The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-05
CLUBS INDORSE
| CAIRO & THEBFS
RECOMMENDATIONS
Resolution Urging City Coun-
Gil to Speedy Action Unani-
mously Adopted.
LANsDEN IS SPEAKER
Petitioners Express Them
selves as Satisfied With
Progress of Matters. 4
.LANsDEN IS SPEAKER

BY unanimous vote. resolution
was adopted last night at joint
| meeting of the Cairo Commercial club
and the Board OF Trade urging the
city council to favora5ly consider the
recommendations Offered at Tuesday
! nights meeting Of that body rela-
tive to the Cairo & Thebes ordinance.
The resolution was offered by Fl.
T.. Halliday, one Of the leaders In
the movement started "Wednesday To-
delay action on the recommendations.
which were to have heen passed on
at special meeting OF the council
Thursday night. Walter III. Wood,
who originated the petition and, was
the prime leader In the movement
for delay in the matter. declared
before Nhe meeting that he was en-
tirely satisfcd that all had been ac~
conlplighed BY the attorneys fB thS
ease taat could be legally accom-
plished and that he was IN favor Of
speedy and favorable action oh the
matter by the council.
Attorney David S. Lansden, who.
with Attorney John NJ Nansden and
Angus Leek, represented the five de-
posed directors of the Cairo and
Thebes, in their suits against that
corporation, explained in detail just
what he and his associates had ac-
complished after several years Of
labor. To begin with, he said, they
have obtained everything the city
asked for, and in addition to this
they also have the matter in such
shape at this time that the Louis
willie & Nashville Railroad company,
owner Of the Cairo & Thebes, Will
not only pay the costs OF the litiga-
tion, but will also make a settlement
of the claims of the Cairo Contract
/ ing a. Drainage company to the ex-
tent Of about $4,000. This money.
Mr. Lansden declared. would be
diyided equally among the creditors
or the contracting company. among
whom are two local banks, two MEM
bers of the city council and many
prominent citizens, who had lost
money In the venture and who ex-
pectcd to obtain portion of ii back
through the collection OF claims
against the Cairo & Thebes,
No Open Door.
Attorney Lansden ldeclared that
the popular op'nion that the original
ordinance granting the franchise to
the Cairo & Thebes created an ''open
door" 10 the city, was incorrect. The
original ordinance, he said, granted
the Iron Mountain, the st. Louis G.
San Francisco and the ST. Louis &
Southwestern railroad companies the
right t. the use of the tracks.
When the Cairo & Thebes was
leased. exclusively, 10 the Iron Noun
tain. the original ordinance. which
was known as Ordinance No 81,
was repealed by the city council.
At that time the city contended that
the Iron Mountain owned terminals
in Cairo and, therefore, did not have
the right, under the terms OF the
original ordinance, to use the Cairo
& Thcbes property. Ordinance No.
81 provided. explicitly that the prop
erty should not be leased to any
other railroad already possessing ter
minals in the city.
Attorney Lansden declared that
the Iron Mountain disclaimed the
ownership of terminals In the city.
ATTORNEYS for the company ex-
plained that the Iron Mountain had
the privilege IF the use of the Big
Four property, but did not own any
part OF the terminals of that COM
pany and. therefore, could be ousted
at any time.
Under the present arrangement
had with the Louisville q Nashville
company and the attorneys for the
deposed directors Of the Cairo Il
Thebes, 1t is proposed that the city
shall repeal the repeating ordinance.
In consideration OF this. all parties
concerned will go into court and ask
for decree, which will permit the
| use of the Cairo & Thebes property
at any time In the future, not only
by the Iron Mountain, st. Louis a
San Francisco and the st. Louis a
Southwestern railroad companies.
but any other railroad corporation