeiture of $100. Inn iimjatn(i n Kv tt. Vtll eirnilrl limit tbmploytnont of lborr to ei;;ht hours between be-tween the hours of 6 o'clock a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m and leave the hours of night labor unrestricted; unre-stricted; night labor, as it is well known, is much more wearing on the constitution of men than dav labor. The bill requires all contractsrwith the city for the "erection, building or repairing of public buildings, brirlgeg or viaducts, street paving or ferndiug and all water works and sewerage" in addition ad-dition to thn eifht-hour restriction to contain a clause provldirg thut in the event of any contractor con-tractor violating the provisions of the contract, be shall forfeit to the city $ltX) for each and every ' day he shall so violate the provisions of tho contract. con-tract. By reason of the complex nature of the work covered by contracts of the nature referred to in the bill, there mnst from necessity be many violations vio-lations of them by every contractor; violations of minor Importance working little or no damage to tho city, vet under the bill the contractor would nevortheletB be liable neon each breach for the torfeiture uudr the bill. I donM whether any prnJont business man could bo found who would enter into such oblicatiana. That clanse of the bill which provides that eight hours of labor shall b a full and legal day's , work meets my approbation. j K. N. Easkix, Mayor. jLA1X over. Mr. Moran arose in his seat at the conclusion conclu-sion of the reading-and remarked: "Mr. President, Inasmuch as there are many matters of importance to be traus- acted, can we not lay this veto over until later on?" "Certainly," responded the chair. "Well, then, I move it lay over until later on," said Moran. Mr. Rich suggested that the matter lay on the table until called up. "The question before the house," said the chair, "is, shall the bill pass, the mayor's veto to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Moran moves to defer action until some future time. Are you ready for the question ques-tion V" All present signified an affirmative. "Those who favor postponement will say ye." Everybody said aye, nobody said no, aud the veto will not be taken up until the next iiiiicting. THKEE OF TIIE FINEST. Succeeding this the following from the mayor was read: Tii the President and City Council: I have appointed R. O. leater, Frad M. biliiiltze and 1'. II. litzmaurice on the regular police force, and respectfully ask their continuation. R. N. Baskin, Mayor. Referred to the police committee. ASKING FOB PLATS. The Salt Lake Abstract Title, Guaranty ar.d Trust company asked the council to return re-turn certain plats in the following language: To the (.'if, ( ouncil: In the mattaof the plats and abstracts of land, the title of which is vested in thn city of Halt I.tiike, as f urnitihfii by lis. e beg leave to t-ny that the work was deli-erud deli-erud by u without our certificates, us in a number num-ber of instances the titles ware eomewhat detective, detec-tive, and it wss our idea that the work would he tuhmitted t' the City Attorney in order that the titis mij;ht be perfected and that the abstracts nnd plat-s would be returned to us for completion, At which time we intended to compare the work with our records and certify to tue same, and we presented a canimunicatlo to that effect at the lime the work was deliver!. It appears that we were misled, as the work ha not been returned to ue, which leaves it in your haixls in an imperfe&-con(iltion. it not having hav-ing compared. The werk shows all owned by fcult Lake City, and while there, may be errors i they are merely clerical and would have been corrected cor-rected had we compared the work before ile-liTery. ile-liTery. We therefoie respectBrilly request that - the work 1 returned to us fur completion us it M ill be impossible to make the corrections out- 'Bitie of our -office, for the renson that the whole work must be compared with our records. We can correct the errors discovered by City Engineer Engi-neer Doreuiius, but as there may be others, it will ., be ueceesKry that th whole work he compared. Respectfully submitted, Tub Sajlt Lake UsrARAvrv & Tkvst Co., Fer E. W. Center, becretuiy. This was raferred-to the city engineer for action. OTHER BUSIXESS. The cftuncil decide to vote Mary Worscl-dine Worscl-dine SOOOaa a partial Bquidatiou for injuries received by stumbling over one of the stakes set by the city engineer's department, and her ntne isoa the list of the following ap-' ap-' propri a4ionai iiraq- Krothei $ 6 00 K. X. Jones Hi) 00 ;Ceor?e M. Scott & Co.,. 3 ju ' foundry . 4 jo J. fe. iMors . 5 ;Vj j:agle,touidry 4 m . Continental Oil t'o t; 00 lti-niiug.cn, Johnson & Co 7 4., bierra NVvada Lumber Co T(i 4D P. ikUppVe 5 50 W. C. iravwy k0 3-5 P.. ALT v 10 Cut- feteam Jaanih-5 f 'i bhlt Lake Power, Liht & Heating Co.. m 70- Pleaaact Tallcy Coal Co 19 m'p W. li. Pickard 11 C. T. HoUoway 3 K Payne k Lyiw - y 5 M. Hunter r 00 Jdorits & ti reet-.vtd u 1 tab fc Nevada Machinery company ... i; -js V. G. Mitchell. 3 i4 Kigie Foundry & Machine Co Htj -.5 O. -Vi. Scott As Co.., 4127 Cohn Pro t;y 7, 11. L. Myra -. if, 00 J. Regan 15 u Utah I'hint & Oil Co. 4l D. W. bench y U) i. M. fccott & CO . 4115 t. Anderuon - (if, .Vorlt;: & Gr-nwood. - I HO Sierra Nevada Lumber Company 14: i;,-, W. P. Rowe 13 18 Spier Uro , 10 Mary Vt orseljine C0i 00 Ackrman Publishing Co 9 oj Kellcy Co 4" (X) irocer Publishing Co. 4i (iroc- Publishing Co 11 75 Herald Publishing Co 1? Ml Tribune Publishing Co yoti a Tribune Job Co 10 i;u Tribune Job Co ; 25 Tribune Job Co H 40 8a!t Luke ias Co h,' il) fiivlt Luketias Co 110(1 Salt Lnke Power, Ldxht He, Heating Co.. Sa;m t o Moritz & Crcenwood li 75 A. P. Dorfmus , Kedur & Cieland ) pii C. K. siavHg! 45 ;) Earl Furniture "o W) (n halt Lake Hnilding &. Manufacturing Co 4) K. ( '. Coilin Jlarjriwure Co 11 oj Joslin & Purk.i 1:2 Ml C. II. PufPons a 25 Mountain Ice Co a L0 Monnt-jiii IcoCo H 70 P.mpire StiT.m Laundry Co 2 w W. i.. Harlow 4 01 Li. Jl. Ircott & Co 17 .5 H. Dinwoodv 4 15 Mmpson Hill Hrug Co 33-, K. Alff 2 20 .1. W. i-'arrrll A Co 2J M) Panatt Uros 50 Total 5,287 48 iWOlKXED VJTT1L THURSDAY. When the above had been adopted Coun- |