Show THE BEGINNING OF THE END city council closing up its business MERCHANTS LICENSE STANDS the council clean up a lot of old busi ness attempt to repeal the merchants license ordinance fails 1 by b y a close vote the meeting 0 of the city council held last night was one ot of the last appearances pe arances of 0 the body and they made ot of it an interesting time business was wah rushed through with a whirl and a chizz and when the fint finish sh came there was little left las to be handled on friday night to which time they ad journea jour ned from several committees came report lepof on matters which were rf referred erred to them some months month ago notably one from iho the committee on laws Nir which litch reported recommending the filing ot of the city engineers reports on the unfortunate condition of the city surveys on the bench after having the report in their possession for nearly a year many blany other re pot potts ts were of similar age and they were rushed through two points came up which were of especial interest one the proposed repeal of the merchants license or iii ance which was brought up by the introduction of an ordinance by williams repealing the ordinance there was no discussion or the matter but when the ordinance came up for its second reading it was killed brewer jenkins pingree and shaw voting against it then came the matter of poying sanitary inspector moyes 1120 for the use of his horse and buggy for the past two years and after a warm the council decided that mr moyes was entitled to the amount and it was ordered paid they talked to some length over the granting of a franchise to the oregon short line n R R co allowing them to run a line of pipe along wall avenue and connect with the water main by which they would be enabled to put up tip a stand pipa and water their locomotives but ft was sent through brewer who talked against it finally voting for it making the necessary sixth vote the council work was witnessed by a number of the city officers and mayor elect browning and councilmen elect heber thomas C W cross and joseph parry were the only pi officers present at the conclusion clit of the meeting the recorder wag was instructed to invite the mayor and the elect to meet with the council next friday night dec 30 at 7 0 and at that time the new people will be initiated into some of the mysteries of lc le life something was nas said about wine cigars and sandwiches but how authoritative the rem rk was remains to be seen this wal v 11 ll positively be the last appearance ot of the city council of 1898 9 and they will have a gala time the city council was called to order at 8 with president browning in ili the chair and all members were present except councilman woolley A report of the city engineer as to the sewer system at twenty first and monroe in which he stated that there was no way in which to handle the matter except under tinder the plans under which the original sew er was built was to b build U ild a line of bewer sewer from wall avenue to on twenty first street he ile submitted an estimate as ag to cost of building which was subject to change but placed the figure al at the committee commIt tc e on laws reported on iho cho report of lot the city engineer ns us to city surveys recommending that it bo be filed the substance of the report will bo be published later it was referred to this committee in february of this year also recommended payment of claim ot of job pingree in sum of 5 for services in water ault both reports were adopted I 1 the committee on claims reported the following bills which were allowed and ordered paid A W meek 1 4 06 75 J V 1 nelson wheelwright bros johnson newman 2100 T hawkins 60 L P co y 50 jas macbeth iw i w geo parker co WW boatwright 8 arnim belnap 2342 R Chri riverside mill co CIO I 1 2130 90 00 C L bowen sidney stevens imp co 1585 i eccles lumber co 52 watts ow S W badcon ogden P 0 G aco co 1000 wm pearce lynne irr co cco ceo A lowe co y W V W browning co jw standard pub co 11 51 greene C C W Y por pomeroy neroy ly so oad ogden en printing co gg 25 sarah shipley 3 35 25 W 11 jenne 75 john wheelwright g gg T II 11 carr 7 45 ogden EIN 75 II 11 DI ij telco tel CO 20 drowning browning bros co 2110 A W meek p 40 M I 1 1 I jones 1000 A peterson la the of the pe of 11 a to rul if thomas for permit cleonse Ile onse a free ing K machine SS ut until a jan 1900 license va a granted ordinance pst pending 13 repeal of the license alcen anco 1 arg fire recommended tha tt an alarm box at to r ot of petition rijn adopted adams ania AP proposition flond and or of J J 3 cortez to b ily accepted Sep iron kilpe fedin in strongs ya was not ot committee oa on street recommended recommend filing s of petition of 0 JB twiford kord tor for permission to string wires for or messengers and it was BO so done dolie