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Show PROTEST MADE BY BROWNINGS Objection to the City Having Its Printing Dona in Union Shops Kiesel and Others Make Protest to Paying For Curbing on Twenty-fourth Street Liquor License Revoked Rehearsing many principles of fundamental fun-damental law In relation to corporate usurpation of individual rights, Fred J. Kk-sel A- Co. and other property owners In the paved district of Twenty-fourth street, last night petitioned tho city fathers to give thorn a hearing hear-ing on tho tax levy for the paving of the street, from Grant to Lincoln avenues. ave-nues. The petitioners claimed that the council had gone beyond its Jurisdiction, Jur-isdiction, and had caused an unnecessary unneces-sary outlay of money, when it ordered j the stone block curbing removed from tho street and replaced with aspbalt-um, aspbalt-um, the property owners being; forced to pay for tho same Tho matter was finally referred to the committee of the whole and the mavor and the city i council and other memberj as to what the power of the engineer is in city affairs. It was maintained that the crossiugs were to be made by the street department and that tho engineer en-gineer had ncthlng to do with the matter, mat-ter, vxcept to give plans and specifications specifi-cations when requested by the city council. Tho communication was ordered or-dered filed. The engineer reported estimates due for city, work to the J. 1. O'Neill Construction Con-struction company In the sum of $220.10 and the Wheelwright Construction Construc-tion company for $31. IG. and tho estimates es-timates were ordered paid Tho elty .ayroll for two week.-', amounting to ?2,1(;5.27. was allowed and tho ;uidit r was Instructed to I draw city warrants for tho several j amounts. CUv Attorney Do Vine advised tbo council that the hired hel In preparing pre-paring the relK"d ordinances for printing wanted their pay. and requested re-quested that he be permitted to draw on tho city audiir in the .mini of $2.0, tho amount allowed ly tho c.uiuil for that purpose. The request was granted and tho claims v.ere ordered paid when presented. Fire Chief Paine recommended that the council purchase lire hose trom the Cleveland Hose company becau.so of its cheapness aud g;od quality. The matter was tabled for one. week Licenses were granted Nols Roren-son, Roren-son, a pawnbroker; Georgo M. Tribe, a wholesale liquor dealer, and William Wil-liam Doyle, a cement worker. The claim of the city dog tax col-lei col-lei tor for S51, as commission for the capture of 01 dogs, was granted and the auditor ordered to Issue a warrant for the amount. I Recorder Allison was authorized to pay John Walker S30 for .-enlces rendered ren-dered in the license department. The Commercial National bank of the city wrote the council that tho bank has warrants amounting to $30u drawn on a sewer account and that there had not leen sufficient special tax collected to pay the same.. It requested that some action be takeu for tho raising of the balance of the money to pay tho warrants. The com-munlcatlon com-munlcatlon was referred to the An-I An-I ance ccmmlttee and the city nttor- ney. 1 The Utah Light & Railway company submitted plans for thn removal of poles from the center of the streets, and the matter was turned over to the j committee on streets and lights. A communication from J. W. Jones of the engineering department was read, stating that tho writer was doing do-ing more work in the engineer's office of-fice now than heretofore and asking j that' the council raise the salary from $4 per day to $1275 a month. Tho communication com-munication was given to the law committee, com-mittee, and 1' was suggested that It Is time to Investigate- matters in the engineering department. It was de- ! elded that the law ceniinlttee should make a report on tho condition of tho department. County A.se3tior Dix reported that the tax valuations In Ogden had been Increased' $1,191,006. The Information was ordered handed to the finance committee. The council adjourned to meet again next Monday. attorney, they to moot tho petitioners I at C o'clock next Friday evening, I The revocation of the license of Har- I ry Rogers, the retail liquor dealer, j whose llceDso was revoked at the ! council meeting last Monday night, j was taken up again last evening and final action taken In the premises, the result being that, the license was absolutely ab-solutely revoked by a unanlmou; vote cf the council. Mr. Rogers had due notice of the proposed action of the council and he was given the opportunity to appear and mako such protest as he desired aaln3l liavlng his license revoked He was at the council meeting but had nothing to say. Attorney Hulnniski appeared for Patrick Maughaa, partner of Rogers In tho saloon