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Show WAi SCRAP OVER CUIMJJAYlOR APii of Mayor Morris Tells rouncil Committee About Bill. WATER COMMITTEE COMES IN FOR A LITTLE ROAST After Considerable Talk. Committee Com-mittee Derides to Pay Sum Asked. Moses W. Taylor, who hns a claim against the city for ?."oo. for "negotiating" "negotiat-ing" with the owners of water rights In the Tanner ditch. Mill creek and Little Cottonwood creek, appeared before the Committee, on Finance of the City Council Coun-cil last evening to explain his bill Taylor Tells His Stoiy. Mr. Taylor said to the committee that Mayor Moni.-; oame to him last August, at time when he was preparing to go to Canada on a business trip, and urged him to take up the matter Ho did BOj he added, and worked about two months with the owners of water rights, seeing some of them a number oi times. Expected a Good Sum. "I expected at least "00 for this work." said Mr. Taylor, "and thought I was extremely ex-tremely patriotic when I consented to take 1600. I have made more than that In a single day, working for a railroad company Ten Dollars a Day. Mr Taylor jnld further that he had charged the city $10 a day and had not Included expenses, whereas, when h worked on the big Cottonwood sehenv in In 1904 he received $10 a day and expenses ex-penses of fj.60 a day Council Has Been Ignored. Councilman Black explained that his reason for wanting the matter to go over until Mr Taylor could appear wu for tho reason that the .Mayor and Special Water committee had lrtually ignored the Council In all matters relating to the Increase of tho water supply. Taylor Warms Up. "Well, you certainly ought to have known that T was In the employ of the City," said Mr Taylor, "and I thought you did know It. as 1 appeared often before be-fore tho committee." Why Committee Did Business. "That's tho way the committee did business all the time," remarked A J Davis. "I attended meeting! until I was politely requested to get out." Hewlett Takes a Hand. "The Special Writer committee did good work," Mr. Hewlett Interrupted. "I would not do the work ugain " "Well, you won't have to," suggested Black. Martin Expresses His View. At this point Mr Martin dipped In with the declaration that the uetlon of the Special Water committee had never be,-n approved by the public, owing to Its secretive se-cretive methods, and declared that Its unauthorized actions would cost the city 110,000 before the end came Fenry Seeks Information. 'How much has it cost now?" inquired Fern strom. I don't know.' replied Martin "Well, then, what are you making estimates esti-mates for''" Fernstrom asked, and the laugh wus on Martin, who retorted that nobody had any idea what the committee- had done. Where Did Authority Come FromP Martin then asked if the Mayor had authority to hire anybody and every-hoiiy, every-hoiiy, without tin authority of the Council. Coun-cil. "He has done it. anyway," Davis replied "You have heard of the man w no 1 ouldn't be put In Jail, but was there, haven't you" This is the same kind of a proposition " Asked to Itemize Bill After some further talk along the same lines, Mr. Taylor was asked to Itemize his bill, whhh he did bj adding "Fifty days' work at $10 a day " and the l.iil war tln-n upp-oved bv the committee. i |