Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-24
GUARD ALDERMEN
Detail of Police Attend a Coun-
 cil Meeting
TRACTION COMPANY AFFAIRS

Were Discussed at the Meeting-Reso-
 lutions Relating to Company's Al
 fairs Were Referred to Committees
 Conflicting Reports To-day as to the
 Final Outcome of the Strike
 Chicago, Nov 24.-With a police
 guard strong enough to preserve peace if disorder should threaten the city
 council, the aldermen transacted busi- ness relating to traction affairs last night with dispatch. A detail of po- licemen on the floor of the council, fringing the seats and guarding the
 doors, was the unaccustomed precau-
 ton taken as the result of the Tatter-
 sail meeting of street railway strike sympathizers Sunday and the an
 nouncements of several union labor organizations and other societies that
 mass meetings'' would be held in the
 galleries of the, council chambers. The precaution having been taken the council proceeded to do number
 of things which the labor element has demanded it should not do and to leave undone several things which have been insisted on. A recommend dation for the extension of the Chi cago City railway franchises until February % was reported by the local
 transporta ton committee and will be called up next week.
 Resolutions against extensions of franchises before the spring election for the referendum of franchise ordi-
 nances. and petitions for immediate municipal ownership were disposed of
 with short grace and referred to com-
 mittees in spite of the demands of their sponsors for immediate action. The advertised meetings" brought only a few score additional people to
 the galleries, and they were orderly ex-
 cept at one time, when Alderman Her
 mann was hooted and jeered at for as-
 serting that the council was honest.
 The mayor quieted this outbreak and l the policemen were not needed.
 Chicago, Nov 24.-Conficting reports on the probability of immediate peace
 in the street car strike came from rep
 resentatives of the Chicago City Street Railway Go and the, striking trainmen | to-day. It was learned definitely that the railway company had offered to ar | bitrate' the contention which the con- pany considered remained the sole issue 1 between the present situation and a settlement. This point 1t was said, is the taking back of the men employed | by the City Railway Go who went out on sympathetic strikes The company asserted that these men violated agree ments while the strikers assert that the agreements were not properly l made. .tt
 l Colonel K. R. Bliss. attorney for the | railway company, said to-day: 'Only 1 one point now. is left to be adjusted.
 The company is willing to arbitrate l that
 President Buckley, of the striking di- vision, said at the same hour: sWe are no nearer a settlement now than
 we were last night or yesterday" Another attempt was made today to
 run cars on the State street line.
 Spikes were found driven in the cable slots and the Instructions which were
 cleared away earlier in the day were replaced by the strikers. The starting
 of the cable cars was further delayed
 by rails placed in the spokes of the
 big underground turn wheel on which the cable revolves. Three supply wires which furnish electricity to the
 39th street trolley line were also cut.