tho committee on sanitary becom mended filing of city physician conon dons s communication relative to vaccination ci his ills communication relative to care ot of indigent sic kwas at also so filed with recommendation that it be taken UP by the incoming council that the petition of 0 sirs mrs purdy for a remission or of taxes on a dog be not granted on matter of new death blanks thai that they had been printed and were now in use many other reports on matters ot of long days ago were vere read and filed the committee on streets reported recommending filing ot of claim ol 01 N wm vm adamson Tec receiver eiver for water at hospital as the matter had been settled with the lessees lessels les sees the petition of 0 strong canyon water co to buy water pipe was filed petition of maurice G abbott for or clearing ot of title because of error in taxation was not granted as us the fault lies with the county read the report of the committee on special taxes in the matter ot of the review of 0 the equalization of paving taxes on the tile curbing and guttering of the block on twenty fourth street the board of review rc reported parted that no protest or inquiry was received and no corrections made the report was adopted pound keeper peterson submitted his monthly report and his claim of 20 salary was allowed A communication was received from N W harris co relative to the 21 2000 fewer bonds of 1892 which may be redo redeemed emed la in 1900 and was road read it was referred to the new council city recorder anderson Ander soa recommended that the sever sewer bonds due in 1900 be refunded and that some action be taken referred to incoming council bond of 0 matthew S browning may or elect in the sum of was approved with sureties thomas D dee and james pingree in the matter of fred Foul gers petition to redeem property sold for sewer taxes the county clerk reported that the total taxes due would be referred to incoming council the claim of 0 wm moyes tor for tor for horse and buggy hire tor for two years was read pingree opposed the payment of the claim because it was practically a raise of salary and tha city attorney is ot of the opinion th atthe salary cannot ba be raised or lowered during tenure of office mr moyes aloyes accepted his appointment at 60 per month and baa has continued in the position following up tip he be compared the population of ogden and salt lake and their expenses and stated that moyes received irom from I 1 the ile sanitary department per year from the street committee and tor for one year from the sewer commit tea aich he be has drawn tor incidentals ci and team hire it if the council pay it will give tin MU a salary of or more than they pay a sanitary inspector I 1 do not tank this bill should be allowed making a salary of while salt lake pays only 1000 he ile scored mr lloye moyes for acting contrary to the suggestions of the mayor in keeping his tean constantly at labor on the streets and a no not distributing his hauling I 1 may hurt hur j feelings in this but I 1 will feel that I 1 have done my ditt r to 10 the c city I 1 tl brewer r awer stated that it seemed in tn biru bilm that everyone was presenting a bill for cut exit salary and he lie had bad noted mat when they went to court they Fecil red a judgment he ile moved that it if M moyes would accept the amount in sEttI settlement tIr nent in full that it be paid mr jr moyes Io was granted th tha 3 brivil privilege e ot of the floor and explained tl that hat there were three men attending vi to the sa sanitary nl department and as to teams truck wagons wanted larae large pay for the same and it was cheaper ehe pr p r to use tise LIs his team and his stat statement melt ot of affairs shows that above team tx pense r b he e bad had cleared 29 and I 1 shoved mr jen kins tho the st statement bait afat 1 ako leeds no no such team IMIA they have eight men and wagons hauling garbage he ile deprecated having Pre presented tented the lie bill buc bui bis salary had lean low and he was wag to have a I 1 orto and buggy to cover the city fp azkee l icly only what he be believed was krisht ha Is ako referred to the foreman ing 10 per mon month h tor for horis ami alid wagon hire willams Wll llama believed that the tile claim was a just one and he favored the allow alco ot of the claim wild wd he was glad tile city wa was not in ili debt because of mr moyes taru tam but he feared the hussy buy w was as 1 rusted and alid the hone horpe lud ilia the tile gout as ho be had seldom seen the outfit on the at ets Jen jinkins kInst explained that th the e bani sanitary tary committee had naked field to use his team to haul garbage he lie thought os ils salt lake late had three nien and eight in tile lie purt ment as off easy and aral lie believed li it i be pid if it we had hired special wa jasons ons 0 o haul ga garbage