The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-05
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The Repeal Of the Brooklyn
Trolley. Franchises Seares
Nobody : Non Union
Men Tired.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 5, 1S95.-The
resolution passed by the Aldermen yester-
day afternoon by a vote of 10 to 8, re-
voking the licenses and franchises OF
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company,
and the Atlantic Avenue Railroad Com
pany, had not reached Mayor Schieren
this morning for his approval or dis
approval City Clerk Benjamin said II
would go to him in the regular course
but would not be submitted until to-
morrow.
That Mayor Schieren will veto it when
1t does come to him there is little doubt.
He will not say what he will do, but has
intimated to personal friends that he
considers the action of the majority Of
the Aldermen as unlawful.
President Lewis, of the Brooklyn
Heights Company, and S. s. Whitehouse,
his counsel, said this morning that they
would pay no attention TO the resolution,
as 1t did not affect them in the least.
Mirabeau L. Towns, counsel for the
D. A. rs. K. of L.. said :--'Of course. no
lawyer will hold for minute that the
resolution will stand. told the men
when they consulted me about it that
the resolution would be Illegal, but they
wanted it drawn up that way. SO I did
Council has no right to deprive the com
panies of their franchise, but they can
modify it. They can change the motive
power from electricity to horse They
are doing that all the time. They have
done it in Philadelphia three times. But
this resolution won't hold"
Here is what S. S. Whitehouse, coun-
sci for the Brooklyn Heights Company,
said:-"It is impossible for body like
the Common Council to revoke q license
or franchise on which corporation
has spent millions of dollars. That is
fundamental law. You will find dt in the
Constitution of the United States that
nobody shall be deprived of property
without due process of law, and the
United States Supreme Court has decided
that due process of law means a judi
cial proceeding according to the common
law principles.
QUIET AT LAST.
The members of D. A. rs were resting
ON their oars today. They had apparent-
iy exhausted all their ammunition. All
last night not an assault on a non-union
man, nor on car, was reported to
Police Headquarters. No arrests were
made after 10 P. NJ. No wires were cut
All cars are running this morning as
usual.
Two labor meetings have been announc-
ed to be held tonight, one at the Atll-
aneum and the other at the Labor Ly-
ceum The Rev. Lyman Abbott, Tom
Johnson, ex-Congressman of Ohio, and
Henry George are announced as speakers
at the Atheneum meeting.
Mayor Schieren and other city officials
have been invited to be present.
Commissioner Morle, in the United
States Court this morning, dismissed the
complaint against Benjamin Norton of
the Atlantic Avenue R. r. Co., who was
charged with violating the Federal laws
in allowing signs marked United States
Mail to be placed on the cars of his
company that do not at all times carry
the mail.
No testimony was produced to show
that Mr.. Norton wilfully violated the
United States laws in any way, and in
view Of this he could do nothing else
but discharge himfrom custody
President Norton of the Atlantic ave-
nue. line said that at present the cars
on all lines were running on almost
schedule time. He said he had all the
men he wanted at present to operate the
cars, and scores Of men are turned away
daily from the Offices of the company.
He said that at present 60 or 70 cars were
the repair shop undergoing repairs.
They were all disabled by coming in
contact with crowds of striL.orc he
said.
WANT TO GO HOME.
Forty-five non-union men called this
morning on Mayor Schieren, and asked
to be sent home They had come from
Chicago, Pittsburg and other places to
get work on the street railways The
railway companies, having all the men
they need, could not give them work,
They are having hard time, they said,
other places. The men said they asked
TO be cent home because they did not
want to become burden on the county.
Mayor Schieren told them he could DO
nothing for them.
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