| Show A METING OF MUCH OF 1 the city council has one 01 house War A continuation of the waterworks question 1111 next meeting the telephone license twelfth street and the grading thereof tho city council met in regular nf last night with a great deal of important on the table and much more ol 01 j leea importance the first claer came H T f after the reading of the claims and was an opening worthy of chicago aldermen twelfth street has been graded and the bill of for the finish of the work was up before the council without the of either the auditor or the street supervisor under a 1 bension the special committee for that work M L jones and bishop taylor cf the third had expended much more alian tha council authorized them to do according to the records there were many questions and cross questions and explanations by the special committee and finally after the statement by taylor that abe rork done in the city on streets was much more in proportion to the taxes paid than ever done in the third ward conroy cooroy though the third was going to beceda and moved that the bill be allowed and it was passed with abe regular payrolls after this abe follower ing communication from geo Y wal 1 lac president pre eident of the rocky mountain i ball telephone co was read salt lake april to abe resident Pes ident and members of the city council of ogden city sirs As abe ordinance licensing telephone instruments was up o 0 its second reading last monday evening your president was kind enough to aek that I 1 in behalf of this company be given an opportunity to address the council and sate our reasons why a license should not be imposed upon thia company in your city that it would have been to have allowed this privilege without suspending the roles I 1 fully appreciate and thank you for the courtesy shown me in answer to the request that we sab mit in writing our reasons for opposing the license we have this company at considerable expense erected a telephone in aiden to provide for and at one lime bad subscribers on the of january of this year we had subscribers 20 per cent of our property is dying idle and fetching us no income our net returns from ogden city exchange in the year 1896 were per instrument or about 6 per rent upon the money we have invested there toe deprecation and extraordinary charges upon telephone plants are so very considerable that we should receive a very much greater return thin we are now receiving in ar at abe net income per instrument ment from our gross receipts we deduct the ac ual ot operating of maintenance of rentals and royalties roy altie and the proportion of general expenses belonging beloni ing to ogden exchange it is impossible to civi a more detailed statement but I 1 be ceased to bho v any of your honorable body who would be pleased to investigate our methods of keeping boaks and s at any time this is a plain business bu sineas reason why a license should not be imposed there may be legal reasons but these will be left to our attorneys should any license ba demanded of us you will at once that we canut afo d to pay it and in tour judgment our are paying all they pay we hope that by this brief statement yon will see hat it would be unreasonable to exact any license of us and especially ally such an unconscionable one as is proposed no action was taken on the letter and the ordinance was refer fd to lie committee on laws the city attorney prior to its third reading and final alsage at sage the waterworks proposition was laid ever for one week and there will 9 ably be a meeting friday or saturday night to consider the matter TO the council ws called to order I 1 y president with all members present committee on laws reported minding abe passage of the ordinance governing the dog tax collector adopted 4 committee on claims reported the following ilalie il alme recommending the payment fame f ame RT harris typewriting 3 60 8 etc 18 85 autele co clock rental telephone co 44 00 F barber typewriting I 1 CO 0 I 1 typewriting 23 ga weber co collect lne 1895 taxes 22 40 wilcox printing 11 75 garney cab oo 00 cab service 1100 electric co CM 35 J paw stationery stratford hros coal 58 60 halverton Hal vereon bros plumbing 9 00 U kranch 17 10 millane ele co eroc eiles 0 00 60 TH carr medicine soren peterson ere cerfee iee 25 60 7 0 MI 20 stephen stone W 75 nelson fell livery WO alleon wood THE STANDARD printing 1800 A printing 1 25 report adored aad warrants ordered drawn atau i ii I 1 taylor wanted information regarding F E barker typewriting and shoes for polica department ash explained that the typewriting was a copy of the code and the ehrea were for convicts who were barefooted they worked over one day above the daya of their fine to pay for them license committee reported recommending the granting 0 a license to newman bros and F W biebow to do plum tere work dovd that the report be adopted i F W bishop withdrew bis name from application of J W taylor for I 1 license saying he hid never signed it mr taylor aaker the ledge of the floor councilman o 0 objected councilman aaker that mr taylor be allowed to make a statement inasmuch be had been charged with presenting the council with an application for a license with a name which had not been placed there by the man who bore it aeh browning and hill talked on the question and president VV ardleigh ruled that the communication of mr bishop i ia not a part ot the report and also that the part of the report referring to the same eliminated moved that the report be adopted with the elimination jones said ft was not a court of justice and they had naught to do with the i matter browning appealed from the ruling of the chair the chair was sustained moved that the report be adopted as changed after a discussion it was moved to recommit lost by a vote of 5 to 6 moved to lay on table lost by 7 to 3 councilman taylor asked for information as to the reason for the tion of revocation of abere licence of bishop and taylor browning explained the entire matter as fully as possible leeport finally adopted by a vote of 8 to 2 committee on finance reported on deposit to be required of bidders for the new funding bonds they decided on a deposit of 2 per cent and the sale to be made on april 30 committee on streets reported recommending a drain on wall avenue north side ol 01 twenty second street also re 1 orting hat a box had been put in near that point the whole to drain the water which pools near the mcdaneld icide house adopted street committee also recommended the appropriation of for instruments tor the city engineers office adopted the committee further reported recommending om mending that the petition of george wolsey and fourteen others for a light on wall avenue and twenty seventh street bo net granted deport adopted also that the street supervisor and city engineer had been instructed to perform the necessary work to dran