Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-08-18
more FRANCHISE
DISCUSSION
Ordinance Committee Of City Council Makes a
Statement TO the Public Showing
It's Action.
COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS
No Final Action Taken as Yet on Committees Report
Same Remains With City Clerk TO
Be Acted Upon at
Any Time.
COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS

In the matter of the granting of
+ franchise to the Capital Light & Pow
I er Company, and which has been con
siderably discussed during the pas
two weeks, the New Mexican has bee
q requested to publish the following
r statement and accompanying report
, To the Citizens of Santa Fe:
The members of the ordinance com
mittee of the city council of the city O
, Santa Fe, desire to correct statement
made by Mr.. Gibson to the New Mex
ican and to give to the public the fact
with regard to the action of the coun
Gil on the petition for the franchis,
asked for by the Capital Light & Pow
er Company . The report of the com
mittee containing in substance the or
/, dinance presented by the company tC
be passed by the council and intended
to be the franchise ordinance and as
drafted by the officers of the Capita
Light & Power Company is attached
herewith, needs no comment from us
and is left to the public to judge for
itself.
The report of the committee was
read by the chairman of the committee
and upon the reading of the same
Councilman Leo Hersch moved that the
same, with the ordinance presented by
the Capital Light & Power Company al
a previous meeting, be re-referred to
the ordinance committee to carry out
the suggestions made in the last sec
ton of the report. Mr. J. p. Connor, a
member of the Capital Light & Power
Company, Immediately withdrew the
petition and ordinance so that no ac-
ton was taken by the council.
The Capital Light & Power Company
did not agree in their petition or ordi-
nance to furnish light at 10 cents per
watt hour, neither did they offer any
thing in the shape of a guarantee to
show their good faith, neither did they
offer any safeguard to the people Of
Santa Fe, both of which the committee
believes should be embodied in the or
! dinance.
| Mr.. Connor, member of the corpor-
alton, told Mr.. Sena and other citizens
the company would furnish free lights
| to the city and it was on that sugges-
| free for five years.
The members of the committee and
| the city council have no desire to keep
| out any worthy project or enterprise,
and merely insisted that such enter
prises guarantee to the city that it
was worthy of receiving valuable
franchise by showing it's willingness to
help the city that helps it.
We will state further that it was
very plainly stated by Mr.. Sena, at the
time that Mr.. Conner said they wished
to withdraw their petition and before
any action was taken by the council,
that it was the privilege of the COM
pany to withdraw their papers at any
mittee at that time was no conclusive,
but that the matter could be more
properly considered further as the re-
port itself asked for a re-reference of
this matter to the committee. 1t seems
to us that any business contract must
be properly discussed by all the parties
that are entering into it and we do not
believe that the business people of this
town wish the council to enter into a
contract blindly and without knowing
what it is entitled to, or what it is that
it is granting. Neither Mr.. F'iske or
Mr.. Conner ever showed to the council
any willingness to come before this
committee and argue the matter and
we give below the full report of the
committee so that after reading the
same, people may Judge for them
selves whether the council was right or
wrong. The company, having with
drawn their papers, the report of the
committee was not acted on but re-
mained with the city clerk, and never
was either adopted or rejected.
Signed: Jose D. Sena, A. ]. Fischer,
and c. w. Dudrow, Committee.
Santa Fe, N. M, Aug 4, 1902.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Santa Fe Ter
ritory Of New Mexico:
Gentlemen: Our committee on ordi-
nances to whom was referred, the petit
ton Of the Capital Light & Power
Company asking for franchise for
the purposes therein expressed, to-wit:
To construct, establish, maintain and
operate in and upon the public streets,
alleys, roads, and highways or any os
them, of the said city, railroad for
the transportation of passengers and
freight, to be operated with electric
power, and for that purpose the said
company shall have the right to the
reasonable use of said streets, alleys,
roads and highways while constructing
said railroad and the right to estab-
lish, erect, maintain and operate in and
upon said streets, alleys, roads, and
highways or any of them all poles,
wires cables and other appliances nee
essary and proper for the proper con-
struction and operation Of said rail-
road for said purposes or either of
them.
Second, The right to manufacture,
furnish. supply and distribute to all
points in said city of Santa Fe, tele-
phone communication and facilities,
electric lights and electric power for'