The San Francisco call., 1898-02-25
0AKLANDS RECALCITRANT COUNCILMAN
 FLEES FROM AN INDIGNANT MOB
Major Woodward Seeks Safety Within the Walls the City Jail Escape
 the Wrath of Outraged Citizens

resolution that was rushed through last Monday night. T understand that the City Attorney has said that our job of last Monday night is not legal" /" said Henneberry, 'so I propose to get at it another way. I now offer this as an amendment to the ordinance of the committee that has been called for final passage"
 President Pringle was surprised at the boldness of the move to upset the honest ordinance and bolster up the jobbery of last Monday at one swoop, and decided that such a step was out of order He said it should, under the rules, go to the proper committee. Here Heitmann, who has trained with the water companies for years, said that it could be done by taking it section by section and offering each as an amendment. By this underhanded method the peoples ordinance was de- feated piece by piece, and the allied companies completed their job.
 Brosnahan repeated his old speech that he was votin gwith the water companies men out of pique because his pet measure, the ordinance grading liquor licenses, had been defeated, but nobody believed him. Heitmann made complete wreck of his argument. He maya speech attempting to show snat the rates of the poor man were reduced about 10 cents a month. He was shouting out this fact when Gi- rard called his attention to the fact that the companies ordinance took off ten cents in one place and added thirty-five cents for a water closet, added something for washing win dows, doubled the lawn charges, made a charge for a bath, and actually doubled the existing rate.
 When he heard Girard's figures Heitmann saw that the subterfuge was no good, and quickly subsided while the crowd hissed him. As every sec ton was voted on the ayes and noes were the same, and when Woodward's s vote was recorded that big crowd hissed and reviled him till the ghost of Judas Iscariot, if he were within hear ing, must have felt he had company.
 When the section providing for pay ing 3 cents for each child at the public schools was brought up MT. Rowe made another appeal to Woodward. we pay for our children at home" said MT. Rowe, land when they are at school they are not drinking water at two places and yet we are called upon to vote this money to the com pany.
 MT. Woodward, I will say for your benefit that we discussed this matter in committee, and after being very liberal to the water companies we all lowed them a good percentage and a small fortune more. We carefully went over the figures and heard testi- mony till there was nothing more to investigate, and did our duty l believe intelligently and I know conscien- tiously."
 But this appeal to Woodward's req son was as useless as to his manhood, honor and citizenship. The companies pulled the string and the figure moved with unfailing regularity. And every time Woodward did the bidding of the companies that crowd hissed, yelled and reviled him.
 When all the section had been sub stituted and the job completed it was seen that the following additional charges had been saddled upon the peo- pie: Twenty-Five cents upon the rate payers for every closet and 35 cents for every bathtub. The charge for ir- rigating lawns is raised from to 5 mills per square yard, and at least $1 20 must be paid to the companies from this source. The rate for public and private schools is raised from 1 cent to 8 cents per pupil. The following ad- ditional increases are made: For each horse kept in livery stable. from 20 to 20 cents; for each COW, from 10 to 15 cents; for water to make mortar. from 10 to 15 cents per 1000 bricks; to slack lime, from 10 to 15 cents per barrel; for water to settle earth. from 3 to cents per cubic yard. Meter rates are about doubled, being raised from 20 cents to about 40 cents thousand gallons, and the lowest amount to be paid per month by meter rates is raised from $1 25 to $1 50.
 The fire hydrant charge is made $3 50 month instead of $2 25, and the city, instead of the water company, must pay for the hydrants and cost of set ting. The following additional charges are also made: For water used for
  and windows of stores, cent for first twenty lineal feet and one-half cent for each additional lineal foot. As the details of the steal were laid bare by MT. Girard and MT. Rowe the crowd groaned and missed more and more, until sometimes for more than a couple of minutes there was pande- monium.
 Before consummating the job by taking final vote on the ordinance as amended Girard made a speech. "I want to express my opinion of my lete comrade, MT. Woodward. call him comrade no more," he said. ..He said the other day he had no strings on him. He told the truth. He is bound by ropes, not strings. They are ropes of gold and they may vet lead the way to San Quentin. He has disgraced our Grand Army. He has disgraced his comrades. He should take that honored button off his traitorous breast and he should not be permitted in the company of honest men.
 MT. Hennebery said I was not re-