Show TWO VETOES ACTED ON V c One Sustained and the Other Not Approved DEBATE ON WASTE OF MONEY I Orders for Material for Improving tho Waterworks System Must bo Placed by tho Board of Public I Works Street Department Allowance Allow-ance Discussion in Which the Department De-partment is I Criticised Appropriation Appropria-tion to Purchase Horses for FIre Department At the mecUm or the City Council last evening tho Mayors veto or the Instructions of the Council to Superintendent Superin-tendent of Waterworks HInes to pur chas J2590 worth of hydrants valves i etc to be used in the waterworks ays tern was sustained by L vote of seven I against siibtalnlnff and six in favor of it Ten votes ivbthlrdo of the whole Council are required to pass over the Mayors veto Those voting against sustaining the veto were Canning Cottrell Fern strom C R Howe Edgar Howe Reid and Tuddojihani Those in favor of It I Hartensteln Hewlett Robertson Thomas Whlttcmore and Buckle The Mayor vetoed the resolution because be-cause tho City Attorneys opinion was that the purchase should be made by the Board of Public Works after advertising ad-vertising for bids The resolution was referred to tho 1 Board of Public Works with instructions instruc-tions to advertise for bids from Utah llrmg only The Mayors veto of the resolution providing for the compromise of a claim of W R Jones for damages he alleges he sustained by a well on his 4 premises being drained by the gravity sewer was read The basis of the coin promlHo WaS to give Jones city water I for his use free for five years The I ground of the veto was an opinion of the City Attorney that Jones never had a legal claim against tho city and If ho had It was outlawed The veto wan not nustalncd only Robertson Thomas Hnrlensteln and Whlttemore voting to nustaln 1L Realty was present early in the evening and It Is understood favored sustaining the veto hut he left early and owing to his being absent j ab-sent Mr Jones gets fret water for five years Gemmell was also absent STREET DEPARTMENT CRIT ICISED The bill for an ordinance fixing tho 1 allowance of the various departments of the city government for maintenance which was made the special order for last evening was taken up after the reading of the minutes Cottrell mnvMl that the allowance to the Street and Irrigation department be fixed at 36000 for the year Instead of 21000 Canning seconded the motion mo-tion which was supported by C R Howe Hewlett moved that it be placed at 10000 Buckle opposed the proposed pro-posed Increase not because the money could not be spent to gland advantage but because the city couldnt afford It Certain members of the Council Buckle said seemed determined to run the city Into as large a debt as possible for things that could be done without While for absolute ncqcsflnrles such as the betterment of tho water system they interposed nil kinds of stumbling blocks 0 Thomas opposed the amendment and averred that If 5000 month was al lowed the Street departmentthe money would bo pent but no more work 0 would be done tho streets would br 0 no belter and he very much doubted If the money that was being spent now was being spent Judiciously Tho Com mltteo on Streets he said was never consulted as to the expenditure of money The bills were presented to the committee after they had been incurred In-curred and that WitS all the committee 0 know about them 0 Robertson said 510000 hnd teen spent 0 on the streets last year and they were I 0 In worse condition than they were a year ago This was probably not the 0 fault of the Council for not seeing that the money was spent where It would do most good At this point a motion to lay the 0 ordinance on the table for a week prevailed HORSES FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT 0 On recommendation oiathc Commit 00 T tee on Fire Department ISOO was ap 0 propriated to purchase horses for use 0 In the new lire station No 1 and tho new tIre station whIch has just been completed was accepted from the con I tractors PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS f COMMUNICA-TIONS jt 0 Tame Ryacr Informed the Council 0 that he had a claim of 1000 against the city for damages Ho said that on January ISlh he fell Into a hole allowed 0 to Vlal on North Temple street be I 0 tween Third arid Fourth West streets nnd loft I unxuurded and that as a result re-sult of the fall ho broke his collar bone and fractured his skull He asked the Council to allow him the sum named 0 Committee on Claims 0 Herman Harms made application to tlii Council to be appointed City Chem ist In cue such an office is created He 0 said he had ben doing considerable nnalywls for the Health department and wx fully competent Committee on Sanitoiy b George H Austin petitioned tho city to give employment to himself and ° team stating that ho had been sivcrely to Injured by lib wagon and team on 4 which he wo ridding falling Into a huge hole at Sixth and I streets nnd nlnco he bud been unable to do much Tork He wild he was In poor clrcum 0 ntances and thought the city should 0 help him out with a little employment Committee on Claims 0 Clerk of tho Police Court Diehl pre 0 Onted his statement for tho month of 0 March showing 210 cases hnd been tried and that the line and forfeitures amounted to 1101 |