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Show POWER OF MAYOR'S VETOJIESINED Executive Action on Appointments Appoint-ments in Auditor's Office Raises Contention. SUGAR HOUSE ANNEXATION BESET W.ITH DIFFICULTIES Some Say There Is No Room for More Asphalt Plants in Canyon. The veto of Mayor Bransford of the appointments of flic emplo3ecs in the license department of City Auditor AllT's office was laid over for one week by the city council Monday niphl. The city attorney gave an opinion a a to the right of the mayor to veto appointments ap-pointments made by elective officers. Ife declared that under the statute the mayor had no authority lo veto any such appointments, as the law provided that the elective officers of tho eity shnll appoint their employees, who shall be confirmod by the city, council, and the sanction of the mavor is not; needed. Mr. Fcrnslrom and Mr. Hall contended contend-ed that the appointment-of any employee in tho city provides for "the expenditure expen-diture of moucy to the. extent of paying pay-ing l.hnir salaries, and hence, under I he law, (he mayor had lo approve any expenditure of money made by the council. coun-cil. That, being the case, "they contended con-tended the mayor had a perfect right to veto the appointments if lie so desired. de-sired. Mr. McKinney and Mr. Moreton nr-gueI nr-gueI that the city attorney was right in his opinion, and I hat. the' law did not authorize the. mayor to act upon appointment ap-pointment made by elective officers. The matter went- over for a week, and will be threshed out again next Mondav I night. High Cost of liiving. The question of the excessive cost of living will be the subject of discussion discus-sion before the council meeting as a committee of tho wholo on Wednesday night. A communication was received from T'. .T. "Daughters. IL V. IT. Hansen and V. B. Scott, asking that the council coun-cil set. an early date to consider the mailer of establishing a public, market for rhc farmers of Salt Lake county and vicinity. These constitute a committee com-mittee appoiuied at a mass meeting of citizens held with a view to taking such action as is possible looking towards the roducl.ion of the exeessivo cost of living. By the eslablishment of public markets where citizens may buy produce pro-duce directly from the farmers, it" is believer! be-liever! by tlio committee that some benefit bene-fit will bo derived. To Widen Viaduct. The only matter before tho council Monday night relative to the proposed franchise of the Saltair road wns a petition peti-tion signed by Tl E. Kick and about 200, other residents of the west side, asking that, the council lake trouie steps to widen the present North Temple street viaduct bv twenty-fivo or thirty feet, it is asserted by "the petitioners that, the original plans-for the viaduct provided that, it should be twenty-five or thirty feet wider, but in some manner man-ner it was not built as planned. Thej petitioners also protest against; granting a franchise for any more tracks over the v induct until it is widened or another viaduct provided for pcdeslnaus only. The matter was referred to tho municipal munici-pal laws committee. Which now has the Saltair franchise under consideration. Residents of Sugar House, who are seeking annexation to the city, are having hav-ing a) hard lime getting their petition and plat properly before tho council. Because ot the fact that a correct plat of the territory seeking annexation in the Kimball ic Hichards petition has not boon tiled the council rescinded its action of last Monday night in approving approv-ing the annexation and referred the matter mat-ter back to Hie municipal laws committee commit-tee to be taken up when the proper plat is filed. The petition for annexation and plat, of the district in Sugar House, between Sovcuth and F.levenlh rJnst. streets, and as far south as Twelfth South, was received re-ceived and referred to tho municipal laws committee. Object to Aiiuoxation. A protest was filed against n part of Ihe district embraced in the latter petition. peti-tion. V. B. Richards and other residents resi-dents asked I hat the district from the present city limits lo Twelflh Son t h and from Ninth East to the Jordan and Salt Lake canal be eliminated from the an- nexation ordinance. They asserted that thev had plenty of pure spriug water, and did not desire to become, a part ot" Salt Lake City. Their petition was referred re-ferred lo the same committee as (he other annexation petitions. Mayor Bransford sent fn the resignation resigna-tion of Frank L. llansing as clerk of the board of health and the appointment of II. .T. Schultz to that, position. The matter wns laid over for one week upon motion of Mr. Morctoii. The report of the committee