Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-10

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THE STREET RAILROAD ORDINANCE As has
been seen by our Council report, the Ordinance to
establish the Cuyahoga County Horse Railroad
Company, was killed at the last Council meeting
on Tuesday evening The history of this Ordin
ance has been familiar 10 our readers II has been
before the Council for nearly or quite a year 1t
was first entitled An Act to grant permission to
construct street railroad to B Barker and others
This title was changed two weeks since 10 Coun.
Gil Atthe meeting last week, Mr. WinsIow NOV
ed to strike out the ID section of the bill, which
would in effect kill the BILL Pending the discus.
sion ofthe motion the. Council adjourned. At the
meeting last Tuesday evening this motion was iist
in order, being called for by Mr. W nslow Mr.
Thayer stated that the passage Of this motion
would kill the bill, and then went on to discuss
somewhat the nature of the bill, that all the mem
bers of Council might understand IT, He took the
position, lst, that the Railroad is not nuisance
We have a right to construct the road through the
streets of the city because the city government
have an easement upon all the streets Of the city
that is they have tacit right to use for the pub
lie good, the Streets which strictly belong 70 the
persons owning property abutting upon them
The streets are granted to be used as ways of trav
el, and the right Of travel embraces all means Of
conveyance which passers may see fit to USE
Rail.CaTs are for the greater convenience and com
fort of the traveller and therefore they can be le-
gally put into use upon our streets Il would in
deed be a singular state Of things, If any mode of
conveyance be prohibited on any street except on
horse back or in OK carts because there were no
other vehicles when the street was granted for the
use Of the inhabitants Of the city and yet this
might as well be done as to say that we have no
right to adopt rail cars upon these streets because
they are something new
Bot Mr.. Thayer's principal argument in favor Of
the ordinance was the very one which the oppo-
nents Of the measure used to oppose it-viz. that
by means of the street railroad all the unoccupied
auds lying between Kin5man aud Euclid Streets
comprising probably 1000 acres, which is now
opdtoNlJ ooOuplCu duu lulpioNtuy VIII DC DIuuBul
into market 10 provide homes for the aboring men.
They then could live a mile and half IRON the
Post Office aud still by means the cars be as near
their work down town as they now are at Ohio or
Oregon streets. The friends of the Railroad had
been accused Of being specuIators and Of starting
this road for personal ends, but the other hand
it was pretty plainly selfshness in the opponents
who owned land nearer the present business CEN
tire ofthe city, and who feared to have the outside
laud brought into market with theirs To be sure
it will tend TO open a market or these lands, now
too far out to be available, and that would be a
good thing for while it would furnish the laboring
men with homes at q reasonable piice, it would,
by the improvements made for those lands double
their value and, whereas they are now taxed up.
on the duplicate as farming lands, they would
then be assessed higher and would increase the
duplicate five or ten fold, and masmuch as the du
plicate was increased the individual tax fthe pre-.
seut real estate owners would be diminished. The
decrease in the taxes would thus much more than
counterbalance the lessened immediate demand for
land "down town"
The amendment was then lost by vote Of ayes
l--Mr. Winslow; mays 10,
Mr.. Thayer moved an amendment so as to insure
the completion Of the road in two years. Lost II
to 8.
Mr. Ransom was not prepared to say that he
was opposed to a street railroad ordinance but he
wanted general ordinance and not one specifca-
ly granting to certain parties the right to build
aud opera e. He wanted something similar to the
Cincinnati ordinance, and opposed the passage Of
this bill, as it had beeu up for year. and he pre-.
ierred new bill which should be free from the OBJ.
jectious to this He wanted one which Should
place all upon equal grounds.
Mr. Thayer then moved to refer the whole mat
ter to Mr.. Ransom, with power to alter or amend
aud guaranteed that the parties who asked TO be
incorporated as Company, would accept any Or
dinauce which he might report
Mr. Rluslm declined acting as such special
committee, saying that the Cincinnati cases were
not yet settled and he wished to know their decl-
sion and be wanted this bill out ofthe way at once
Mr. HOpkinson moved to refer the matter to a
special committee. Il had been reported upon by
the Board of City improvements, but not by a
special committee. 1t seemed to him that the op.
position to the ordinance was selfish. Why should
not these outside lands be brought into the mar
ketl lie would not be actuated by any feeling OF
the kind although he lived on the West Side,
which would derive no benefit from the Railroad
He had some objections to the ord nance, but he
believed that il properly conducted, constructed
and regulated the Railroad would be good thing,
aud he would like to have it referred for amend
ment. This ordinance might be killed but the
project would not be. They might vote it down,
but Phoenix like, would rise again and the mat
ter would never be settled until it was settled right
Ii the Railroad eau be carried on without expense
to the city, he favored it, whether It would benefit
bis locality OF not
This vote was lost, II to 0.
The vote to engross was carried by vote ofl2
! tO9.
The question on the final passage was at length
reached, with the following result
For he Passage Of The Ordinance Messrs.
Christian, Clark, Marshall and ThaS er-4
| AgainSt-Messrs. Crawford Detmer, Dixon,
Ford, Hayward, Hickman, Hopkinson, Hovey,
Lewis McLane, Oviatt, Ransom, Rider, Thomp.
sou, WlnsloW, Worswick-l6
The ordinance was thus lost, although this vote
can hardly be considered as the test vote Of the
feeling Of the Council The previous vote on the