abige the city would hae haie to pay P much uch more for the woi k tile motion wa was 1 carried all voting nw are except the oregon short line lane aked for p privilege I 1 to lay a pipe on wall avenue and I 1 place lace a stand pipe there for the purpose of furnishing wat water arto erto to their locomotives they will connect with the water works main an ordinance and map WOT wal attached to the petition W 0 dalrymple Dalry naple dentist dent lat asked re fund ot of license paid allowed the ogden savings bank asked correction erf ot certain taxes and redemption ion of property granted byron groo secretary of state board ward of 0 land coma arz notified the city ebat tho 00 boillin were nady n ady to purchase bonds of amy ny cil county nty or city bearing 5 1 K ant J filed I 1 councilman williams introduced an ordinance te repealing pealing the ka license 0 ordinance and its first 6 reading reiding T coun jones introduced an or danan r the appointive offices of ogden and it passed ita its first reading the only change made was to reinstate the office ot of street supervisor with a salary of per annum the ordinance granting the 0 S L R R co the privilege of laying a writer main on olt wall avenue from street feet west councilman pingree thought they could get at it in a shorter manner and moved that the privilege ba be granted to the company as asked jones favored granting the franchise G II 11 coree corse agent of the short line was war given the privilege of the floor and explained that be he had seen the city al attorney torney and he thought that the or dl adli ance lauce was proper the ordinance passed Us its first reading president browning recognized mayor goyle boyle who spoke urging action on the matter of the sewer on street lie ile was followed by Cour councilman cIlman diewer who said that he be believed that the residents on street would stand the expense it would be a great benefit the matter was referred to the incoming council councilman watson introduced a tt rescinding rescind ing the resolution instructing ting the mayor and city recorder to issue quit claim deeds to property deeded to ogden under sewer tax sale if the tax bo be paid it was explained that people who hail bai allowed their property to go to ea SOL fc under sewer tax and then while the title remained in the city there would bo be no taxes assessed against the property and they could become owners of the property simply by paying the delinquent sewer tax thus escaping the state county city and school tax the resolution was adopted the ordinance repealing ithe the merchants license ordinance was read a gacond time and waa was killed by the following vote ayes aye drowning cullen jones williams and land watson nays brewer jenkins pingree shaw the ordinance defining the appointive offices of ogden city passed its second reading as did the one granting a fran franchise thise to the 0 S L R R M co at this point mr watson asked upon what ground the president ruled the license repeal ordinance lost the statutes were read to show that a majority of tho the councilmen elect must concur in the adoption of an or delance or an expenditure of money the ordinance defining appointive offices of ogden city elty was passed its third reading as was the one granting a franch lie to the 0 S L after an amendment by brewer by which the city was held without liability for da damages nages in caso case of accidents because of the excavating or other conditions which may indy result from their line of IV pipe p e pingree and brewer both opposed the passage of the ordinance and then spoke in favor of it mr pingree uns afraid the presence of a water tank would block crossings brewer said he was afraid the council were baty ho ile feared the short line might put a depot down there and divide matters up mr corse for the short line said mr Dr brewers li ewers fears were ungrounded it was a matter of accommodation so that engines of incoming trains from the north could take water after switching without It hout spending halt an hour bour to go to the U swank I 1 williams could see no reason for not granting the franchise jenkin explained that the short line company attempted to use a hose connection at the union depot in order to prevent deity delay but found it im the place where the standpipe stand pipe would be erected would interfere with nobody the ordinance was passed by the fellow ing vote ayes drowning brewer jones janes jen kill williams watson nays cullen pingree Pin grce aha shaw tho the following mils bills and payrolls were allowed a sanitary department 2875 john A lamport rub tub bids and grounds dept engineering dept c lacot dept 0 on motion of jones the recorder wai instructed to invite the council rcck elect to meet with the old council friday night at and the council adjourned until that mine |