Show apte for water ON PRINTING A dispatch bill causes a lively delate some frantic democrats the council met in special session last night mayor booth in the chair absentee councilor mr rhodes of the arm of chodes bros denver appeared and presented proposals lor the construction of city waterworks water works which were road by the mayor on motion of mr maiben the communication ni with accompanying maps was to the committee on water works tha mayor suggested that as many aa possible of the prominent citizens should be invited to examine the proposals specifications and maps connected with the waterworks water works adf the noral support of the in such an important undertaking der taking was highly desirable mr maiben of the committee ou judiciary on the remonstrance of james thomson against granting the petition of J J peters for baloon lice naci the report waa adopted the petition of J J peters was also reported on the committee on judiciary recommended that tho petition la granted on motion of mr haibon the report was adopted mr dixon reported on the claim of the dispatch company the report re co mended that 1192 be deducted from the amount of the bill as the prices charged by the despatch were in excess to that amount of ane prices charged by those who had been doing all the work until recently mr maiben thought that the full of th claim ought to be allowed the cut throat prices of the ENQUIRER 0 should not he regarded in connection connect ioa with this claim sir maiben savagely attacked the low the city had here been getting its for and to justify the dispatch in cliar ging what it liked and announced atia readiness to accede to tha demands it and mad mr dumi thought the officers who had given out the work did wrong but the bill should be paid all the same mr dixon was not in favor ot pitying any unjust claim council should re ro enner that they were not appropriating their own money it wa the money ot the taxpayers chev proposed spending extravagantly lie mr dixon was a member of the corn on printing and nad been approached pro ached by a dispatch man sometime afo who wanted to know it lie could not have a share of the printing to do mr dixon had answered him that he could if he could do it at the same the city was paying others this the dispatch man said he auld not do he wanted tho printing but he wanted it at hia own prices lu the interest of public economy mr dixon had declined to consent to paying any moro for public printing than they had boon getting it done for lie did not feel authorized to the peoples money to anybody lid biard censured those of ficera vrho without authority or warrant had givus out city printing to others than iho city had with and ebbe ca ily as they had not made arrangements as to what the charged would b still as the officers had done this it was the duty of the council to pay tha bill no matter if the charges ware mr laiben again frantically attacked ana and said something about ahia reference created no little excitement aa everybody in the room remembered how bad championed the cause of the chinaman who borne time ago secured through maidana Ma ibana entreaties ana vote the contract fur furnishing city prisoners meals at a quarter of a cent below the price asked by an american citizen and taxpayer it seemed to strike everybody as perfectly for kaiban of all members of the council to draw such a comparison aa ho unwittingly did on thib occasion mr dixon again got the floor but for a few minutes had the utmost difficulty in betting the attention of tho council through mr maidens Mai bens frequent and intolerant interruptions it haq only by the aid of the mayor that mr dison could finally get a word waya he aard h should insist on public work being givon to the lowest bidder he should resist to the last the squandering 0 twelve dollars at a whack in a bill of only forty dollars mr glazier was opposed to the pay ing on were excessive if THE offered to do work at cut throat prices that was none ot alie councile coun cila we need not get angry over it let las co or any othar firm do public work who will do it the cheapest still hs was willing to let this bill pasa this time and fur the council to any it but he would wish it under stood that hereafter there be some order or system in giving out work scott asked permission to say a words which was granted ue bad boon crowded and wanted to gel borne printing done in a hurry and took it to the dispatch office left the order and asked no questions about price once a year ago ha took a similar job to the ENQUIRER and there waa mistake in it but he m by making to get done with i air graham inan aiger of THE WHO waa present asked permission to reply to mr scotts remarks fuere being no objection mr graham stated the facts in relation to the alleged e which the had appeared to have forgotten the printing was done in conformity with mr copy and verbal instructions and the mistake was hie and admitted so at the lime by mr scott the JOD was done over again the water masier say ing that if atie council refused to allow fur it he himself would pay the bill boh bo h jobs aure subsequently yub charged to and paid by tho city which waa proof enough that the mistake was not that of TUB co but mr Pc otts and collector samuelson Samu olson explained why ho had run an account with the dispatch at the expense of ehfe city it waa because hs thought the contract with tae waa at an end and he felt like patronizing the in which he might have added ap was a stockholder he had not eitl ex asked what the work wo he I 1 at THE co had to his knowledge always done the city printing in a moat satisfactory caruer ma the question of clr dixons recommendation men dation to reduce the bill was culled for dixon glazier and thomas voting for and maiben dunn and liddiard against it there being a tie the mayor pave the caitone vote in favor of th ra burtion dur tion mr glozier for the committed commit tea on reported on aba petition of john and others for the removal or abatement of the acsa pool run in connection with the provo steam laundry tho committee recommended that the cess pool be abated aa a nuisance and that ane council so order it tho council adopted the recommendation the abatement to take in ten days the mayor stated that be had been calad upon by J B mccauslin who had fished that his petition in re ferince to the covering of the factory raca ba talton up and acted upon by the coun cil mr glazier remarked that committee were to hear fron woolen mill company petition of wallace billings asking ahat A bridge be placed at the intersection of ard 3rd and 0 streets was referred to the committee on streets and alleys the following cladma were allowed sun foundry hiram hatton engineer for services 55 J M jencen recorder for services mayor booth for services the bill of 1150 of TUB co against the fire dept was referred to the committee on printing the bill providing for the forfeiture ef the franchise granted witcher jonea was read for the first timo and passed it first reading oa motion of mr dixon the committee on printing was authorized to advertise for bids for public printing to be furnished until feb the consideration of the proposition of rhodes arop in reference to water works was made the special order for wednesday night next and it waa recommended eliat citizens ba invited to call at the mayors deflice for the purpose of examining the specifications maps etc and to attend the wednes dav nights session of the council on motion of mr dixon the recorder was instructed to write to all parties who had expressed a desire to bid on sq work involved in the construction of waterworks water works an notify them of th proposed action of the council adjourned until wednesday evening axis |