The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-10
CHICAGO TO HAVE
NJ. 0. BY And By
MAYOR DUNNE GOES FARTHER
AND SAYS PRETTY sooN.'' n

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MAYOR DUNNE GOES FARTHER
AND SAYS PRETTY s0ON.''
Mueller Bill Bond Issue In the Courts
Observation-Disclosures Proceedings or
Purchase, with Payment from the
Earnings the Program for Street
Railways Of Chicago.
"By and by" Chicago will own it's
street railway system, provided some
working agreement with the traction
companies is not adopted as satisfac-
tory substitute for municipal owner
ship pure and simple before then. May
or Edward F. Dunno of Chicago, who
IS in Minneapolis today and will speak
at the Auditorium tonight, made this
statement at the West hotel today.
10 make his assurance Of the im1ni-
nent establishment of municipal owner
ship in the windy city more emphatic,
he added that it would be an established
fact pretty soon.'
GAS we are talking,' said Mr..
Dunno, "the lawyers are arguing be-.
fore Judge ,Weinds a case which is the
final step in t. he fight for municipal
ownership. Twice we have beaten the
public service corporations at the polls.
Once we have defeated them in tho leg
islature, when we secured the passage
OF the Mueller bill, authorizing the
city to issue bonds for the purchase Of
the traction system, which should be
lien only on the traction property and
not on the general city funds. Then:
we wrung from reluctant city council
an ordinance putting this bill into ef-
feet. This case now on trial is simply
to test the validity of these Mueller
| bill bonds. -E -: 49,. .-
Make Roads Buy Themselves. -
elf we do not condemn the roads
outright, we may arrange for their ul-
| innate purchase from their own earn
ings. Negotiations looking to such an
arrangement are now in progress. Asked
| to place a fair valuation on their prop
critics and the cost Of putting the sys-
| tens in first-class condition, the roads
have named $47,000,000 as their price.
A commission headed by Professor Coo
ley of Michigan is looking into the, ac-
tual cash value of the roads, which, I
think, is about one-half the sum named.
HThe proposition to tho roads is that,
when the fair value is fixed, they &C
cept per cent on the total sum yearly
until the capital is paid off, in the
meantime operating the roads as di-
rected by the city and dividing the
profits between themselves and the
city at ratio to be fixed later. The
city's share of the profits would go into
O. sinking fund for the ultimate pur-
chase Of the system.
'Bound to Have M. OF
"You see from this that Chicago is
bound to have municipal ownership
soon, in one form or another. This
will apply only to street transporter
ton, as, unfortunately, our gas compa-
MES seem to have perpetual fran
1--WE have already reached the lat
ter, however, thru state law permit
ting, the city to regulate the price of
bill cutting the price from 81 to rs
cents was introduced into the council,
but an ordinance placing the price at
85 cents was finally passed, over my
veto. 3D..
"Municipal ownership will not bring
public service utilities into politics. 1t
can t bring them in, they are in up to
the hiltt now. It will take them out. i:
Today the aldermen Of : Chicago
public service corporations than they
have working for the city. Some have
as many as $50 friends working for the
street railways. Many men who would
indignantly refuse money bride are
controlled by the public service corpor-
ations in this way. They do not dare
vote adversely to the public service
corporation g interest. They have Civ
en- their friends and supporters as host
ages. l tell you that municipal owner.
ship, coupled with the civil service sys-
tenn; such as governs the Chicago 20
lice and fire, departments, will take the
public utilities out Of politics, where
they are now, and put them back in the
service Of the people, where they be-
long.
The Man from Glasgow.
"Dalrymple of Glasgow placed me in
report which was two-thirds for mu-
nicipal ownership and one third against
it. 1 invited him to come to Chicago
at my expense and as my guest. to tell
me how to connect municipality and
a street traction system. Instead he
tried to advise whether or not such a
thing should be done. at all, thing
already settled at the polls by the peo-
pie OF Chicago. AS I could not indulge
- q PuOAAC Couu1oVCAoy WILL Ivy SutSG
for anything he said to me, and did
not wish to stand sponsor for his re
port, I urged him to make it public
thru the press that I might reply to it.
The decision Of the United States sil.
preme court that the corporations did
not have 99-year title to the streets,
filed at the same time, effectually de-
Lated NJ. Oai-VmpAe'5 .eport.
| No Lid for Chicago, r.
"Sunday closing for saloons is not
an issue in Chicago said DR.. Dunno,
as the conversation. veered to local pol:
itics. emo man who ran for office on
the Sunday-closing platform would be
entitled to serious consideration as a
political possibility. The issue has not
been presented to Chicago since 1873,
when the city voted three. to one for
the open Sunday. Chicago is too cos
mopolitan for Sunday closing. Its peo-
pie would not, stand for it. Conse-
quently the matter is one to which T
have never given any serious thought.
do believe in and have enforced, the
laws compelling all saloons to close at
l am. .~-..
wife, arrived from chieago eaGIy 9 to
day and were met by S. A. Stockwell,
): ". Bennett, Henry s. Mead, w. H.
Williams, H: H. Austin, 3. G. Erick-
son and John Durker, the president
and executive committee Of the local
Municipal Ownership league: After