Show 1 THREEGORNEREDFIGHT I Clawson Kelsey and Councilmen Coun-cilmen in Open War CLERK KEGLER TO EXPLAIN President Clawson Has Contempt Con-tempt for Fornstrem Unfortunate Kennedy Affir Causes No End of Wrangling and Is Still Badly Mixed J The members of the City Council of Salt I ikc aro either easily thrown into a high pitch of excitement or there IB I something puliId In cither the office ifthe Hoard of Public Works or that of the Clly Engineer En-gineer This is the opinion an unprejudiced unpreju-diced spectator would hava gathered ut the meeting of the Council in con mlltec of the whole last night when 4t rouon Hldorcd Its action of Inst week In regard to the throwing out of the bids of Kennedy r 4 Ken-nedy lie Co for the sower and l water main extensions for IKU BOTH ttlYUN TII12 FLOOR Chairman Cliuvvson of the Board of Public Pub-lic Vorlcs and City Engineer Kelsey sat on the platform ono on cither aide of the chairman of the committed and each In turn was glveir the iloor of the Council until Councilman Fernstrom objected to further rcmaiks from Sir Clawson after If the latter had exprtessed his contempt for the member from Urn Third in unequivocal language It was broadly insinuated If not openly chnrged tlnt the bid of Kennedy 1 Ken-nedy Co had bean tan pored with either I by Clerk Kegler of the JSoard of Public Works or that ho had permitted the agent of Kennedy Co to make 0 substitution and the dork has bllen clietf to appear be foru the Council next Mondii night at 7O < and defend himself against the charges made SPENCER CLAWSONS STATEMENT After the opening of the meeting I COlin cilmun ThomnH was asked to take tho chair In tho absence of President Cottroll Mr Clawson was then given the ncxor and reviewed in detail the ntiro t1Iug5 I leading up to the awarding by the tourd of the contract for aewer extension to Kennedy tc Co Ho explained < < l that he possibly > pos-sibly had read tho figures 29 instead of 30 cents on the bid for the eightInch plpf but that a clorlcal mistake oC that kind was not sufliclent for rejecting tho bid The tabulated statements made by tho Engineer he said were not signed and unofficial in any way and that if changes were made in the orlivinul proposals they were made while in the possession ofHhe City Engineers office Kven at 3J crntK he pointed out that the bid of Kennndy l Co was more than 1000 less than that ot P J Mcrnn tin next lowest bidder and that Moruns figures for tile eightInch pipe were It cents or 2 cents per foot higher uian that of the North Dalota lirm KELSEY HAS AN1 INNING In reply Mr Kelaey slated that he took the figurcn ± from the contract before it was read and also when read by the chairman chair-man He further sail that tenInch pipe was worth 20 cents f o b In this city and that any firm would lose 1 nioney In furnishing fur-nishing It at thai price Mr Kelsoy ttocn asked that his chief draughtsman Chartes K Reed he allowed to take the floor and Btate the figures t that were on the origlniLl t pioposals when brought to him to nmko tabulations Immediately after the meeting meet-ing of the Board of Public AVorlcs Mr Retd was Placed undr oath and swore that the proposals reul l 3 cents both In writing and in the flguriH and also that he had examined the propo nta carefully and that there were no interlineations In them BLAME AIMED AT KEGLER In answer to Mr needs testimony Mr U laWsUit produotd the proposals and showed that t Intoillnoalloiin hod boon made at least In regard to the sureties of tho 1 bidder the name of one mm having I been written in the proposal and another afterward < < InKcrlcd FenuUrom then Insinuated In-sinuated i hat Clerk 1el cir was responsible respon-sible for the alleged changes said to have appeared In the hid He also Insinuated very strongly l that the agcnl of the ICon nody company had substituted a forged I propoBii1 for the original through tho connivance con-nivance of Mr ICoclcr CLAWSON TAKES AN OATH I The chairman next asked to lie sworn and under oath said The contract hero is the identical proposal submitted by tho Kennedy l company CONFLICT BECOMES GEM ERA I Nearly all tho members present took occasion oc-casion to question Mr Clawson and It was plain that they were all against him with the exception of Thomas and Robln j nn IVrnslrom nut a motion to the effect ef-fect that he committee of the whole report re-port thai they could see no reason why tho I former action of the Council on the I rejection of the bids should be rescinded The motion carried by l unanimous vote but before the voto was taken Robinson tool 11 shot at