The Detroit times., 1912-01-15
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UP FOR CONFLICT

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Nj ID u n has broken its word
||| the people Of this section SO
X.1I times I'm connection with
/XI5e1 to improve service that the
|.ttany - IN rather bad odor with
Ihere viii be a municipal ownership
injecting III ST. Marks Episcopal
<11rch. West End-aye. and Thaddeus-
I Monday evening. The speakers
4|'I be Horace q, Williams and {. 3.
The city election commission met
.<.Iu Monday morning and opened
bids for printing the ballots. The
Xryne Printing Co. was lowest at
<I10 for the job OF printing the bal.
lots containing only the street car
Df0Dositions. The contract will not
BE- awarded until Tuesday morning,
- no word had been received as to
nc Supreme courts action on Aid
/lrnofs petition for mandamus mp
to that time
what about interurban cars run
ming IA place of city cars and chang
INK 1ye-cent faresf"
''What about the number OF inter-
urban ears 20 be allowed to run on
the 1treets2,
whist streets are they to be run
what security does the d. U. r.
o1<er that they will observe the pro-
<|sI0ns OF the franchise In case It Is
nccepfed7w
What about your secret meetings
I<h the ID. u. r. oficialsf"
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Iy0r Thompson at the meeting OF
1o men OF the Burroughs Adding
1chine Co. to listen TO the mayor
>eek In favor Of the franchise Mon
~ noon
The mayor said that cars to be
1iknated as interurban cars must
11 run ut least I'VE miles beyond the
~ limits and that the number TO
~ Allowed on any street and the
&cnIgnation OF the streets on which
hoy are to be permitted were en-
<|ro1y up to the city council. which
tcnfroIled the service.
When asked about the security the
O u. r. offered, he referred to the
Iond and penalty provisions In the
frUnchise and to the fact that the
11reement 10 q unit, and IL any part
81 II is broken, IL may be. after be-
ING taken into court, annulled alto
Mayor Thompson denied that he
hid had any secret meetings with the
~ u. r., and said that the only secret
meetings he knew anything about in
this connection was that which
-1Iessrs. Booth and McRae OF the
evening News association and Mr..
IIutchins OF the ID. u. r. attended.
Before the mayor was through re-
plying TO questions, half Of the men
had left, and they made so much
noise on leaving that II was impos-
sIble for him to be heard. He begged
Them to stay. saying that there was
still fige minutes left to talk, but they
Dersisted In going.
At the conclusion OF the meeting he
asked those who did not favor the
measure to raise their hands and not
ouite third showed their disapproval.
while scores OF others mumbled their
0I8satisfaction to their neighbors, not
considering II necessary, evidently, to
chow their feelings otherwise.
The only applause OF the meeting
that seemed spontaneous was when
Mayor Thompson accused the News or
striking him beneath the belt, and the
handolapping then was very short
duration.
The general tone OF the meeting was
one OF Indifference Most OF the men
we're Tar too interested In their noon
DAY smoke to worry much about the
<peech-making. and the assembly end.
I'd in laughter when one of the men
told OF waiting IL minutes for car in
the cold OF Monday morning.
The decision comes as surprise to
those who believed. with Judge Hally,
former corporation counsel, that the
amendment permitting a piece-meal re.
Vision OF the charter was constitu-
tIonal
ID shows, incidentally. that Judge
Hally Is not altogether infallible, as
some OF the franchise organs would
lead their readers to believe. Judge
HelIy also drafted the Thompson
Hnfchins franchise and on the ballot
I<<wIll bear his name along with that
81 Mayor. Thompson. for the council
ms designated ii as the Thompson
Tally ordinance.
City Clerk Charles A. Nichols has
called meeting OF the city election
con1nission for Monday afternoon TO
consider the situation that has de-
veloped as a result OF the supreme
courts action. He Is OF the opinion
that the Gilman amendment will
have to come on the ballot in view
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