New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-20
FOR CITY LIGHTING PLANT
c. L. COMMITTEE SO TOTES.
-flso Ia. org Eet~nsion of Municipal
Control of Public Utilities.

l--V ~ committee Of the Citizens Union at
No. 81 Union Square, last night adopted resolu-
uo"S iaForlhg an extension of municipal control
OF pun"c utilities. a municipal lighting plant
purchase OF electrical conduits and the grant of
power by the legislature to The civ 10 build n nd
operate hghting pants gas and electric
Inc committee adopted the report of the Com
iiiI''ee Oh franchises, which favors presenting
TO the legislature the constitutional amendment
proposed by the "Tilden commission" OF 1873
! which was that the legislature shall have no
| power 10 pass any law for the ope,,inE. max
'i's' paving lighting otherwise improving or
MAINTAINING streets, avenues, parks or places
COCKS or Wharyes. or for any other local work
OF Improvement in for the city; but all
authority necessary for such purposes shall he
'E ID" conferred on the city government"
me resolutions on a city lighting plant and
municipal oWnership as follows:
ftesolyed That it is the sense of the city com
declare ITSELF IN h@ens S mon that the union should
lies '''Soi OF me municipal control of public ut
nes2yed further That in the opinion of the city
pIbIin con 1 T11lstinS conditions demand greater
tions the city Of Negyer oI one Iuhe he
along the following lines CAS me estabiisbmeDf nf
t St q municpal lighting plant for the lighting Of
Ihe electrical conduits in Manhattan and The Bronx
Cir Ru7Idng T Of new electrical conduits by the
uQn with extensions Of existing subway routes and
the city Of fhS * % 6Gd 9y d6d thf
operate lighting plants both gas and electric under
Cdfe1EIly framed restrictions
The report adopted relative to the Tilden COM
mission is follows
to the legislature for adoption the constitutional
Of Ar hr BY yedrs 5ne Of dm snbsq be-
heNed that the time has arrived to lwakcn his
Of our organic law The citizens 9p1sn Tnion H IN PAD adj
vocating this amendment would have behind il the
IF ~ lll,Sfr pf f1a
VINO VINO acted with Mr.. Tilden in the distinguished
Of William NJ. Evarts Samuel Hand. E. l.. Godkin,
John A Lott, Joshua NJ Van Cott. James 9. Carter,
Oswald Ottendorfer. William Allen Butler. Simon
Sterns and Henry F. Dimock names cOnjure
The proposed amendment reads:
The legislature shall itself have power pass
otherwise improving or maintan4g Streets,
avenues parks. or places. docks or wharves or for
city. but all authority necessary for purposes
This proposition should be amended to meet
specifically changed conditions and to avoid the
statutory construction, that general words such as
Other local work Gt or } in or for
Of the several kinds previously specifically enumer-
The chairman of the committee on franehiSes
jhefeIore that m the Iurp?ses speclfcal!y
the construction of street railroads. whether
strucon of tunnels or bridges and the like. in sub
stantial harmony with the suggestions Of the COM
Inittee on franchises presented to the union last
The proposed amendment would then read:
The legislature shall itself have no power after
Icrr'Iorr 7, 1895 paes a law for the opening
making. paving. lighting otherwise improving or
maintaining streets avenues parks places. docks
or wharves or of them, or for any other local
work or Improvement in for city. or for the
providing within the corporate limits OF city
for the following public services: % Street rail
ways. whether surface. elevated subsurface; (2)
sewers: 80 water "a gas whether for light. fuel
other purposes; % electricity, whether for light
heat. power other purposes: (6) bridges: % tun
nels (Sl ferries. or any OF them but all authority
necessary for such purposes shall he by law
ferred on the city government