Show c MORANS MORAN'S S 'S BONUS IS TURNED DOWN City Council Objects to Paying Him Not Earned HELD UP AT LAST MOMENT City Auditor and Mayor I nl l o or In Time Time That for Pay Pay- lIr I I. I is In What hat ha has long been heen r regarded as an all exorbitant demand was waR temporarily derailed derailed de de- railed railed In Its night flight ht through the city council la last t nIght when a partial estimate estimate esti esti- st- st mate matA lI of expense on the Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton wood conduit was ivas wa tampered red with upon motion morlon o of oC Councilman Fernstrom F A matter of was wa separated from tho gross amount charged by Pat Moran Moran Mo Mo- Io- Io ran for work on the big waterway an and was referred to the finance committee for Cor Investigation In Pat Nat Morin Moran tor 1 the tho contractor who constructed con con- lr the tho Big Cottonwood conduit has hns charged the city a bonus hunu of 10 16 HiO 0 a a day for one sixty lla days making a total of or He lie claims claim It to have hav completed the conduit sixty one da days day In of or contract time and he hl points point to In theo the contract as nc grounds rounds fur for Co I his re request request re- re quest for bonus TI The partial estimate was for toJ 3 witch h. minus th the bonus honus was teas ordered paid The bonus bonu t will he be Inv Investigated Behind nl the thc action of oC the council last las i night there is a long story In which the ridden graft conduit comes In hi again for Cor special mention ti Th The contract stipulates that tho the city olty shall IJa pay to Morau a bonus of triO for foi tr each day that he beats bats the limit o of contract time which was Jul July l 15 1906 r On tho the other othel hand Moran n nJ agrees rees t to pay tho the city per pel da day clay fO for each 4 f cia day clay over 0 July 16 15 The conduit was wa r p partially completed led Aug 10 thirty thirty- five OVO days clays over the contract time limit Yet Mr Moran claims that when the thc new administration changed the plans of the old administration along in January Januar ho he was ordered to defer the work on the conduit While the plans were ware being changed he says S 'S he 10 lost 1 enough time lime to give him grounds for claim for Cor bonus Major Holds It Up At Al the meeting of or the city council la last t week In the general appropriation JM lit JI t there was an Item for 01 which was cloaked In a partial estimate on the Big UIg Cottonwood conduit It C es- es t Gaped the notice of the council and when Mayor r Thompson approved the theL L ai appropriations he did not see Joee the al- al al allowance lowance for Cor bonus He noticed It afterward af af- afterward however ho that thai the bonus claim was waR in In an and he sent the following letter letter letter let let- ter to the city auditor I beg to advise Ifo you that in approving approving ing the appropriation list passed b by bythe the tho cU city council Dec Dee 10 an Ite nun favor of ot P P. J. J Moran for the sum of ot 1 r O for completing his contract on U. U 5 tho the conduit within the time limit was t approved by me under a misapprehension t lion sion of ot the tho facts I ther therefore fore dl disapprove p- p prove pro it ft ami direct you OU not to 0 pay said Item Hem until further advised in the prem prem- r. r Ise and until the tho matter ha has lias been heen 1 thoroughly investigated Authority 1 Was its us Lac Laskin The city auditors auditor's o office had already alread I held up payment on the partial estimate estimate esti esti- mate on account of the tho Item for bonus t. t despite the fact that it had been approved ap up- proved b by City Engineer Kelsey J. J F F. Leonard chairman of or the board o of public works s the city council and the mayor City Auditor Alit Alff says saS that when Pat Moran brought hl tho bill Into his office an effort was made to locate locale the authority for payment of oC a bonus Mr lr Leonard told him to approve It and send Hend It H to the council to be he placed on the appropriation list and antI that thal he would furnish 1 t front from the records In the theoffice office of ot the board of public works the authority for tor the payment of tho the thoI ther r I bonus hon The authority was not forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming and an of or the auditors auditor's Office called colled on Clerk Frank Franl It n Christensen Chrls- Chrls en of ot the hoard board anti and asked to be shown 1 the tho data covering the Item It could not be found Cound and the auditors auditor's hold held up uJ the entire bill I When th the Dig Big Cotton Cottonwood wood conduit I Iwai was wai completed completed to within a thousand 0 k feet of fir the Parle Parley reservoir last summer sum Rum mer merThe The Republican called attention to the tho fact that Pat Moran was claimIng claiming claim claim- Ing tIa for a day sixty-one sixty days day It was WaR shown at that time that CI City Engineer En En- L L. C. C Kelsey opo opposed ed the bonus bonuM En claim Mr elsoy said rahl Moran was not en entitled tilled to a 3 cent of oC bonus under tho the I j contract On the other hand Moran lor said MId ho ha was entitled d to it because the city had stopped his work last win win- ter tel Thc There Lo arose a pretty row between bel be- be l I tween the city engineer and anal the of official official of- of contractor and to all Intents anti and i purposes the claim for Cor bonus was wn ap w apparently d dead or dead or sleeping Kelsey Chun ChulI Change e of Heart Hearl v Of City Engineer Kelsey has now had hada a 3 change of oC heart Before going to California recently he hc approved the claim for tor bo bonus us Instead of taking the thc 4 stand he took In the summer he noni non- non i 4 Indorses 8 what ho he once con COIl It Is la understood that the thc claim for bonus will be hf held helcl up until the return of or the tho elt city engineer and li I that the records will be he frisked 11 by bv ConS Contractor Contractor Con- Con S tractor Moran loran his subsidized i henchmen Jn In the employ of or the tho city In Ins s- s inn In in effort to Co locate legal authority for 01 the claim he has Ims pr presented l |