Arizona republican., 1902-08-07

upon to support it at any time since Il would have passed
 Homer AlcNein sought to learn the name of the third councilman who would have supported it. Mir Shott's reply was diplomatic. He said that he and the mayor and Councilman Dunlap would not have voted for it. The crowd laughed, for they all knew that the name of only one member of the council had rot been mentioned yet, though hc was to be extensively referred to later in the meeting.
 Councilman Sanders, who was present md who had replied briefly to tha ar
 alignment of MT. O'Neill by pointing
 0 his former attitude on the municipal ownership question and by saying that le had only rgarded tn ordinance as a
 compromise to be considered, denied much that Mr. Shott had disclosed. He lenied that he had ever asked him to JOta for the ordinance. MT. ShOtt re-
 terated that he had done so and had aid t6at he wanted to get it out of the way before Dr. Ford and J. C. Adams lad chance to hear of it. He said further that Mir. Sanders had said that Ie would no; consider tke judgment of himself or of City Attorney Bullard
 n the matter of this CT any other or
 finance. iutimating that he would rely
 T the word of the attorneys for the water company.
 MT. J. C. Adams next addressed the netting. He began with the history or he Phc eni-- water works and he de 'cribed at some length the operation of
 he original gold brick kiln in Phoenix. After that he dissected the proposed
 Franchise. When he had finished he aid that the same power with the same
 ld rope was "nslaaVoring to drag Phoe- lix in again just as il had tried to do our years ago.
 MT. Adams was followed by Captain J. L. B. Alexander. who reminded the meeting that there was no hurry about the extension of franchise. The city .lTcady had contract with the water ompany which it could not enforce
 nd there was no likelihood that t ould any more successfully enforce scV2nty-1ive-year contract. He pro- iuCd q copy of the ordinance upon which he had marked numerous objec- lions. The company, he said. had Of cred the city nothing and had bound tt to every thing. In the course of their peaches MT. Adams and Captain Alex lnder advocated instead of an exten- sion of the franchise q system of muni- cipal water works. and. the former speaker introduced the pleasing eXperi- ence of Tucson
 Chairman Ford delivered the roast of the evening. The proposed franchise ne said. was the nest damnable docu- ment he had ever gazed upon, and not the worst thing about it was the ir- suit to the Intelligence of the com nunity contained in it.
 Councilman Sanders said he would move for the appointment of d commit tee to appear before the council an.i rctition fer the submission of bond proposition to the people for the build inS Of q municipal system. This mo- tion was crowded out by later events MT. Q 'Neill moved q vote of thanks to Mayor Talbot and CouncAmen Shctt and Dunlap for preventing the exten- sion of the franchise. A. s. Arthur proposed an amendment to the resolu- l tion including all the members of the council. He spoke of his Knowledge of the attitude of Mir. Sanders on the water works question. This amendment l opened up a heated argument which l brought out the name of the membe. Of the council who had not hithertc | been mentioned. M w. Messinger i Secretary Davidson said he had been i informed by business man in the l afternoon that MT. Messinger had told
 him that the franchise was a good thing and that he would vote for it That business man was L. L. Plank Who c21ne forward and said that that was the substance of what MT. Mes singer had told him. It was aIst
 brought out that Mir. Messinger before
 his election had promised that he would have nothing tc dc with any wate,
 works projects. MT. Davidson said hf
 had supported MT. MessinSer, and ii
 View of his course since his election hf
 had determined to never vote for an3
 man for councilman without lookins
 him in the eye and subiecting him to (
 physical examina tion to determine
 whether there was a crook in his elbow
 At this juncture Mr. Arthur said tha
 he would no longer insist that MT. Mes
 s'nger be included in the vote o
 tharks: he would withdraw that par
 of the amendment He withdrew tho Who!e amendment and substituted an,
 ether conveying the gratitude of tn,
 meeting to Councilman Sanders alons
 with his brethren of the council Tn,
 amendment was defeated by a ridicul
 cuely overwhelming majority and th'
 resolution of Mr. O'NeiIl was adopted
 with a roar.
 MT. Adams. introduced resolutio,
 requesting the mayor to appoint
 committee consisting of not less thal