Show MORANS MORAN'S COUNCIL I REJECTS HIS illS BONUS Contractor Now Left to Sue for Full Amount in inC C Court ourt S j CAUCUS OUTLINES OUTLINES' PLAN LI Litigation lomi to LU lIo Will 1 Il 1 SI tow U Methods III in I HamlIn Handing mutt Hand In lug ing Out Plum Patrick J. J Morans Moran's bonus of S 2700 on oil his BI Big con conduit contract con I tract reduced by the time board of or public pub 1111 lie lic works from O. O was Mas rejected I last lust night u upon OIl the adoption of time the I report of f the finance committee by bythe bythe the city council This action fiction on the I part of oC the thc council forces the matter Into the courts and Contractor Moran will lile file suit ut for Cor the entire estimate of as ns submitted by City Engineer En En- Louis C. C The Thc suit stilt willbe will willbe willbe be a friendly affair to determine whether a n verbal message over a telephone tele phone by W. W V. V II n a form former r clerk of the time board of oC public works constitutes an nn order older or er from flom the board The rho letter bearing the same orders to close do down don n time the work which was dated or December 23 23 1 but hut written on Oil 9 9 1906 will also be brought before the time court Three caucuses of the merll caln members of oC the council with ith the editorial editorial edi edi- tonal staff of oe the tho Salt Sail Ial c e Tribune associated were held before a decision was wab reached At the thc first meeting the estimates of CIl City Engineer eie considered rhe The hoard board of public public pub pill lic lie works was as summoned before time tho second caucus and the daily dall reports of or the inspectors In on the thc conduit were considered Ther was si a n ii difference I of 13 da days or 01 tite the reports re re- ports su submitted bl by the the- I Inspectors and City Engineer The Thc board of oC public works refused refuse to consider Kel- Kel e report and amid based base Its estimate of the report of lie the boards board's Inspectors In the time caucus the time board stood firm on the thc leport aport r of the inspectors The members of the tIme council were In favor of oe sustaining City Cily Engineer En En- gincer Keisey's estimate M Hull on Girt Gift City Olty elt Attorney Ogden lilies was unable un imitable able ahle tt to be whipped into line lino III In ai at attempt to lo give to totoran Moran toran GIGO of the he city's money The he third caucus was WUi held lust Ju t week It was decided dec cd to give II Moran a chance to get the time entire a as submitted by City Engineer Engineer En En- gincer Kelsey l h by rejecting the thc 2 2700 Moran was satisfied with this because he could take the matter malt mat mal t ter J into court where he can ue use the thc official report o of the thc city engineer m who ha has the power to submit all ull es estimates estimates es- es against the thc dally daily all report o of the ehe inspectors for Cor the board hoard of pu public lic vo works M Moran ran was at the time council for fat a few Cew minutes mt last night lie left however or when he lie understood that thc the matter of or his bonus would woul be up and the report of or the U committee a adopted opte The rime report of oC the thc fi finance finance Ii- Ii nance committee was signed Igne b by Councilmen Coun- Coun Black Ferry nn and Fernstrom It was adopted without comment or discussion toran's orans bonus bOmi was slipped h by the board boal of public works submitted by bythe bythe bythe the city engineer wrapped up in a n partial estimate on the thc Big Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton Cottonwood wood conduit It Il was approved by the council an and went through Mayor Ezra Thompsons Thompson's hands It TI was discovered by Auditor Rudolph nudolph AlIT Alff and held up I Mayor Maor Thompson withdrew I his approval approval ap ap- ap- ap for the payment and asked that It be he c investigated It was wa returned to the council and referred to the finance committee It was approved b by Black Davis and anti Crab Crab- tree The b board of or public works withdrew with drew its approval of the estimate when It was wa learned that the bonus was wa contained In It The Thc board hoard cut the amount down and then the th council refused to lO appropriate the amount an and l i adopted the tue committees committee's report rejecting ting the entire claim |