The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-17

ternational congress will call forth 4
least double the number OF these NV
previous assemblies.
The reputation made by Chicago
traction settlement is In a fair way /
be eclipsed by the Kansas City pla
NOW in completed form and soon to b
submitted % popular vote by the cit
council The partnership OF the cit
, with the traction companies which wa
worked out for Chicago where eth
city gets SIS per cent" as placards In al
street cars remind the passenger. hai
been adopted for the Missouri city witt
a division Of so per cent to each. Ais,
there is a municipal purchase provis.
ion for which the valuation is fixed
upon the amount of cash invested M
to date in creating the property, $ss..
100000 plus whatever additional capt.
tai is added by the time the city Ii
able and ready to buy In Chicago
/ 100000 was allowed for the value OF
unexpired franchises, but Kansas City
has gone a step farther and allowed
nothing for franchises, although the
companies franchises have sixteen
years more.to run. The new ordinance
there provides also for within one di-
rector for the city OF the company's
representation on the board, for right
20 prevent excessive salaries, restric-
ton upon capitalization, reduction of
fares, liberal expenditures to keep the
equipment and tracks up to high
standard, city regulation of schedules,
routing and use of tracks by interur-
ban lines that connect at the city linn
its and other things. Chicago gave the
companies a construction profit of 10
per cent and brokers profit OF per
cent in addition to the value set on the
property in eveTt of the city's purchase
but Kansas City provides a 10 per cent
bonus only in event the city finds an
other company which will buy the car
lines and give IL a bigger share than
the present one-mbre than half the
net receipts or at least s per cent OF
the gross. Curiously enough the plan
which Chicago welcomed as an end to
that cost it's business inter-
ests hundreds of millions OF dollars Is |
being opposed, although from a quarter |
which effected ~holdup~ OF the COM |
pany for a big sum IN ~the good old |
days" but which is said to maintain |
a pose Of pompous respectability now |
Those Votes for Women" enthusi-
asts in the United States who have |
been advocating the transparency pa
rade, the sidewalk meeting and the /
fstic tactics of the London suffragette
for ballot privileges for American wo-
men on inside" authority received a
setback in the election of Mrs. Ella
Siess Stewart, president of the Illinois
State Suffrage association, to the Sec
of the National Suffrage or
yanization, for it Will Undue the board
If chief executives with an even more
conservative spirit than II already pos
esses. Mrs. Stewart, an officer of the
Political Equality league, the suffrage
'ffshoot of the Chicago Woman's club,
which is the largest association Of its
lind in the country, and whose require
nents for admission smack approx
nately of sanctity, is one of the warm
st OF adherents to the policy of quiet
orce that has always marked the pro-
ress Of the suffrage movement in
america. Efforts on the part of Mrs.
'orrinne Brown, one Of the cleverest