The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-17
USE STRONG WORDS.
Aldermen Meet and Discuss the Pro-
visions of the New Franchise
Ordinance.
ORDINANCE TO BE PUBLISHED

Aldermen Weier, Head, schlenker and
Pfennig object to the Passage Of Any
ordinance on the Grounds That the FL
nancial Condition of the city Will Not
warrant the Expense Necessary to Live
up to the Terms.
The City Council met in adjourned
session at the City Hall Thursday
night for the purpose of considering the
much discussed railway question. All
Thursday afternoon the committee,
assisted by Attorney John G Slater,
worked on the ordinance in an effort
TO whip it into condition. In working
on it the errors seemed most g1aring,
but the chairman of the railway COM
rnittee excused Attorney Engi h of
all error and stated that the faults IN
It were made by Messrs. Haynes and
.C1ausen, who superintended the type
writing of the document and as it was
presented, it was entirely different
from the one sent to Kenosha Thursday
morning.
Before the street railway matter
came up the Council took up quite a
little routine business including the
appointment of a city physician The
pauper committee reported favoraDly
on the appointment of DR.. E. c. buddy
and the recommendation was accepted
and DR.. buddy was duly elected and
his salary fixed at $275.
The matter of the railway was then
taken up and the committee made the
following report;
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council Of the City of Kenosha:
Gent1emen:- Your Special Commit
tee, to whom was referred the matter
of a Street Railway franchise, beg to
hand you herewith a revised ordinance,
as asked for by Messrs. Patrick +.
HAYNES and Gustav L. Clausen.
This ordinance, you will find, con-
tains all the recommendation of your
Committee with the exception of the
recommendation regarding a specified
amount as compensation to the city
In addition to the communications,
YOU will find one other concession by
Messrs. Haynes and C1ausen, and that
is their agreement to keep the car
tracks and road bed sprinkled during
certain months of the year.
Your Committee believes that they
have obtained all the concessions from
these gentlemen that it is possible to
obtain from them. Some Of them
have been only conceded to us after
hard struggles in the Committee room.
We now lay the matter before you, and
wou1d request that the ordinance as
now drawn up be published at the ex-
penso OF Messrs. Haynes and Clausen.
This ordinance, as now drawn up,
has been submitted to w. J. English,
Esq, a corporation attorney in Chi
cago. and later has been in the hands
of Hon. Jno. c. Slater of this city, and
we believe is now in the correct and
proper legal form.
At the meeting of the Council on
last Monday night, your Committee
was requested to meet Mr.. Edward P.
DeWo1f regarding the franchise for d
Street Railway privilege asked by him.
Your Committee met pursuant to call
and notice was given Mr.. DeWo1f to
meet your Committee on last Tuesday
evening, but we regret to say that Mr.
DeWolf failed to meet us. We under
stand that Mr.. DeWo1f did not care to
Inject the Committee until the ordinance
which we present tonight was out Oh
! the way, so that we have nothing tc
report from our conference which was
to be had with him This was prac
| tica11y the reason that he did not meet
your Committee before.
After the presentation of the report
JOAN G. Slater addressed the Council
in regard to the ordinance and stated
that the ordinance as presented to him
/ had many vital defects, but he stated
that he did not think Mr. English hac
| made any error knowingly, but simply
! on account ofdifferences in legal points
/ in the two states. Mr.. Slater said tina
he did not desire the ordinance to sc
on record as one prepared by him. but
he had simply prepared it along the
lines suggested to him.
The report of the committee was
Then brought up for adoption. Alder
man Head then addressed the Council
against hurrying the ordinance
through. He said that the bridge was
too narrow and the time too long and
the Milwaukee avenue paving would
cause lots of trouble for Soath side
residents. Alderman Greenwa1d also
protested against hasty action on the
grounds that the city itself would not
make cent by the acceptance of the
terms. Aid. Sch1enker also opposed
action on the grounds that the city
could not afford the work necessary tc
put the streets in order. He saw
nothing but serious financial straights
in the deal and urged that the fran
chise seekers" give the city 'some-
thing that it could put its hands on.
Aid. Weier declared that the city had
been hoodooed for six years. F'Here
we are again, he said, with the same
old hook and the question is, are we to