Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-28
BUSINESS men
ASK ACTION ON
PHONE MEASURE
Request Council to Reconsider
Vote and Adopt the Union
Electric Ordinance.
FOUR BODIES ARE UNIFIED
Take No Exception to Consideration
Of Old Company's Franchise
at the Same time.

The agitation on The part of the
public toward the telephone question
continues with the result that there
is a likelihood that the entire tele-
phone matter-both as relates to the
Union Electric and the Bell company
will be Strengthened out early next
week, this in accordance with the
program frequently outlined in The
Argus and under discussion
There is probability that a special
meeting of the city council will BIZ
held early the coming week, and that
at that time action will be taken TO
settle up the entire subject. The
plan. as hitherto outlined in The Ar
gus, is that the council reconsider the
vote of last Monday evening, and
then adopt the general ordinance
heretofore extensively referred to-
This measure adopted, the presenta-
ton of the working ordinances will
follow Ess
The Relief Measure. a
The Union Electric company's re-
lief ordinance will then be adopted.
The Union Electric Telephone & Tele-
graph company must be preserved, or
the people must submit to the monop-
loly of the Bell system.
The Central Unions ordinance will
also come up for passage, the maxi
mum rate, union labor clause and
franchise tax having been carried in
the general or what is known as po-
lice ordinance. The Central Unions
working ordinance gives 25-year
franchise under the well understood
conditions that it is to defray the ex-
penses of the litigation and install
| the Improvements.
The plan now contemplated by the
aldermen meets with the favor of
/ both the telephone companies.
Business Men Approve.
The attitude of the business men is
shown in resolutions, adopted at a
Special meeting. of thu board of con
/ troll of the Rock Island Industrial
! commission this week, and approved
lby. the board of directors of! the Rock
Island Club, the board OF directors OF
! the Rock Island Booster club, and
the Rock Island Business Mems asso-
citation.
| The resolution, which will be sub
mitted to the council, requests that
1.-THE city council reconsider the vote
of last Monday night on the ordinance
| of the Union Electric Telephone &
Telegraph company. and to immedi-
ately pass the ordinance The resolu-
J finnC -
ton of the ordinance to be for the
! best interests of the city and tele-
phone subscribers.
The members of the board of con-
| troll of the commission individually
| signed the resolutions, as follows
Hon. 7. ]. Medill William NJ. Reck.
Charles McHugh, F. w Bahnsen, DIR.
G. l.. Eyster C. ]. Larkin and II. J.
Prick, and Phil Mitchell as president
OF the board of trustees.
The board of directors of the Rock
| Island Club also individually signed
! an approval of these resolutions, as
follows: John W. Welch, secretary !;
DR.. G. l.. Eyster, Warren H. Reck,
| Morris S. Heagy, John W. Parker,
Cherries R. Nourse, Mayer Levi, Allen
Fl. Head and T. F. LaVelle, The
members of the Booster club directors
| individually approving the board of
controls action are Mayer Levi, sec
fetary; DR.. E. M. Sala, William NJ
Reck, John w. Parker. DR. X. NJ
| Pearce, Leopold Simon and e. w
Lewis.
In addition the Business Mems as
ISOLATION directors approve the re
quest of the others