business, stating that tho revocation of the license for the so-called so-called Rogers saloon worked an ln-Justlco ln-Justlco upon Mr. Maughaii, he not having been implicated in the grievance griev-ance the council had against Rogers. While Mr. Maughan Is a partner In the business, he was not in tho saloon sa-loon tho night the illegal selling of liquor to minors occurred. Tho attorney attor-ney aked that the council not revoke re-voke the license, Insofar as Maughan was concerned, and the latter would purchase Rogers' Interest In the busi-! busi-! noss and conduct It In a proper and lawful manner. In behalf of the city, Attorney Do Vino Htated that Rogers had violated the law and had been convicted before tho 'municipal court; that the violation was sutlicient grounds for the roveca- : tlon of tho license aud he felt that the council should enforce lta own ordinances. ordi-nances. Mr, Maughan, he 9ald, was responsible for the acts of bis partner In handling the business, and he cculd see no rea-son why he should bo excused ex-cused and given tho privilege to continue con-tinue the Turf saloon. The vote to revoke the license was unanimous. Tho W, W. Browning Printing company com-pany sent a communication to tho council protesting against that body placing the "union label" on city printing, or confining contracts foi printing to union offices. The communication com-munication stated that the non-union offices of the city pay many times more taxes than the union ofllces, and that tho non-'julon offices do not employ em-ploy child labor any more than do the union people. This communication came as a protest to the petition of the Typographical union a short time j ago, asking that the city council require re-quire the union label placed on all city printing and that union print shops be given the printing. A communication was read from the Ogden Rellei'meni League, re- questing the city fathers to use their Influence against the granting of liquor liq-uor licenses In Oden canyon, calllDg attention to the fact that much harm r.otn-s from the sale of liquor In the canyon during tho summer months. The league suggested that no liquor bo permltl"d to be sold within a distance dis-tance of one miles from the canyon. Residents of the neighborhood of Glenwocd Park also petitioned tbe council to not grant licenses for tho bale of llqucr al the park this year. It was promised that the revenues from tho park would be greater If liquor is not sold and that It would have n tendency to stop the night rowdyism that prevails there In tho summer time, and also save many children aod young people from downfall. down-fall. A protest against permitting the Davis County Indopeodeut Telephone company to operate an exchange in the city was presented, and the matter mat-ter was referred to the law committee commit-tee and the city attorney. The protest pro-test against the maintenance of the exchange came from W. O. Renshaw, he claiming that the Davis County company com-pany has no franchise in tho city and that the company Is In direct competition com-petition with the local companies. The sewer commit too reported favorably fav-orably tbo granting of tho petition of J. D Skeen for the establishment of a sewer district on Twenty-second street, between Van Kuren ami Harrison Harri-son avenues. The recommendation was adopted and tbe engineer was instructed to advertise notice of intention. inten-tion. The committee on sidewalks reported report-ed that to comply with the order of tbe council in changing the pav?ment. in settlement of alleged damages claimed by George T. Stevens, would ! incur the expenditure of $55n and would mean the handling of 2S2 feet ' of cement sidewalk, and recommend-1 ed that It be done. The renort failed of adoption hy a vote nf 5 to 3, there being only eight couneilmcn present. The committee on laws reported nd veraely on tho claim of Mrs. Anna Van Horn for damages, alleged to have been sustained by falling into a ditch on Twenty-fifth street aud Harrison avenue, nnd the report was unanimously unani-mously adopted. Mrs. Van Horn Is asking the city for damages In tho sum of $2,200. Waterworks claims amounting to 1 57.38 and the April semi-monthly payroll were allowed. Couuc Union Au"t In and Dana voting against tho paynient of tho salary of Superintendent Superinten-dent Kirehcr on the grounds that it is excessive. A communication from the city engineer, en-gineer, advising the council that the Plans and speelncations for the sidewalk side-walk crossings had been made, but that tho engineering department bad not been advised as to where the council desired the walks to be placed, hence could not well proceed with the work or making an estimate of the cost of the walks, nor direct the building build-ing lo be done, brought forth somo I |