| Show 1 CONFLICT OP OF EXPERT OPINIONS j k t Judge Hues seems to have overlooked the new scrip crip I law aw entirely Doesn't ho lie know that a n law Jaw of that character character charr char char- r acter was enacted at the r recent cent se session slon of oC the tho legislature his statement that no provision pro it Doesn't he know that laws was repealed o or of at the old special Improvement amended mended will not be bo born borne out b by the tho facts rho Tho now scrip crIp law definitely quotes a section of the tho old law Jaw an anti and rep repeals It There Thera Is no question and no chance fo for evasion Tho The old olt n of or the old law Jaw Is repealed In i- i terms The rhe cU city aHorner attorney must have havo been careless In Ills hIs statements 1 But In an any case we dont don't believe o his opinion is r worth tho the paper It Is written upon when Pat Moran loran c. files tes a dissenting opinion In a n matter 1 of f paving pavIng- law Ia wo we would take Moran against ag lilies Hiles every da day In the 1 week week and and so would oil nil tho the discerning people of c Salt Lake And Pat says there Is nothing in an any of ot tho the new laws Jaws which will make individual advertisements and Individual contracts necessary That was the bugaboo of or the so-called so American party That was the tho peg pg on which thc they wanted to hang their thell complaint Pat says there there is nothing in the new law at all aU r requiring the 1 Innovation declared nece necessary sar by the Americans and anti supported b by their cU city cily attorneys attorney's opinion I Wo yo thInk think a great deal of or Mr Ir H Hiles les and are Inclined I to act in the capacity of guardian for tor the American party now party now that It scorns seems to lo so sorel sorely need one And w we will win have ha to warn the city attorney and the deluded beings beings who are paying him that that ho he not is-not not doing them theman L an any good turn when ho lie appeals t those cases to th tho rem court Pats Pat's Pats judgment t js is sound Tho The court will wm hold with Moran and against Hiles for Hiles-for for a ducat But there Is one phase of or this special improvement matter maUer to which the attention of the the people should hould be bec c called The proposition to annul tho the original estimate a. a and d make a higher one Is simply a move mO to take tako a bigger slice of ot the peoples people's mane money There Is nothing nothIng- else in that move It is just a grab for more cash Contractor and engineer were agreed on the e estimate Nothing ha has happened since to mako make a higher estimate nece necessary necessary excepting ar excepting the thc r gener general l complaint that under tho the new law tho the contractor will have have to do the work before he can get his money Under tho the old system he did not have havo to la lay the tho side side- walk He Hc got the money and ho didn't lay the walk walle at all There are cases in this city where the walks have been paid for over a year ear and never a spade has been put t in fn the ground for the construction of that J. J aye pavement ent The new law makes males the contractor finish the work before he gets the thc money noney for it And the recent decision t to make a new and higher higher- estimate Is Is' not nothing more nor less than a confession that the city rulers and their theirS S official contractor propose to hold up tho property owner for tor or sum than had hd at first been Intended Their Their best authority admits there is nothing In the law which which makes it necessary But the they have simply made made a new grab g for more mone money And the only conr consolation consolation con con- I r the property owner has is that the tho work will not have to bo be paid for until it is done But the price then will be a pretty prett good argument against ever again trusting what is called the Amerl American It party with an any control of public affairs In Salt Lake CIl City |