stagnant pool between quincy and jefferson and twentieth and twenty first streets the ditch is so deep that the people around there are afraid ot it mended that some action be taken to abate the nuisance referred Rel erred also that the petition of A T cliris teason and eighteen othera for the trading of thirty street between grant and lincoln avenues be granted also recommending the building of a cutoff cut off road from twelfth street where the pioneer power company ia fixing up a road to the road to the canyon also the petition ot jas burch ta dig up old water pipe be not slanted sr anted adopted also reported reft further action on the matter of widening lincoln avenue near twenty ninth street property cannot tenured except by purchase conroy objected pd to the report because the committee recommended no further act on upon his suggestion the deport was made to read no further action at present keport adopted also reported recommending the grading of twenty firel estreet from quincy to jackson avenue as as practicable adopted also that the bridge over the weber river on thirtieth street now Is the property of the city the county having relinquished all ownership therein and the removal of the bridge in order to save the ma jones that the bridge be removed by contract special committee on laws and engrossing reported recommending that the records be duplicated that the sexton may have a copy at the and recommending blat J V bluth be employed to prepare the duplicate and also recommending that a sate be purchased for the purpose of preserving tha records js after an explanation by llie president that the cost would be but ua tho report was adopt ol committee on river reported recommending that perch cf rock be furnished to joe parry for use on alie north bank of ogden river west 6 the bridge moved that the recommendation be not adopted at the request of browning M L jones explained that tue lay of the pur of the bridge throws the water to the north and destroys their property aeh he adoption of the u port and moved its rejection sst hill explained the action of the water and favored the recommendation mr taylor wanted to help mr parry and told how ho buttered from the ravages of high water G V jones wanted to know of taylor if ho considered oliden city responsible for a high water conroy opposed the appropriation and eaid it was time the line was drawn greenwell favored the appropriation hill told how the river used to run forty years and how the abutments of the bridge had changed the current of the water and menaced the property of mr parry conroy continued his objections M L jones asked for information from browning and supervisor gwilliam browning eaid ho knew nothing per bodall the council ackel where they were at previous question waa called and on rall call the motion to reject failed M jones moved to adopt jones G W moved a to lay on the table for one week adopted special committee on taxes recommended the granting of a rebate on tax eale certificate of P H reeder acting chief of police silvey reported aa follows arrests 73 convictions 48 released Rele asea 22 sheriff 1 other officer 1 cases pending i 1 73 the ardilar re pored that there was now due from tax Colle clon hurlbut and that he had personally demanded of him abd tbd amount A communication from mr was received together with a receipt from the city treasurer for which had been paid in yesterday his communication stated that he would settle the balance as soon the credit of consisted of in warrants and in cash in the matter of the cost of the thirtieth street bridge tin street committee reported the amount expended by the city and the history of the matter entire A petition for the grading of fowler avenue signed by A R heywood and ten others wai read and referred W S bonnell wanted to lie ap pointel a guard at the stockade referred D M smith and twenty seven mothers petitioned for the graveling of quincy avenue from to streets referred G F parker wanted permission to grade street above his crick yard referred geo pierce and 15 others petitioned for the filling of a ditch on ad and ath street referred board of police and firo commissioners asked an appropriation of 75 for expedient expenses request was denied by a vote of en noes bill of wm parce of was read and referred lynne irrigation co reported bad condition of dyphon at ad street referred an ordinance was introduced repealing section 2 of the ordinance creating the office of dog tax collector ash moved that city engineer ue e duester to view te land at and the griffin ice ponds and the seepage and report the aaion necessary to abate abe the telephone license ordinance was referred to tho commit ee on law with city attorney added pay rolls for two weeks ending april were allowed for work on twelfth street G W jones thought it was time for the twelfth street work robn stopped the bill wan read and ash moved thit it ba not allowed it wae n audited by the city auditor or 0 kd by the street supervisor M L jones explained the condition of the and the cause of the extensive amount of the work and expense also in reply to a query from ash said that the work wag authorized by abe council ash quoted from the records to show that there was no appropriation made by the council taylor proceeded to a statement of bis connection with the matter and bis understanding of abe authority alter a few queries by ash he requested the president to secure him abe floor so abut he could complete his statement he and jones understood that they were to use the poll tax of that section and that of aay farther moneys were 1 sary to complete the work the coonc 1 would appropriate the amount the mistake it one has been made has been made by a of our antono ruy G W jones wanted information as to amount of total cost ot work on twelfth street ash emoke on the question thera was a mistake conroy wanted to hear from ahn street supervisor then said that if was a danger of lie third ward seceding bo moved that it be allowed taylor eald there was no euh danger bat tho third war J was going to demand its rights M L jones eaid in answer to a question that the work was all done on a vote all pay rolls were allowed by a vote of the special street bill G W jones voting no and 10 votes on all others the council resolved itself into the committee of the whole which eat for thirty minutes and then reported the consideration of the bida for printing of the ordinances of 1896 awarding contract to A littlefield for 1485 for copies in the matter of of certain ground on hudson avenue and botu street to the oily greenhouse co the committee rejected the recommendation of the committee on public and grounds that the ground be leased to the city greenhouse and also rejected the proposition ot the city by F J the report was adopted by the council in regular ses ion and the council adjourned for two weeks |
