Show CITY COUNCIL the city council met lost evening and commenced the third reading of a ordinances the members in attend ance were K kelly 01 y folland reis horn moran blob beardsley Bar daley 81 evant kelly was wa bawn ohreen chairman SURY JUBY IN city attorney hoge hofe rented the following which whish was read and aad tho the xe fe quest granted to the honorable president and city cou council nall 1 I am forced to again call asu on your honorable ba body for a further appropriation of in the am of allred et at al vs re salt lake ike city chy now on trial in ogden after consultation with mr coed coad my associate ate and our engineer it having come to our ears that the jury wished to visit the anje farm of the al alfreds reds alleged to have been damaged by the olty city and believing it the proper thing for them to do get an order of court to havethe have jury visit the premises and I 1 suppose they are doing so go today as such was the order this will entail an additional expense which must be paid on tomorrow I 1 therefore ask that the appropriation be made at your session this evening that it may be available tomorrow the marshal having advanced the expense of the trip THIRD READING BEADING OF compiler lipman then commenced the third reading of ordinances ordina aces chap tiki ito 1 to 4 inclusive were passed without amendment chapter 6 5 governing the boa board rd of health was a s laid on the table until wednesday evening chapter 6 was amended so BO sa MI to allow allo lo 10 i ft ury salary of pei per annum to be paid to each member of thie the baard of public works instead of there was no change maue maide in chap ter 7 which treats op bonding Chap chapters 8 9 10 and 11 were passed without modification or amendment the chapter relating to the levy and collect collection ioia of bog og taxes tikes was vo eo ame amended nd ed as to make the tax on male doga 2 9 the tax for foi the keeping of a female dog is 8 as heretofore chapter 18 on elections 14 on city engineer 16 15 on pound 16 on explosives and 17 on fire department wore were all passed without amendment the cit city council I 1 met in regular session last night president row rowin in the chair the members in attendance were horn Si asson beardsley rich folland harrick Karr lok evans heiss moran kelly 12 absent bell loofbourow hardy 8 3 WOULD STATE WHY PRIVAT PRIVATELY FILY immediately after roll call dent loofbourow excused himself tor for the balance of the evening he aa said d he ha did not care to state publicly why he wished to absent himself but would do de so BO privately to any member of the council who desired to know he called councilman beardsley Beard I 1 Bley to t abe hd chair and jolt the council chamber THE MINUTES IN CULL the new ruling by president loofbourow that the minutes of all meetings should ve b read in full was ob and thirty minutes were thus cohered coh emed PETITIONS were read and referred as follows T B mcnair and others asked for an extension of water mains committee on waterworks water works the board of education asked for the establishment of a number of permanent sidewalk grades granted H thompson and others asked to have fifth west between fifth and sixth south put in passable pable condition committee on streets fred Auerba ohi bro asked to be allowed to lay jay their own sidewalk in front of property owned by them on second south bouth street board of public works topa ij C Q crossman and others asked for the erection a of an electric it daht t at the ow mye r e south tem ale and ah west streets and at MR tn intersection of first south and R egeth gath west streets committee on improvements A NEW DEPUTY RECORDER the city recorder read a communication from himself announcing the resignation of elmer ellsworth as deputy city r recorder corder and the appointment of fred fr W dennis to all the vacancy communication received and filed and the appointment app ointment int ment confirmed HE WANTS FIFTY TONS superintendent of waterworks Water works ryan sent ina in which he be asked that the council purchase fifty tons jons of six inch wat water pipe for his de apartment part ment at onoe onee adopted DANGEROUS street supervisor hines reported recommending that the temporary sidewalks sipe walks in various parts of the city which are in a dangerous dango ious condition be sloped lp so as an to conform to the perman permanent out walks as to avoid accidents board of public works WILL HAVE LIGHT the committee on improvements reported favorably on the petition og I 1 H L thomas and aid others asking for an aa elc electric trio light at tire the intersection of south temple and eighth west streets adopted I 1 EXTENSION the committee on waterworks waterworks water works works recommended om mended the granting of the petition of abraham H cannon and others for a water maln extension on eighth west street art from ninth and tenth south streets granted THE PROPOSED NEW FIRE the committee on public grounds reported that they had selected suitable sites in the northeast and southwest parts of the city and that they had ordered deeds and abstracts for the same received and filed PLANS TO BE BB PROCURED the matter clatter of calling for oom peti tive plans for the new stations was re berred to the committee on fire department THAT HOLD OVER MATTER the