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Show A public discussion of the Galveston Idea of municipal government, as well as other bills now pending in the House, of Representatives, will be bad this evening In the House chamber on the fourth floor of. the. city and county building. . The public is Invited to attend at-tend the meeting. The fire and police bill, the public depository bill and other oth-er measures .that are before the special municipal committee of the House, will come up for discussion. John Q. Critch-low, Critch-low, chairman of the committee, has called the meeting. v , In Salt Lake City last evening two persons were . out with the ''little knives" against the Galveston bill. Before Be-fore the Municipal committee, which held a meeting in the Wilson hotel late yesterday afternoon, appeared Samuel Newhouse in a full fledged protest. Before the American club, Frank R. Christensen, its secretary, made a strong speech against the bill last evening, even-ing, and- asserted, that the scheme was not feasible at the present time. Dined With Mr. Newhouse. Eleven Representatives were invited to take dinner at the home of 8amuel Newhouse last evening. The party was composed of - the Representatives of j Weber and Cache counties. The party was composed of Representatives Hansen, Han-sen, Pedersen, Hendricks, Maughn, Weston, Wes-ton, Fuller, Dean, Randall, Robinson, Long and Speaker Joseph. During the course of the evening Mr. Newhouse expressed himself as against the Galveston idea of government and also declared that he saw no reason for the moving of the Agricultural college to Salt Lake City. The change, he declared, de-clared, would not accomplish the most good. j The Galveston measure, he declared, 1 would not, according to his ideas, be beneficial to Salt Lake City. Christensen Against BilL Several took part in the discussion before be-fore the American club. Mr. Christensen said that the Galveston Galves-ton measure was revolutionary and provided pro-vided for radical changes in the form of city government, and outlined briefly the proposed arbitrary powers of city government tObe conferred upon the commission by the bill. He said that nothing would justify the adoption of such a form of government except extraordinary ex-traordinary circumstances of outrageous wrongs perpetrated upon the people. No wrongs sufficient to justify such a measure, meas-ure, he said, had ever been heaped upon tne taxpayers of Bait Lake City. It was argued in favor of the hill, the speaker said, that the entrusting of the entire government of the city to a commission com-mission would result in. the prompt attendance at-tendance to business, the abolishment of delay and red tape and the obviating ol political bickering and trading. This conception of the bill, he asserted, was a false one. Who Will Accept Places? No high-class business man, he pointed point-ed out, would be willing to serve the city for the. salary named in the bill. Most successful business men, he said, had mapped out for themselves plans and a career which would take them a lifetime to varry out and perfect. Such men, he said, could not afford to burden bur-den themselves with the cares of municipal mu-nicipal government, and if they did, they would not devote sufficient time and attention to the city's interests. Mr. Christensen declared that the Galveston Gal-veston measure was wrong in its conception; con-ception; that it was subversive of republican re-publican institutions, and that it proposed, pro-posed, in defiance of democratic principles, princi-ples, to Concentrate power in the hands of a few men. No sensible business man from the outside, he declared, would invest his money here if the business affairs of the city were to be turned over to the whims of an irresponsible irre-sponsible and arbitrary body of men. He predicted that the system, if adopted, would prove a failure and bring discredit dis-credit upon the men who were responsible respon-sible for its adoption. Resents the" Charge. Mr. Christensen resented with mucli earnestness the charge made during the debate in the State Senate on the Galveston Gal-veston bill that the present American" eitv government is corrupt. Mr. Christensen pointed out that under un-der the present city government of Salt Lake no charge has been made concerning con-cerning corruption in the granting of franchises. He suggested, however, a referendum on franchises and on the purchase and sale of property by the citv. The speaker pointed out that Salt Lake's general plan of city government is in force in 1500 cities in America, while the Galveston plan is in force only in Galveston. The latter plan, he declared, de-clared, had been tried . in Memphis, Tenn., and abandoned. The government of Washington, D. C, he said, had been cited as a government by commission, but it was no parallel for Salt Lake conditions. He argued in favor of the establishment establish-ment of the civil service or merit system sys-tem for subordinate city employees, and declared that "if some of the patriots pa-triots who wish to impress their individuality indi-viduality on the laws of Utah will advocate ad-vocate this plan, they will be doing a public service." |