The Detroit times., 1910-04-16
sQUABBLE OVER
CARNEY ORDINANCE
Members Of Council Committee on
Franchises, After Much Talk, Hold
Up Decision for Week.

A meeting of the council committee
OIL franchises will be held Monday
evening in the council chamber 10
listen to statements in regard TO I'M
provements in street railway service
ia the ee-Junction and adjoin-
ing factory district. The looping o.
the Brush line with the Fourteenth
line on BeauDien-st., and the building
OF line on Grandy-aye 10 be looped
with the Chene-st. line are tne matters
that viii be open for discussion.
These are the only extensions which
the d. L. X. is willing TO make "a this
time, except the Hamilton boulevard
line
The Garyey resolution and ordl-
nance, by which IL Is sought 10 get
better cars and service Oh the three
cent lines, under threat OF repeating
the Detroit Railway ordinance. was
considered but no report was reached,
and IL will be considered again next
week. II was plain that the Repubil-
caLs scented political motive In the
measure and proceeded 90 shoot holes
in IT,, although intimating that they
will yet put 1t up 10" passage.
Secretary +. X. Schreiter read the
resolution which recites that the pro-
visions OF the Detroit Railway ordi
nance requiring the company to fur
nish clean cars Of modern designs and
to give a service that will not require
oyercTowding have been confrayened
and giving the ID. L. Il. 80 lays notice
TO improve conditions.
I'VE have passed every Democratic
measure that has been put mp TO us,
remarked Aid owen, To open the dis
cussion "Ex- Mayor Thompson got any
thing he wanted from tie council,
while We have not done everything
that Mayor Breitmeyer wanted
move that we pass this"
Mayor Breitmeyer asked that the
measure be postponed until the presen,
negotiations are completed, but with
drew this suggestion later Aid Gar
vey explained that all that he and Cor
poratiOn Counsel Hally ask is that the
resolution De passed and the rdinance
laid on the table for 80 days.
I'VE do not complain so much about
the service as about the .act that the
cars are dirty" asserted Aid. Gutman.
no cattle dealer would snip stock
Ill SUN CdIS tS We nave vi AllC oltA-
man line" chimed in Garvey Il know
OF one accident where rotten running
board gave away and a lady was seri-
ously injured.
Aid Tossy then moved that the com
mittee report favorably or the reso-
iution and ordinance This motion
vas repeated from time 10 time and
finally amended To call for weeks
dela. Mayor Breitmeyer broke in TO
remark that conditions had been bad
on the three-cent lines and getting
steadily worse. He wan ed TO know
Why this course of action ,ad not been
proposed long ago instead OF just 81
this time.
is IT not true that if this ordinance
is passed. the ID L. r. can let its fran
chise lapse?" inquired Aid. Vernon
who will fix the rate Of fare them
They cannot charge any more than
the rate fixed by the common council,
replied Hally.
This brought on a dispute between [
Vernon and ially as TO whether the (
city could enforce rate OF fare. Aid. |
Fills broke In TO intimate that even
if the franchise lapsed and the council
passed a new ordinance, the y. L. K.
could take the matter mo the courts /
and keep ii there. charging fiye-cent |
fare on the three-cent lines in the |
meantime.
Il would draw up the ordinance in
such form that the litigation would be
TO them, retorted Hally.
They would have TO barter with every
passenger for his fare II a passenger
wore put off, he could sue in the
courts They would have great many
suits. As long as there are courts. the
ID L. r. will go 10 them We have
been going TO court now for Is or 20
years and We shall be just as long as
the d. l.. r. is on the other side
Il want to find out II this Is an
actual attempt to better service or
political game remarked Aid. korte'
who soon GOT into wordy battle WITH