Show liElLO COMPANIES NIS TO MY W THEIR THUR LICENSES Council Decides Not to Accept Accept Ac Ac- Accept Compromise of Percentage Percentage Per Per- Percentage of Revenue The Rocky Mountain fountain Bell and the Utah Independent ent Telephone companies will have ha to pa pay their license tax to tho the city or resort to the courts to prevent pre th the city from collecting the time tax t By a vote ote of 8 to 0 6 last lat ni night ht the tho city council refused to pass the tho proposed or ordinance calling on the telephone com coni to pay 1 per c cit it of their gross earnings an and to furnish tho cit city with forty tree free telephones The city attorney was instructed to proceed against ag the companies at once The net action ion of the tho council means that the city will receive about in back taxes from the telephone companies un un- less Jess the courts should decide that the license tax is illegal The Time Theote vote ote of the council came after a lengthy enthy discussion as to whether it would be better for the time cit city to collect the licenses as prescribed by ordinance or to pass tho the new ordinance Fernstrom announced that ho was in favor of the proposed ordinance as he feared that the Bell company might raise the rate on onu phones if the ci insisted on an the th collection of the licenses ic The v vote te teon on the motion of Stewart to si sidetrack the franchise ordinance and to enforce the law 33 as it now stands was as fol lows I Ayes Ayes Cowburn Cowburn Hod Hodgson son Ha Hall hail Murdoch Mur Mur- I doch doeh 0 ODonnell O'Donnell Donne a Stewart Stewart 8 Noes Noes Black Black Fernstrom Holley Hoey Mar tin Wood President Davis Davis is 6 |