The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-19
CONSOLIDATED GRAB,
Acting Mayor Simpson Ve-
toes the Monopolistic
Ordinance.
WANIsl c. AND B TO PAY TAXES
Street and Water Boards Suspected
Design 10 Eyade the
Law.
wANIsJ. c. AND B TO PAY TAXES
GIGANTIC PUBLIC CRIME


Street and Water Boerd is false, but ap-
pearances today led every careful OBJ
server to believe that the members of that
Board had entered into a combination to
commit gigantic public crime on Mon
day morning by passing over Acting
Mayor Simpsons veto the ordinance
which gives the Consoli, ased Tracti on
Company monopoly of all the streets
IN the city which are worth
having for street car purposes. and that
too wi hout any certain or adequate COM
Apensatlon Co the city.
THE ORDINANCE VETO.
Acting Mayor Simpson vetoed the ordi-
nance this morning. aud his message was
fled with the clerk of the board few
minutes after noon, the board having adj
journed at the hour to Monday at min e
O'Clock. 1t is said that the Commission
ers propose to meet the re and receive the
message. They W i'll i'm mediately adjourn
TO eleven o'clock, when they will hold
their regular weekly meeting aud
pass the ordinance over the
Mayors veto. They win claim
that tie nine o'clock meeting is practi
cally the regular meeting OF last Monday
kept alive by series of adjournments
whicn have taken place from time to
time since then.
By this legal juggling they expect to
keep within the strict letter of the law,
which provides that veto message can
only be considered at the next regular
meeting following the enc at which 1t
wasa1eceived. Some lawyers claim that
such action will make the passage of the
ordinance valid. even though it might
render the Commissioners liable to in
dictment and removal from Office
Other lawyers, on the contrary, contend
that such action will be Illegal, and will
result in the setting aside of the proceed
fngs by the Superior Court upon GER
tiorari.
THIS MORNINGS MEETING.
The Board was in alleged session this
morning aud was on ths anxious seat all
day. Their anxiety was over the welfare
OF the ordinance in which they appeared
to take more than passing interest
The Board adjourned yesterday to
meet again this morning. This move
was peculiar one. and aroused the sus-
picion of Acting Mayor Simpson.
:" morning at ten a,eleck all The
m IS f the board we Ire ent ex-
1a,b:..iss!onsr Soners. A snort
sess vas Tend thsu recsss was
taken for fifteen minutes. This was for
the purpose of waiting TO hear
what action the Mayor had taken
on the ordinance. sAtN The City
Hall everything was exceedingly
guest at tie munic' pal building. Acting
Mayer Simpson WAS not to be seen and
Assistant Secretary Nevin was also con-
tp'cuous by his absence. The Street and
Water Com mss!oners were confident
that the consolidated ordinances would
be signed by the acting Mayor,
but when a hint was conveyed to them
thst the ordin ance had been vetoed, it
caused much CONSERVATION among them.
TEXT OF THE VETO.
The following is a copy Of the ConsolI-
dated Traction Is ordinances:
JERSEY CRY. August 49, 1898
To the Honorable Board of Street aud Water
Commission RS:
CENTLEMEN:-I herewith return without my
epp 'tv. the ordinance passed by your board at
its meeting August Z, 1898. granting to the Con-
soiidated Traction Company a location for It's
tracks within ths limits Of Jersey City.
This matter is of large public concern. and
the objects sought by the company OF great i'm
portance. The company is formed under an
act OF the Legislature Of last winter, aud the
methods are different from those provided by
FORMER laws under which street railway COM
panies organized, and the details are not as
familiar to our citizens for that reason.
The Bergen avenue property owners protest
cd rightly to the route on that street, because
the street was misnamed as the "Old Bergen
Road" The company have offered to waive
that route, but prefer to let the property
owners act on that.
1t is claimed that the routes named are so
extensive that they create a monopoly in the
districts covered, and when operated in
connection with the Jersey City ana Bergen
Railroad Company perpetuate that mon opoly
and destroy a!l chance of competition OF rival
street car lines The capitalists interested in
the company are also the owners OF the Jersey
City and Bergen Railroad Company, and thin
10 as much as such company denies our right to
local taxation, that the percentage clause
should attempt return on the earnings of the
Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company, as
drawn the clause does not do this
The Central Railroad Company object to ths
crossing on Pacific avenue because OF the neces-
sity of employing watchmen at that crossing.
and also claim that the routes on Washington
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