The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-14
You will find ollr| advertisement of today on Page 2.
 Howe & StetSon.

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 would then repeal all provisions under
 which the state taxes corporations and
 municipalities are prevented from d0~t
 ing so. If that were done then tho;
 city could come to the water company
 with stronger proposition than 1t caIz'
 now. < ssA ss
 Anthony Carroll had just come from
 the meeting of the estimates committeoS
 and when MT, Wallace ceased speakihUk
 he inquired of Chairman Fertman je2
 the water company had submitted aIky'
 contract proposition. Alderman Fertr
 man informed him that it had not.
 Then I want to know what wams
 done at that executive meeting of thQ
 committee with representatives of th4l
 water company sad Mr. Carroll. l Chairman Fertman--"Nothing waAs
 done The matter was simply discuAs@
 ed in a general way" ss '
 MT. Carroll-"You are our represetlnS
 tatives, and I want to know what wAl
 done' ASS Y s
 Nothing was done; we simply talked
 the matter over.' s.SS
 Why wasn't the public allowed HE
 know what went on there when th0a&@
 water company men came before th1
 committee?" a Sss;#4
 "No resolution was pending and uoS
 hearing had been called" ss, &38 | A gentleman present who didNnoM give his name asked if any repreeeN*f3 tative of the water company preee6E would say why the city should not h1N water used for public purposes 5 No reply was made to this and the GSnN
 tleman said. "No answer. somethint(3 N must be wrong then if they have nd reasons" 8SA3S F. c. Lum said that he was not iky terested in the water company but h6 did not see why the company shoN1d1x give the city water free. William Tr114
 man at this point remarked that wh1kSI ever the result of the water contrAGe3 4 matter there were people who were 38
 ing to watch the members of the coY8
 mittee and the aldermen and the coli1f x cilmen closely in their actions on
 contract and he said that people w6u1o3 remember. 89 BH 333S
 Rev Alexander F. Irvine app11r6{
 and said that he wanted to be SNNI # bered among those people wkV Gl{7E fighting for municipal ownership a J public monopolies He was looktnF SE5 v ward to the day when the peouI& y
 pay the taxes would own tho %cfxy n
 stead of the private corDorati0r1
 ing it. He believed that the c0iiMllt % would grapple with this matter asS SE8 INK tlemen and as representatives of tl{{} city. He characterized the meetiffS 5Q little old New England town rnee Y x He said in closing: T am here to rS5!s5 ister the hope that something will
 done to take the burden of taxation x 9E natural monopolies off the backs 01 tN( ( people,"
 Walter Leigh said that he felt \ I the common council was not looKi} after the interests of the taxpayefys x An executive meeting with water C6i13S 33 pany representatives was all wf6I{ The people should know all that MI l X done there He said: "If we are n0{ to have another meeting we ought to take vote to get the opinion of th6ls8 citizens here, whether they want thd contract renewed for two or thra6 years. If we are not to have anoth4N2 meeting here we can hold another H6fS monie hall meeting or we can get ~ fS mass meeting at the Hyperion. Th1 water company should make propo@
  mass meeting to see if we will accept H the proposition. X N gsR
 s. J. Stowe moved that it be voted m s the sense of the assemblage that if th4 court Of common council makes ~ c0xsS M tract it be for period of not n0x ~ than three years. Chairman FertnSS \ 3| declared this out of order and sugkeSt& 9 9 ed that the citizens present leave theil8 names as an expression of their Opl # ion. $,
 From this point the hearing devel0pe0 N into an old fashioned town meetfn1s s spirit. S x gs R@l
 Alderman Moyle thought that
 would be proper to test the opinion 0n # those present and said that the TeSuIts would have great weight with him. aS2{
 MT. Douglass moved that the MotiO1 sS be tabled, although the ohairman% 6t SI the committee had refused to ent9FA tain the motion and had called atten-1x, ton to the fact that the committee whG holding a hearing and that it was not oIS # mass meeting. MT. Douglass started to{s2 speak upon his motion to table and iU64 2 jection was at once raised and greeted with applause that motion to table was not debatable. s& x asSs
 MT. Stow asked if the chairman of #l the committee would permit him to putf5 the motion since the chairman would @ not. Chairman Fertman declined to permit this and Eugene c. Hill saids hat the motion could be put irrespect- we of the chairman. A gentlemaIS present suggested that perhaps thu x committee was afraid to see the vote. A s<
 MT. Hill said that he refused to recogA lize the stifiing of the vote by tho III ,hairman and he urged all present t0 N 'efrain from simply leaving theiri% names as suggested by the chairman.
 At this point J. J. Sullivan of the z < Twelfth ward rose and said that there @ anne time in such gatherings when s t was necessary for someone to taka WY he initiative and that he would putSss ss he motion. He called upon all In fa~s yor of contract for a period Of not f nore than three years to so signify byas aying "aye." Tn response to this therG vas a great shout of "ayes' fr0M5 hree-auarters of those in the room ana i dr. Sullivan then called for those ops