on public pub-lic grounds, recommending that, St.rancc & Miguirc, the new paving eon tract ors, be permitted to erect their asphalt mix-ing mix-ing plant in Cily ("'reek canvon raised a little stir, which resulted in tlfc report re-port being laid over for bne week. Mr. Mulvey was strongly opposed to permitting any more asphalt plunts being be-ing constructed in 1he canyon, and declared de-clared that if he had his way the Moran plant would be moved out ot tho canyon, too. He insisted that there would not be euough room in the canyon for bolh plants, and urged that the report of the committee be not adopted. Mr. McKinney nlso opposed Ihe proposition, propo-sition, for the. reason that he had investigated in-vestigated it and was of the opinion that there wo.uld not be sufficient room for both plants. II was finally Jaid over for a week, and in the meantime other conncilmen will visit the canyon and make an investigation. Upon recommendation of ihe city engineer, en-gineer, the council authorized the board of public works again to advertise for bids for the construction of a new concrete con-crete conduit in Parley's creek at Twelflh Soulh street. Bids have been received before on this proposition, but they were too high aud were rejected. The city engineer estimates the cost of the conduct at $7215. To Regulate Street Cars. Upon motion of Mr. Moreton. the municipal mu-nicipal laws committee will amend the ordinance so that more stringent regulations regula-tions will be required of the street railway rail-way compan3- in the operation of its cars, so that the public will he .better protected. II is the intention to require cars approaching each other to sound their gongs aim also to sound gongs when approaching all street crossings. The report of the improvements committee, com-mittee, approving the plans of 1. D. Martin for the construction of six public pub-lic comfort stations and .instructing him to complete the working plans was referred re-ferred lo tho committee on estimates and apnorlTonmenls. The report provided pro-vided that Mr. Martin should receivo a commission of .'! per cent of the cost of construction for his services, it in estimated that; tho stations will cost about $-1000 each. Mr. J Tall objected lo the manner in which the committee ou finance had been dealing with Attorneys F. S. Richards and Ogden Hiles, special counsel coun-sel employed to look over the. city's wafer litigation. He contended that ihe committee should enter into a definite contract, with tho counsel for their work, so it. would know what, it "was paying for. Tho committee had recommended thnt the attends be paid $2000 in full for all services up to December 01 last. Mr. Mulvey declared that the. committee com-mittee knew" what it was doing, and insinuated that Mr. Hall did not know what. hu was talking about.. Th is brought Mr. Hall to his feet in a hurry with a protest, against nnv such iusiii-nation iusiii-nation on the part of Mr, Muivey. The trouble between the two councilmon was stopped by tho report being ordered laid. over for one week. Public Playgrounds Fund. Upon request of Mr. Trail, his reso-lution reso-lution in regard to providing a special fund to bn .used for securing public playgrounds was laid over for three-weeks,. three-weeks,. as there is now being formed in the city an association which will take up that matter. Nothing was done in regard to tho appointment by C'ily Auditor Alii of the regular office force in his office, as thc3' were laid over for one week. Tho cmpIo3ecs in that office are the only one?, under the new administration who have not .been confirmed by the council The resolution of A. J. Davis author-izing author-izing thc appointment of a committee ob' JM three, to act with the council in the investigation of the advisability of es-tablishing es-tablishing a city stable was adopted. President. Ferr.y appointed Oouncilmen. Davis, L3ne and Fcrnslrom as members of tho committee. Upon motion of Mr. Reedall. the eit.y recorder was instructed to advertise no-rice no-rice of intention of paving Second .West street with nslrpalt from Third South to the. "Warm springs, instead of from South Temple, as first contemplated, and rec-oinmended rec-oinmended Ivy the engineering com- Chief of Police Barlow submitted the following special policemen, which was referred to the police and prison com-mittee: com-mittee: Frank Jordan. Oscar Enian. Ci. F. Houghton. Ben Coulson, L. T. "Wire, f. V, White,' M. TTennessy, P. IT. 2s'ut ter, Richard Gould. A. O. Langtnn, rfenry "Walsh, A. K. liarker, Moroui Oil-lcspie. Oil-lcspie. L. L, Bailev. A. L. Short, John Wise. R. A. RadkeIL L. Madison. A. A. Reiiling, James Kennc3. B. A. Taylor, Robert Xeilson, J. C." Uoggan, James Brosman and Herman Bauer. |
