The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-05
MAYOR VETOES IT,
Haynes CIausen Ordinance is Re-
turned to the Council With the
Disfavor Of Mayor German.
Time is Too Long, Inadequate Returns are
Made 10 the City, No Provision for
Future, TOO Many Privileges.

saturday sent TO the city OlGIh his
veto of the measure. The veto was ex-
pected by many people in the city with
the exception of the friends of the or
dinance who were of the opinion that
the Mayor would not have the nerve to
carry out his announced plan after so
many of the aldermen had voted in
favor of the document. All afterno on
Saturday the friends of the ordinance
were with the Mayor attempting to
prevent a veto, but the Mayor was not
to be changed and the veto was fled
shortly after five o'clock.
The veto is the longest executive
paper the Mayor has ever sent to the
Council and is as follows:
To the Common Council Of the City Of
Kenosha, State of Wisconsin:
I, James German, Mayor of the City
of Kenosha, in the County of Kenosha,
State of Wisconsin, pursuant to and
by virtue of the power and authority
III me vested, do hereby veto and return
to the Common Council of said city,
with my objections thereto, that GER
tain ordinance known as can Ordi-
nance granting franchise for street
railway in the City of Kenosha, Wis
consin'', passed by the Common Coun-
eli of said city at an adjourned regular
meeting thereof, held at the Council
rooms in said city on the 25th day Of
June, A. D. 1900, at O'Clock p. M,
which said ordinance grants to Patrick
f. Haynes and Gustav L. C1ausen, and
to their associates, personal represeu-
tatives and assigns the right to lay,
construct, operate and maintain, for a
period of SO years from the day of the
passage of said ordinance a street
railway over and along certain streets
in said city of Kenosha.
My reasons for vetoing the same and
my objections thereto are as follows:
First:-Said ordinance grants a fran
chise for the period of so years; with
our increasing population and with
the possibility and probability of the
territory on the lake shore between
Chicago and Milwaukee becoming in
the near future the most valuable in
our section of the country a right of
way for any railroad through our city
is a most valuable or might be most
valuable franchise and I am opposed
to granting such franchise for so
long period of time.
Second Under said ordinance the
City of Kenosha does not derive any
revenue or compensation from the
grantees for the use of its streets. /
am opposed to the granting of such a
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compensation be made to the city
therefor.
Third:-Under the provisions of said
ordinance the grantees therein named
are required to build new bridge on
Main street. In my judgment the said
grantee should be required also to
maintain and keep in repair the said
bridge during the life of the franchise.
Fourth Said ordinance in my opin-
ion purports to grant to the said Pat
rick r. Haynes and Gustav L. C1ausen
and to Their associates, personal repre-
sentatives and assigns, too many priv
i1eges and power compared with the
benefits which the said city is to derive
therefrom.
Fifth:-At the regular meeting of
the Common Council of the City of
Kenosha held June 4th, 1900, it was
determined by the Common Council
then in session eThat the City Engin-
eer be instructed to investigate and as
certain the cost of seven feet of the
pavernents of all streets, and that
Messrs. Haynes and C1ausen settle the
same before the ordinance receives its
last reading, or that they furnish a
sufficient bond to reimburse the prop
erty owners; that thereafter and on
the 18th day Of June, 1900, at an adj
iourned regular meeting Of the Com
mon Council of the City of Kenosha,
the said Messrs. Haynes and C1ausen
having neglected and failed to settle
for the cost of seven feet of the pave
ment of all streets and having failed
to furnish. a sufficient bond to rein-
burse the property owners a resolution
was adopted by the said Common Couu-
Gil "That the Haynes and C1ausen or
dinance be given its final reading and
before the ordinance is signed by his
Honor the Mayor, that Messrs. Haynes
and Clausen present a guarantee from
the North Western Loan & Trust Co.
to the amount of damages as per en-
gineer's estimate indemnifying the
property owners on Main street and
Market street and Prairie avenue
against damages" and an amendment
to said resolution ssthat the guarantee
from the North Western Loan 81 Trust
Co. required to be given by Messrs.
Haynes and C1ausen also cover the
city's interests en- paved streets, was
also adopted.
The object and purportI Of these reso-I