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Show THAT ODIOUS CONCEALMENT. Mayor Morris emphatically denied when the officials of the Utah Light and Power Company charged him with it, that he had suggested the fifty-year extension of franchlsb to them. He had no knowledge of that proposition, but supposed that some minor adjustments adjust-ments might bo asked, something that would correspond In Importance with tho amount of eight thousand dollars, which was set by the Mayor and the City Engineer as the outside compensation compen-sation which could be thought of to pay tho company for Its claim of water risrht at the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon. But Mr. Fernstrom says that this was not tho Idea at all; that the understanding un-derstanding with him and tho other members of the Water committee was, that the company was to have, perhaps not quite what it is asking now, but something Hk6 that. In so assorting. Councilman Fernstrom confesses for himself and charges upon his associates In that committee, that In this business they have been unfaithful to their oaths as Councllmen, and betrayers of the people. They had this knowledge, know that the proposition would be hateful to tho people, and that If the public knew what was coming, tho bond proposition would bo burled beyond be-yond resurrection uuder a mountain of adverse votes. And yet, those Councllmen Coun-cllmen kept the secret, deceiving tho people, and encouraging the company to seek to prey upon the public It may be that these Councllmen can defend themselves In that odious po-' sltlon; but It will be when black is white, when guile Is preferred to candor, can-dor, and when a lie is more righteous than the truth. |