Show NEW FORM IS AMENDED Changes Made at Suggestion of the Mayor CITY ENGINEER ASSOCIATED Mayor Thompson Sends the New Contract Form to the Council With His Disapprovement Recommending Recommend-ing That the Amendments Associating Asso-ciating tho City Engineer With the Board of Public Works Be Adopted Veto Sustained and Amendments I Hndc Conflict Over n Fence Mayor Thompson sent his veto of the proposed new form of city contracts con-tracts to the Council last night with his suggestion for changes and after a long wrangle the veto was sustained sus-tained and the changes which arc three amendments offered by Robertson Robert-son Friday night were made In his veto message the Mayor stated he would approve the form as modified Tho form was that of the contract for furnishing and laying water mains and specifications for the same and the amendments associate the City Engineer with the Board of Public Works In appproving cast Iron pipes coating of the same and passing upon hydrants and valves When the veto message vas read Fernstrom suggested I I sug-gested that there wore too many vetoes ve-toes coming In and said to adopt the I suggestions of the Mayor would be about tho same as continuing with the old form I Thomas Cottrcll and Hewlett spoke In favor of the amendments with the two How s and Canning against themE them-E gr Howe saying he knew con tractors who had the citys Interests as much at heart as the City Engineer The veto was sustained by the following fol-lowing vote esCottlell Hewlett Robertson Thomas Tuddenham Whlttemorc Buckle Nays Canning Can-ning Davis Fernstrom cn Howe I Edgar Howe Reld6 Buckle then calcd Whlttemorc to the chair and moved to refer the form to the chairman of the Committee on Vatcrworks the City Attorney and the City Engineer The motion lost Cottrcll voting with Buckle for It DEBATE ON AMENDMENTS I Robertson moved to amend the form In acccordance with the Mayors suggestions sug-gestions Buckle amended this to Insert In-sert the words and the City Engineer En-gineer in the new form wherever they occurred In the old form Buckle said hla reason for this was that he did not believe in doing things by halves He said slight changes had suggested to lead the public to believe a form satisfactory to all concerned con-cerned had been adopted He referred to a contract for 70000 or more which had been let to a certain individual indi-vidual In this town meaning apparently ap-parently Moran to be finished September I Sep-tember 1 1900r and has not yet been completed Canning amended Buckles amendment I amend-ment by striking out tho Engineers name wherever it occurred Jn the form and Fernstrom seconded this Can nings proposition 10stC R Howe and Reid voting with him and Buckles amendment lost his second Cottrell voting against It and explaining he had seconded it merely to get It before the house this leaving Buckle all alone in < aupport of his amendment FIRST LOST THEN ADOPTED The original motion Robertsons to adopt the Mayors suggestions then failed by f vote of G to 6 the division di-vision being as follows Ayes CoLtrell Hewlett Robertson Thor f Tuddenhum Whittemore Nays Canning Davis Fernatrom C R Howe Reid Buckle C Absent Beatty Hartenstcln Edgar Beid3 Cottrell moved to refer the matter to the AValerworks committee the city Attorney and the City Engineer but Robertson cut In with a motion to reconsider which carried with Canning Davis nnd Buckle against It The recommendations were then adopted Buckle and Canning voting against them Fernstrom explained his vote by saying he would give > the Engineer and the board one more chance to get along together but announced an-nounced that he would come forward with a new form of contract soon if they failed to agree MEMBERS ON THE FENCE Tho question of the fence In front of the building F D Cllft is putting up on Main street next came up There was a petition from Architect Ncuhausen asking to be given ten feet beyond the curb stating It was necessary for the prosecution of the work and for the protection of the public Against this was a petition from about all the business men from Walkers store to Second South on tho west side of the street asking that tho fence be permitted to extend only five feet from the building to be only four feet high and to be kept free from advertising The keynote to the whole situation Is in the last word I Is said a bill posting concern caused the fence to be built so high and so far out so that more advertising space could be sold on f Whlttcmoro I moved to let the fence extend out only ten feet Tuddenham was willing to have the fence cut down but wanted It to extend out as fur as they needed It Davis said the fence had practically cally ruined business on that side of the street and that peope owning property In the rear of the building had offered the use of enough ground to get all the building material in Thomas amended Whlttcmorea motion mo-tion to refer the matter to the Streets committee with power to act the committee to meet at the building at 830 this morning This flnaly carried after some debate I seems the fence which was torn down Monday had been put up without any authority Robertson explained this saying he had told the architect to get the approval I ap-proval of eight Councilmen which was I not done A communication was received from I the City Attorney stating that D H Wenger had offered to compromise his suit against the city for 1327 for services in the poll tax cases for 0 if payment were mado the present week The City Attorney recommended recom-mended tho nccceptance of the proposition > propo-sition and It was finally referred to I tho Committee on Municipal Laws associated wilhpower with the Mayor power to act t CARE OF PIONEER SQUARE Hewlett introduced a resolution appropriating ap-propriating 500 for the care of the trees shrubbery lawns and other Improvements of Pioneer square during dur-ing the season Hewlett said that as the railroads had quit fighting at this end of the line it might be well to not let the park go to ruin Davis announced an-nounced that the railroad people would send In a communication shortly short-ly 1 offering to care for the park this summer and Davis was appointed a committee to look after tho matter Hewlett consenting to let his resolution resolu-tion go over for a week A partition from Charles Smith Jr I Papa asking permission to use Liberty park on May 1st for the purpose pur-pose of giving a professional century i road race no qdmlealon to be charged t was roforrred to the Committee on Public Grounds President Thomas J Larkin of All I Hallows college presented a petition reciting that the college had paid to the city 330 to have the city water mains extended to Its grounds on the east bench and as the extension was not made until the latter part of August Au-gust 1000 It was asked that the college be not required to pay anything further for water until September 1 HOI The petition was referred to the Committee on Waterworks RAPID TRANSIT EXTENSION A report of the Committee on Streets 1 I lecommcndlng that Fourth South street j be graded from Ninth East to Eleventh I I I East so as to permit of the construction i i I of a street car track was adopted the I committee stating that the gravel there > could be used elsewhere In the city I This is understood to be a move of the Rapid Transit people to get a line to j the University grounds A resolution by Cottrell instructing I the Chief of Police to employ a patrolman patrol-man for Liberty park was adopted A resolution by Reid asking that the I Engineer be Instructed to furnish the Street dopat stoat with stakes and I measurements necessary to make an estimate for constructing a fume across North Temple at Seventh West was adopted The canal there has filled up and the aide ditch Is not sufficient lots to carry off the flood water from the I Department payrolls for the half I month amounting to 445975 were referred I re-ferred to the Finance committee with I the chairmen of the other committees I associated The Board of Public Works sent In some amounts to be placed on the amount placC the appropriation ap-propriation list The only Important Item was the tenth partial estimate of the City Engineer on the Moran contract con-tract of May 8 1000 for furnishing and laying water piper tho amount being 320535 |