| Show REGULAR of the present board held last night the lighting proposition all salaries abolished after december 31 more waier suit money the city council met in regular session last ight and bad a real interesting time the lighting proposition was to create some excitement but alter a few chort remarks in open ses eion and about an hour of the executive session nothing came of it tho calary ordinance was adopted and tho new council will have the pleasure of goine into office untrammeled anh n salary ordinance and have the satisfaction of jibing their own and their appointees calary at their own lheure after the executive session was appropriated to pey attorney in and in the early part of the session were appropriated for ex of witnesses TUE SESSION toe city council was call d to order in bession at with ell members present president in the chair minutes of baat regular meeting read and approved on claims reported recommending payment of following claims II 11 adderson Au derson 23 J E co 1 00 eccles lumber co 90 A W meek 6 45 jas M cbeth 1080 geol bootey R williams 5 75 eccles lumber co 87 J L feus er maker lynne mercantile co browning 25 knee robinson wheelwright 35 charles staven St cven 75 Pai hurst 1 00 richardson 1 50 tepees driver 0 F Kt fluch 4 50 A L brewer 30 50 J A johndon Joh neon 2 20 jaa bune 7 65 brov steam laundry I 1 26 26 Geo Hues Geo browning a printing oo 00 6 00 HS pargo 1 75 CI Radcliffe 15 00 johnv blumb 7 50 HJ Newman F hanningan Bann ingan 11 50 the committee on license recommend i that the petition of grand opera bious company for remission of license for 1897 be granted adopted i also recommending that one half of aeo IL tribes liquor license for the duriac which his saloon was f i closed which amounted be remitted E geo W jones objected to the adap f lion ot the report because tribe was do icae busil most of the time the report was not adopted by the fol 11 vote ayes 3 nos 7 the committee on t and grounds reported recommending reco that ibe petition of the heirs of john for transfer of cemetery lots to gibbons be nob granted because the title was not in said john G b bone name adopted the epenial committee on recommended that the petition of B for relief on account of erroneous taxes be granted and a warrant for the H amount oi bo drawn adopted S 1 in case of petition of ezra fair lor similar relief be cradled adopted committee of the abola arted recommending that be paid into ibe mayors contingent fund adopted on claims reported becom mendina mendi nR payment ot claim of T F bannigan to amount of be paid adopted chief of police davenport Daven pott reported arrests and disposition of bame for two ending dec 16 arrests 43 convicted 29 j discharged 13 delivered to sheriff 1 peterson reported as fellows rm pounded ai 27 sold 5 for 29 00 t Kede G 50 p 10 balance 53 50 the bond of mayor elect boyle in the am 0 couo wai resented with A L and john securities on notion the bond was approved all votilie vo tinie aye except aill mrs kaherine Kah Brine palmer wanted her taxes to the amount of 13 75 remitted referred to special tax committee the rocky mountain bell telephone company want to put in a line of poles on west twelfth street referred to committee on streets clerk farr the city that total valuation of property we and city taxes amounted to 80 filed it A boyea wanted additional compensation clerk hire per month from july 1 87 to jan 1 98 granted conroy introduced a resolution appropriating to pay for witnesses in cage of ogden city vs bear river arri bation ogden katr works company adopted the salaries was tead third time aeh moved to lay on table until next meo called attention to the fact that thie wai the last meeting of thin council taylor looked upon the motion to lay on the table as an effort to defeat the par pose of this proposed ordinance avery effort baa been made to secure re lid from the old ordinance which haa bound this council to pay ad by a previous council and now comes her elect ot the new coun cil and wants to prevent the action ol 01 st A this ordinance to eal arles he alien moved to inbert abe dat on which the ordinance will become operative at dec seconded by aeh jones G W wanted to know what tha city would do for salaries during the g time between december 31 1897 and january ad when the new administration takes charge president said they could pay them by reeo lulion after a sew more remarks greenwell moved that the ordinance its third conroy objected lo 10 the ordinance because it would be to the liew members to fix their own salaries ash elated that it would not ambar aea the new council eo far as he was concerned to fix the salaries he was in favor of abe ordinance but be wanted to lay it on abe table because he was not certain that the new council would ox these salaries browning wanted to know if the new council would fix salaries and ward leiah eaid it could and cited the act of the legislatures as a precedent abe ordinance ordin anco was passed codoy and greenwell voting no bjoro G W moved that the ordin be in the press lost by a vote of 5 to 5 jones M L moved it be published in THE STANDARD and jones G W moved an amendment that it be published in aba xray X ray let conroy moved an amendment that it be published in the state journal boet loet te question recurred on abe original bat it be published in THE lost by a vote of 5 to 5 the republicans and democrats voting as a unit ash moved hat the ordinance be published in the presa anc no second he then moved that it be published in the press which was seconda 1 jones M L moved an amendment that it be published in the state journal lost on on the original motion to he published in tho press the five democrats and for aye and browning jones hiu and pierce no the following regular bills and payrolls were allowed sanitary department 36 CO public build inea and grounds 93 police department 85 fire 40 fire station noa No 3 2200 P A snyder 29 50 JE Davenport NW bethel 8 80 department 84 85 street 25 NW jones moved eliat W leowe and others permitted to privilege of the floor to he heard on the lighting company L R rogers appeared for the ogden city electric kompany Om pany he stated that liia had put in a bid according lo 10 the request for bids as advertised and all ahey wanted waa to be heard and given en an equal abow with any other company they had placed their bid in on time and understood another company had bentin a hid two days later ho timid that the company was in a position to erve the city at a lower rate than ever before taylor wanted to know if the ogden electric company power to furnish electricity mr Rogere replied that they had have you poles nn d wires we have the money to buy and tiring them how long would it tahe to do this about dixy days I 1 am informed what would you do in the interim we will give a sufficient and acceptable bond that by procesa of law if necessary we will compel the company at present furnishing the light to continue eo to do until we are in a position to light the city and wo will eland whatever expense there may be in such an act mr rogers contended conc ended with the demand that when this lighting pro 0 came before the council that it be fettled lett led in the open council not in a secret session the council then resolved itself into a committee of the whole nearly two hours were spent in the committee of the whole but no report was made after reconvening on motion of conroy seconded by jonea G W an appropriation of was made to dey as attorney in the water case and the council adjourned |
