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Show HOLMES. OF CARBON. MAKER HIS POINT IN LOWER HOUSE I Dunng a verv warm debate in tin lower house nf the Utah letfrslature Inst Monday over Ihe iirovisions nf Hansen's bill providing that whenevet there were imnrnveiMcntM or repairs to lie made hy the hoard of county com-iiiiailnners com-iiiiailnners which nmnuntcd lo five hundred dolhr the ltoanl must nd-vertise nd-vertise for bids, a dosnerato effort "was mnde to in urease the amount to two thousand dollars. It. K. Currio championing the inerease. The Hall 1 ke eountv member eonteudwl that ! five I hi ml red dollars was too small nn amount to innii uie imwhi ami uiai there were times when lo advertise for bids would increase the eost. In the course nf the debale ami when efforts were mat's In amend Ihe measure meas-ure Itepresentatlve Holmes nf CnrWt eountv drelaretl that there was an emiariftt Is.-k of confidence in the hoard of eonunisHioners nf Salt Lake, for the hill wa undoubtedly drawn with a view nf InVinir awav the mw-irs mw-irs nf this partieulur boanl. The op-ImikiIuiii. op-ImikiIuiii. he said eanie from a lobby in the caiMtol. Despite all efforts to rwt Ihe amount ine reused to two thousand dollars, Ihe bill was passed wih the amount fixed at five hundred dollars. |