| Show TELEPHONES WERE NERE THE JE TOPIC Jolt Joint Committee on Municipal Laws Listen to Arguments SIGHTED SESSION Committee on cli Department lice I C Ii it Ill mm s ti nl ut I i iii I And In iii Time Tie joint committee on municipal laws lates and streetS of the council hud a it serif ury und gnu spIrIted see ses session sion lust bet night In I hi tho t lie council rooms In hi Taut net their occupied so MCI much time that hardly any of thou the other com coin committees w osele ie able to get together thou Thi Intel cut In lit tIme Ihu mutter lt if u lo Lu the Utah Home Telephone company Hoth stubs sides Ut f the lice tre presented to the committee by ho well troll known and t cl Thou were store lop by 1 lot Wells Velis T TOdell 1 Odell B 8 V John Henry Smith Hall und antI Elmer II Jones thou tho itt I I ci presenting I the thu e arguments for the n riots v company Time Tho contestants by buy W V H 8 IVers Mi Mo Murray M Id t 1 Fox and mint Goo leuc GooY Y F Wallace Mr Wallace being thou tho chief for tutu old telephone Chilli man announced that ouch each side was allowed 30 minutes to their arguments After fter some as nil to which side should open lice thu arguments Mr Jones lones n a brief us ins to time timeS S Intuitions Intentions of time thu mousy company Ho lie saul sault that t 1001 1 It tt put I In Itt a it modern stood and un uto limited telephone that It would be b Independent and would cut the hoc rotten rutiH of time Hio old company to just their rates lutes making a charge of per boor year for fou business houses ii mo nd tb pot per year for Qt residences Hu lie mated hint the tue rouse company would give gite the hoc i ity 30 O tree freo telephones arc al iti allow low It to use UNO their poles boles for or stringing tire Hie alarm wIres He lIe see why the people of tot Utah U huh not so the bulled of nn ito Independent telephone system He I Ic stat Is i ks to show that nearly hearty ever state in Itt time the Union hud liotti an Independent system but Utah In conclusion he hoi wild We Wt dont think that the thie Rocky Mountain lieu Hell Telephone company loots any au more inure right to object to the council granting title this franchise than the owner of some of these large business would have to to time tho wanting of a permit to another party for n a new ness building just It might take tako some of huts his tenants from him We admit that our system will soul hurt thou the Hell Telephone company financially u a great deal but shows hots that competition will benefit the thoo people of any community and we know that the tern tem buns hns been a it success In Iii other states amid think that U It will be u benefit to the hue of the state of Utah WALLACE HAS AN At INNING Mr began his arguments t the Lice franchise by 13 the tho franchise clause by clause und pointing out the hue defects therein The limit point Seemed scored was osae In regard to the of commencing work on thi new line the ho nix months to commence work Mr Wallace that If it Mr Ponton hood had LotS oo or jp that In lie should begin work as iou as the franchise li is granted and not 1011 wait six months Floe point chiefly relied upon by Mr lr Wallace tue that there loire wn only runt one lorson Mr Me asking for fot the He lie said could on him that point If time the citizens of this bile cIty tn In number would fisk iek for ur another com tasty pany would be 1 justified In granting t Wiliest it ti est but iUt here Is ii Otto one man ask asIc n ii franchise und nothing Is shown thoU that tine uno other citizen Wants the tite new hew system Continuing he Ito sold said U If they thie are ale itt this franchise It an Lull another other sot set of poles ImPS on your We o havo mailo to with otI ho the vow pow power er co company to use tine their poles jointly removing one st of or poles boles from thou the streets We have nn an established coveting Utah thoth Colorado Wyo timing Idaho Montana mind have Invested it Is true we house have money butt but we Soc are niu not making It in Stilt Uke City Itt but are It Iton on ito oil toll lines No company In the thew w 01 Id hits given its customer n a cheap ei do toll toil than the hot Rocky Mountain Uell lid I Telephone company He Ito contended that none of t the bust busi business ness firms v anted more moore telephones that ShoUt they have too many now Turn Turning log ing to U Mr he You dont any moru do you Mr Me Mc McI I To which Mr replied No sir we have too many now mow I l beg bg of you gentlemen continued Mr Wallace W that unless the cItIzens ask fop n a franchise that you wilt stIll not grant it ADVANTAGES OF COMPETITION Mr Jones then closed time he argument In n a very et brief statement pointing slut out tho advantages of competition In the hoe business showing that where MI II resident directors of the be old olti coon com company pany nany received the lit benefit of Its Ita divi dividends there would be people In vho rho would be benefited by the hold competition In iii prices which would be brought about by the granting of n a of nn atc Independent system It i he no new thing he hue said salol It has hns hasben bi ben n tried In every state In it thou the found to be ho a success limO Tho committee then took tho ho matter under tinder advisement will meet In the council rooms on omo Monday night to for a report on tho timo matter At that meeting the application nf of O P A and others for a street railway franchise will stIll be considered also OTHER MATTERS The Tho committee on streets recommend recommended ed sub tIme tho granting of the petition of the Oregon fl Short Line Railroad company fur lop permission to put In a new on Third West street upon the condi condl condition tion thron thus thai It bo be run In from the north Instead of the south as proponed Tha committee on tire lire department tIme the purchasing of a new engIne to foil cost about an aerial truck for 1000 feet of at hose hone tomb the instruction In the lie business dis district dl ot of three storage reset to toos os 05 ne live cisterns for TIM committee also recommended HIP following Increase In salaries In Ito the thu Chief to 1 a lt ut chief 0 to JUS six captains Ito 80 to o ISO lieutenants SO to 86 S secretary end operator 90 0 to engineer ISO 50 to 90 s |
