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Show INTERSECTION BILL HJS OPPOSITION Salt Lake, Jan. 29. Arguments were made for and against the assessment assess-ment of paving street intersections upon owners of adjacent property before be-fore Senator I 0. Rldeout's commil-tee commil-tee on count y and municipal corporations corpora-tions in the senate chamber last night City Attorney li J Dinlnnv. fieorg" A Marr, Addison Cain and George M Sullivan were the principal speakers speak-ers in favor of the new plan to assess property owners for paving street in tersections. instead of paying for such improM-ments out of the geniTil funds of tho city, as now. This Innovation In-novation is contemplated both In senate sen-ate bill No 5".. bv Bdghelll, and house bill No. Hi, by Barker, both of which were under discussion last night Opposition to the plan contemplated contempla-ted by these bills was emphatically voiced D3 C W Collins, Harry S Joseph and J. R Knowles, the latter representing the Riverside Improvement Improve-ment association of the west side Mr Joseph made the statement that the people generally were not fully apprised of the purport of these bills or a larger number would have been on hand to oppose the measure. The senate committee decided to hold another hearing on the bill and set next Wednesday nicht as the time and the senate chamber as the place Chairman Rldeout will endeavor to arrange ar-range with the house committee on municipal orporations, which has the house intersection bill before it, to make the mt-eting next Wednesday a joint bearing Two members of the house committee attended the hearing hear-ing last night. B'-i v ii now and dneda Chairmen Rideout will endeaor to have C it. Attorney Dininn who d re v. the house bill, and Thomas H. Burton Bur-ton of the Municipal league who drew the senate bill, confer with the idea of uniting on one intersection bill, so that the legislature may have only one measure on the subject before it Several of the senators expressed the wish last night that there was' only one bill on the subject. The speakers shifted in their talks from one hill to another, although both aro t lie same in their essentials. Mr Marr. one of the first speakers for the affirmative, said the city's available funds for paving street Intersections In-tersections were such that It would take years and years to develop the city in a public improvement way Another An-other speaker along the same lines was Mr. Cain who said he was chair man of the public improvements committee com-mittee of the Commercial club. He said he did not appear in behalf of that committee, however, as the Commercial Com-mercial club board of governors has not gone over the two intersection bills. Mr. Collins for the opposition, de scribed both intersection hills as "in Iqultous" and presented diagrams and figure? to show that compelling the property owners to pay for Intersec tion paving, instead of the city, would he ruinous. In this contention, Mr. Knowles and Mr Joseph concurred. Mr. Cnin and Air. Collins bad an argument about the latter's figures and Mr. Joseph and several other speakers got into spicy arguments Everybody, from both sides, left with the intention of bringing out larger lar-ger delegations to the hearing to be held next Wednesda night |