committee on elections elect lone reported as aa follows in the matter of the resolution of 0 councilman J A heise adopted november 8 with reference to certain appointed officers holding over after considerable inquiry we find that the following named have not been formally re appointed and are performing the duties of their respective offices just juat the same game BH an before their terms expired sanitary inspector showell appointed to serve two years from june 1890 L C haines chairman ot of the board of public works appointed in june 1890 term expired in june une 1892 P F A meacham Mea oham city physician appointed in 1892 we recommend that the matter be referred to the mayor THE CUSTOMARY WRANGLE the customary followed the reading of the report there were motions and counter mo eions tione amendments amendment to amendments in relation to the disposition of the kattef finally moran movee moved d aft a aubil that the paper be referred 16 6 the mayor this motion carried af numerous attempts to defeat it EXTENSION OF franchises 1 the bait lake city ballway y a rapid transit sent irk in a 1 coln ra 1 tion in which they jointly re represent presey that contemplated street I 1 improve na ments would make their expenses expense fis beyond their income for absy other reasons they asked for an all ex eates ta sion of all franchises granted to tl this for a period of twenty years to corke cittee on improvements BESOT ta TION folland le resolution introduced introduce a last meeting providing that the st rem supervisor only do work at etke I 1 stance of a majority of the ap of ala the street depart department weyat was oniris ik tion of moran laid on the table indefinitely ana TABLED made the following follow lne n tion which was also laid orthe on the indefinitely i that the resolution be referred A special committee of five with a 16 rean to said committee to report rt to tible the 0 0 U n 11 a comprehensive method to be follo follow b by OT all departments covering the order or dertiL w of material and work and approval rt pay rolls and vouchers SPEED regulating ORDINANCE an AD ordinance regulating th the 0 speed ora rt teams to be driven and t care 0 OD rated across streets was read the fl time sad and laid on we the table until n we meeting eting P ik i 1 l THE MAYORS SEWER PUMP pu CHASE VETO the veto of mayors mayora the pro prodoc sewer bewer pump purchase publish published full in the on saturday eve eveaj ai baat came u up and wits was discussed pr pro r a con ora ora full u ull hour after which chic ic la matter mattei was declared deola not ot properly h fo fore re the council tor for t the he r reason esson that tha 11 mayor had failed to return the coma mit tees report with the veto appropriations the following made yx k grant bros oo 00 the grocer printing co mountain stone oo co J S morse sons geo A howe john Ca eagle bagle foundry mach co A W came co L G F culmer bros B E 0 coffin hardware co bridge kirk oo 00 A 0 fsmith co sierra nevada lumber co 00 nedera neder cleland eland Ol utah plumbing a supply co 0 6 E sells bells 6 go G GM M scott co W L pickard co remington johnson co montza moritz greenwood IM caffi kendall J B low to perkins Pe riling oo 00 morrison Morri fion merrill co cunnington ington co Tribune Job printing oo co gas H 0 OJ heath mount ggriffin A win sons F platt a co baratt bros broa BL scott co JO J 0 Kead bears bearb li liddle addle co W L plok Pio pinkard ard kard a co 00 iba klipple alk s hardy 20 2085 95 har OH 7 60 A W caine co 00 co 00 1000 29 2990 90 utah G 0 central lova railway ij co 0 00 there was a great deal of informal n in the city council last night in relation to the disposition of the city sewage and the mayors veto of the pump purchasing apropo the first clause of it is as follows the report of the committee on recommending the acceptance emerage ewe rage ance of the bid of jones jonea jacobs to farnish famish worthington sewer pump and adopted by the council on the plant ant p alth lost authorizing me to close a contract dou tract with jones jomel jacobs lo in ro ac wrence with this bid I 1 respectfully to execute this authority the mayor then proceeds to give reasons for vetoing the mattor matter as pub in the NEWS on satu saturday aday even last they wort reviewed ng long th by councilmen lawson moran and ana ril bibb ah last night fach each of these theme jent gentlemen lemen took strong exceptions to them they admitted that likshis like bis honor the mayor they favored but it would take system ity the gra gravity at least two and probably three years or even more to got get it in working order the cost coat would range from a quarter to half a million dollars one question was where was the money coming from and another wai baj what was going to be done with the sewage in the rich declared that gallons of filth was now running into the jordan river every twenty four hours with the addi addition tion ot of the new sewage districts gallons would ifan find d I 1 its way into that stream during the aultry and unhealthy months of next summer unless it could be temporarily disposed of as contemplated p ted by the committee in recommending the purchase of the pump the jordan ran through the first arb precinct a great many people lived along its banks dairies were numerous in that vicinity the cows