The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-06

lputt bttduHH tldl NpuAu run llllo blind street With bad grades and would be useless for trolley lines"
 Chairman Miller next questioned as to whether at the conference any men ton had been made regarding dam ages to be paid by the city for this route for the station at Cedar Hill. The eX-mayor declared that if his memory served him right there had been specific estimates of the dam ages and he felt sure that the sum of $l0,000 which was mentioned covered only the station itself,
 Miller asked If he did not think that the city should have known be- forohand about this so 1t could have been included in the original bonds which were issued for the work whereas now either new bonds will have to be issued for the added $25,- 900 or that sum will have to come out of the regular taxation. And further he asked if he did not think 1t w4s up to the engineering department to foresee the need of the retaining wall, Judge Studley replied that the matter may have been omitted be- cause as the engineer said he thought 1t was up to the railroad or he may have made q mistake. The only per sons who do not make mistakes he said are fools and MT. Kelly may have made a mistake here, but he added T do not believe that any one acted in bad faith and l don't think that anyone made any unreasonable mistake" He said that the opening up to Lombard street would open up inside of the next twenty years about million dollars of new taxable prop erty for the city.
 Then Terrence Kelly came in With his statements and questions in which he practically accused the ex-mayor of working for the end that the rail- road might get the advantage of the city in the work contemplated. He started by stating in what was intend ed for question, it seems, that the only argument that Judge Studley had put up to him for the use of his veto was that Colonel Fox and others with him had told him that it was to the disadvantage of their company to have Alton street go through.
 Judge studley quietly asked: Are you telling me or are you asking me about it?'
 Kelly flashed back, I'm asking you lt 1t Is not eo.'
 Tt is not so' came the answer in the usually quiet tone of the judge, "The chief argument with me had been in my minG for twenty-five years past,
 Why Alton street had not been mentioned then" asserted Mir. Kelly
 No, but Lombard was the street that had been asked for"
 Then Mir. Kelly declared that the mayor had agreed to put the matter before the board without any prefer ence of his being known and with sim ply his veto of Alton street allowing them to do as they saw fit and that on the night of the voting he had called the aldermen into his office, for a con ference on the matter. The ex-mayor corrected him by eaying that he had not called any Of the aldermen in but that perhaps some of them dropped in of their own accord. Kelly continued with the declaration that Lombard street had been passed that night un- der pressure and growing hotter in his feelings said: 'I say 1t is a piece of graft from start to finish and that the railroad company got the entire bene- ft of the graft" This he later ex- plaincd to mean that the railroad conl- rany had been allowed to cart dirt which he declared belonged to the city to other places for it's own use when the city should have had it and that the ex-nayor had allowed this and further that the railroad had wanted Lombard street for .ts trolley. The mayor declared that the railroad did rot want Lombard street and this be maintained against any statements tc the contrary.
 In reply to the dirt statement the Judge laughingly turned that off by asking: "Oh, you don't mean, then | that put any of the dirt in my pocket and carried 1t home and so got the eraft?"
 More seriously he added that he did tho thing for the beneat of the Twelfth warders solely which aroused Mir Kel. ! ly to the remark that he had carried | the Twelfth an Seventh wards just ' before this time but that he never would again. The judge smiled at this | method of attack and said that he 1 did not expect to carry them and ! could not hope to carry every ward
 Then turning to the chairman ht said, "I was told not to come here to. night because l would be insulted ant | that il was all political job" He add
 ed that he came out of courtesy to thu committee At this rebuke Chairman
 Miller cut Kelly short and told hin ! tl,at if he had anything further to say the committee would hear him later
 At which Kelly walked back and sa
 down
 Miller then stated that he had ob
 talned all the information that th committee desired from the ex-mayoi
 and as no one else wanted to talk tn hearing closed.
 Before Judge Studley appeared Cit!
 Engineer Kelly made another short ex
 planation regarding St. John street
 Chairman Miller felt uncertain as t
 whether the original line had been ex
 actly carried out and the street hat
 been widened alung the line promise,
 the full fifteen feet He asked I = |
 ueer Kelly to make a measurement an,
 the matter was put over until the en
 aineer has the measurements ready
 MT. Kelly stated that he was convince,
 that the width had been given within approximately a couple of inches bu tho measurements were asked just th :. NJ. lGGi al..i, ii.ill ha .,la a..!