Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-18
ADMITS TOLL SERVICE ONLY
Amended Telephone Ordinance Ready fOr
the Committee of the Whole.
WILL NOT ALLOW SECOND EXCHANGE
Special Committee of City Council
Completes Its Work and IL
Ready to submit to Full
Body.

Aldermen Lovett, Casper and FINLEY,
Mayor Morgan and City Solicitor Snyder,
the special committee appointed by the city
council, completed It's work yesterday aft
ernoon Of framing an ordinance for an In
dependent toll telephone system which 1t
will now submit to the committee Of the
whole for its approval or rejection. The
committee OF the whole will meet Monday
afternoon to consider the ordinance and to
frame It's report, which, It is expected,
will be made at the meeting of the city
council Monday night.
The ordinance as It now stands does not
meet with the complete favor OF at least
two members Of the special committee,
who arc DESTROYS Of granting a franchise to
a company So that 1t can establish a SEQ
ond and Independent telephone system with
an exchange in the city. The ordinance is
drawn to conform to the instructions of the
committee of the whole. which voted in
favor of an exclusive toll telephone sys-
TEN and against a second local exchange.
A number of amendments we're made
In the ordinance yesterday by the commit
tee 80 as to preclude any possibility OF IT
being construed to grant a right to estab-
lish a local exchange and second tele-
phone system In the city.
some stringent Provisions.
Section 7 Of the ordinance as originally
drafted by the city solicitor had a number
CT amendments tackled on TO 1t. One is
that the franchise shall in no case be con-
strued to grant any right to make connec-
t!ons or to construct or operate any ex-
change between subscribers, toll stations or
persons living within the city limits. An
other is that telephone Communication and
! cnnnacfiou for all ~ ffa f0Il atationa (the
words "toll stations" being inserted in
place of "subscribers'') in the city of Coun-
Gil Bluffs shall be given with any OF the
subscribers in the rural exchange at regu-
lar toll rate charges, the same to be agreed
to by the city council. A further amend
ment to this section provides that the
tolls charged to n-subscribers within said
rural exchange district shall not exceed
10 cents for a service Of FIVE minutes. A
previous section designates the rural ex-
change district as a ten-mile radius from
the postoflce of Council Bluffs.
One amendment to the original ordinance
provides that as one of the considerations
for the granting of the franchise the COM
pany obtaining 1t shall agree that within
eighteen months it will make such ar
rangements and establish such connections
with the lines Of the companies belonging
10 the iowa SJdte independent lelepuOne
association as to enable its patrons tt
communicate with the subscribers and pat.
rons of said companies over their joint
] lines. Failure to provide such connection
will forfeit the franchise.
Prohibits Local Exchange.
In order to prevent the ordinance being
construed as granting the right to estab-
lish a local exchange and telephone system
within the city this section was tacked onto
the ordinance:
h nothing in this ordinance shall bt
construed as In any manner granting the
right and authority to said company, itI
successors or assigns, to construct, main
tain and operate a general telephone sys'
tenn and exchange in the city of Council
Bluffs.
Another amendment provides that the
company obtaining the franchise shall
within FIVE days from the acceptance OF the
ordinance granting it, must pay the cit!
the sum OF 81, 900 and the city binds itseli
to pay back to the company this sun
within ten days of the passage of a reso-
luton by the city council approving the
completion and installation OF the system
This section takes the place Of one provid.
ing for the furnishing by the company OBJ.
tanning the franchise of a bond for tbs
faithful performance of its contract.