drank water from that filth polluted stream and the milk fassold was sold all over the city it would and was breeding disease and death and there was no escaping it until something was done until the gravity system was adopted lawson li awson stated that ex con hoilman ewing had offered the olty city acres of land over jordan free of charge for a sewer awer farm until the gravity system could be established it was near the present dumping grounds and would be a baon to the city it would be a benefit to s land it would be a good thing all round arguments of this kind were made at length FJ finally nally moran took the floor and declared that there was nothing before the house honse and read as follows from the mayors veto not act pawed by the last territorial legislature every ordinance passed and every resolution adopted or contract coo tract approved by the city council appropriating or involving the expenditure of money shall hall within twenty four hours after I 1 the action of the city coun council oil be prawn presented ted to the mayor for his appio v aal 1 I if he approve the ordinances ordinance resol resola u tion or contract as the case may be he be hall ball sign the same if not he be shall re turn JU rn it ft with his objections objection in writing to the city recorder who shall prevent present the same to the city council at the next regular meeting thereof now then Is said maid moran the mayor has not returned the contract or the vetoed paper of this council and the matter is therefore not before the I 1 house bouse ak the chair hold held that moran was correct and the veto was laid on the table until friday night during the discussion which pro pre coded ceded the passage of the coal ordinance P assed by the city council november president loofbourow declared in unmistakable language that it was the duty of the council to squelch as q quickly as possible the coal swindle that was going on in this city he thought that it should be fought with out gloves companies should be brought to time that could be done by the passage of the ordinance introduced he did not anticipate that there would be any complaint from the purchaser if he were compelled to pay five or ten cents per load for weighing by an authorized city weigh master he was satisfied that consumers would willingly pay for the satisfaction of knowing that they were protected the coal combine was robbing the people on every band he knew how bo w that organization was effected and for what purpose there were five mines in the combine owned by the union pacific sweetwater and pleasant valley alley coal companies prior to its formation the union pacific furnished about 88 18 1 8 per cent of the coal used in this city the sweetwater company from ton ten to twelve per cent and the pleasant valley company the remainder one of the objects of the combine was to keep U up these thene respective proportions of sale under existing a purchaser ordered rock book springs CORI coal he be would get it providing that the sale of that kind of coal was within the limit allowed by the combine if not another kind of CORI coal would be sent but rook bock springs coal would have to be paid for that was the he status of affairs that confronted the people the public demanded protection and the council was in duty bound to give it to them just so far as it had the power the ordinance finally passed and was sent to the mayor today it is said that he will sign it without delay the ordinance provides th that at hereafter in the sale of coal the hundred weight shall consist of one hundred pounds and twenty such weights shall constitute a ton that every person firm or corporation who engages in the bu business sinew in this city of selling or delivering coal at retail or wholesale or who sells or delivers any such coal in this city shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the purchaser of each load or part of load of coal so sold and delivered and at the time of such sale or delivery a certificate in writing signed by an authorized weigh master and also by the seller showing the exact number of pounds of coal so delivered and whether the same is in screened or unscreened any person who shall violate any of th the provisions of the ordinance i or who sh shall 11 deliver to any purchaser a less quantity of coal than 2000 pounds avoirdupois for each ton purchased or a proportionate amount of any part of a ton or who shall hall deliver to any P purchaser or a less quantity of eoal than that shown in such certificate or who shall deliver to any such purchaser coal of a differ ent kind grade or quality or condition than that shown in the certificate so ao such delivery or who shall h all practice any fraud or deceit in the sale weighing or delivery of any coal purchased to be delav delivered ered in this city as aforesaid shall upon conviction thereof be punished for each offense by a fine in any sum not low less than 20 nor more than or by imprison ment not axce exceeding e ding 1 thirty days or both such fine a and ud imprisonment in the discretion of the court any person who under pretense of covering the cost ot of weighing or do de shall add to the for any coal sold coldor or to the price charged for delivery any sum in excess of the actual cost of such weil weighing lhing or delivering |