tho City Engineer and said that it was his duty to properly look after af-ter the Interests of the city and that It he could not they should have an Engineer that could Fernstrom then alluded to trickery on the part of the Kennedy con pany and in answer to Mr Roblnsonn question if he knew they w 1 ra replied 1 think 1 know the partks are tricky l U R DOCK EXPRESSED SORROW Mr Murdock of the Board of Public Works was present and asked to take the hoar He corroborated Mr Clawson In everything that he had said and in his icmarks said thnl t he had only sympathy for the man from the Engineers office who had taken oath hat I the figures in the original proposals were 2 I c ans It was impossible that any substitution could hove been mode he said and added add-ed unless It was made while the proposals pro-posals were in the possession of the City Engineer8 I of lice but that of course would Infer dercllclon In that office and I wouldnt do that KKGLEP CITED TO APPEAR Mr Fcrnstrom then got in another motion mo-tion and moved that I the committee recommend rec-ommend that Clerk Kegler he invited to appear before the Council Monday night at 730 oclock and explain what lie did with the proposals after receiving them I from the City Engineers office The motion mo-tion carried THAT ASP1IALTUM DEAL The momhors were nil stirred up to a white heat and were not slow In digging Into the matter nbout the aeplinltum that was sold ut a 1 loss to the city to P 1 Moran Mr Ciawson slated that he had uuulp a mistake In tho amount of the loss In his statement at ho meeting of the beard last Friday and explained 1 that bout thirty tonii of nsphaltum under the rontroi of tin 1 Board of Public Works I hall been sold by the Council to P J Moran for 320 por Ion when lhu prevailIng prevail-Ing prlre at thai time wan about Ji inoro I tin I said the loan to the city was about I Mb and not JGOO an glvon out In certain I if the dally papers He said that ho had reroly spokon about tim matter to show I I p Homo of the mcthodu of tho City En I mctr mctrKELSEY KELSEY DEFENDS HIMSELF Tn dcfondlnir himself Mr KcJsoy said ho did not Hell tho aojhaltum but that ho City Council did lie admlticd l that ic had Informed Mu committees author atd to make the Halo that CO J was a fail ricc and said that 1m still conaldrra Uiat a full price Moran was called up I If fo > i S and maintained that he had paid all that Iho asihultum was worth REPUDIATE Till CHARGES Fernstrom intruded himself with another an-other motion to the effect that the committee com-mittee report that the charges made by Mr Cia wtJon In rcuanl to the asphalium HH appeared In curtain or the papers wore incorrect unjusllllablc and untruthful Thomao was the onlv meznbr voting against tim motion Ho said he did not vant to vote himself a ccrllllcalu of honesty hon-esty t FERNSTROM IN CONTEMPT Jt WIK si few minutes later that Mr Cia WBon secured his opportunity to ox press bin contempt for Councilman Fern strom I have the u most respect for fourteen members of thin Council suld the chairman and T nay that the cnnfl dunco of thcse men in tho City Engineer has bicn misplaced Duvelcr look of fvpse at the ramark and hurled back that he for one was not under the beck and control of any one the City Engineer or any ono else It wan then that Mr Cln son namod Mr Fcrnstrom as the fifteenth mamhw for whom ho had no re flpccl and added that for him ho had the utmost contempt 1U was prevented from Kayiug more by tho objection of Fern slrom to lulling him have the floor POLICE AND PRISON Jt was late when tho members arose from committee of thin whole and the minor committees with the exception of the Police and Prisons committee did not get together This committee met to con tldcr the bill of Dr C M Benedict for service rendered the city In connection with Policeman Horace Heath who was hot in the ankle last February by a bandit Dr Benedict was proacnt and stated to the committee that he had mnde his price us moderate as possible The bill was for 7G for the operation and XK for visits made for nearly a year The matter t I when referred before had liNn cut I down 300 The doctor said that he did not consider any reduction Just and that lIme other physician might have charged IS high as 5000 for saving the mans foot rnd perhaps his life The committee will report favorably on the bill 1 and also on another bill of Slol I for emergency calls made by lie doctor at the police station One I of tho members wanted to know why the I olty physician did not tend to these rases but the others did not take it upon themselves to explain |