The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-20

1nree members Oh the CITY
council, Councilmen l.. Tanner,
Jacob Ness, and II. A. Deeds, at
an adjourn meeting OF the city
council Wednesday evening, vot-
ed to grant ten year franchise
and five year contract to {. ID.
Snoeberger, the only bidder, for
furnishing electric light and pow
err to the city of Plymouth. Coun-
cilmen H. E. Buck and ]. d. Nc
Coy were absent. The council
men present implied that the
only thing which kept them from
letting a ten year contract to
Snoeberger was the fact that the
advertisement for bids called for
bids on a FIVE year contract only.
Just why the franchise was
heightened to ten years is not
known, unless it was for spite.
However the ten year franchise
will not avail the contractor any
thing as at the end of the five
year contract, the contract may
be let to another bidder by the
next council, and the additional
FIVE years on the Snoeberger
franchise will be worthless with
out contract.
The ordinance granting the
franchise and contract to c. d.
Snoeberger was passed on first
reading. Three readings are re-
quired, and the next two read
ings may be passed at one meet
ing. Mayor H. A. Logan stated
this morning that one of the
councilmen present at, the meet
ing last evening was not in ia
vor of a ten year franchise, and
had Buck and Mccoy been pres
ent that ten year franchise
would not have been voted. This
seems to be a sort of poor excuse
TO lay the blame on the two abb
sent councilmen, who have been
orow-besten and voted down on
every proposition concerning the
electric light contract, since the
first consideration of the matter
1t was known by every interest
eel person, that the aforemention-
ed members Of the council were
absolutely determined to give
the contract to c. d. Snoeberger
at any cost. No ruse would be
overlooked or left untried, that
would clinch the letting OF the
contract to c. d. Snoeberger
NOW WHY SHOULD
THESE THREE COUNCIL
MEN HAVE BEEN SO DE
TERMINED TO GIVE THE
CONTRACT TO SNOEBERG-
Err AT ANY COST? Seeing
that an open competition might
result in a lower bid than Snoe-
berger wished to offer, these
three councilmen over the vote
Of the other two, destroyed all
competition in the, bids, by de-
Gliding to call for bids on a five
year contract, which they knew
rs we'll as everybody knew, could
not be furnished by any one 9th
er than c. d. Snoeberger, the
manager of the plant at present,
But the matter is practically
decided now, and the public is
lucky in not having a worse con-
tract thrown upon them for five
more years. All that remains to
do, is for the three councilmen
who will probably pass into the
history of Plymouth, as the
"Snoeberger Councilmen," TO
pass the ordinance on two more
readings, and then the mayor
will affix his official hand and
seal. this blank day OF blank
1909. If the mayor is not in favor
of a ten year franchise, he will
display that fact by refusing tic
sign the ordinance. Watch him
and see if he refuses. So ns
Summary of Contract and Fran
chise. b4y -
The summary and main points
in the contract and franchise, the
ordinance for which passed first
reading Wednesday evening, is
as follows:
Contract: This contract enter
ed into between the City OF Ply
mouth and c. d. Snoeberger
whereby the latter will install
furnish, maintain and operate
and care for 80 or more arc