Show CITY COUNCIL another lunge at the enquirer THE TIE DRIVE DOWN PROVO RIVER TOO EXPENSIVE TO DRAIN THE OLD ADOBE YARD A resolution eliat should be compiled with the connecticut blue laws tho city council met on tuesday evening last a couple of hours or so after the issuance of the of that day the call was seemingly made as events subsequently showed to give the ENQUIRER another hauling over just now this seems to be a favorite pastime of our city fathers As it costs the tax payers about 13 every time the council holds a session the fun or gratification such pastimes afford the members is be coining to say the least quite an ex pensive luxury aur beular reporter having promised himself the pleasure of witnessing Soap bubble at the theatre that same night he was not disposed to suffer any disappointment and engaged a friend to report the council proceedings for him the first business of the session was the consideration of mr W H browns letter of declination the letter read as follows gentlemen the notice of my appointment by your liono rable body as alderman from the third ward of provo city is received and after mature consideration in view of the recent expression of the people of my ward at the last election relative to my policy while acting as alderman I 1 cannot but feel that I 1 would be doing my ward and myself an in accepting the honor you would confer upon me without an expression of the people at alie pollyand poll sand with this earnest and honest opinion while fully appreciating alie expression of your confidence I 1 feel that my duty is with the utmost respect for you gentlemen and the best wishes for the interests of our growing city to decline the appointment you have done mo the honor of conferring upon me respectfully W II 11 brown then followed a scene that bore a strong resemblance to scenes enacted in the same room five ur six weeks ago during the discussion and prior to the passage of alie whisky ordinance the same men who then heaped upon alie all the vituperation and abuse of they were capable again assailed us and that too with as little reason or justice as before these men roger farrer henry james dunn and john brown actually accused the of unduly influencing W II 11 brown to decline alie aldermanic ilder manic appointment of misleading lon and of publishing false and malicious reports of the council doings mr dunn went BO far as to insinuate that tho Eyou iKEK purposely and invariably lied another person a brother of the declining alderman said something to the same effect and that we always took occasion to place the council in a bad light even alie mayor partook of the influence that actuated the majority and said that it had been made to appear that mr brown was begging for the office etc and that it was within the power of alie provo city council to do what the salt lake city council once did to exclude objectionable reporters from the council chamber after indulging in this kind of discussion for some time the question on the acceptance of mr browns declination was then put aad carried the following communication was read and referred to tho committee on irrigation gentlemen permit mo to call your attention to the fact that there is to bs a heavy drive of ties down provo river this month and if allowed to come any further than tho mouth of the canyon they will cause great damage to irrigation and machinery interests bv disturbing the bed of the river destroying dams etc I 1 bumbly ask your honorable body to take some action in matter I 1 ask this in behalf of tho manufacturing fac turing and irrigation interests of provo city REED SMOOT bupt supt provo mag mfg co the committee on quarantine qua antine to whom had been referred the petition of R J dugdale and others ashing that the old abobo yard be drained reported adverse ly for the reason that the undertaking would be too expensive tho committee however recommended that the land be divided into city lots and the draining be deferred until some future time except go tar as could be done by deepening the ditch running through th eland after the striking out of the part recommending the cutting up of the land into city loi the report was adopted the committee to whom the petition of W C A smoot jr and outliers had been referred recommended that the city pay one half of the expense of alie street sprinkling and that the marshal ascertain and report the cost of such work mr malben who was by no means disposed to let alie drop out of eight offered a resolution censuring 1 THE Ex QUiREn for continued false and malicious statements concerning the action of the city council the resolution was referred to the committee on judiciary and alie council then adjourned jour ned |