The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

company has scaled down their price
from $1.65 to $1.25 and will spend
large sums of money for improvements
and I think are justified in receiving
the franchise"
j. B. Larimer is of the opinion with
others that a. thirty-year franchise is
not desirable feature and gives his
opinion in this way, 81 think the
mayor should exercise his veto and feel
that he would be making no mistake
to do so. 1t is not wise action on the
part of the council to grant a fran
chiSe for the 80 years and if were to
enjoy the authority 1 would not grant
franchise for anything but the min
imum time specified by the law, what
ever that might be. if ten or fifteen.
The council should certainly recon-
slider their action on the matter"
j. r. Switzer stated that he had not
investigated the matter at length and
had no opportunity to examine the
provision of the franchise but he con-
s1dered the action of the council was
not deliberate enough and that in mat
ter of such import more time should
be spent in consideration.
ion expressed by W. A. L. Thompson and
stated: Yes, sir, I think emphatically
franchise. Ali of this talk for n ri rreconsidero err
alton is foolishness; the matter has been
gone gone oyer oyer at length for months past.
his political death knen if he vetoes the
franchise. I want to see corporation in
Mr.. Mulvane was until recently presi-
dent of the Bell Telephone company.
tionaI bank, considered i that the city cit:
fathers should bring the matter OF the
franchise r up again and that concession
on in hasty manner. II think he con-
cluded, that the city. council should re-
j. c. Marshall of Robinson, Marshall &
Co., said: II think enphatically that the
council should reconsider the action with
franchise. Il
consider 1t business-like to act on a mat
ter of such Importance hastily"
Sam RadgeS, who has large property in
the passage of the ordinance. He called
on the mayor about every other day to
make a protest against the ordinance.
This morning he called on the mayor
K. Holiday was circulating petition
over the city asking for signatures of
those who would allow their names to be
used as favoring the gas ordinance.
1T looks mighty inconsistent for the gas
to now offer to give gas for 81 Is
dence in court to show that it cost con-
siderably more than that to manufacture
600 1 IN Topeka, e @ said SAID M Mr. iRndpy Radgesy i0S'
Then, also, Mr.. Holiday came out in
would have to submit the ordinance to
the powers that be In the east and that
he didn't u think ink they Woqd t accept C; the 9r
for the city's interests, but
yesterday he comes out in big half page
about what T will do for the city of To-
peka if the mayor would only give him
a chance.
''The only people who are stewing over
the gas ordinance" continued Mr..
Radges, ARE. the gas company people
The people of Topeka are not caring for
the passage of the ordinance giving the
gas company a thirty year franchise. The
people of Topeka should have dollar gas,
and 1 believe we will soon see the time
when we will get it. Everyone who has
property interests here should think this
matter over and enter a protest to the
mayor against the passage of the fran
chise ordinance.